After almost two months of use, I finally gave it up (for the second time!) on Palm and sold my LifeDrive Manager last week. I bought it at HK$3,400 and sold it on Yahoo Auctions for HK$2,600. Not a bad deal. So why I gave it up?

• It doesn’t sync with Mac very well, in particular it can’t get some basic fields and categories from OS X Address Book
• It is quite slow, both on start-up and general usage
• I couldn’t find a good finance program to run on it
• Many powerful features are useless to me, and the essential features I need don’t work well, e.g. I can’t sort contacts by first name
• I never get used to Graffiti 2

On surface it is a very cool gadget, at a reasonable price (with all those features, if you use them). To me, PDA is about three things: light, fast and easy to use. It shouldn’t be viewed as a laptop replacement, but it has to do the basic things right. It’s a shame that Palm still doesn’t get it right.

Meanwhile, I just bought a new book from Jeff Hawkins - On Intelligence, the guy who created the PalmPilots.

I think I am currently suffering from a blogging burnout. One of the major reasons I guess is my new “schedule”. For more than 5 years, I’ve been living in a “rockstar” style, i.e. going to bed during 3-5 am and getting up late. After my office move I have successfully changed my schedule back to “normal” like most others. I now get up at 8 am and go to bed before 2 am. Then I found myself much less productive at night and thus having little time to update this blog, even when there are so many things to write about.

Well, I could have done that during the day when I am in the office, but I just don’t feel like writing or doing personal stuffs in the office. I just never feel I have done enough work every single day, and my “mode” is switched to “work” and blogging is not part of my “work”, unfortunately.

Anyhow, the new Winter League Season has just started. We played our first match tonight and beat Chinese Recreation Club (CRC). I played terribly and lost all three points, but our team won 5-4 overall. The team always comes first, so I am happy.

Even left with only three representations to receive the first runner-up prize at the Hong Kong Tennis Association League Prize Presentaiton Ceremony tonight, we were still quite thrilled. Vivian, Anne and I were on the stage (thanks Bernice for taking photos!), and later joined by teammates Damaris, Peggy, Phoebe and my coach Ricky at the celebration dinner. Not yet a full team so there will be more feasts to come.

It’s been a long, long time since we won a trophy in the League. I looked up my own tennis page and learnt that it was 5 years ago! The feeling of winning is super sweet, especially as the team captain. Enjoy more photos.
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