Putting the (mostly unblogged) events of the past week behind me, Friday night was spent catching up on TV.
Caught the first two episodes of a new series on FX called Damages, which stars Glenn Close. On first glance it seems like just another lawyer series, with Close as super lawyer and a younger actress playing her newly hired protege. Except it also looks to be a season-long plotline rather than one-case-per-week, and the end of the first episode had enough “oh shit!” moments so I’ll probably stick with it for awhile. I think people who like Prison Break might go for this (actually I lost my patience with PB midway through the first season).
Saturday, not wanting to sit around the flat, following lunch with a friend I spent the afternoon engaging in Hong Kong’s #1 pastime, shopping.
I had been thinking about waiting for a new phone until the release of the HTC Kaiser. But I’m fed up with Windows Mobile as a phone OS. The need for constant reboots is ludicrous beyond words. So with the release of the Sony P1i, I return to Symbian. After just a few hours and minimal time to play with it, I think I’m okay with it. Only 3 band GSM and single band UMTS. The WiFi is 802.11b, not g. Camera is 3.2 meg with autofocus, nice. I can get used to the keyboard.
Aside from that, a few other things that I convinced myself I couldn’t live without.
One thing I did not buy was a t-shirt I saw in Milk magazine with the words Kill All Luxury People. This t-shirt sells for $570 – in other words only “luxury people” can afford it.
Also noted in Milk that someone has taken the Andy Warhol banana from the Velvet Underground & Nico album cover and turned it into a little pendant sort of thing. Nice to have but the article didn’t mention the price and I didn’t feel like walking to Causeway Bay to find out that a piece of plastic would be selling for thousands of dollars.
Back at home, I managed to fuck up my computer by installing the latest version of Google Desktop. It crashed the PC twice while indexing files before I uninstalled it. And somehow the index files on certain programs I use got destroyed – e.g Newsbin Pro now thinks it has been weeks rather than days since I last updated forum headings.
Put off dealing with that hiccup until now, following dinner with a friend, we stretched out and watched the Simpsons movie. Going to watch Spaced now I think – the TV series from the director and stars of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.
Taking it easy for the next couple of days. Out of here on Tuesday. Plane and hotel set, doctor set. Need a recommendation on a place to stay in Hua Hin?
Wish there was something more exciting going on to write about but same days that’s just how it is.
