Office1000 Blog November Archive

Get Prepared for Battle (i.e. The Big Trip)

By Blog Stories at 11/18/2007 11:57

When you're traveling, especially if it's a long trip, it is necessary that you are prepared. You don't just pack and pack and pack. You should know what to take with you.

For example, you have planned for almost a month to go on a camping trip to somewhere in the East. You got your food ready, your tent ready, and your camp-specific tools ready. However, when you arrived to your destination, you found out that it was storming and, so, the camp site had to temporarily shut down for safety reasons. *Oh, I've experienced something almost identical to that!*

SO what does this imply? it only means that you aren't prepared yet. In this case, you forgot about prevailing weather conditions. Listen to the weather news on the radio so that, next time, you'll be ready.

To help you out, Office1000 has some radio sets specifically for reporting the weather. One of them is the TrailWorthy Public Alert Portable NOAA Weather Radio. This radio provides alert anywhere in the US through the National Weather Service. If you're on a trip, you may power it with 9V battery. At home, you can use a 12V AC adapter.

See our website for more weather radios.

Aside from the weather, you should also bring a handy address book with you, containing all the numbers listed in the phonebook in your mobile phone. This is important in cases of emergency when your phone is lost, stolen, not working, or something like that. You may never know what will happen so you have to have backups. We also have portable, easy-to-carry address books here at Office1000. Just check these products out at our website.

So, remember, next time that you'll go on a trip, always expect the worst and be ready. Know what you and what you'll need. You can't just go out into the battlefield without ammo, can you?

Time Travel Through Toys and Toddler-ish Things

Toys. Children love them. We, admit it, still love them, even though we are not kids anymore.

Playthings served to enhance our behavior and improve our creativity. Remember Play-Doh? Remember Lego blocks? Toys brought us into some other world separated from reality. When I was very young, I'd pretend that I am some space ranger whose duty was to save the universe and compete with other space rangers. My brother and I would make some space ships out of Lego blocks or anything that would catch our attentions (say, some yarn--to make our space ships "fly"), and battle it out to see who's the better soldier.

When animated movies came out, it was inevitable that cartoon-inspired toys would surface. After some animated movie, it was bound that licensed toys (even fake ones) would come out--some sort of memorabilia of that movie. The Happy Meal of Mcdonald's is testament to this. I cannot remember a Happy Meal toy that didn't come from some cartoon or some movie. Various cartoon-themed items also arose (not just toys, actually) like stationery, clothing apparel, shoes, and many more. There are even cartoon-inspired telephone units that look like toys but do really work--in a sense, they are partly toys because you can play with them (funny customized rings). One of my favorite movies is A Bug's Life. I even had a T-shirt with a Flik design. My brother also had one, too. Hehe.

Sometimes it's good to look into our pasts, when we're still innocent idealistic little beings (Ah, nostalgia!). But time passes and we have to accept that fact. Those days were gone. We've already had our share of innocence. The only way we can do to relive those moments is through these toys and other things that remind us that, once in our life, we were kids.