Birthday gift came early this year. Hearts the hubby for always giving me what I need and sometimes wants. always so generous and giving.
this cool little thing I am using to write, or rather type on…is a gift from him. the complete set of Microsoft Surface Go with keyboard and pen in matching blue steel colour. in fact, I already received two gifts earlier from him. my Samsung Galaxy Note 9 and my Samsung Galaxy Watch.
if ten years ago, he converted me into an Apple user, everything from iphones to ipads and MacBook. a decade on, and he turned me into full fledged android, google, Microsoft user. trust the IT geek to turn me around in pretty much months. but the high price $$ of Apple products affect our choice of spending and products as well.

truth be told…I was getting a bit bored and tired of using Apple products. I wasn’t able to utilise MacBook to its fullest and after maybe about 8 years, it is now getting slow. and my iPhone 6plus have blacked out on me a few times already. and now that I am back to studying, and the nature of my job uses a lot of word and powerpoint, I fully rely on Microsoft tools. I had its version for MacBook, but it wasn’t an easy process. I work faster in microsoft. and I wasn’t artistically talented enough to use whatever creative tools that Apple offer. the last straw was when I dropped my Apple watch and cracked the screen. hubby did not want to send it for repair and true enough, the price of repairing it got me a new Samsung Galaxy watch.

I didn’t know about Microsoft Surface Go till quite recently in some contest and saw that maybe it could be useful for me to bring along to work (to compliment my work laptop which had restricted online usage), we did have an extra laptop for surfing the net but I guess not sleek enough for me… and then for my masters classes, I was such a noob and seeing classmates all around reading notes from their ipads or macbooks or notebooks, I was still writing notes and printing out all those readings.

I realised the institution itself is rather dependent on anything online. ebooks, scholarly articles and journals all available from the library online catalogue and not all can be printed out. lecturers uploading assignments and readings on the school blackboard… I pretty much felt its good for the trees too…and storage as well. I just sent for recycling a huge bag of my readings from my degree years. its heartbreaking, but I decided I don’t and may not ever going to look at them again for the next decade…even if I keep telling myself that I will find time to reread them notes. space is really limited around here. the feel of writing side notes and highlighting lines and paragraphs are still pretty much visually exciting traditional… I guess I don’t want to have to keep on printing and keeping them and then ended up throwing.

downloading and saving them virtually will save the trees. hopefully that’s my part in sustainability and avoiding wastage.

anyway. bless my husband for this beautiful gift.

now tell me how to make money with these tools?!