New ringer

CL came back on tuesday... but we only went to see him on thursday. since thursday was a public holiday, i decided to drag mom and LK out to buy myself a hand phone! at first i was interested in the motorola c650 but then we asked the phone guy to recommend a phone which costs around rm500 - rm600. so he recommended a nokia phone and a sony ericsson phone. and after alot of haggling, i bought the sony ericsson k500i for rm610. i traded in my old phone, but it didn't fetch much... anyway i bought the usb cable too and it costs rm68!!! talk about hidden costs!!! anyway, when LK and i were at ah yee's place, we discovered that CL's phone was the k700i... so he taught me abit about the phone.

we went to regent hotel, kl while mom had a lunch date with her friends. after high-tea we went to lot 10... so much has changed there... didn't look too thriving to me though... we saw alot of he/she people there... wearing sexier garments than we, females usually wear. after that we decided to cross over to sungei wang but mom called us when we were midway across the pedestrian bridge... she sounded so urgent and wanted us to get back soon... so we had to abort our plans of visiting sungei wang... so we rushed back... and mom came back 2 hours later... and we were all like "what happened to you? we could've been in sungei wang now!"

it was a bitter sweet day. but i won't dwell on the bitter part... so now more about the new hand phone... the guy at the shop downloaded some mp3 into my phone... however his selection was quite erm... ott... stuff that i can't stand... the only song i'm pretty ok with is the black-eyed peas song... which i'm currently using as my ring tone. CL used that infra-red thingy to transfer the old phone ring tone to my phone... i think i'll switch to that later on because at the moment my uncle and CL is using the same ring tone.

i finished reading "slave" on sunday night. it was quite a good read... somewhat like fallen leaves but the description was less intense... so i didn't really shed any tears like i did while reading fallen leaves many many years ago. anyway this biography is basically narrating the writer's happy childhood in a very much untouched (by modernisation) village in the nuba mountains of sudan... many descriptions of their local traditions and way of life... then the arab raiders literally slaughtered their village; killing their men, raping and murdering the women, and kidnapping and raping the children. these children will then be sold as slaves (abda) by these arab raiders. she also expresses her confusion about why these arabs, who are muslims, are killing them (nuba people), who are also muslims... these arab raiders would thank their god for their game (as if they just went hunting in the woods) after wiping out these nuba villages... then she tells of how inhumanely she was treated by her "masters" (beatings and mental abuse), first in khartoum and then in london (her master was one of the top people in the sudan embassy), where she was practically smuggled in. in the end she managed to make contact with some nuba people in london and escaped... however she had some legal trouble seeking sanctuary in the uk... but finally everything worked out... bear in mind that she escaped only in 2000! and had been a slave for definitely more than 7 years (i can't remember how many exactly)! i can't believe things like this are still happening! it is obvious that these arabs (who illegally buy slaves) are living in the barbarian era!