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Unboxing my new iPhone

I got an iPhone 3GS 16 GB White, I signed the contract with my dad. I signed up with a new cellphone service but it doesn’t activate until the 26th so I’m stuck with my 2G SIM card that has no “internet all over the place” function. It arrived in the afternoon today, which was amazing. Since I’ve been spoiled by my jailbroken iPod Touch, the fact that my iPhone currently has no paid apps and Winterboard theming abilities is not cool. But still, I finally have an iPhone. Photos of my new iPhone below:



I’m going to start school tomorrow so I have to sleep earlier (despite the fact that it’s already 11:45), but it’s like the day where they tell you stuff to get you “in the know” so we just go to school in the afternoon and they tell you where your lockers are and who’s going to be in your class. I hope I’m in a good class this year, and that I can actually relate to these people. If I get stuck with the local Cantonese-speaking guys, it’s not going to work out that well, because I can’t talk to them without getting confused.

I’m not going to get used to the new sleeping times. I’ve been too accustomed to waking up at 11 in the morning and then reclining on the sofa throughout the day. Now all of a sudden I have to get out into the real world and run up 6 flight of stairs every morning? How will I survive?

What Just Happened

It turns out that school is starting in 3 days. WHAT. I just found out yesterday. I swear my school is so unorganized. They didn’t even send out notice. I thought we had one more week. Now my whole schedule is screwed up.

My summer has been extremely unproductive, I haven’t even accomplished my ‘Summer To-do List’. This always happens to me. Like during the Easter holidays, I was planning to go to Disneyland but I ended up going after the holidays ended.

Yesterday, I bought 4 shoes. I don’t even know how that happened, but I guess I kind of thought all of them looked good so I bought them all. Now I have 4 shoes. I don’t even know how I’m going to use them all. Maybe alternate between one shoe per day.

I took the taxi back home with my mom and then we were standing by the double yellow lines, which according to law, states that cars cannot stop there. We saw an empty taxi, so we wave at it, but it doesn’t stop. We thought that it didn’t want to drive anyone else but he stopped a little bit further to the front. So we walk over and get in the car. The taxi driver starts the car and goes “You know you were standing by the double yellow line?” My mom says “Oh. I didn’t notice.”

He tells us that we shouldn’t stand there because people who stand there are usually short distance clients. Then he goes “No offense, but people who stand there are rich bastards and people won’t drive them.” So he goes on rambling about how the new taxi system screws up his clientele. The government enforced a new system of which short distance rides cost more money than long distance rides, as long distance rides now have discounts as opposed to the previous latter. Because there’s been a lot of traffic lately, he’s been against going into the city. In the past, taxi drivers wouldn’t mind as much, but they actually lose money in traffic now, because of this new system. So it wastes both time and money.

The taxi driver says that he hovers over the rural area and doesn’t really like to drive people who are going into the city. But then he sees this “hot girl” whom he decides to give a ride. He says “She had a really low cut shirt and a short skirt so I go ‘What the heck.” Then he drives her but it turns out that she was, in fact, heading for the city. I was sort of laughing in the inside.

Then my mom says, “Whatever, at least you got to drive a hot girl.”

Shopping for You-know-what

Two days ago, yes I’m blogging about what happened two days ago. My dad and I went to the department store in North Point to buy school things. School things in my world meaning: stationary, shoes, electronics and food.

When we arrived, the first thing we did was eat in the food court. I ordered a large plate of Pad Thai which ended up tasting like vermicelli with sums of XO sauce piled on top. At the side of the plate, there was a gob of black paste of which I am still not sure what substance it was composed of. I presume that it’s from the tar of the frizzy haired wash woman. Ordering proved to be complicated, because the order woman speaks neither Cantonese, English, Mandarin, French, Tahiti, Spanish or Sign Language. I say, “A pad thai please.” and she says “Nuuurgmph. Ehhh ehh.” Then she forced me to order soft drinks in eh-eh-nurnur talk. I’m not a soft-drink person, and it turns out that I’m incapable of differentiating between Pepsi and Sprite. I thought that Pepsi was the brand of Sprite.

Dad: Why did you order the Pepsi
Me: HOLD ON. Isn’t Pepsi the transparent coloured thingy?
Dad: You are challenging my integrity.
Me: What?
Dad: We are not related.

Apparently Coca Cola is the brand of Pepsi. I ended up throwing away the plate of Pad Thai and I ate a burger with fries instead.

After lunch, we went to multiple shoe stores to look for black flats. None of the shoes fitted my huge clown feet, they were either too tight in the front, too loose at the back or just uncomfortable in general. Shoe sales are really annoying. They hover over you and keep making nonsensical comments as you’re trying the shoes. They are just so persistent, you can never leave the store if you don’t have particularly dazzling social skills. We ended up telling every shoe store that we’d come back tomorrow in order to escape from their clutches. I think we fake-reserved 20 shoes for “tomorrow”. Then they’re going to find out that they were played and that we would never come back “tomorrow”. Forgive me for my sins.

We ended up buying no shoes, two pencils, one notebook and lots of food.

P.S. Neopets people, I deleted the Neopets section so you’re not on crack, the section did not magically disappear. I will add the section back up now to prevent suicide.