So right now, my latest semi-obsession / semi-addiction is Casio’s Baby G. I used to have one when I was in the sixth grade, it was such the “in” thing to do back then! But mine wasn’t girly like all the other girls’ watches… it was closer to their Casio’s G Shock, really. I’m not even sure if it was a Baby G anymore. This might sound silly to most but I’ve been struggling to find a watch with gold hardware to match my juicy couture / other gold jewelery, but to no avail. All gold hardware watches I’ve seen don’t really look like they could be my style. With the exception of the rosegold watch that my uncle gave me for my graduation last year, I don’t think that there have been any that I liked at all! It’s strange, because my younger sister looks perfect in them!

Anyway, here’s where Baby G’s perk comes along. They can go with anything! Better yet, they look great on their own too! At least they do in my opinion. And I think that I am one of the colourful people that can pull off something like that at this age, lol, or at least I hope I am. I haven’t seen them for years, though, I wonder if a retailer in the UAE still carries them?

Next on my to-do list: Make backups and format BlackBerry. The screen randomly stopped being useful today and something has to be done…

Lately I’ve been enjoying eating out with family & friends ♥

I feel so silly! I kept thinking that my Strategic Management final was today (even though it’s not and I even made plans with a friend accordingly) but come yesterday…and I just forgot. Had an extremely restless night as a result. Time to go back to sleep!

Since I’m still sick I’ll let today be my last day off gym. I missed going to classes.

This was the cover I was using on my BlackBerry for a while… but now I switched back to the black silicon thing. I only hung that charm on it for like two days before I decided it just doesn’t work. As much as I love phone charm, my BlackBerry feels like too masculine for this. The charm now sleeps on my nightstand.

It has been increasingly difficult to actually write my thoughts here when I’ve been using so many alternatives and replacements. There’s Twitter, TwitPic and The Book of Thoughts.

It’s been pretty nice out even though it’s hot…I am finally riding again since my trainer returned from vacation…our lessons have been pretty low-impact for now which works okay for me since I’m still struggling to get back into the riding shape after a few weeks off.

I am very emotional lately. I dunno if it’s because of my upcoming finals or the other things going on in my life. I have just been told by someone really important to me that I have turned into something I hate. It hurts even more when those loved ones think that you can do no wrong, that they consider you the most important in the world… that to them you are perfect no matter how flawed you are.

I dunno what other people think about this but I’ve always found it kind of rude if you are with a small group of people and keep using your phone to send messages or read messages or whatever. But it seems like everyone else is okay with it, in my culture anyway. Sometimes I am with two people and they are both on their phone texting. Being the third one sitting around doing nothing kind of made me feel uncomfortable…so I turned into one of those people too little by little. Not that it’s a bad thing, in the back of my mind it is still inappropriate, but it doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It used to make me feel like, “is my company that boring?” but now I know that it is not like that at all.

Here comes the fall though… now this is the trait about me that my loved ones dislike. They say that I am on my phone more than I realize. I always thought that I am keeping myself in check. When I was in AD last week all the girls I met had BlackBerries and they were commenting on how their families were complaining about how much they used their phones {all the time}. One girl even said that she had her BlackBerry in her pocket all the time even when she went riding, and whenever she heard her BBM beep she took it out and responded…and that was all the time…like even at the dentist. It baffled me and made me think, “I’m glad I’m not like that; it must be extremely tiring” but I guess it served me right… for that slight moment where I was maybe kind of judgmental I got served and it turns out that I am really no different. I mean I dunno. I never take my phone with me riding or to the gym. I am guilty of using it in school sometimes but it’s only in that one boring class that I don’t like. Am I really a bad person? Am I rude?

In preparation for my finals I did some cleaning and put some stuff on my computer desk { as shown on the picture below } to make working a bit more interesting… but it didn’t work…

Some updates since I do not feel energetic enough for an actual post:

Breakfast at Paul’s just as it opened.

It was my first time ever taking a part in such an event, and I have to say that the end result: I was pleased and proud. I looked my previously ultimate challeng in the eye and took it head on, and managed to turn my mess ups into comic relief! Although I want to remember every single detail about being master of ceremonies, I’m not sure if I can write about it in a way that will contain everything I felt. So I’m going to leave this little experience to myself, and the close friends I shared it with.

