Monday, June 05, 2006

Reeds, Phone, Concert

I will never understand the mystery of nature. The mystery of how a reed changes overnight. How it can be worse than the unpredictability of weather.

Such is the life of an oboist, dictated by the reed's mood.

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Anyway, I changed phone, yes, again. It was a good deal what! Top up 149 for a brand new phone. No obligations, no plans, no nothing. So I present my latest toy: HP RW6828.

I'm too lazy to post a picture of it, so if you are interested to look at it, just do a google on it.

Yes, I know. It looks like the Atom. All PDA phones are OEM today anyway. For example, my previous Dopod 818 Pro was somewhat similar to the O2 mini. If you don't know what is OEM, please go to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is good, it's where I learn a lot of new terms and what they actually mean.

My friend said I change phone very often. Is it? Let's see:

N3310
N6510
N6100
N-Gage QD
N8250
N7610
Dopod 818 Pro
HP RW6828

That's 8 phones since 2000. I know of a person who bought the O2 mini only to sell it after a week. My shortest stint with a phone was probably at least 4 months (N-Gage QD), and that was because the phone was buggy. On average, my phones last about a year with the exception of N-Gage QD, N8250 (transition phone) and Dopod (too good a deal to upgrade!).

Having changed to a Window based phone, I find it hard to change back to a normal phone. There are so many things I can do on a PDA phone compared to a normal phone!

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So the concert went pass without any major incident. I thought it was rather good. I like the Lincolnshire Posy. The Hindemith sounded quite good.

Have you ever felt lost all of a sudden? I know of a certain trumpeter who happily played off in his own world of imagination during a trumpet call. That happened to me during Hindemith. I was lost for the entire first page, only to come in just in time for the solo for the first theme. Sheesh. Good thing it wasn?t noticeable. Well, I'm confessing in cyberspace now, which means anyone can read this. Yes, I screwed up!

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Update completed.
fjozn at 10:22 AM