ps: last photo – ISO 6400, 1/800 f/2.8 (I like)

Hello. On 2nd March, I became one year older.  Thanks for all the wishes!

Call me a geek but I can’t live without technology. I bet most of the gen-Y nowadays do too. It has become a semi-obsession. From the moment I wake up till the moment I sleep, everything around me involves computing systems enclosed in plastic / metal cases. PC, phone. YES. Phone. I know you people already does know what I was gonna blab about ain’t ya? Hahahaahaha.

Seriously, I feel lost without my iPhone. It has changed my life since August 2009, period.

Just like they say, you don’t miss your water till it’s dry. Now having to settle with a lagging LG mobile, my days feel so unproductive. Having to wait for 1 second to read a message, 2 second to get into Silent mode, waiting three times longer to download an MMS (no 3G), cannot check e-mails, tweets, and web on the go, can’t use GPS when I got lost -- sigh, it’s like going back to dark ages.

I wonder how I could live without all these before. See, speed matters a lot to me. Having to wait for something that is not suppose to make me wait, annoys me. I don’t mind waiting for chicken nuggets that took 12 minutes to turn golden brown because I know there’s nothing I can do about it (unless they invent an instant instant nugget). But I think that it’s a shame for not catching up or (like I love to say it) embrace the technology when it’s already there waiting to make your life easier.

Back to the iPhone, last Monday I sent it to the Maxis Center (3GS, 16GB) to make a request to claim a warranty because somehow the touchscreen became unresponsive at random. 50% of the time the screen just won’t register my taps and I have to press the sleep/wake button to make it responses again. It was damn frustrating because sometimes I even missed my calls because I can’t tap or slide to answer. I did a restore from synced and from zero but to no avail. The Maxis guy kept asking me did I restart it, do restore and stuff like I don’t know anything about iPhone until I told him about the loose digitizer at the right side of the earpiece >

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I’ve been told that it will take a minimum of 3 -- 6 weeks to get my phone back. I was like (o.O) but I guess there’s nothing I can do about it. Perhaps Apple should open Apple Stores here to take care of their costumers and products instead of handing it to some telco company.

Yeah, it’s just a phone. Whatever.

Ps: See, I know some of you will say, “fugging spoilt kid, what about us who can’t even afford a smartphone let alone an iPhone” Well, kid, that’s not the issue here. I worked hard to earn it and that should justify

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ps: Pics taken from my iPonnn :]

Lirik:

tak ada sedikitpun sesalku
tak bertahan dengan setiaku
walau di akhir jalan
ku harus melepaskan dirimu, ooo

ternyata tak mampu kau melupa
dalamnya cintaku yg hebat
hingga ada alasan bagimu
tuk tinggalkan setiamu, ooo

reff: demi nama cinta
telah kupersembahkan hatiku hanya untukmu
tlah kujaga kejujuran dalam setiap nafasku

karna demi cinta
telah kurelakan kecewaku atas ingkarmu
sebab kumengerti cinta itu tak mesti memiliki

andai saja bisa kau pahami
layaknya arti kasih sejati
karna cinta yg sungguh
tiada akan pernah mungkin bersyarat, oooo

repeat reff

ternyata tak mampu kau melupa
dalamnya cintaku yg hebat

Ok la, ye blackout. Blackout on Chinese New Year day some more I tell you.

Tengah borak-borak isu keluarga dengan saudara-mara lepas makan, pappp! Terus tak nampak batang hidung masing-masing, tinggal suara je. Tangan pulak tergapai-gapai cari candle dan torchlight.

Lepas tu bila dah pasang lilin semua aku dengar diorang semua macam tengah cari aku. “Mana Lan? Tadi ada sini. Mana Lan?”

Weh, tengah berry mana boleh bercakap la! Tak baik!

Tak dapat tengok TV tak apa lagi. Masalahnya di Malaysia ni 24/7 kemarau. Cikgu kajian tempatan kata: panas dan lembap sepanjang tahun. Hmm, bila fikir-fikir, panas dan lembap boleh pakai juga pada attitude rakyat Malaysia.

Jadi aku pun keluar la kejap nak ambil angin. Satu taman gelap gelita, cuma dengar suara-suara pakcik dan makcik jiran bersembang dalam gelap. Ya, kawasan kejiranan aku kebanyakannya cikgu-cikgu pencen je yang tinggal. Termasuk babah. LOL.

Lepas tu, aku terpandang langit.

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Masyaallah.

Automatik terbit air mata bila terfikir betapa insignificant-nya planet biru kecil ini dan segenap manusia yang berpuak-puak di permukaannya.

ps: Ya Allah, ampunkanlah dosaku, dosa kedua ibu bapaku, guru-guru, rakan-rakan serta orang mukminin. Amiin.

Cinta itu marathon jauh,
Kalau dipecut pitam di tengah;
Kalau berlenggang baik bersauh,
Biar seimbang jarak dan mengah.

:]

Now this is going to be a little difficult, so stay with me.

How much does your life weigh? Imagine for a second you are carrying a backpack. I want you to pack it with all the stuff you have in your life and start with the little things the shelves, the drawers, the nicknacks: then start adding larger stuff, clothes, tabletop appliances, lamps, your TV – backpack should be getting pretty heavy now – and you go bigger. Your couch, your car, your home – I want you to stuff it all into that backpack.

Now i want you to fill it with people. Start with casual acquaintances, friends of friends, folks around the office, and then you move to the people that you trust with your most intimate secrets, your brothers and sisters, your children, parents, and finally your husband, wife, your boyfriend, your girlfriend – and get ‘em into that backpack – feel the weight of that bag. Make no mistake; your relationships are your heaviest components in your life. all those negotiations and arguments and secrets are compromising. The slower we move, the faster we die. Make no mistake, moving is living. Some animals were meant to carry each other to live, symbiotically over a lifetime, star-crossed lovers, monogamous swans –

We are not swans, we are sharks.

- George Clooney, Up In The Air