One lazy Sunday, I parked my car near a bank and went to have a nice dim sum breakfast. After a hearty breakfast, I walked back to my car, just in time to see someone pulled up and double-parked right next to my car. I walked faster but could not catch him in time. So from afar, I disarm my car alarm, at least the visual light blinking and chirping of car alarm would get his attention that someone is coming to get his car. He looked at my car, then walked away.

Darn it! As I was going for another appointment, I needed to drive off soon.
So, guessing that he is going to the bank, I walked over and saw him taking out his wallet to start his banking stuff.

“Excuse me, but your car is blocking my car. Can remove ah? Thanks ah” I said ever so politely.

“oh.. soli ah” He replied.

Expecting that he come out there and then since he had not started this banking stuff yet, I went back to my car and waited.

.. and waited…

.. and waited…

He did not appear to be coming out. So I went back in and saw him pressing at the ATM machine.

“err.. hello.. can you please remove your car as I am in a hurry” I asked again politely.

That bastard turned to me with his eyes wide open. “Haroo.. EXCUSE me ah. I halfway do things”

Hmm… usually I am someone who avoids any kind of concontration. But that morning, I think a fuse blew. So I shot back..

“GET YOUR FnCKING ASS OUT AND REMOVE YOUR CAR NOW!!”

He got taken a back, but shot back .. “I halfway do this leh.. what you expect?”

Fuah.. I mean, you double parked. You still expect people to wait for you to START your banking and then wait for you to FINISH your banking.

I replied “YOU EXPECT ME TO WAIT FOR YOUR START YOU BANKING? I DUN FnCKING CARE WHAT THE FnCK YOU ARE DOING NOW. STOP WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING AND GET THE FnCK OUT NOW YOU MOTHERFnCKING BASTARD!”

And yes. I was yelling. Poor people who were also in the ATM room quickly walked out. A bunch of people sitting outide the bank who were jovially chatting away suddenly stopped and a bunch of people at a bus stop nearby stared. I walked back to my car and he followed closed and, while grumbling away, he removed his car.
This got me thinking. Have I ever done such things before. I mean, even when I was wrong, I believed that I was right, and defended that I was right. That person probably thinks that he had the right to let me wait while he does his banking. I do not really mind if you had started your banking when I told you that you were double parked. By all means finish up your banking and RUN to remove your car. But this fella is a champion, he had not even started his banking. He continued to start banking even after being told he was blocking. And the best thing was there were no queue at all at the ATM machine. It’s not that I am not able to wait 2 minutes. I can wait 5 minutes for you. But the fact that he STARTED with his banking even after he knows that his car is blocking someone. Sad.
Same goes with people driving, say from a adjacent road, taking a slip road to join the main highway. It’s a slip road, you are joining in the main flow of traffic. You are to watch out for the main highway traffic. But no, out of 100 drivers, probably 1 or 2 the max, slows down or accelerates to merge into the main traffic. The rest just cruises into the main highway, expecting others to accomodate him.

Then I realised that these attitudes basically manifest itself in our everyday life. Everyday, everywhere, anytime. Some people genuinely believes that he is right, even though he is wrong. While others will make up stories and cook up a ruse to taint the minds of peers so as to deflect any of his wrong doings or mistakes.

During my drive to my next destination, I realised how stupid I may have looked yelling away just now. If I were one of them guys at the bus stop, I would have been thinking .. “Wah.. stupid fella. Need to yell so loud meh? People doing banking mah.. 2-3 minute oso kenot wait meh?”. 

You see, other people may not have the full story and will immediately judge you.

So if you were in my shoes that sunday morning, what would you have done?

This is a rather old model. It was launch about a year back. But, since I do not have sponsors giving me phones each month to review, I have to make do with reviews of phones or any other toys bought myself. This will be a quick review.
Let’s start from the begining. I had a Nokia 3120 Classic before this phone. It was marvel of a phone. Fast, small and light and had everything I needed in a phone. If it had an autofocus camera, it would have been PERFECT. Unfortunately it did not. But I did use the phone and was very happy with it… until I got bored with it. So I went out looking for a new phone to cure the boredom. After considering all the phones within my budget of RM900, I settled for the Sony Ericsson W980 which I got for RM850 (original Sony ERicsson warranty). Not bad.

Overall specs?

- 2.2″ screen

- 8GB built in memory.

- Flip phone.

- 3.2mp non-af camera.

That’s about the specs I needed when considering the phone. PLus it looked REALLY cool with them shiny surface and all.

The entire front is glass like. It looks very cool. But you would have to constantly wipe it as it attracts fingerprints like spilled ribena to ants. It also scratches rather easily. And I mean REALLY easily. I have only use this phone for about 2 weeks and I was careful not to put the phone into the pocket with stuff. It’s always in the pocket by itself, and yet there are scratches. If you are getting this phone, do get a nice little pouch for it. Good thing is that it doubles as your mirror. I use it to check for anything in my teeth, or eye shit when i wake up just in time for tea in the office.

The tip of the flip is transparent plastic from which tiny LEDs lights it up with white light when a call comes in, or blinks orange to the beat of the music in walkman mode. Quite cool.

Comes with 8GB of built in memory. More than enough to satisfy the hard of the hardest core music on the go fan. For me, I have uploaded about 3GB worth of songs. But have yet to plug in the headset. So why I got this phone? because it looks cool. And it has been a while since my last flip phone

the 3.2mp camera, without AF. Nothing to shout about. It’s great for outdoor photos under bright light, but low light situations like in doors, the images it takes are rather bland. Plus, since it’s fixed focus, detailed shots like food photos are horrible as it cannot focus on near objects.

Photos taken further away seems to be better.

But still nothing to shout about. It’s good for the occassional snap shot.

When I first saw this phone on the internet, it did not appeal to me much. It was when I held it in my hand at one of the handphone shops here, only did i realised how small it is.

It’s small and nice when closed. BUt when you open it up, it can get rather big. But that’s ok, you ain’t gonna put it in your pocket while it is open right?

But it fits my hands just nice.

And the thing i hate most about Sony Ericsson phones, the multi-port thingy. It’s your charging port as well as your data port. After a while it gets loose.

So how is the phone?

It’s nice. I got it mainly because of its form factor. The stuff that I do not like about is the software. It’s slow. Not slow slow like Nokia’s N73 slow, but it’s still slow. But that’s ok. Just that at times when you are in a hurry, it gets pretty irritating. Other stuff I do not like is the keypad.

The spacing it too big for texting. You have to stretch your fingers to reach the keys. Not a very good key pad for someone who text a lot.

Other than that, this is not a bad phone. WIth it’s features and 8gb built in memory, its a bargain at below RM900.