Happy Lunar New Year!
Xin Nien Kwai Le! Gung Xi Fa Chai!

Ooh, I have so much to tell you guys about! Sorry, I was out for a while cuz I was so busy. X3 This layout will stay for...about one more week. Chinese New Year = Red, red, red. Or I might actually make a new one from scratch! Well, not really since I'll be using the UTB. =P

Anyway, I didn't have a phone for about 2 weeks? My dad got me a new phone last friday without telling me. But! It was okay cuz he actually got a good one. ;D Motorola L6--flat like a Slvr, but I don't think it is. I was scrolling through it and found a Chinese dictionary/theasaurus, Chinese templates for texting, and a Chinese function for messages. A look around the box it came in and my eyes came across the url: "motorola.com.hk" on the side. It's a 'black market' phone, a 'fake' from HK. *eyeroll* Nope, my dad isn't especially observant. Neither is my mother. *sigh* I wonder where my genius genetics came from?

Oh, I know someone with the answer to that: my youngest uncle from my mother's side. His answer? "From me!" Yeah, right. He's obnoxious, vain, arrogant, narcissistic...wait, they all mean the same thing. *fake gasp* And a puts-down-others-elevates-himself *cough*FAMILY*cough* type o' guy. Grrr. Hate him. Everyone in the family knows he's like that, including his older siblings plus mother. But no one does anything, let alone rein him in. He's the youngest of four and a son at that => total spoiled brat with not the slightest thought to anyone else. Where am I going with this? Continue reading to see the conspicuous string between him and my phone.

Yesterday was the day for big grins and laughter. My dad gave me my phone on Saturday and couldn't wait to try it out. Around 12pm, I got stuck between a 'lion' and the store it was bowing to so I got a little annoyed, but I decided to try out the new camera. I got two nice shots of the 'lion' in the air with all it's sun-hits-gold beauty. ;P After that, I climbed over the box of confetti-poppers and ran over to the Square. I was just in time to catch the two fireworks taking off and the fire-crackers starting! It was so loud with a lot of smoke, but after the smoke cleared out, it was a sight to see. I took out my phone and got a couple of shots of that, too. =D My ma needed to run over to a theatre/auditorium to emcee at 1pm so I went with her. I found a huge Fortune God blow-up doll on the way! I stopped to take two shots of that and then kept on running. I helped my ma change, la-di-da, then left to go to my gran's place. This is where the a**hole comes in.

It is very very boring at my gran's. I spent three months there last year since I had first period and I went to sleep at 8pm every night. So I thought I should play around with the camera. My stupid uncle had just come in from Cali. saturday night and he's staying at gran's until he leaves--thankfully, tomorrow night. My gran was still cooking and making all the fixes so she wouldn't let me take pictures of her. Stupid me went out on a whim and took a pic of him instead. He went on and on about how he hadn't combed his hair and wasn't at his most handsomest, blah, blah, blah. (This is past 2pm and he hadn't combed his hair? 0.o) He started going, "Let me see! Let me see!" So I was thinking, let him see it and then I'll delete it or whatever. Now this is a new phone, it's got my fingerprints on it plus my dad's and the seller's, but that's okay. It's always very small, very thin--meaning very slip-able and I don't want anyone else to touch it. I told him that he couls take a look, but don't touch. There was a bowl of soup on the table and I couldn't risk it. He finally put his arms away and I held it close to his head to see. His arm snaked out at the last moment--his grip is hard--I try to pull away and PLOP!

Yes, you guessed it. The phone that I'd had for only 18 hours with only ten? eleven? pics fell into the bowl of soup. o.o *blinks* *purses lips* *fumes* I was very nice. I don't remember who took it out, him or me, but the first thing out of my mouth was: "You're getting me a new phone." I didn't curse him out, I didn't shout. Straight to the point and I started drinking my soup. He, on the otherhand, was busy wiping it down. I finished my soup, took out my gran's hair dryer and handed it to him.

Then, he goes to make fun of me: How I was getting upset over nothing. Of course it was working. Don't be so stupid. The phone isn't that great anyway. It's a very cheap phone. And on and on. All happy-go-lucky without a care in the world and a smirk on his face. Of course I knew he was defending himself. Not a very subtle cover for guilt. But would a simple "I'm sorry" not sufficed? You had to go and mock me? keep up your snobbish routine?

