Bye, bye BBM....

I finally gave up on my BB 9300 3G. The first few months was fun. I actually signed up for twitter and was more active with fb because I had the unlimited data plan and all the BB goodies with it. It was also fun connecting with some of my friends that also had Blackberry phones as they are always a BBM away.

Unfortunately, I slowly felt the phones slowly ageing technology. I was happy with the qwerty keypad. I always was. But, the screen was too small. I don't have perfect eyesight, so seeing small images on the phone makes it hard for my eyes. Next is the phone memory. I found myself deleting apps every now and then. And there were very few on my phone! The phone would sometimes freeze. I constantly had to do a battery pull, clear log or do a soft reset just to get it jump started again.

I slowly gave up on it. Since I acquired a Samsung galaxy tab 7.7 (I might give a short entry about this) a few months back, I slowly fell out of love of my BB as I was beginning to embrace android again. (Add insult to injury was that Globe Telecom's service was on the fritz these past few months so I used my BB a lot less). So, I finally sold my BB and acquired another Android phone.... Pantech Sky Vega 4G LTE (No, it's not another china phone. It's the 3rd biggest mobile phone manufacturer in Korea). I'll be happy to make another entry about my 2 weeks and counting with this phone.

To cut my story short, it was fun having a BB in hand and I wouldn't mind getting another one. If they finally launch their OS10 sometime soon, and if it looks promising enough, I might have a look at it.

Tempura Japanese Grill - ATC Branch

just had dinner awhile ago at this resto. my family and i have been going to this resto every now and then. unfortunately, tonight the usual dining experience i had fell short of what i usually get.

first, the trainee waiters seem to not know how to properly set the table. after setting up my wife and son's paper placemat and plate he was about to place mine. what he did was place it right side up but suddenly changed his mind. since i was a chair away he pulled the paper placemat towards him placed the plate upside down then slid the whole thing back to me. all this while making noise on placing the plates without care on the table.

second, the food seemed different than usual. they seem to changed the rice that they use. it was a bit dry and did not have the stickiness japanese rice should have. for myself, i ordered ebi hamburg katsudon. my rice was the same dry, unsticky type. the thing is, the sauce was a bit on the salty side and seemed like it was prepared haphazardly as one side had too much sauce while the other just enough. in that instance i could've preferred the just enough at is was too salty than usual.

third, the place. i haven't ate there for quite sometime now but the leaky aircon was still leaking. how long will it take them to actually fix it. it leaks directly on the couch.

the onyl good thing is that the regular staff are very accomodating and energetic. the guy who was serving us always had a smile on. unfortunately, our take away (which was sushi) took longer than expected to arrive (it was just tamago and there weren't a lot of customers) plus i had to call their attention a couple of times so i could get a glass of water.

i hope the old staff rotates here again as we didn't see familiar faces. as for the food, the tempura is still okay here.