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A Weekend Off The Grid
By Stocks N Savings  •  January 5, 2015
For a specific reason, I made a promise to my wife not to use my smartphone (and laptop) over the weekend that had just passed.  In short, I was off the grid for close to 48 hours.
Having led a net-centric lifestyle for the better half of my existence, I faced acute hysteria and a whole bunch of inconveniences.  Call it the Smartphone Deprivation Disorder. For a start, I lost track of time when I was out of the house, since my phone doubles up as a watch.  I couldn't tell whether the next bus is arriving in two minutes or twelve.  And I was blind as a mole at Toa Payoh Central trying to navigate my way to the Courts department store. It felt as if my social identity was exiled to hermitism.  I had to forego my daily ritual of Facebook surfing.  ......
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By Stocks N Savings
SS is a wage slave in his early forties. He works in the information technology industry. (Technically, his employer has been operating a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) platform long before the world has heard about the Internet.)
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