I think I will never understand why someone sold his kidney to buy the latest Apple series (yea it’s really happened, you can search that story in the internet). I think it’s a real form of ‘jual diri’, sell everything you can sell to buy something. I don’t understand, what’s so important about the gadget that he decided that his health is less important than those gadgets? All right maybe the gadgets are fancy, have many features of advanced technology, will make his life easier etc etc, but sell a kidney? How if the organ donor procedure makes him sick someday, catch a complication or something? I am afraid that my brother will do the same thing. I will make him promise not to do that because he has a tendency to upgrade his mobile phone every time.
I am not a kind of person who spends the majority of her money to buy a latest gadget. If I decide to buy one, it must be something that I need. I don’t like to splurge my money on gadgets. Until this time I just own the same mobile phone that I’ve used since I was in the end of my high school (I bought it from my brother’s friend), a used net book that my father brought me from my brother’s friend too, a cheap AAA-batteries powered mp3 player that my brother gave me as a replacement gift because he lost my flash disk (the play button is broken so I have to pass my little finger to that tiny hole to play a song), and a digital camera that I bought almost 2 years ago (which is showing a sign of damage now T.T).
I don’t have a desire to upgrade my cell phone nor my net book. They fit me in many ways. My cell phone, for instance, have features that I need: 2 mega pixels camera and video recording, mp3 and 3gp player, internet browsing, Bluetooth, computer synchronization-able, reminder, alarm, and a few cute features I like: 12 emoticon templates for texting, front camera to be used as a secret mirror (actually that camera is intended to video calls, but I don’t activate 3G in my phone), and voice recording. I don’t think I need more features…they are enough for me. And my phone’s battery is enough to power my phone for two days (if I don’t spend four hours on my phone to chat every day…) so I don’t have to bring the charger everywhere. I’ve gotten so used with my phone that I can type a message and activate a few features without looking on the screen.
I had this phone since I was in high school. I remember that time, before graduation I thought that I would be free from the rule not to bring a camera phone to school! So I read some technology magazine (my brother’s own) to find the type I need. I found one, Sony Ericsson K610i. I thought it has features I wanted and the camera’s resolution is kind of advanced at that time (2 megapixels). I tried to find that type in my city with my brother but I didn’t find one. Apparently that type had been discontinued (the distributor didn’t sell that type again). I was still longing for that type and didn’t try to find another one because I really want that type so bad, hehe. Fortunately my brother told me that his friend had that phone and (maybe) wanted to sell that phone to buy a fancier one. So I asked my brother to persuade his friend to sell that phone. Finally his friend agreed and I bought that phone with my old phone and some fresh money from my savings.
The time his friend took that phone from his pocket, I was happy and surprised to know the phone’s color: it’s red! I thought the color would be average black or ordinary silver or something. The red is the kind of red I like! Accurately, the box said that the phone color is evening red. Whoa, and the model was even better than I imagined. My brother’s friend gave me some instruction on how to charge the battery, play MP3, etc. I didn’t pay too much attention at him honestly, because I was so glad to have a new phone I wanted, haha. As he left my house, I immediately test my phone: took a picture and video, transferred some MP3s and played it all over and over again, sent a message with emoticons, surfed the internet, etc.
As time goes by my phone accompanied my day faithfully, haha. I’ve had it since I was in high school, and now I am almost in my final year of my bachelor study. If it were a living thing, I would pay it so it will keep all of my secrets. Yeah it recorded my life and people communicating with me, who is intense and who isn’t. Who is intense in only a defined period of time and who is still communicating with me and maintaining a good silaturahmi with me. I’ve been laughing and crying with this phone. This phone has been a messenger who tells me good and bad news from people of my life. Until 29 June 2011, 3.00pm it has been sent 33384 text messages, received almost 69 hours of incoming calls, and used to make a 21.5 hours outgoing calls (I thought I seldom talking in the phone nowadays). And since some months ago, my phone has become a little bit busier; it sends about 1667 messages per month (I know that because I use SMS voucher almost every time and always buy that voucher every month now).
And the thing I love about my phone is, it’s so durable! Really, without an additional protection, it doesn’t damage even though I drop it to the floor so many times. I swear I never try to, but maybe I’m not a very careful person and my phone usually be the victim of my carelessness. Sometimes after it fallen to the floor or hit a hard thing, it would be turned off. But it will function normally soon after I turn it on. Sometimes it turn off by itself, errors when I access the contact information, and it can’t synchronize with my net book like usual so I can’t transfer my files to my net book, but I accept it with an understanding that this phone has been going through so much danger, like being dropped from above, fallen to the wet bathroom floor, used to call or browse the internet for hours until the battery is really, really hot like an iron, hit a hard objects unintentionally, etc.
A few times my brother tries to persuade me to buy a new one, fancier and a more advanced one. Sure there are some interesting features of other phones that my phone doesn’t have like Wi-Fi, camera with larger resolution, television, cuter emoticons for texting, a nice-looking messenger that keeps all of your texting histories (make it looks like you’re chatting instead of texting, like in iPhone or Android series), some of them even can read a PDF or office files…the list goes on because it’s impossible to fulfill all of my needs, but I think I don’t really need a new one. And I don’t really sure if those advanced phones are as robust as my phone. Its shiny touch screen, I can’t use it quickly and I might tear the crystal out from the screen at the first time I drop it to the floor. Its big and thin body maybe won’t fit in my jeans pocket. So, I want to keep this phone until its last breath! And if someday I have to buy a new phone, I will try to find a robust one like my current phone J
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