Its just a cellphone, bloody hell!!!
I cant believe that I am a Singaporean and yet be in such a need (or should I say, want?) for a new phone upgrade???!!! I cant even remembe the last time I had a new phone!! Maybe a year ago? Whatever happened to my Singaporean sense of photo-savvyness and the capability to keep up with the techno and stuff? I mean, I dont even have a pic upload capability from my darn phone. What is wrong with me???!!!
Let me tell you what is wrong. Life!! and its demands! When u have to choose between pampering yourself with an Iphone or making sure that you stay within a monthly budget that you had set for yourself and your family.. the latter has to win! Like it or not is another thing hence I am still using my MotorolaRazor Phone (thank God its hot pink.. gives me some creditability for being updated right??!). Just called my phone provider whom we have been with for 3 years or more to see if we qualify for a free one of those "top-of-the-line", latest, Broadband phone that'll practially allow me to even build a bomb shelter with a press of a button and of coz, we qualify!!! For a small price. Now to be fair, its not that expensive for us to really plunge in and upgrade but to make the phone usable to its fullest potential, you then of coz need an internet service and all that razzle-dazzle apps too and by the time all is said and done, it would have been rather costly on a monthly basis.
I tell Mark.. why do we need an internet phone? I am at home all the time with the laptop on and u are a software programmer. Seriously, why do we need one? Because we want to be be hip and be like the rest of the world.. walking around and building their lives around this one gadget, I supposed. For me, I have a reputation to keep. I come from a nation that has the highest cell phone turnaround rate per user!!
Oh well.. I found out tonight I had to change our price plans. We have been going over our minutes quite a minutes since the many years ago we got our phone.. thanks to many more friends and events going on in our individual life. Not much changes in terms of money but can I admit that it hurt still?
I so wish I am a millionaire now! Shoot!
Let me tell you what is wrong. Life!! and its demands! When u have to choose between pampering yourself with an Iphone or making sure that you stay within a monthly budget that you had set for yourself and your family.. the latter has to win! Like it or not is another thing hence I am still using my MotorolaRazor Phone (thank God its hot pink.. gives me some creditability for being updated right??!). Just called my phone provider whom we have been with for 3 years or more to see if we qualify for a free one of those "top-of-the-line", latest, Broadband phone that'll practially allow me to even build a bomb shelter with a press of a button and of coz, we qualify!!! For a small price. Now to be fair, its not that expensive for us to really plunge in and upgrade but to make the phone usable to its fullest potential, you then of coz need an internet service and all that razzle-dazzle apps too and by the time all is said and done, it would have been rather costly on a monthly basis.
I tell Mark.. why do we need an internet phone? I am at home all the time with the laptop on and u are a software programmer. Seriously, why do we need one? Because we want to be be hip and be like the rest of the world.. walking around and building their lives around this one gadget, I supposed. For me, I have a reputation to keep. I come from a nation that has the highest cell phone turnaround rate per user!!
Oh well.. I found out tonight I had to change our price plans. We have been going over our minutes quite a minutes since the many years ago we got our phone.. thanks to many more friends and events going on in our individual life. Not much changes in terms of money but can I admit that it hurt still?
I so wish I am a millionaire now! Shoot!