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Monday, 1 September 2008

I got a pair of Shure earphones! Okay, its freaking ex. but my ears just couldn't resist the awesome sound reproduction. Plus, I've been off the life-support system (music) for long enough. Its almost like an addiction. It feels good to be plugged in again. haha

The Comex '08 fair was really a squeeze. Its really mad, considering that the whole convention centre's worth of space was fully utilised for the exhibition. I mean, even the ballrooms were totally crowded out by the handphone service providers and the handphone megabrands like Sony Ericsson and Samsung, et al.

Was really tempted to get the X-Fi mp3 player from Creative, and it comes with quite a good pair of earphones as well. Or so it was published. Tried both the player and the earphones. The player is really good, but only without the X-Fi capability, which is such an irony. The earphones of Creative were over-attempting to jack up the bass notes and over-sharpening the high-mid freqs., resulting in oppresive base killing the low-mid freqs and an extremely harsh high-mid range respectively. Still, they were way cheaper than what I had to shell out for my Shures. I guess you get what you pay for. (Am I reassuring myself that my Shures were worth it? hmm.)

However, with a good pair of earphones, I've begun to realise that all the music players at home (incl. my Nokia N73) kinda fails to max. out the potential of my earphones. Which means.. I got to fork out more lucre to get a decent mp3 player. Oh no.

This can be applied to life, no? Managing expectations is a must for happiness. Don't over-upgrade your tastebuds when your bank account can't keep up. Or when you can't enjoy the simple pleasures of life anymore.

Anyway, Sunday was spent going to church and basically hanging out all day with Alex, Megan and Eunice. Sundays are really beginning to be really fun =) Crossing out pictures of *Ahem* in the papers, alcohol wipes and the talking session in the most unglam of places (sitting on the pavement in town) talking about random stuff - these really made Sunday so enjoyable. ^^

On a (pseudo) philosophical note: The horizon that can be reached was never a horizon in the first place. So in the futile quest to attain the impossible, it is no longer the goal that is important ('cos the goal can't be achieved anyway), but the process; the quest.

I am happy, and content for now, and I guess that is what matters.

10:49 am