sad farewell

this month i finally gave it up... i finally admitted to myself that it is truly gone... forever...

my good ol' digicam has finally retired.

it was the newest release of canon when i bought it (well, charged it to my cousin's credit card is more like it). the ixus izoom. circa 2006.

it took a whole lot of photos in its heyday. when i got it, we snap-happy girls at the office went crazy over the multiple-shots setting. we learned how to pose slightly differently for 10 consecutive shots!

it was part of every special occasion in the office, among our relatives, even among rands' relatives. it has travelled far and wide, the farthest was singapore last year. it was indispensable. it was compact and light, had a neck-chain, very convenient.

until a few years ago when my officemates started having their own cameras. my izoom started to "lie low." then it became active again when aren was born. it played a very important part in aren's life since day 1. we took photos and videos of him everyday using that digicam.

however, i also abused it somehow. i just slipped it in my bag or pocket sometimes without the case. when aren was old enough to be able to grasp it, heaven forbid what he does to it.

a few months ago it started to crank out. the lens did not open anymore when i turned the camera on, so i had to "pull" it out. oh my heart bleeds everytime i did, but it was the only way we can get to use it.

until slowly by the day, it refused to open... the last time i remember using it was during rands' birthday (september 4)... after that, it was just sitting at the dresser. no one paying any attention to it, not even aren who used to beg me to let him have it.

feb23 2010: please pardon my speaking lines here, the point is that i was trying to deviate aren's attention, who was trying to grab the camera from my hand!

im so sad. it seems a part of me has died. my ixus izoom was a witness to most of my recent special memories. it was able to capture them beautifully.

recently we have resorted to using the cellphone to take pics and vids of aren...but they are never quite the same as those taken by my izoom.

thanks for all the wonderful memories.