money matters...

for some time now i've been longing for a new phone... a phone with cooler features...more importantly, a phone with wifi... coz it sucks whenever i eat with my brother at a place with wifi and he'd whip out his phone and use the wifi and i sit there.. feeling kinda alone...

and i've been drooling over HTC phones for some time now.. i fell in love with the HTC Hero and i think i still really like it but logic tells me it's stupid to get the hero due to the fact that it's somewhat obselete compared to and the brand new HTCs which have better features... and now HTC is churning out soooo many models i can't make a decision (partly because it wasn't love at first sight like with the Hero) and so i keep postponing my purhcase..

then i recently saw an offer from HMV.. get an ipod (either classic,nano or touch) and you'll get a 25 pound itunes gift card and a 20 pounds HMV gift card! .. and so my alternative to getting a phone sprang into my head... keep my current phone, get a touch which has wifi and the new touch has video calling capabilities too!!

and since the offer was ending next week i emailed dad asking if i could get it.. 189 pounds.... he was ok with it coz i think i have mentioned this in the past..

So! today after class i ventured out into the city..... but before i did i punched in on the calculator... 189 x 5 .....

see the thing about pounds and the price of stuff here is that... you THINK it's very cheap... like basic food stuff can cost as little as a pound.. shower gel on offer 84p .. but once you convert!! hah!! so yes, i wasn't quite happy with the amount on my calculator...

i paced about the room...deciding whether to go or not.. and in the end i told myself "if you want, you buy today!! you know you won't buy once you hesitate!!!"

and when i got to hmv... i walked around pretending to browse but in my mind so many thoughts were running around... "buy or don't buy.. not cheap lehh..maybe save the money and buy a phone instead...a HTC phone yummm.... ipod touch apps, games yumm...think of people without a home, without food, what are you doing getting an ipod touch when people are struggling to survive???.."

so i walked out of there empty-handed... *sigh* ..

and when i told my parents what happened over skype...they laughed at me -.- ......

i wonder... am i considered as someone....stingy? ._.

-llen-