In Octo­ber 2009, I bought a Black­berry and I was very happy with it. It gave me the free­dom of being mobile and the oppor­tu­nity to stay online and attend to clients in timely man­ner. When it comes to con­nec­tiv­ity, push email and IM ser­vices, Black­berry is the best one you can opt right now.

I made the most of my Black­berry, I trav­eled a lot and stayed online most of the time on work IM. Per­sonal IMs, not so much. Any­way, the point is, I could be reached any­time. Not nomad like before where I move from café to café, but I can actu­ally do stuffs like eat­ing out with friends and play bil­liard every now and then while still can response to incom­ing work.

That’s where I went wrong.

Me and the Blackberry

Me and the Blackberry

You see, work­ing nomad is one thing, but work­ing mobile is a totally dif­fer­ent thing. I wasted too many times being on the road and doing stuffs with­out actu­ally get­ting things done. I always end up respond­ing to a work inquiry instantly but end­ing up post­ing a task on my todo list so I remem­ber to fin­ish them before end of the day.

Most of you might (or might not) have heard that I bathed my Black­berry in Sanur Beach’s salt water after the NYE cel­e­bra­tion. The Black­berry is in repair now, so I have been using the old Sony­Er­ic­s­son w910i for 3 weeks already now.

Now that I’m not on Black­berry, I have to stay at home to work because I don’t want to work nomad any­more. While it is true that I miss being able to con­nect at will, I also find this as a bless­ing in dis­guise. Now that I’m chained to my desk I get more things done. Take these for example.

So I guess now it is safe to say that I can sur­vive with­out Black­berry, prob­a­bly won’t be get­ting another Black­berry for replace­ment later.

Oh and work­ing from home is awe­some, or this is just me get­ting older.

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