Happy New Year to one and all.
Happy New Year to me.
Happy New Year to Flapper.
Happy New Year to all the doggies!
11:36 am - Painstakingly on photo upload frenzy onto facebook after days of unsuccessful attempts. The hot weather ain't helping the cause. The dogs have crashed out after their usual routine of morning wrestles, rumbles and tumbles... and what else better to do but to sleep with the current weather condition!
So... WELCOME 2010! Not sure about you guys, but I sure am excited! Can't remember the last time I embraced the New Year with some for of enthusiasm! As I'd mentioned previously, 2009 was quite an extraodinary year for me, never mind that the first half is still distant memory. And of course, in true Chooey style, I had to end the year with a series of dramas! Van broke down on 29th evening and had to be towed to "hospital" on 30th, a silly weekend dog had to break out in some unknown allergy attack on a day my van visited the hospital.... just went I thought I could have a peaceful ushering in of the exciting new year!
Good news: Paid off my last van installment... WOOHOO! Finally after 36 months! Feels good to have one less liability! Last payment for my biz website too... double woohoo! January numbers are looking decent despite being off-peak season.... oh yes! and the best-est news of all... I just got myself a 6 mth old i-mac. Ya ya... via installment again but whatever that works!
So yeah! 2010 will be exciting alrighty! Just recently I was thinking real hard about investing to get a Mac com for my biz and now, I'm really going to be owning one! Cannot believe it but all that happens....I'm blessed! Thaaankkkk you God!
I've been on a phone hunt the last few days and of course, I tried to find back something similar, if not better than the current phone. And yes, I wanted back a Samsung again. Afterall, this trustworthy phone did drop down from high heights, came apart, looked like it was dead but nope! Resurrected! Not just once.. but quite a few times. Then my friend was instigating me to get the i-phone to match the i-mac but I was super-resistent. I hated the fact that i-phone does not have qwerty keypad and switching to what looks like a fragile piece of machine is a big change for me. Resisted the notion a thousand times over.... never mind I really do need a new phone. My unfaithful Samsung i-780 has gone unstable since its return from the TP and only manages to hang once every so often in day!
So i looked at the Samsung... whatever that model is... looking snazzy, has pretty much the same functions as the current phone BUT! No touchscreen. I was not willing to compromise. I wanted a replica of the i-780.... but a newer model. Ok.. tech slut at work again.
And then it suddenly hit me. Ah yes... one of those philosophical moments again. So I've always been raving about the phone and how hardy it is... I like it the way it is. Did not think I'll be looking for a new one anytime soon. Then my phone left me for about 2 months and when it came back, it LOOKED like the same phone. Till I switched it back on after charging it for god knows how many hours and expecting it function the way it used to.
But it didn't.
It had gone cranky and hung once too often which did not piss me off, but surprised me. It never gave me such probs before its visit to the TP. Then my bro recommended for me to hard reset the phone but I'd yet to sync my contacts to the newly reformatted old lappie that had crashed to the floor and suffered a broken backlight. So hard reset... hmm... maybe later.
Then I gave it some thoughts and decided that rather than resusitating this phone back to life, maybe it is time to get a new one. I mean the options are obvious. I could either choose to send this phone back to Samsung and have it serviced OR... just get a new one! But even in that process, it is amazing to see how much of a reflection it is of the stuff I'd consciously/unconsciously hidden away.....
So what's gone and come back, is not the same thing anymore. Upset? A tad bit. I do love it. So choice line: repair or new one? Iv chose the latter. Afterall, this does remain in the past. So let it go and seek a new one.
But in the process of looking for a new one, i was fervently hanging on to the old one. I might as well go get the same model again! I found the new model but it was missing something off the old one. So I rejected it. Looked at other models but it was fundamentally not the same model AND did not hold the same functions. So I did not have the compelling desire to splurge on unfamiliarity. I closed the page and decided to put it on hold for now.
Then it hit me. This IS a reflection of the current me. Happy with the new implements but it is just that ONE thing that I'm still hanging on to. So I thought to myself, "OK.... maybe I can get the new model. F*** that it is missing one function. I could still come to love it eventually, no?" But somehow I could not bring myself to concur on that notion.
So after my big decision to get the i-mac, it dawned upon me that maybe I should just get the iphone despite my strong resistence. It is completely uncomfortable getting an imac and iphone at the same time, is a big change for me! I've always been a pc user so to change to mac now, there's alot of getting used to. As for the iphone, despite how ppl consistently rave abt it, I never saw the appeal or the 'want' factor. I saw it as a phone too complicated for me. So i-phone... arggghhh and hmmm.... not something I was willing to even consider that could work for me. Maybe a complete change from the old could be good for me. Never know what I'll discover along the way.
With a set mind that I will take that big step and go for something completely foreign and uncomfortable for me, I went on an i-phone search online. But after dabbling around with the application online, I realised that my contract is only up in 3 months time and there's a $100.00 early upgrade penalty. Hesitation set in. Should I or should I not? Maybe it is not time. Maybe I should wait.
But as I'm typing this, the urge to just get one NOW is kicking in. Yes. That's me. I get fickle about changes but once I decide it's time for a complete change, that's when it happens. Impulsive and reckless. Oh yes! Lara Croft! LOL. So yeah. Guess it's time for another drastic change. It won't take too long to come to appreciate the new one aye?
So yes... WELCOME 2010...! Great way to start the year with drastic changes! Ha!
Welcome home Chooey!
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