I felt blessed for the chance we had of taking vacation in the Philippines. I had adequate time off from online works- no internet connection and even cell phone signals are very weak. Speaking of weak cell phone signals, I can't blame my parents if they can't reply to our SMS or we couldn't contact them. It maybe because they don't receive them of if they received our SMS, they still have to walk for a hundred meters before they could find a favorable signal to reply us. In our place we badly needed home cell booster to boost cell signal.
I did survive our three weeks vacation without internet. I only went to an Internet café once in a week. My first visit to the café was terrible! The DSL connection was literally slower than a dial-up! I started to panic: “I HAVE TO check my e-mail, publish a post on my blogs and do my online tasks. I just HAVE TO!“. Then, it hit me: “What if I left everything and tried to enjoy my vacation without worrying about anything related to technology for once?“.
And that was exactly what I did. To tell you the truth, I can’t remember the last time I felt as relaxed . I admit that catching up will be hard (1000+ unread items in my email inbox!!), but it was worth it. I was able to recapture my naive exploratory freedom. I woke up, ate, read and slept any time I desired. I had lots of fun without being worried about my work responsibilities back home.