At first it was...okay. I took out my charger, the battery picture signalled "Charging", I put the charger away. Then, the ball rolls a bit downhill. I find that the camera is gone. Y'know how things are 'gone' in the technical sense? Like "the rockets are flaring...and gone". Dictionary: to be or become consumed, spent, finished, etc./to die. Yup, gone. So's the video camera, obviously. I tried sending the few photos I'd taken, but no luck. Luckily for him, only the top part was in the liquid. My battery and SIM card was in the bottom half. But the mini-USB port/charging outlet plus camera was in the top half.

We decided I was going to go get another phone and he was coming with me. We went yesterday, but it was closed and I didn't get a close look at the store because he walked too fast. We returned today only to find the red paper that we had missed stating, "Closed for Chinese New Year 2/18-2/21" Great, just great. I had a week to return the phone or I would be stuck with it. The 22nd, when it opens, will make a week. And he's leaving tomorrow night so I have to talk to thme myself. Big whoop.

So we had "Open-New Year" lunch at my gran's with my other uncle and his wife, my mother, my aunt, my gran, and my cousin. And everything's okay. I'm hungry...I shoulda bought lunchmeat when I came home. Darnit.

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the Dot

Plugs: Dilated, LostSoul13, Sylphie, Princess_00, frostbitten

Waaaaaaaaahhhh!!!
Omg i feel sorry for u! Stupid uncle. Tsk3 and he didn't even say sorry! :O
Well..at least now u get to change yer phone since you didn't want the "black market phone"...
What do you mean by "black market/fake phone" anyway? What's with it?

And honestly, i dun know why Motorola's selling here in North America. Personally, i dun get all the fuss about the RAZR. :-/

Belated Happy Chinese New Year! =)
» frostbitten on 2007-02-19 08:48:53

Lol yehp Nutang = No. 1 addiction! :P
Weh... but will the new phone still be a "fake" phone?? Hopefully not! :)
» frostbitten on 2007-02-19 09:21:46

Your uncle sounds like a douche.

I'll go with you to get a new phone! If you came to Texas, that is. And paid for gas. And the phone.
» Dilated on 2007-02-19 09:29:03

You are incredibly skilled at turning people against your uncle
I, for one, am swayed completely. The guy's a jerk. At least he sounds like one, but I don't think I'd find much a difference if I ever did meet him in person anyway. Maybe I missed it, but how old is this guy again? From your blog I could've guessed around 16-17...let's grow up a little mr. uncle sir, yeah?

WELL at least you did get a new phone, even if it only lasted for 18 hours -_-. Haha I've never heard of black market phones before...I mean fake rolexes are everywhere, but phones? At least it work(ed)...

P.S. Happy chinese new year to you too :P I was going to do something with my dad's side of the family (the asians, of course), but there's some tension amongst all of them so we didn't go. Eh.
» The-Muffin-Man on 2007-02-19 11:05:42

happy belated CNY! {not sure if I wished you that already, but if I did, I'm doing so again :P}
I feel for you about having your phone dropped. I'd hate it if my camera stopped working. Gotta love family members.
I do believe you have managed to beat Etheracide in entry length. I came close, but I think you beat it... hehe, that's cool tho, you had a lot to say and you got it all out. :)
» LostSoul13 on 2007-02-20 12:18:45

happy chinese new year! may u get a lot of redpackets!
» renaye on 2007-02-20 04:09:02

Happy Chinese New Year, dot! Hope you recieved a lot of ang pau.. Why don't you ask that stupid uncle of yours for a couple hundred dollars to buy a new one? Well, I know how very annoying those type of uncles are.. I have a number of them here.. Black market phones.. will spoil easily.. I had bought a few but they didn't last long.
» Nuttz on 2007-02-20 05:49:41

Motorola.com/hk looks pretty legitimate; it just seems to be the company website for sales in Hong Kong. Doesn't mean it's a fake.
» Bartholomew on 2007-02-20 11:15:08

heh thanks!
we're not that far away...you could always come down for some pics...or i can call you next time im in nyc heh. she did her makeup. it generally depends on the models prefs who does it.
» invisibleinkling on 2007-02-20 02:30:06

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