i'm in the market for a new mobile phone. i'm looking for something not too complicated or expensive, but still fun to play around with. an mp3 player on the phone would be nice. but basically i just want something that i can use for calls and SMS. XD

i'm looking at these three models:

Nokia 3110 Classic - i'm actually sick and tired of nokia (been using a toshiba vodafone for the past 2 years), but i saw this phone from a friend and it looks feature-packed for a good price. looks durable too.

Sony Ericsson W350 - this looks reeeeaaaally nice and i like the features. and it's not nokia. but it looks a bit fragile. browsing through the user feedback, a lot of people keep saying the flap (?) easily breaks.

Sony Ericsson K330 - this looks much more durable than the one above. AND it's not nokia (this is somewhat important to me, lol). but i'm not too sure about the features.

all these models cost around php5000 only.

feedback? any other recommendations aside from the ones listed? ^^

of course i can't edit my previous post with pictures of kaida from my phone because the box containing my phone accessories (including the usb cable) is missing! D: and where can i find accessories for a toshiba vodafone here? T_T

our room says it needs thorough cleaning, making me look for that box and all.

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the other thing i'm missing is my hair. T__T

i had my hair cut, and the stupid guy from the salon cut it really short. ~_~ the last time i wore my hair this short i think was.. 2nd year high school? ~____~

i don't know what happened. they first led me to the shampoo area and used my very long hair to mop up their sink washed my hair, then they sat me down, i gave my instructions, and then read a magazine because i can't see what they're doing to my hair anyway because they made me take off my glasses. i looked up after they blow-dried my hair and wish i hadn't. ~_~

granted, it's not really ugly. and i do like taking shorter showers now that i have less hair to wash. but it gets really itchy because my skin around my neck and cheeks get irritated. ..and i just really like my hair long. T_T

pif. looks like i'll be sporting a ponytail for the next 2 months or so. ~__~

so my new mobile phone arrived recently.

for a while i couldn't use it because we don't have vodafone here in the philippines. >.> i had it converted to an open line so it could accomodate my smart sim card.

the problem that i encountered with it was that it displayed the phonebook entries via sim position, not alphabetically, so that whenever i had to send an sms i had to scroll through nearly 250 phonebook entries before i found the right number. ~_~

so i'm erasing the numbers in my sim card memory and i will be using the phone memory which can store up to 500 numbers and displays the entries alphabetically.

if you are on my YM list you would probably have received a message sent to all wherein i said that i needed your mobile phone numbers again.

i extend this message to my LJ friends who are not on my YM list. so this is very important. please take the time to read this: i will screen the comments to this post for your privacy. please list your first name, last name, mobile phone number, and birthday so i can update my phonebook. thank you so much!

(random: my mood reads 'sick' because i got a nasty case of colds that i got from, of all people, kaida. >.>)

posting randomly.

i guess i'm generally in an odd mood. the onset of october always makes me feel a little giddy with building excitement for my day at the end of the month. haha i guess i'm always like that with special days.

however, recent turbulent events throw in a negative vibe to building excitement, resulting in a rather odd mix of plain ngslkdrhtskksdjfhtgkwenrg.

..i feel restless. i feel as if there this grand canyon-sized gap that i have to jump across to get to something.. and i don't know what that something is. forgive the rather lame attempt at waxing poetic, i guess i just don't know how to describe this feeling. XD

( where do i start this rather long rambling discussion/rant/general wth? )

broadband has arrived!

we oohed and aahed over the speed of web pages appearing like ting! but we do get nasty lag spikes.

yeah ok, i knew it wasn't going to be perfect, what with our location being so far from the main ports, but there's this weird thing i don't get with our connection.

the lineman didn't set up a dialer for the username and password. first thing he did was install the modem and all, but then he said we weren't getting a connection because some of the modem light indicators remained off. so he said he was going back to their office to switch us to another port. he called us a few hours later and asked if all of the lights in the modem were turned on now and they were, so then he asked us to open internet explorer and then type in the username and password into a dialog box that automatically popped up. i told him we used firefox and that no dialog box asking for the username and password appeared. he then directed us to a pldt website and told us the log in there, and the dsl worked.

thing is, now we always have to go to that same website to log in, and make sure we don't close that window because we might get logged out. that site will always show our status whether we are connected or not.

i don't know.. it's very inconvenient. i much prefer the old system wherein you connect to broadband the same way you connect to dial-up: using the network connections in windows xp.

is there any way around this new system, i wonder. i just don't like it at all.

but i guess i should be thankful we have broadband at all, even if it is a rather choppy connection and YM is starting to bitch on me, the way it does with most broadband connections.


edit:

and oh right, for those who were trying to reach us through our landline: the phone died and so did we.

last june 6, our phone line went dead. remembering an incident like this before, i called our landline using my mobile, because last time, an incoming call jumpstarted our landline into having a dial tone again. the phone was ringing on my mobile, but our landline wasn't. then somebody answered. i was staring dumbfounded at our landline, my brain trying to figure out how somebody could answer our number when i was standing right in front of our phone, and i was sure as hell that nobody was there to answer it.

by this time, the person on the other line had said "hello" for the third time, so i asked what number this was, and she gave a different number. apparently our number was crossed with someone else's, so that when we dialled our number, we were directed to another house, and vice versa.

and get this, the number we got crossed with was effin' prepaid. we couldn't use their number to make outgoing calls or even to use the net because they were out of effin' credits. once we get our phone bill, if i see any long-distance calls between june 6 and june 21, i will not pay. damn that other house, they might have exploited usage of our line.

of all the effin' coincidences. telesulit, my effin' ass.

anyway, pldt finally fixed it today, along with the installation of the dsl. after two effin' weeks. after half an effin' month. should i even pay our bill this month? shouldn't i get a 50% discount at least? pldt claimed they were having trouble with the squatters in the area who were stealing their equipment and messing with their cabinets, which was why the problem started with the phone lines. no excuse!! two effin' weeks without internet. we positively died. lol.

another weird fact, my dad lost his mobile phone also last june 6.

june 6, 2006: the omen - the end of all telephonekind. o_O