Marvin’s Place

I just got my new phone. But today, it’s gone. It was stolen from me while riding a passenger jeep to home. I didn’t noticed it in the beginning. But after it was taken from me and checked my pocket, I knew who took it. I didn’t do anything cause I don’t want to put my life in danger (snatcher’s/robbers here in the Philippines wouldn’t hesitate to kill if someone disagrees with what their doing).

With this incident, I felt angry, sad, and troubled. But God is teaching me through this event. I realized I am missing a few very important responsibilities. I am a the head of our family (a husband and a father), but I wasn’t able to conduct prayer/devotion time, tithing and sincere dedication to God’s ministry. I was so occupied by my job, internet, computer, CSI, etc, that I am using these things as an excuse to not do my/our responsibilities to God. After a long time, my wife and I prayed before I went to work. And honestly, tears are flowing from my eyes (and hers). And she told me she’s happy cause we were able to pray again (as a family). And I felt God moved that time, my burden was lightened (though I still feel troubled by what happened, I already accepted the reality).

I wish I was able to copy pictures and phonebook entries from that phone. Just lost a lot of photos.

But as my favorite CSI character says (Gill Grissom): “let go and move on”.

“In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” I Thessalonians 5:18 (KJV)

I got a new phone. It is a Samsung SGH E250.

It is a low priced mobile phone that have almost everything I need. A mobile phone with GPRS/EDGE (don’t need 3G/HSDPA yet), FM radio, MP3 Player, VGA camera (yeah, VGA, I am planning to buy a digicam soon), video recording, voice recording/memo, expandable memory (up to 2gb).

Actually, I am not planning to buy a phone. I have (or had) a Nokia 1112i phone. My father in law also have the same phone. But he lost his phone when he went to Bagio City for a seminar. He is hesitant in buying a new phone since he don’t want to “study” the new phone. So, my wife sold my phone to him. And I have to buy a new phone.

I was looking at three phones, this one, a Nokia and a Sony Erickson. which has (almost) the same specifications. I chose (actually, my wife did) this one because of expandable memory and MP3 Player.

There are things that I don’t like (but it is not a problem though) with this phone is, you can’t set the extended memory (microSD) as the default memory for the phone to save captured photos or videos. So, you have to copy those pictures to the memory card. It is a bit of a hassle. But I’m not using the phone as a digital camera. Well this is not specific to this phone because all Samsung phones can’t use extended memory as default memory. Another thins is, the user manual is not elaborate enough for a not that easy to understand menus and submenus.

Overall, I like the phone. I only had it for a day, and I hope I won’t experience something that would make me call their customer service and rant about it… hehe…

This phone was released last year (but it is not yet “phased out”, but due to my limited budget, I bought it.