03 November 2006

of things random and unnecessary

When I was little, I used to have this fear - I used to be paranoid every time we went out to the mall or wherever, because I'd always think that that would be when and where my parents would finally abandon me. This didn't totally leave me until I was in grade 5 or so I think. =P

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My sister and I went to Divisoria this afternoon, where we got, among other things, this ubercool flashlight. It doesn't need batteries, and doesn't have lightbulbs at all! It's mechanically-powered -- you just sort of squeeze (?) this thing, and it lights up. Cool, eh?

I wasn't quite convinced it had no hidden batteries that were tricking us into believing it was totally mechanically-powered, so I left it on until it 'ran out'. After that, I 'powered' it for exactly five seconds, then left it on again; my intention was to measure the time it would take for it to run out. After two hours, I gave up. =P

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