Random...

It has been raining for the whole month, and almost everyday my emotions is just like the weather - moody. Basically I can't find a better word to describe it than the word moody because my emotional bank is now empty, and beyond words can describe...

The rainy weather makes me feel lazy, and I feel like sleeping for the entire day doing nothing! Nothing at all! But I still have to enter my weekly time-sheet :(

Yesterday I bought a new phone, as I thought that my old Nokia 6288 is no longer working. Only later did I realize that my charger was not properly fit into the power socket! I wasn't quite sure whether I'm the one creating an excuse for myself to buy a new phone... or it is something "coincidence" / "fated"...

The day before yesterday, I woke up realizing that my old phone could not power up as usual. Without thinking much, I plugged in my charger to charge my phone... and to my surprise, my phone did not show the battery signal as it usually does during charging. Immediately I assumed that my phone has reached its end-of-life, as I dropped my phone several times on the ground causing the handset to dissembled multiple times. The last time I dropped was Thursday evening, which was the time before I had a meeting with my Team Lead in Paris. I was thankful, as the phone did not "die out" during the meeting!

I rummage through my boxes, and found my Nokia 6288 warranty card. It has passed its one-year warranty period. I wasn't feeling anything... I thought probably it is time to change my handphone for a better one. I always wanted to have a new cool phone like the iPhone btw... However, I don't plan to spend too much money on a piece of technology that will obsolete within one year or two. Call me a scrooge, but I'm not the kind of person who's likely to spend something that doesn't last!

I was looking through the Internet for my "future" phone... and spent quite some time on it. I haven't been doing this kind of "research" for quite some time, ever since I bought my 6288, so it took me quite a while to look through the budget phone that has the features I want. Finally I found "Samsung Star WiFi". It may not the
best phone in the market, but it seems perfect to me.

After dinner, I went to the digital mall to get my "dream" phone... but then, my mom was not very supportive over me getting a new phone. Instead, she insisted that I should get my old phone checked to see if it could be repaired. For whatever reason, I did not ask about the new phone that I intend to have. Instead, I asked the phone seller to check my phone! The phone was diagnosed fine, and the real problem was in-fact due to the battery mounted in the phone! Apparently the battery has passed it's lifetime, and its "swollen" exterior is the proof. Without much hesitation, I bought the original battery for RM 170. I was relieve (for not spending money for a new phone), at the same time feeling a little disappointed for not having what I initially planned to have.

The battery was working perfectly, till the next day... My phone did not show up the "charging" signal when I tried to charge it. Again, I immediately assumed that it was 100% my phone problem! I went to the shop again, with my old phone and told them what happened. So they plugged their charger into my old phone, and it was working! So, the immediate conclusion was that my charger was not working due to leaving my charger on for a long period of time. Though my old phone is still working fine, I was determined to buy a new phone. Even though my "Angelic side" told me not to spend unnecessary money... My "Devilish side" seems to prevail in the dilemma of whether or not to own a new phone! The excuses was:
1. The old Nokia 6288 has been giving me some problem
2. Bonus is out
3. I should motivate / reward myself for working so hard (have been working during wee hours and weekends)
4. The new phone has WiFi which allows me to browse Internet at the Cafe, airport, home, even in the toilet! Haha...
5. I can blog online more frequent than ever, and enrich myself with the resources from the Internet.

So yesterday, I have been spending the whole day playing with my new phone! .. and yes, the previous post was uploaded using my new "Samsung Star WiFi". There are a lot more functionality to be tested, and hopefully I will not feel regret for buying this phone.

I really should be working after blogging this. Otherwise, I'm going to have big problems catching up later! ...:)

my samsung star wifi

I'm tring to post a blog using my new Samsung Star Wifi. Hopefully it works... and yes! ...it works like a charm.

I bought this gem today for only RM888. I don't think other brand like Nokia or SE phone with similar specs could offer an affordable package like this.

This phone seems to be a perfect phone for me, as it has the features I want, such as WiFi & a document viewer. I encountered some minor issue with the wireless feature at first due to my WPA security setting. Apparently the phone doesn't support WPA, and therefore I've to set it to WEP 64 bit to get it to work! After I have made the changes on the router, I've to restart the handset so tht the 'dns failed' message would go away!

Apart from allowing me to blog, this phone also allows me to view videos in youtube. however the quality of the video was not as good as the one on the pc.