A met a friend for dinner the other and she saw me using my Nokia E61i and she said that it’s boring. SOB I know!! But the reason I bought it is because I could use it as a modem and I dig QWERTY. People who have not used QWERTY before would not understand.

And it is really helpful when I have so many things to write, write and write that having QWERTY stops me from keying in my letters more time than I should. Just imagine how many keystrokes I save myself by using QWERTY keyboard.

Sometimes, while I prefer to type on my computer properly, it could not be helped since work continues to pile up even when I am away from the computer so having an internet enabled mobile device with QWERTY is very useful.

Also, I use it to take down whatever notes and blog ideas I have so that I could expand on my ideas when I have the time. One idea, one note. Then add text to the title LOL That’s how I blog!

I marvel at the passion Americans have for sports. My sister tells me that every year, they are waiting for one major event after another and everyone would queue up to buy tickets to the big games. People who are not able to get tickets would be outcasts and losers. Well, at least they are made to feel like that at my sister’s office!!!

After six years living in the Untied States, my sister has adopted this part of their sporting culture and I find it funny that she will be saving up money the whole year only to splash it on a ticket. But I think it is better for her to be able to BUY those tickets than feel frustrated not being able to view live sports matches and have to watch pay-per-view.

Like the Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez boxing match which has been the talk of the whole country, I told my sister, better to get the Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez tickets online or she will lose out.

Although the match is scheduled on March 15, 2008, in Las Vegas, and may seem like a lifetime away, who knows, time flies so fast, it will be here sooner than we thought and only to realize that the tickets are all sold out!

It’s the time of the year where we have to make our New Year’s resolution. I never make my list and even if I do, I will only not follow whatever that I wrote down!! Maybe that is why I see time flying past me without achieving anything great the year past!

This year though, I only have one resolution. Something that is in my control and that is to stay focused. I want to be focused in my work, in blogging and in life. I want to be able to achieve my ambition and with focus, I know I can do that.

I hope I will not get distracted by serious time wasting stuff like playing games and watching movies. I used to like telling myself that I am learning SOMETHING by playing games or watching movies hehehe but that just waste my time and take me away from my tasks at hand.

Although I don’t really need to rely on a paper certificate to show my worth at my job, I would still feel better if I had one. I may not need it to earn a living right now but one doesn’t really know what the future may bring and to have that extra knowledge that could only be gained by attending university, would only be an added advantage.

Some of you may know that I lead such a hectic work life that between that and family, I really don’t have time for anything else, let alone time to attend university. Heck, I don’t even have time for myself.

My friend told me that for the betterment of my future, I would have to MAKE time and sacrifice something else for the sake of education. Fortunately, I can get access to tertiary education from an online university and that would make things so convenient. I like the idea of studying at my own pace from home without peer pressure. I may just do it next year. I have to act quick of the gap between new graduates and myself would be wider and wider.

Last night, I thought I would check the internet and see if there are many people in Malaysia using the iPhone and was surprised that there are a couple of threads in a local forum specifically for users of iPhone. Well, I have been a member of this forum for years but I don’t usually go to the MAC section since I am not a MAC user and the prices are too high class for me.

In the latest thread, there are a total of SEVENTY pages and I feel like I have to read them all in order to know how to make the fullest use of my iPhone. Of course, the important stuffs have been moved to the first post but still, I like reading the questions of other members because I may just have the same questions myself.

When I bought my Nokia E61i, I found a very informative thread in a Symbian mobile device forum and there were ninety pages to that thread, started BEFORE the device was even released. Eeekkkk I tried reading that from the beginning and got stuck at around Page 20. Phew…. I wonder if I will ever finish reading it or not. I just hope members don’t keep adding posts to the thread or I will never get to the end!!!