Kena sumpah by announcer

The voice of the guy who does announcements over the PA system at KL Sentral (train station) has magic powers. When he starts going "Tuan-tuan dan puan-puan diminta jangan merokok, makan, atau minum di platform..." you'd better not rokok, makan, or minum. 'Cos I was drinking from my water bottle when the announcment started, decided to go on 'cos it was only water and I was thirsty, then I choked.

In other news...I am the proud owner of a second-hand Sony Ericsson T610, for the price of RM290 from a stall in Low Yat Plaza (FYI non-Malaysians, it's basically a mall where 95% of the shops sell electronics). Am very pleased to find that it got an "Excellent" review from CNET Asia, albeit three years ago.

I originally wasn't intending to buy a lot of features, but it seemed like a good deal. The only really essential thing was that it be a tri-band phone, since I'm planning to take it back to the US and get a SIM card from Cingular once my contract with Verizon expires next August (stupid bloody incompatible CDMA phones). I basically wandered around like a blur sotong asking in broken English (speaking grammatically when dealing with non-English speakers makes me feel like a horrible snob; need to pick up more Cantonese) for second-hand tri-band phones, preferably no-frills Nokias, and ended up with a Sony Ericsson that has:

• Bluetooth
• a 288 x 352px camera
• voice recording
• and screensavers, among other things.

In addition to it being a good deal, I bought it partly because the young guy running that stall was very nice. I generally tend to lack market savvy, street smarts, and other urban survival skills, so my testing of the phones on offer consisted of popping my Hotlink SIM card in, turning it on, and looking for my contact list. The guy was going "No, you have to test the camera, test the voice recording, test the sound, see if it working..."

And he threw in a brand-new battery.

[does happy kitty dance of technolust]