From the way things look right now…my next cellphone will again likely be a Sony Ericsson!

I had a tiny candybar-factor Nokia 8390 for the longest time, upgraded to a SE S710a last August (which is great, but yes a bit bulky tho I dont really mind).  I’ve only had my S710a for about 7months and I’m already bored.  When the time comes, if I can get a free upgrade from Rogers (a friend from school got a new W600 free upgrade from her 8390), one of these new SE phones would be nicely attractive & functional:

• SE K790
  
• Specs for this phone is the same as the K800 which is the UMTS/3G version of the K790.

• Specifications for the Sony Ericsson K800/K790
  Band	UMTS 2100MHz (K800), GSM 900/1800/1900MHz or GSM 850/1800/1900MHz
  Data	EDGE (K790) or UMTS (K800)
  Size	105mm x 47mm x 22mm (4.1″ x 1.8″ x 0.9″)
  Weight	115g (4.1oz)
  Battery Life	350 hours standby time
  	2.5 hours UMTS, 7 hours GSM talk time
  Main Display	262k color TFT LCD, 240×320 pixel resolution
  Sub-Display	N/A
  Camera	Yes, 3.2 megapixel
  Video	Video capture/playback
  Messaging	MMS/EMS/SMS
  Email	Yes
  Bluetooth	Yes
  Infrared	Yes
  Java	Yes (MIDP v2.0)
  Polyphonics	Yes
  Memory	64MB on board memory, Memory Stick Micro (M2) expansion
  Availability	Q2 2006 (manufacturer’s estimate)

Another option could be an SE W950 walkman smartphone / M600, which runs Symbian OS 9.1 and UIQ 3 & dual mode UMTS/GSM (but no camera)!

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• Specifications for the Sony Ericsson M600
  Band	GSM 900/1800/1900MHz, UMTS 2100MHz
  Data	UMTS
  Size	107mm x 57mm x 15mm (4.2″ x 2.2″ x 0.6″)
  Weight	112g (4.0oz)
  Battery Life	340 hours GSM, 250 hours UMTS standby time
  	7.5 hours GSM, 2.5 hours UMTS talk time
  Main Display	262k color TFT LCD, 240×320 pixel resolution
  Sub-Display	N/A
  Camera	No
  Video	Playback only
  Messaging	MMS/EMS/SMS
  Email	Yes (POP/IMAP/SMTP/Push)
  Bluetooth	Yes
  Infrared	Yes
  Java	Yes (MIDP 2.0)
  Polyphonics	Yes (40 voice)
  Memory	80MB internal memory, Memory Stick Micro (M2) expansion
  Availability	Q2 2006
  Other	Touch sensitive screen, QWERTY keypad

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Also, saw the new Samsung D600 slider phone is coming out with 2mp…photo quality is crap compared to SE, but apparently it’s a nice overpriced phone tho!

When you don’t have something, you wish the world you did and feel like crap because life seems so empty and meaningless without it; you wander through life lost, continuously searching to find that one other to share your life and its sense of completeness with…and maybe after a while of endless searching, you give up, wave the white flag and stop searching because you realize that genuine truth and beauty cannot be found in searching.  Rather, it finds you.

But once you have that something, your life is completely changed; this very life circumstance makes you happy; this reality seems like it was a real fairy tale come true; cloud number 9; like you were in heaven; and everything you see seems tremendously more colourful even though it really hasn’t changed; you cherish every moment of life so much more and pay special attention to the little details of life that you overlooked before; you find a touch of splendour and heaven in the strangest and oddest of places.

I wish my life would be the latter, I really do.  Living heaven on earth.  But unfortunately that is not the case; my life is the former.  and still, life goes on…the show must go on.  I live to die another day.  Die to self-trying and self-power and self-control.  Every part of my life I seem to have control over–school, work, what to eat or wear, but in this, I really do not…it is out of my hands, I cannot do anything about it, I do not have control over what happens.  And being without any control of my life freaks me out.  …Maybe this is God’s way of testing my true reformed/calvinistic beliefs, if I really do consider Him LORD over all.

Anywayz, here it is, my new attachment.  I splurged, because I can, and have nothing/nobody holding me back.  Found it on sale at Steve’s Music:
Behringer V-TONE BASS BDI21: Bass Amp Modeler/Direct Recording Preamp/DI Box

I can’t seem to find a 9v DC adaptor lying around, nor a 9v battery, so I’ve yet to plug it in and try it out…but dang, she looks gorgeous!

She needs a name–so please send in your suggestions! 
(FYI: my Bass guitar’s name is Joey, after Joey Yung)

See also this old post for reference on this topic.

For those who commemorated the infamous Feb.14 holiday created by Hallmark, please read this.

