Raison d’être

When is the last time you feel so attached to something (not someone)? Maybe like a little girl who cannot sleep without her busuk blanket at night. Or a 5 year old boy who won’t get in the car without his Bumblebee in his hand.

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