An Idle Mind

Since I borrowed Jon’s dad’s iPhone 2G, I finally realised what the hype was all about. The multitude of extremely useful apps have since dominated my life, and I found myself using it all the time even though there isn’t a SIM card in it.

My initial purpose was to use it as a PDF reader to immerse myself in the various investment books I have.. acquired. And soon curiosity over the other apps took hold of me—plus from recommendations of various iPhone owners that I know—soon led me to the wonders of apps like Instagram, Word With Friends (Scrabble-esque game), FlightTrack, Shazam (record a snippet of song, upload it to the Internet and instantly get to know the song and the artist’s name of the song! An absolute lifesaver as I’ve been using it a lot when I listen to BFM from my commute to and from work—you can’t imagine how many times I’ve tried to memorise bits of the lyrics, jot it down in my phone, and then later google the lyrics up which is a bit of a bother), Anki (to improve my memorisation of the kanji), and a whole lot more.

Thinking of getting the upcoming iPhone 5 this year for realz. I was debating internally whether to get an iPad or an iPhone (purely for the PDF reader functions), and I realised that using the iPhone to read isn’t that bad after all.

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An idle mind is the devil’s workshop—or so the saying goes. And it’s just as so that with the iPhone, I found myself having no time to let my mind wander, as every possible free time of mine—be it in a traffic jam or in the loo—was spent immersing myself in my investment books or practising my kanji via Anki. In retrospect I’m not even sure if that’s a good thing—so many stories are waiting to be conceived, to be born in the womb of my mind, to be brought to life from the hidden crevices of imagination.

And I’m far too busy putting indirect contraceptives all over it.