“All of life’s journeys come with meetings, and partings, and reunions.” ~Meryl Stryfe

I love my friends! Whether in the past, present or the future ones I have yet to meet, I have enjoyed experiencing life with them (minus the “ones I have yet to meet” of course), and have no regrets about them being in my life (even the few that morphed into frenemies).

While I would love to spend the rest of forever with them on this side of the hemisphere, I am now slowly accepting the (scary) reality that is not going to be possible.

I have lived in America for my entire life, and while I am grateful for it’s many blessings (mainly the ability to speak my mind without the fear of death), I have never once felt at home here.

Ever since I was little (at least six), I’ve felt a huge urge/drive/desire to travel and eventually live east.

It probably explains my fascination with movies (like Aladden and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), curved swords (as opposed to the straight double bladed ones of Braveheart) and food (I equally love Falafel’s and Chinese food!).

Some of my friends have already moved east (to my jealousy), and thanks to Facebook, Twitter and Skype I can keep up with their daily adventures living eastern dream.

I hope to someday join them at the end of this year and in order to do that, I need to start getting my paper work I’m order, as well as reapply for a new passport (as mine is wearing out)–as soon as I’m done paying Uncle Sam in April.

Will I miss my friends in the US? Most definately!!! At least until I see them again.

But as for me, the future lies east, and in order to pacify this urge, I need to stop fearing the future and instead embrace it.

“Our tickets to the future are open.”

“And if you keep your vision clear you will see the future. What happens in our future is our own responsibility.”

~Rem Saverem

– Posted from my iPhone

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Yeah, so the Apple event was over and I was following the noise via Twitter on #AppleLive.

Before I lay the case for my underwhelming mood, here is what I liked about the iPad.

Books

The fact I could have a dedicated device for book reading is awesome.

No offense, but I was not impressed with the Kindle, mainly because I would need extra lighting to read a book on an electronic device (which is “fail” in my book–pun intended).

Plus the fact it’s in color is a plus.

Images

Seeing supersized images is just plain awesome. Need I say more?

Internet (Wifi/3G)

I know people gripe about AT&T, but as for me they’re 3G signal is decent (note: after I whined about the poor signal on Twitter, although they did fix the issue).

The plan for unlimited Internet is reasonable ($30/month) plus the nationwide free wifi, which means I can chill at Barnes & Nobel and enjoy the latest novel.

What I hate (deal breakers)

Only 64GB?!!

The fact that you get an iPod Touch with 64GB underscores my point here.

Apple should have at least have made it with 128GB.

No Multitasking: Fail

If this feature was included, I would consider ordering this via Visa.

The fact that I have to jailbreak it for that (thus voiding the warrenty), makes it not worth my time.

No Camera?!!

If Apple can place a camera upon an iPhone & iPod Nano, they could certainly place one upon the iPad.

My theory is that they didn’t want to do this in order to avoid cannablizing their iPhone sales. Either way I’m underwhelmed.

Conclusion

While I’m glad Apple released this (as they’re a catalyst when it comes to all things geek), I think I may hold out buying one until model 2.0 comes along (or Mashable gives me one for free).

But on the brightside, perhaps this will convince HP to lower the price of their TouchSmart? Hmmmm….

– Posted from my iPhone

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So basically I had a strange dream that my cousin bought me a Motorola droid which looked like the Motorola shadow (aka the mythical Google Nexus Two) for $5 (the deal of the century I know).

Anyways in order for me to activate it, I had to sign up with Verizon because of some weird contract rules and pay $50.

I turned the phone on and hooked it up to Wifi and began exploring the app store in search of Twitter and WordPress apps.

To my horro I discovered that all the apps sucked (I couldn’t find wpTogo for the life of me), and despite the superior Droid phone (as I had my iPhone 3GS in the dream) I couldn’t switch because the third party apps were lame.

Then I heard a weird sound and realized my iPhone alarm (the scifi ring) went off, at which point I realized I was dreaming and woke up.

Moral of the story: I need to stop reading geek news right before I go to bed.

– Posted from my iPhone

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I just heard the news regarding MyBlogLog, and as you know it doesn’t instill confidence within me for the big Y!

(ReadWriteWeb) Five years to the month after it was founded, cross-blog social networking widget MyBlogLog will be closed down by Yahoo! in January, we’re hearing from sources close to the project. MyBlogLog is a service that shows blog writers and readers the faces and profile information of other MyBlogLog users that visit their sites.

I was never a fan of the service, but with them shutting down anything that isn’t generating serious cash (i.e. their Shopping API, giving up search to Bing!, etc.) I’m no longer going to upload images to Flickr and will probably stick with Facebook or Picasa Albums instead.

Yahoo! has some great products under its belt, some which were kicking Google’s wazoo before the purple Y! acquired them.

But if Yahoo! continues this trend of passionless retreat, then I probably need to find someone else to host my goods upon. Sad times indeed!

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