indonesians and their blackberries
18 Sep 2011 Leave a Comment
in blabber
my cousin had her first child saturday morning indonesian time. yaaaay!!! a gorgeous baby girl, already loved and adored by many.
she was delivered through a c-section and three hours before her mum was scheduled to go into the surgery room, she sent me a blackberry message. she couldn’t sleep and, i guess because i was the only person she could think of who would still be awake at that hour, she messaged me.
and so we talked for hours until it was time for her to get ready for her c-section. her baby was born less than an hour after she said, ‘we’ll talk again later’. my workmates couldn’t believe she was on the phone with me until half-an-hour before her surgery.
less than a couple of hours after the baby was born, a picture of her was uploaded to our family blackberry group. comments started pouring in. this first photo was followed by a few other. you can literally see the change on the baby’s face from a few hours old to a couple of days old.
new mum sent a message to, i think, most of her contacts to announce the bub’s arrival. several family members promptly changed their profile picture with the baby’s photo.
i think it is so totally awesome that we get to keep each other so up-to-date with whatever it is happenning in our life. yes, there is always the internet but internet in indonesia isn’t exactly the most reliable thing. so to MOH and all those around me who like to mock me about my relationship with my blackberry… mock away, people, mock away.