Past couple days I’ve been…sulking?  I was thinking of posting something yesterday, since relatively a lot “happened”: awkward surprise, perplexed, intrigued, shocked, uneasyness, sudden/out-of-the-blue, confused…judgement affected without me actively letting it be influenced.  insert classic Alex smile face with question mark ;-?

7 days from now, my world could be flipped upside down, or maybe I’ll flip it upside down.  But I’ve got a feeling it’s not gonna be flipped at all, and then I’m gonna flip out (no matter how insignificantly) about this.  I honestly deteste being the only one who’s got the ball in hand and won’t do anything about it coz I know I suck at basketball and a very high probability that I’ll miss, but still there being a very minute possibility of scoring a basket.  Stupid analogy, thought of this just now on the fly :S  But u know what I mean.  Actually, better yet put it this way–I tried my hand at basketball, failed miserably despite it not being entirely my fault and lack of basketball skills; got thrown out of the sport…and now, I guess I’m moving back to what I enjoyed before: ice hockey.  I can skate, shoot, and boy can I shoot, and bodycheck…so I should be really good at this..(only thing is I haven’t learned how to hockey-stop, hopefully this doesn’t mean anything).

Anywayz, been browsing thru Swarovski twice within 7days, not a good thing to do–it gives me ideas, sets price ranges in my head, and gets me to evaluate varies shapes, sizes and bling-intensity of crystal jewellery.  Last Thursday I went with my sis Jack, and today with Joyce.  Hmmm…I dunno, honestly, I think I wont be spending such $$ until many months down the road.

And at this rate, it might be a year. –>I am such a wuss… or maybe I’m just still so very guarded and scared still to open up my heart to anybody else.  I think the later is more true, I haven’t really opened up my life recently to anybody other than my close friends…and to the extent that I have with friends, I am still quite uneasy about spilling the whole truth of what’s aching me and only saying what hurts least. 

I feel like a little mouse that doesn’t click: earlier tonite I was on my desktop, unlocked my desktop with my username/password–but the mouse would not budge, stuck not moving, left right back forward buttons don’t work.  looking at the bottom, LED light is on.  weird, I unplug it out of my keyboard’s usb port, plug back in: no effect.  try the 2nd usb port: no effect.  After a minute, realized that BitComet had froze up again as usual (for some reason it does that after X amount of hours)…so I killed the process, and then my mouse worked again.
–> I think some software running in this OS of my life has froze up, and I’m just stuck unmoving.  Things just don’t click between me and..u know who,..my world.  It’s not easy and smooth as the past was, so despite my feelings and inclinations, and move forward and any clicking motion I initiate seems futile.

~sighs~  I don’t think I’m making any sense!

EDIT:
Oh my…I am distracted in my techy-news surfing by this cute Microsoft Chinese lady, Jenny Lam!  What do ya think?!?  A smart, techy Chinese gal…shweetess!  And I never imagined this–so much of my Windows eXperience was done by her :)  oh la la =D

 

YahooPhotos is being REALLY STUPID, check out the attached screenshot!

So much for “UNLIMITED STORAGE” as stated @ http://help.yahoo.com/l/ca/rogers/photos/policy/policy-57412.html **it’s not really unlimited at all :S

Seems I’m just about outta photo storage space;S  I’ve uploaded so much photos that apparently I’m almost totally outta room for any more. What should I do?!? I’m gonna email RogersYahoo Internet support and whine for one!!!

Anywayz, I’m highly considering moving over to FLICKr–I’ve actually started using it already since I’ve got this kool integration with my website. $24.95usd for a PRO Account–anybody wanna gimme a belated Christmas/early bday/graduation present?!? (Click here to buy it for me–my screen name is sixsteps)  Flickr is a Yahoo company, so they technically should be able to transfer my yahoophotos over–if it could do this I’ll really jump on switching over!

Here’s me avoiding what I really wanna say, hope that’s ok with you:S   I blog a lot, and I also tend to read a lot of blogs.  Recently, I’ve begun using an actual homepage instead of just a blank one: www.live.com .  On the left and middle side of my homepage, I’ve got a bunch of blogs/news sites I visit often that I’ve set up to extract RSS feeds from, so I basically get to check like 5 blogs (or more) all at the same time, to see what’s new.  On the right side of my homepage is a snapshot of my sixsteps.org Inbox, which uses MSN/hotmail servers, so I can see if I’ve got new mail.  Altogether, a very functional homepage.

On the matter of blogging, at www.worshipmatters.com which i frequent, I recently came across a very good series of articles/blogposts by Bob Kauflin on how blogging can be worship to God.  And over 3 posts, Pastor Kauflin outlined 3 areas in which blogging can become worship–in our motives, our attitudes, and our content.

I could very well just quote Kauflin here, but read up on it at the link above…and do consider twice how your own blogging can and should be glorifying to God our Father and edifying to all those who read it;-!

“So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” 1 Cor. 10:31

“Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.”  Eph. 4:29, ESV

“Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.” James 3:13-18, ESV