In other news, I have some new old gloves! Two additional pairs of super summer grippers in both pink and purpe (I perviously had purple but they are turning black / gray after heavy usage).

A while ago, I mentioned that I was looking to purchase a new mobile phone after the sounds of my old pink Sony Ericsson have gone completely bonkers over the past two years. In the end, I got the Nokia 7610 Supernova with the white front and purple back cover. It uses those Nokia Xpress covers (although there is nothing “express” about them). The fact that it is white & purple reminds me of my first mobile phone ever. It a very old Nokia that used Xpress covers as well. I originally had pink for it but eventually got white & purple as shown in the picture. But that was years ago, I think I was in middle school or high school when I had it.

Anyway, I really like my new phone. It took me about 5 minutes of use to decide that I liked it when it took me a few weeks to decide that I liked my old Sony Ericsson. Everything sounds so much better on it, and it even has a radio! I quickly saved my regular ring tone (Steel Samurai from Phoenix Wright) on it and changed the theme to suit my taste. My current theme is called Spring and it changes colours based on the time of day. It is very pink in the early afternoon but when it gets darker it starts to turn purple and then blue to signify that it’s time to sleep. The early morning is more green.

However, it is not a very friendly phone!! It often tells me that something I am trying to do is “not allowed”. Apparently that happens when a call is about to come and I am about to call someone else. The Mp3 player button is out on the side and I keep clicking it by accident and it starts to play out whatever mp3s I have. And, like my old phone, I have to open the back cover to change the phone strap (my favourite hobby), it’s what it says in the manuel but that is SO hard to do! I have to fight with it to do it and I’m not looking forward to doing it anytime soon. The sales associate that sold it to me was making fun of me for even asking about a strap thing saying, “You want phones JUST to hang straps on?”. What am I going to do with my collection of straps then? Hang them on a board and look at them? If I wish to have a phone that has a place for straps… that’s up to me, the customer, isn’t it?

Here are some visuals of the pretty new phone. These pictures were taken when it was still “brand new”. It already earned some scratches on the front screen and I feel sooo bad for it…

All of a sudden, I find myself really nervous about something that is supposed to happen tomorrow. How am I going to explain to them that it won’t work out? If I’ve learned anything in the past few years, it’s that my gut feeling is usually right on the money. Of course, this doesn’t stop me from hoping & wishing that I could be wrong, so I end up not acting on it. This time, however, I have a goal. And it’s not just a personal goal. It is for the greater good. I just really hope it goes well. I know that once this whole thing blows over, I’m going to want to push this entry away from the main page, lol.

To take things in another direction, I thought I’d take this opportunity to announce that I finally put up some written work on DeviantArt. It took me a while to find that missing flash drive, even though I knew where it was all along. I would love it if you guys could give it a read. It was something that I’ve been cooking up in my head for years and I mean that literally. However, I can’t really recall what happens next…

I finally decided that it is time for a new phone. Don’t get me wrong, I love my current phone and I wouldn’t have been using it for two years if I didn’t know that it was perfect. But here’s the catch – it’s not so perfect anymore. The sounds are totally messed up as a result of several “accidents”. We’ve been browsing mobile phone shops we are familiar with but nothing much has tickled my fancy. There is always a flaw with its appearance. I say appearance because really, what more would I want of a phone? Talk? Send messages? Take pictures and videos? Set up custom ring tones (no I’m not giving up my steel samurai ring tone!)? Alarm & calendar? Bluetooth? Really, that’s it. And that can be found in almost any standard phone these days. Normally I like clamshell phones best but I guess it would be ok if I used something else.

My favourite nokias are the Supernovas. At first I liked the prism, but I ended up finding something that I don’t like about them. I haven’t used nokia for quite a while so it’ll take a while to get used to it if I end up choosing between them. The ones I did see at the store were Nokia 7310 Supernova and Nokia 7610 Supernova. I almost got the latter in purple but I decided to wait on it. I want to see if they ever recieve the Nokia 7510 Supernova too… although as a clamshell, it really isn’t attracting me as much. There are a few Sony Ericssons that I am slightly interested in, but I just really can’t decide. In the end it’ll probably be one of the first two I looked at.

Here is my current favourite nail polish. Please try to ignore what a crappy job I did applying it, and the fact that my nails desperately need a manicure. If you’re interested in trying it, it’s from Nars and the colour is called Boccacio. It’s the only polish I have from Nars and I think it’s great!