[ Me ]
Nickname: Ursula
Birthday: 7th January 1985
Zodiac: Capricorn
Where From: Singapore
Laidback, sensitive, fickle, easily-tickled, fiercely loyal
Manga and anime lover, enthusist, collector and critic/ Coffee lover, addict and expert maker/ Aspiring future wife of famous culinary chef/ Aspiring future wife of a 1.8m tall hunk
My Friendster link:
http://www.friendster.com/vivis
[ Likes ]
Sleeping, dancing, books, manga, anime, chocolates, coffee, Jap food, Italian food, Ayumi Hamasaki, people, my sister
[ Fave Books ]
Harry Potter series, Artemis Fowl series, The Inheritence Trilogy series, The Da Vinci Code, Memoir of a Geisha, I Don't Know How She Does It... and all my comics n manga!!!
[ Currently Reading ]
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
Inkheart
by Cornelia Funke
The Well Of Loneliness
by Radclyffe Hall
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Seduced The West
by Lesley Downer
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
by Milan Kundera
The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
[ The Wishlist ]
My Amazon.com Wishlist:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/ref=yourlists_pop_1/103-2401787-9502236
Phillips MC235 Thin Stereo Microsystem
Kathy Van Zeeland bag
(saw on amazon.com going for bout US$65... Why dun Singapore stock her goods??! >.< I wan it in Topaz colour~!!!)
The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Inu-Yasha Theme Song Collection
12 Kingdoms/ Juuni Kokuki anime VCD sets
GUESS bag (darn, i dun have the $120 required to buy it now and i noe it'll be gone soon, Guess always changing their apparels every month or so u_u)
DKNY gold and crystal-studded watch (very ornamental, more a dress watch then an every-funtion watch. still, pretty~)
Mphosis pale gold SLIPPERS (i run through my shoes and slippers like they cost nth X/)
The BodyShop BLUSHER in Golden Pink
The BodyShop blusher BRUSH
Shiseido eyelash CURLER
Full-length wall MIRROR(s) for my room
A new big every-purpose BAG
Pretty SHOES
A Digital CAMERA
A bloody new PC or laptop with the speed of light and a gazillion GB of memory!! =[
The Sims 2 (PC game edition)
[ The Memories ]
Monday, January 23, 2006
Phee, phie, phoe... Phone?
I'm such a procastinator its scary!
n just when i tot i'm past my days of being nua... i guess i'm not after all.
I'm supposed to have 1) gone new year clothes-shopping (yes, i haven bought any CNY clothes yet!! This is the first year my mum is actually more nervous than me bout my not having any CNY clothes to wear!!), 2) gone swimming/tanning to get a little glow so i dun look like a pale flabby sow for new year, 3) packed the stack(s) of all the diff lecture notes that have accumulated on my desk over the past month or two.
And i've achieved none of the above!!! Horrors!
And there's the obligatory new year spring-cleaning to do. (Not being ambitious here...i'm only toking bout my room.)
Have jus re-arranged the books on my bookshelf last nite (yes, books only, i'm not so crazy as to touch my mountainous, fear-inspiring collection of comics so late at nite... can look forward to sleeping at dawn if i'm to pack or re-arrange them) to make way for all the new books i've gotten for my birthday presents and the books i've acquired in the past few months but had haphazardly stacked on top of my desk (yes, the same desk i use to stack all my untouched lecture notes... now u noe the activities, or lack thereof, i've done on my study-desk... i.e. studying) in a manner not unlike the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Ok, all fine and dandy and long-winded, but thats not the pt of this entry anyway.
The point of this entry is my search for a new handphone.
Am deciding between 2 phones which has very recently caught my eye... the Nokia 7360 from the Lamour series and the stylish unisexual Nokia 6111.
Nokia 7360
Very pretty rite? Certainly appeals to my estrogens (pink! gold! female!). Yes yes, i'm very into gold rite now (think: my gold bag, gold slippers, gold acessories). But aesthetics aside... Practically, its abit rectangular for my everyday carry and use. And its functions are obnoxiously basic!! I can deal with its having no Bluetooth as long as i can still use my earpiece, but NO CAMERA and only a 4MB built in memory... its a joke man! Its such a dissapointment because i cant remember the last time i liked a phone's design this much and hankered after it, only to discover its such a letdown functions-wise.
Nokia 6111
...and how it looks like when slid close.
