Yep, I signed on the online campaign for the Shutdown Day, which was held yesterday. However, this wasn't the reason I spent a day without my computer and the internet. Although I voted YES and promised to keep myself from turning on Toshi for 24 hours, the truth is I cheated around 5 hours of last Saturday. I thought I could never make it, not with a computer within my sight's proximity. I have several projects that kept nagging me to use the computer already and ignore the frivolity of the idea behind the Shutdown Day. But when you made a sort of a "public" promise, it seems like you can't easily run away from it.
I told shutdownday.org that I could do it since I'll be spending the whole day with my family - with my Dad and sister who were to come home from Qatar. However, since they arrived at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the whole morning was left for me to discreetly check my email, view my Friendster and visit a few blogs.
And so after we fetched them, I was stuck at home for more than 24 hours with no computer and no internet to beckon me on violating the Shutdown Day. I only needed to go back to the camp in the evening so I went back to Sampaloc to find an anxious machine madly anticipating its owner to use it. (Or maybe, it's the other way around.)
