Used by the things we're used to.
I was ready to change my phone on Sunday.
Actually, no.
I didn't delete my phone messages for a long time, like since I got it, and when I was clearing my messages I decided to sort-by-contacts and see who I've messaged the most for the past 2 years, and read through most of the messages, when I found a message from Yap Chien and his gratitude towards me for being such a stud. Though it's probably for everyone else, the 'awwww' factor was still present and it brought a huge lump to my throat, the kind which you get when you have a huge dick forced into your throat. It was in public so I had to put on my normal face and not appear excited or otherwise disturbed.
Then I started looking through all the pictures I've taken, and all the women I've stalked with my 3.2mega-pixel camera without autofocus. And all my videos and my games and my applications and my songs, and wondered whether I'd have a good 2 years with my new phone or not. Then I had doubts about trading in my old phone, because that'd mean a lot of memories gone just like that, but money > phone, until
we found out that the trade-in value of a w890 is $10 =.=
So I got to keep my phone even though it's a cranky piece of shit <3
I have been bitching about my old phone for quite some time, because of
1) bad connection point, it won't stay connected to the USB port well enough
2) keeps crashing for some unknown reason, and overheating and taking out a chunk of battery when it does
3) laggy
and it's a very true stereotype of Sony Ericsson phones, and I've been bitching about it too. But I still chose a Sony phone.
Why?
Because I am too much of a pussy to change this inherent value of my life, or what appears to have an intrinsic value in my life.
Humans are weird in this way, like in a recent update in Runescape, everyone got quite pissed. Runescape players used to have, at max, 99 hitpoints, meaning they can take 99 damage before dying. But the update made it such that everyone has 10x more hitpoints, and does 10x more damage, and the food they eat heals 10x more hitpoints, except that instead of hitpoints, it's called
life points. So I have 990LP, which is quite scary. I believe that LP has some phallic references in Hokkien, not sure.
Naturally, people who got pissed decided to hold protest in a certain city in Runescape, and Jagex put down such protests by banning those players.
I got quite pissed with the update too, now I don't know when should I eat my food because my math sucks and I can't handle numbers 10x of what I used to be able to handle.
But I still play Runescape. Jagex is cunning, they understand that players probably won't just stop playing altogether due to one small update, so they keep changing what we're used to, because there would still be a lot more things we were used to. And slowly, what we all started out with would be changed, but we'd have learnt to get used to the first few changes, and take that as what we've started out with.
Life's very much like that, we get scammed, things change without us knowing, and we can't do a shit about it but the mind does get delusional and think that yea, it's alright, nothing much changed.
Humans are born to be scammed, to get used to things, to be used by the things they are used to.
-- 3/29/2010 12:53:00 PM
