An apple a day...

I know I haven't been blogging for a couple of days. Laziness have set in, (and I have no idea why. A maelstrom of events happened over the past few days and amongst which, the most prominent one is probably the arrival of my Apple Itouch, which was two days ago.

Let me recall what happened, and explain my absence for the interval of days from thursday till today which is a good 3 days (which is so unlike me not to blog about anything).

Thursday

Oh yes, me and Tay Ye went to church to help pack and sort the donations in the Yf room. Mainly we were sorting the books into "okay" and "not-okay", we were acting as a filter paper for these books and after which we had to pile these books into boxes (and in addition to that, tape all the boxes and their joints to make sure they don't fall apart from that heavy load) according to size, big to small and stuff. It wasn't exactly very tiring, nor was it unbearable, but it was the lack of breakfast (if i recall correctly), and the dusty, hazy atmosphere in the room (probably caused by the stack and stumps of old,dusty books)....that was the crux of the problem which we faced. Aside from that, I feel that we were productive, pertaining to how much we acheieved and I feel rather proud of ourselves, but this brought about somewhat of a gastric attack to me and my brother.

Mild. Fortunately, a mild one and we induldged ourselves in Chee Chong Fan, from the market after that which was so pleasing and satisfying. But still, I find it displeasing to try to eat these from a plastic bag. Perhaps it is because I never really trained or mastered wielding a chopstick in my hand and tackling food at a weird angle.

Friday

Seriously, I never experienced such a "rot-at-home" day before for sometime. I spend this day indulging in Naruto Manga (which easily my chapter count rose dramatically after this day. talk about significance, ironically), as well as doing other lame stuff like playing my DS, piano.

Im about to finish all the avaliable chaps of Naruto and I find Naruto extremely exciting. Perhaps to the extent that I find it arousing (not in the wrong way). I confess, there are times I actually get up, squat on my chair and have two fingers in my mouth as I manually flip these online pages, in awe, astonishment and amusement.

Don't mistake Naruto for a downright shonen "beat the baddies' series, because it gets more complex than it seems. Naruto (the series itself) can be quite emotional, (if you let your emotional side sway as you read), there are emotions in Naruto, there are an array of different characters, ambitions which could be closely analyzed.

OH yes, finally the gist of the post is going to be unveiled. On friday night, my dad arrived home with my Apple Ipod touch. I was elated, excited (but at the same time), hungry and guilt-stricken. Never ever once in my life have my pockets chanced upon such a powerful standalone (and expensive) gadget. Perhaps expensive is variable relative to perspective. However, 500 singapore dollars is something I would never spend on a mp3 player. The price was hefty, but after purchasing it and trying it for a while, I find that it's totally worth it. And by the way, I got the 8GB version and an addition of 200 dollars to morph into a player with double it's size is probably totally unworth. Is it just me that finds 8GB sufficient. And my old creative mp3 player had 4Gb and it's not even full.

Perhaps I should scrap the idea that it's just a Mp3 player. Because, nowadays revolutionarised mp3 player can view videos,photos And this Itouch of mine works as a portable Internet (and youtube) as well with Wifi. I tried viewing websites infront of my com, and I was able to surf my blog, surf the blog of others with ease. And the loading times surprised me, it was alot shorter than I expected. However, Youtube was a let down. I never tried it around hotspots (like Macdonalds), but certainly the videos take ages to load and I don't reccomend anyone to wait like5 minutes for several pixels to load and play and then the cycle repeats and warps into endlessness and it's stupid user sit there staring into the "loading movie" for many many minutes. And If im not wrong,not every video on youtube can be played. A disappointment, but it isn't that bad. It's not everyday and everywhere when you get to hang around a place with decent wireless network.

That was mainly the more exotic features of this latest gadget. I would say I went Woah and was totally impressed with it's interface. The touch screen was the main plus point to this gadget. It's just too flashy, really flashy. And this is something one would have to experience himself to actually get an idea. It's probably an iphone, without the phone.

Im not going into the interface details or sound quality (because i do not really know how to elaborate). I will post pictures soon, I hope.

Im lazy to post about yesterday....Shssshh. Perhaps later.