Trip!

It has been more than a week since the last post. The monotonous SSDD wore me out tremendously, so much so that I did not even felt like making any entries. The last week has been quite the unfortunate turn of events, the most evident of which is the 3 parking fines I've gotten. For some reason, the parking wardens had the most impeccable timing these days. I got served within a few hours of my coupon expiration. Life on the work front wasn't a bed of roses as well. 3 of my colleagues tendered their resignation on the same week; and those were people that I liked. To be honest, I'm not sure what they were thinking, being so close to the bonus period and all, but I guess they've probably thought it through, they don't look like the type to make capricious decisions on issues such as this. Well, I wish them the best, wherever they're at now.

Anyway, I've been a bit of an ebay nut this past week as well. Ordered a mobilephone, and a bunch of camera stuff for the impending trip. I'll get to that in a bit. Anyway, all these time, I've always been some sort of a phone person, always wanted the newest and the nicest, got all sorts of phones, from the ubiquitous touchscreen, to sliders to candybar. I've decided, after all these experimentation, that I really work better with clamshell phones. The problem with the market now, no thanks to the iPhone, is that there aren't any decent flip phones around that is worthy of mention. Its all touchscreen out there. I'm using the LG Ice Cream, and thats about the only flip out on the market now that I'll spend my money on. Enter the LG Lollipop. 

Its essentially a slimmer 3G version of the Ice Cream. On all counts, I find it better than the Ice Cream, only beef was with the cute themes in-built on the phone. There is a ridiculously cute theme, and a cute theme, and thats it. Suffice to say I have no choice but to go with "just" the cute one, which is not exactly befitting of someone like me. I do wish there could be more customization with the LEDs on the phone though, getting the colours to cascade or change would have been a welcomed touch. Right now you can only stick with one colour. Here's how the phone looks like in the dark.

In any case, the purchase is tending towards more of an impulse one, seeing that this phone will probably get released in Singapore in a few weeks anyway. Seeing as the expected launch price is a bit more than what I paid, I guess its not such a bad buy, since I get to use it way ahead of everyone else.

Oh yeah, about the trip. I'll be going to Canada next month on a leisure trip. My sister is currently on an attachment program there so I guess lodging shouldn't be much of an issue. Now all I need to do is to find out what can I do there. There is still about close to 3 weeks before the trip, so there's plenty of time for me to research. I'm planning to stopover in New York for a few days, but thats still on the cards as of now. I am feeling a bit excited and nervous when I think about it. After all, I've never set foot outside of Asia in my life. This is the first time I'll be on a plane for more than 6 hours. I just hope I'll enjoy this as much as I'm visualizing I am.

In any case, this impending trip has sapped quite a bit out of me financially. The plane ticket is about 2 grand, and there's still the day to day expenses as well. All in all, I estimated I might blow about 4000 or so on this trip.>_<. I hope I can stay below that figure though. I don't make nearly enough to offset that!