miniaturization of gail's rationality brain

it's a lazy sunday afternoon and i love it this way because it's my birthday and aside from that, i have an adaptor that i can temporarily use. my uncle's friend has the same Toshiba kind. so yey! he left it yesterday so i can use it until tuesday when they come back. so while it's with me, i'm going to abuse the DSL connection and the adaptor.

i've been downloading like crazy. mostly software updates.

while i was gone, my supposedly trusty Nokia 7610 gave up on me. i will shamefully say that i have (once again) succumbed to technology miniaturization. it started with getting a smaller ipod-- the ipod mini. and then there's wanting a smaller laptop than what i have now so i won't have to carry around a heavy computer. then there's the latest-- me getting a Motorola Razr. it's not like i had a choice. i had to choose right away before the old phone gave up on me. so yeah. i am a gullible consumer. since the Razr came out, i was happy with my phone but exchanging text messages with Bea (who is well-researched when it comes to Razrs), i wanted to get one too. not just because the old one was bulky but because i wanted to switch to a different manufacturer other than Nokia who has dominated the celphone industry (if not the whole world, at least in Asia or the Philippines). like what Bea and i say, "death to NOKIA!". HAHA! i know very well that gadgets were created for fast depreciation but here i am, still a slave of petty consumerism. and i gave up. i got a Razr. the slim phone. somebody shoot me now.

but if we talk about the perks of the phone, i love it because even if i slip it into the pocket of my jeans, it's not bulky. i can still do the things that i like with celphones like transfer media files to a computer and update the software. except i only have polyphonic tones instead of wave files. i fell in love with it the first night it was with me because it's easy to adjust to unlike other non-Nokia phones and it has the features that i call a necessity for me: it has a Datebook! i know. probably every celphone out there has a calendar but whatever. i'm happy with my Razr. hah. it's even sick that Nokia phones have set the standards of the functionality of celphones. i must admit, they have cutting edge technology but whatever. i'm trying to break the cycle. HAHA! fat chance.

i wanted to get the silver one but they did not have the silver one in an executive pack (meaning, the whole deal: USB cable, software, leather case, headset, etc.). so i picked the black one instead. PINK was not even an option. please. i still want the silver. but whatever. HAHA! black works for me because it's scratch free unlike the sensitive looking silver aluminum casing.

i feel half guilty and half happy for falling into the marketing trap of Motorola. what's worse is that poor gadget freak Me didn't even have a chance to fight against it.