Didn’t find time to get to Bukit Batok driving center yesterday, as book-out was quite late in the afternoon. Its time to get my fitness back up again last week with two 4km runs within 22 mins and 20mins respectively, not bad considering I had not trained for 1-month+

Home time is net time as usual. Did some regular catching up on news and happenings on the web and hey, found out from club-siemens.com that my next intended phone (SX1 which I am aiming to purchase next month) is capable of playing N-gage games, all you need is a simple rip from some program. Infact I think that the SX1 plays better, running on a faster processor (Texas 130MHz) than the N-gage (ARM 104Mhz), furthermore with a bigger (176×220 pixels) and better (16-bit TFT to a 4096 color) screen. I think the only drawback is the lack of an ergonomic D-pad and action buttons the N-gage has.

Purchased an MS intellimouse to replace my mouseman, together with C&C generals zero hour from PK Hereen, (though it felt good to strike an item off my wishlist, I can’t find time to complete Zero Hour though) together with some tribal chockers from Annex. Hereen is having a membership card special and it kinda caught me by surprise when I was told that I am entitled to a 1 year free membership hereen card (something they should so after spending more than 100bucks on them) Its something not very prestigous either, (something I say people would have in their wallets for a “neat” factor) as old uncles and antics are also signing up for em there. *duh*

Things are really getting boring around here, haven’t working those braincless for months in the army can really mess up your vocal and spelling, considering the standard of english people have in the army. I am starting on a new hobby, namely modeling/sculpting. It just seem that the figures available on stores (eg spawn) don’t really *umm* fit my taste, so I guess its best it I were to do the figures themselves myself. Already gotten a nice batch of clay for my first work.

Theres a new garfield movie coming out check it out at www.garfieldmovie.com. Futhermore, this site now can be accessed thru a link mirror http://ratz.b0x.com from now on. Cool isn’t it?

Currently Listening: Kenny G – Unchained Melody (3:39)

It had been sometime since I’ve used a dinky Nokia phone, (considering that my 1st two cellphones were Nokias, 880 and 3210). I had been a happy Siemens user since, always anxiously hoping (and waiting) for the release of the SX1 smartphone. But Siemens is very good at keeping their customers waiting- far better than I’ve ever expected, since june as a matter of fact. However, its all may start to change with the Nokia’s 7700, due to be released early next year.

It spots all the features of the SX1, only that its a 3G phone, plus a 640×320 touchscreen and a few nice extras. Its similarly compatible with the MMC cards I am using on my current phone and whats more than surfing the net and checking ya mail (or clearing junk mail) with this baby. It relatively small for its size too- feature wise, compared to Sony Ericsson’s “brick” aka P800, even the new P900/P810 don’t seem to raise much eyebrows either.

The only thing pulling me back from getting the 7700 is the dumb security features Nokia always have on their phones, not to mention the hassle of downloading games and ringtones – its always so restricted and inflexible compared to how Siemens does things, also Nokia is such a common handphone brand in Singapore- BORING. Mmmm… but if no other better phone were to be released during this “window period”, I would go for the Nokia then.

Currently Listening: John Mayer- Bigger than my body