I was telling J over lunch a snippet of a blog post I read yesterday about an article similar to those found in the famous book “Men are from Mars, Women from Venus”. Well, no, I didn’t tell him it was a BLOG POST. I just said I read “from somewhere”..
Anyway, the (blog) author shared an article about two separate diary entries written by a wife and a husband. While the wife wrote about how she was late for a coffee appointment with her husband, and how she thought he was angry at her; about her husband refusing to talk to her; and about how she felt she was “losing him”, all that the husband wrote was “Today Manchester United lost the match. DAMN IT!”
I digressed, didn’t I?
Anyway, J agreed whole-heartedly with the article and how we women always “think and worry about unnecessary stuff”. But that wasn’t what I wanted to write about.
After a while, in between chewing his nasi goreng + ayam goreng + telur mata, he said, “Now you know!”
And I was like, “But that was just an article similar to a famous book. Why don’t you get me one of those books?”
“Why don’t you download it from the Internet?” Yea, we poor students rely heavily on pirated stuff.
“Because I don’t like to read a book in front of the computer screen! I would rather HOLD the book in my hands.”
“OK.. Why don’t you read the book from the computer, but also hold another book in your hands? You can flip the pages whenever you like.”
“AARRGGHHH!!”
I signed up for a Flickr account not too long ago after reading soo much about how good it is. I already have a Shutterfly account which was (and still is) working perfectly well and I am satisfied with it. Moreover, I have never liked the idea of opening separate accounts for separate stuff IF I could put them all in one place. And not to mention the numerous passwords that I have to remember!
Anyway, I applied for an account. And, no brownie points for guessing this correctly, I spent almost the entire day playing with it 
And then, unsurprisingly, I noticed there were limitations to what a non-pro account holder can do compared to pro account holders (read: people who pay 25-US-Dollars per year). Paid users get to upload an unlimited amount of photos, for example. And they can also create an unlimited number of sets (which works like photo albums).
And then two days ago when I was replying an email to somebody whom I’ve not met but whose blog I frequent, I complained about it - the limited things that “unpaid users” can do..
And this morning I received a notification from Flickr that this somebody bought me a PRO Account!
I was totally caught off guard.. I didn’t know how to thank her (but I did, rather profusely).. I mean, it wasn’t my intention to complain to her so that she would get me a PRO Account, or anything for that matter..
So to show how I truly appreciate this early Christmas gift, I stole a picture off her Flickr account and paste it here:
Thank you very much, Hsin!
I offered to give away 5 coupon booklets to be used at the Share-A-Gift Carnival, where proceeds from the sale of coupons will go to the funds raised for 50 charity homes, and all one needs to do is to promise me that s/he will be at the Carnival but NOBODY responded to it.
And I thought the response from the Blogathon stint was bad!
But then, whenever somebody gives away free Pixart vouchers or LG chocolates or Crocs, response is almost always overwhelming, no?
We are a materialistic bunch, aren’t we?
