God’s Gift To Mankind Is The Internet

April 17th, 2008

it seems i am quite the failure when it comes to technology. the other day my brother was checking out some online forums on his iPhone, and i looked over and said how i wished i had an iPhone so i could go online whenever and wherever i want.

and he said, ‘your phone also can wat, stupid!’


my former phone that i never knew could be used to access the internet. sigh.

please lah -_- i was all like, ‘if my phone could go online, do you think i would not know???’

apparently it can. wtf. and all it took was a visit to one of those Maxis shops. actually it was quite funny… i went to the Maxis shop at Pavilion, thrust my phone into the hands of the guy working there and asked him, ‘my phone cannot go online right??’.

and then he said to me … ‘why girls don’t like to read manual when they buy phones wan ah?’ -___-

then he tinkered with my phone for like 30 SECONDS and suddenly Google popped up on the screen o_O

shit???? where has this service been all my life???

needless to say, i’m using my phone ALL THE TIME whenever i’m out now. i just can’t… stop… going online!!! yes yes i know it’s very rude to be checking my email in the midst of dinner and stuff but i cant help it :( it’s just too easy to slip my phone out of my bag, press a few keys and start checking my email or check my favourite blog haunts for updates. sigh. summore my new phone so nice..

things i have been doing with my newfound love for this thing called 3G Internet!

1. FACEBOOKING
you know what I love most about Facebook Mobile – i get to update my Facebook status wherever and whenever I want, AND people can see the update and text me (or wall me!) their responses instantly. hehehe like yesterday when i was in the bus on the way to Singapore, i changed my Facebook status to Su Ann Lim needs love and ice cream.

hehehe and then i got all these texts and walls giving me love and promising ice cream dates. dont bluff me ah you all, i collect wan you know. oh and Lainie and Tze, don’t be lazy. faster go do your work!!!

another thing that’s great about having Facebook on your mobile phone is that you get to check out profiles of people immediately. hehehe. like last week, Adrian was showing us the profile of this girl he likes. needless to say, we were all very sampat about it, crowding around the phone and giving all our critique and opinions. haha no lah Adrian she’s very pretty. don’t be emo okay :P i went and poked her summore… hehehe.

2. CHECKING IMDB MOVIE RATINGS
this is totally NIFTY :D when checking out movies at the cinema, there are times when i’ve not heard of some shows being screened - i have no idea what these movies are about, and the posters don’t tell much either. and then of course there are times where the movie trailer looks good, but something in your gut tells you the trailer is a deceiving veneer for a movie that will surely suck :\

enter IMDB, the best ever movie database in the universe!!! for those who’ve never heard of IMDB, it’s a site that gives you every single bit of information about any movie you wish to look up. i am so addicted to it that i IMDB every single movie i watch upon returning home :|

now that i can go online with my phone, what i do is just IMDB the different movies right there at the cinema before i buy my tickets. instant checking of movie rating and cast! w00t. one gem uncovered was Definitely Maybe, which i wasn’t sure would be good, but a quick check on IMDB showed a solid rating of 7.5. well, Aira and i loved the movie to bits :) it was so sincere, feel-good and touching; definitely one to watch with the girls or with the significant other.

(in other movie-related news, i just watched The Other Boleyn Girl. ah so fantastic :) starring two of my all-time favourites Natalie Portman and Eric Bana, and Scarlett Johansson who is Martian’s not-so-secret crush, we didnt need IMDB to convince us to watch THIS movie!)

3. CHECKING MY MAIL

my mail-checking is just bordering on obnoxious now :( i keep going, ‘wait ah… wait ah… let me reply mail first!’ right in the middle of conversations. *ashamed* i cant help it lahhhhh i feel so compelled to read and reply because checking my email is just so..possible now :( and what with how quickly that lite version of gmail loads on phones. le sigh.

4. WIKIPEDIAING STUFF DURING CONVERSATIONS
HAHAHA want to impress people during conversations as if you knew what the heck they’re talking about?! i bet you do :P Wikipedia + 3G is your savior, teehee. anything from industry jargon to a classic book EVERYONE must have read in their lifetime, from the latest news to some pop culture reference.. a quick check on Wikipedia underneath the dinner table is all it takes :P Vincent took my phone to google ‘the invisible hand’ after i told a lightbulb joke yesterday. okok come i tell you the joke:

Q: How many economists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None; the Invisible Hand did it.

hehehehehehe damn funny right hahahahaha faster laugh

5. READING BLOGS
a godsend during long waits and traffic jams. here’s a blog i’ve been checking regularly for updates on my phone lately :

Teenage Lolita is a blog written by a Singaporean call girl / prostitute who is my age, and has been at her job since she was 15 or 16. it is an extremely personal and almost blase insight into the life of a teenage prostitute, and one of the best blogs i’ve ever come across. she speaks at length and yet ambiguously about the ins and outs of the men who hire her, the perks and hazards of her job, her derision at people who look down on prostitutes, and her love for money and expensive things. i could write a whole post about how amazing and touching and shocking her blog is, and maybe one day i will, but for now i’m just going to trawl her archives through my phone when i’m stuck yet again in that infamous Jalan Sultan Ismail traffic jam :) please read her blog, especially the older posts when she’d just just started her job. it’s a fantastic read.

6. YOUTUBE
it’s so very easy to share videos now - a quick search on youtube is all it takes to pass around the video of Achmed the Dead Terrorist. HEHEHE. i KEEL you!!! *eyebrows* cracks me up every single time, and i never hesitate to share this video to people who’ve never heard of Achmed.

speaking of videos, Episode 13 of Malaysian Dreamgirl is up! quite interesting, this one, with a special challenge issued by Kenny where the winner(s) got to take back a very coveted prize :) the girls were also featured on NTV7’s Breakfast Show, and they were paid a visit at the Dreamhouse by 4 yummy men. Jonathan Putra (aka JP) is all sorts of delicious :D

besides MDG, i also have been following Idol from Youtube on my phone, cos i never seem to be home at the right times to catch it on tv. ah David Archuleta was disappointing this week. i’m rooting for David Cook as always, and Jason Castro has a special place in my heart. i would die to have him serenade me on his guitar or even that ukulele, i really really would!

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sigh i remember how when i was switching phones a couple of years ago, my brother was telling me to get a GPRS or a 3G phone. i was like ‘huh… no need all these things lah, so fancy for what!’ well, i really want to shoot myself now :( that’s a few years of internet-on-the-go that i’ve wasted and am never getting back.

eh i just thought of something! can i use MSN on my phone?

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