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BNC was convincing re posts of getting this phone over the newer models of SE. not to mention its cheaper to do so, since the model hasnt been manufactured well over a year. so, searched through the posts, someone was selling one. seven thousand pesos sounds reasonable enough, since last year, same time, im guessing it was twice the price. sms’d the guy the night before yesterday, he responded, i said ill reply my decision to purchase the unit soon. how soon? yesterday afternoon. arranged to meetup, in spite of all the cellphone person-to-person meetup horror stories i’ve been informed of. the slight fear escaped me, when the seller said he lived in a posh village near the posh mall, and told his driver to get the charger he forgot to bring. there i was, expecting a really seedy guy. this man who does golf in the afternoons even had his driver drop me off near Edsa. beat that.

so, yes, i’m back, and i’m… not quite ready for this new gadget. definitely need a fancy holster/case, since the back might get too dirty, and, soon, an IR device so i can synch it with the PC. adios, since i will try to play Prince of Persia, The Sands of Time. yes, i’m a poser of a gamer. i try. haha.

follow-up query: dude, you bought a phone without a camera? i thought you were a camera freak?

right on both counts, but i was working on a budget, and most camera-phones suck anyway. however, the possibility of attaching this to my phone is an idea im sitting on for now.

headache-spree for me for the past two days. two biogesics will be effective… after 2 hours. hence, no work. blogging away because i just cant sleep.

bought an Epson C43UX printer, with ‘home-quality’ imaging. my dad has been pestering me to get one, since he wants to edit his CV. this will do. i paid for it, you know.

*Babae sa Breakwater wins Young Critic’s Circle Best Picture

this is excellent, excellent news, but, no mention of Magnifico anywhere?!

*Golden Globe winners/OSCAR Nominations are out

must-get a copy of Lost in Translation; two words: Bill Murray. on the other hand, City of God has some nominations for the Oscars, but not for Best Foreign Language Film. a real disappointment personally, since most of the elements of the film (using past-date film [hence the orange-y tinge throughout the movie], the protagonist being an aspiring photographer) appeal to me directly, even if it had that MTV-stylized shots, which put me off initially, but was executed fabulously anyway.

*Me always left out in Last Samurai conversations at the office

i dont effing care. i’ll babble about the merits of legendary Kurosawa and Mifune, you’ll talk about samurai throwing swords. can you even name the goddamn director? heck no. a lot of people will never get it.

if you see the blog logo on the sidebar with the surrounding green color slightly off from the general background, thats either because: your monitor is (set to) low-res, or you browser isn’t compliant with today’s web standards. just discovered this at the office, and panicked a little, but i got home, and everything looks spic-and-span with mozilla firebird (main) and internet explorer (for compliant-testing only). so there.

this image is to celebrate a recent acquisition of a jolly bundle of expired B&W rollfilms :)