Its reviews online have been very good. Its sleek and stylish design certainly appeals to both male and females. And its functions and camera clarity isn't bad at all. It certainly has the wow factor if used in public, especially the one in black (as seen in the pic above).
And nowadays, i do prefer slide phones to flip phones. Imagine... ya phone is ringing and by the time u curse n swear n run thru half the belongings in ya bag n finally found ya phone n flip it open, saw the person on the caller ID and was jus placing ya finger over the answer button to press it... but all of a sudden it has reached it max ringing time n the line goes dead. WAT THE FARK?!!! Pple with flip-phones, little patience and even shorter tempers will noe wat i mean (i.e. me).
By the way, have i mentioned that if there's one thing i can't stand (other than alarm clocks) that will really get me riled and totally pissed off, even more than having to wait for a person when he/she is very late and more than getting stood up, is when i call a person and the person doesn't pick up and they dun even bother with a follow-up msg or call with believeable/acceptable reasons or excuses for it!! It really gets me riled up man.
I mean, if i call u it must be for a reason rite? It may be for the occasional chitchats when something suddenly comes to mind (in which case maybe i'll get mildly annoyed if its some impt gossip/event i wanna talk about or plan for, but all right if the person in question is a very very close fren whom i noe is pretty deaf in nature, i.e. i can only think of one of my best buds who's like that so the rest have totally no excuse nor immunity from my annoyance).
It may be for urgent stuff i'm asking on behalf of my mum/dad or sis or any extended family or frens or even myself that i need an immediate answer, for which any late follow-up calls (if its really urgent, i dun even bother with msgs usually cos sms replies can sometimes takes long minutes or hours which are crucial -.-) are next to useless anyway since i wud either have already gotten wat i wan myself or thru other sources, or i've probably failed doing watever i needed to be doing at any rate for which no amount of 'sorries' matter.
Or in the worse case scenario, if its smth absolutely urgent/crucial/horrendous in nature, should accidents or poor tale have happened to myself or the person in question, and i cant for the life of me get in touch with the person after numerous calls (think bombing of phone 30-over times or until the hp's missed calls number shown on its display reached its max of 99 and no more), or still am unable to reach that person after contacting several other pple (like, think 10 other pple and above, though 3 others will get me sufficiently crazy already), and that is when no particular effort or words of apology can get me to reconcile with the person till the way we were before.
Yeah...
anyway, i dun have much things on my hate list. But if there's one, its absolutely that -- not having my calls answered or returned, esp. if its without a follow-up call to apologize or explain satisfactorily afterwards. U may have been on the phone, have some commitments on hand, be with pple more important to u, and i can be very accomodating usually, but handphone off or battery dead notwithstanding, as long as u're not sleeping/bed-ridden/sick/in the office or sch/in impt functions un-befitting the presence of an on phone in the beginning/meters or seconds away from meeting me, i feel that most pple shd at least have the courtesy to ANSWER THE PHONE AND TELL ME U'RE BUSY how and will call me back!! I dun like being overlooked or taken for granted as much as the next person u noe?
Ok, long digression aside, lets get back to my original topic before my blood pressure gets raised somemore and i lose track again.
Yup, the two dream phones i've already mentioned (with the prospects of my getting the 7360 slimmer and slimmer as i skim thru all its mediocre functions and inclinally-bad reviews online now...) will probably only come to pass if my dad is agreeable to forking out lots extra mooola more when we re-sign up for a new 2year-plan (with or without trade-in, cos both our phones are worth peanuts...and again, i dun mean the $600K kind). I've also checked out some of the alternatives if we were to go for the free or cheaper phones (i.e. pay less than 100bucks for).
Samsung E350 (in black n silver)
(in silver)
Abit chunky, camera clarity not as good as 6111 of cos, but functions-wise quite all right... better than Nokia 7360 actually (any phone with more than basic functions wud beat 7360 actually -.-). Poor substitute for Nokia 6111, but as cheap phones go, it'll do. In fact, if my dad's not buying the Nokia 6111 (note how i seem to have already excluded the Nokia 7360 in the course of this lengthy entry?), i'll prob get this phone, more value for money.
And the ultimate cheapo phone at $0 with a 2year-plan...
Samsung X660
Basic functions and only 8MB of built-in memory...
Wonder which phone i'll get in the end eh?
Depends on how deep my father's pockets go i guess...
Ang pow money dun count cos i already have plans for them, heh ;p
Which phones do u all like? :)
+ Ursula r e m e m b e r s again + 7:50 PM
