What would you do?

Here's what Filipinos dread the most: complete internet and cellphone blackout—that's what's happening in Egypt.
Cellphone I could live without. No Internet, that's hard.
Just the other week my nine-year-old son uttered, "I can't live without Internet.'
My son Ben grew up, was cradled, even breastfed—in front of the computer!!
Fine. Nakakahiya.
At three years old, he was already an expert with the mouse and basic games.
(Take note, our ancient Mac six years ago.)



He's so cute. He even aced his computer exam even if it was on a PC.
He types really well, I tell you.
So when I told him there was an Internet blackout in Egypt, Ben said, "I can't live without the Internet."
"Ben, when we were kids we had no Internet," I pointed out.
"Huh? What did you do then?"
Me: "We read books, played board games, toys, dolls."
Jeroen: "We played outside."
Me: "Yup. We played piko, patin tero..."
Ben: "What's that?"
Me: Never mind. LOL.
Seriously, remember there were a couple of storms in 2009 that cut off electricity and the storm/big black out last year that killed Internet connection?
As soon as it was safe to go out, people flocked to Internet cafés with their laptops to go online.

When Internet died in my house, at least I still had the Blackberry—I could tweet at 2 AM when the whole house was asleep.
It will probably happen again. If it does, I will take that time to read my books and watch DVDs.
I seem to have forgotten what it's like without Internet. And I don't like it.