This una technology tire me sef. Early last week, as I was strolling to my office, I saw an array of stuff (pens, candy, notepads etc) on display by the secretary's desk from one pharma company. Well, I took a pen, turns out to be a 3-in-1 stylus pen. It has a stylus, laser point and yes it is also a pen! As I headed to my zone, I just thought about all the stylus pens I have sitting in my house. That led into even deeper thinking, the 3 PDAs in my house. Good googly moggly!!!

How on earth? Well, I'll tell you the story in a minute. It all started in my last yr of pharm school when I realized I just had to have a PDA! It was ABSOLUTELY important to my education. I mean, there was no way I was going to be part of a multi-disciplinary rounding team without having a PDA equipped with drug information capabilities. So I got a PDA ... need less to say (does anybody still use those words?) I never got to shine with it because I was rarely prepared. By the time, I had popped out my PDA to look for "conivaptan", the attending physician had long moved on to another patient. Oy vey!

That was the first one. I got another PDA from the department because I was a resident, this PDA could not even be synced to our computers in the office. How does that happen? We called the IS (information systems) people tire, after that, we all stopped messing with that thing and started using our own PDAs.

The third and final PDA came with my office. This year, we had 1 too many residents so I got my own office space since we had an empty office. Well, this office had belonged to a manager so it came with a few trimmings like leather chair (which somebody stole) and the works.

The MP3 players are a story for another day and I swear my laptop has some extra features ... if only I knew what they were!

So as for the stylus pen, I used it to buy a few favors. Hopefully, I will not have a lot of problems when I'm the administrator on call because my A-team will come to the rescue.As a matter of fact, I went home and brought out my stash of pens and other goodies accumulated from different conferences and I gave them out to the A-team.

Now don't worry, I know they are nice small gifts for naija but I have another conference coming up in May so that where I will accumulate my stash for my trip to Naija before the end of the year. Thats why I can give away this stash

As for we get up to at these conferences in the name of getting their freebies ... you don't want to even know

Happy Super Bowl Sunday!

posted by lala @ 5:25 PM

3 Comments:

At Sun Feb 04, 11:54:00 PM 2007, Azuka said…

I'm not sure I can stand a PDA. I mean, what would I use it for?

Lol at the accumulation of PDAs and stylus pens.
At Wed Feb 07, 05:51:00 PM 2007, Aramide said…

Mennnn my sister it happens! Technology sef! :o)

First time visiting and i'll be back :o)

Happy Super Bowl Sunday in arrears xxx
At Thu Feb 08, 09:56:00 AM 2007, lala said…

I wish you the same Mona. Love ur blog too. I'm a big fan.