Twisted, I forgot to twist the cap of my water bottle off today. And there it was, my bag, acting as a temporary swimming pool for my Istanbul notebook, my reusable shopping bag, my keys, my wallet and my phone. <\/p>\n
The Istanbul notebook is a collection of pulp now, between the dryness of the pages it shows Rorschach, pink post-it notes leaving their pink-ish traces, square-ish, corner-ish, the notebook has exploded:
\nButterflies.
\nButterflies.
\nA silhouette of a man and his shadow.
\nA silhouette of an older man.
\nElaborate wine glasses.
\nElaborate vases. One a mirror image of the other.
\nMountains mirrored on the lake’s surface. <\/i>
\nIs my imagination really that limited? Or is my Id blocked?<\/p>\n
My phone was something else. I told it to go to menu and it says “l”, “ljkl”, I hit delete and it says “ljkljkljkl”. Dear Keypad, you don’t really have to stick together, I know it’s a wide wild world out there but you’re not really out there<\/i>. I thought of my earlier thoughts this week of getting an iPhone instead. No. I’m on a budget. So I turned on my heater, and put a layer of paper on top of it, stripped the phone off its SIM card and battery, and cooked it.<\/p>\n
Rice, Sab kindly tipped, will take care of it. Lucky I still had a bag of it in the kitchen. I sunk my phone in the pile of rice, and waited for several hours. No cooking. It worked. My keypad wasn’t afraid anymore. No ljkl anymore. <\/p>\n
And that’s the moral of the story: next time anything is wet, just put it in a bag of rice and let it sink for several hours. It’ll take care of it. Nothing fancy – just old Saudi wisdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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