Once you go tech, you can never go back.

I fly more often that I have in my whole life lately but sadly there's one thing that hasn't changed. Unless it’s a business trip, I will only fly with budget airlines or whichever airline with the cheapest air ticket. Boy, how Thai Airways has upped my standard and now I'm spoiled, I can't stand budget airlines' limitation. Dude, where's my movies, my songs, my pillows, my blanket, my comfortable seat that send me straight to dreams land?

So, when I'm flying on my own expenses, I'm getting too much at preparing my own on-board entertainments. iPod video, check. Headphones, check. Books, check. Neck and shoulder pillow, check. Sleeping eye mask, check. What do I miss? It's the one thing I've always wanted but haven't got it, yet. PSP!

I’ve been wanting PSP since like forever. Now added with the on-board entertainment reason, the urge is getting urgent. So, when I managed to put aside some spare money, I instantly think about PSP. Giddy with the fact that I will get my old time wish,  I told my boyfriend about this whole PSP thing. I thought he would support me and my decision to be complicated but make sense. But, what did he said? "You should buy an iPhone instead of a PSP."

Why? why? why? Why I should buy something that costs me triple? Does he thinks I have money fertilizer? Well, these are his reasons:
1. I’m one of those –cant-live-without-internet- people
2. I always listen to music
3. I like games
4. My handphone is my shadow, it sticks with me
5. I like to take pictures

He's my boyfriend for a reason, clearly.

Well, my dear boyfriend (I love calling him that, cheesy, but whatever), I know you were joking when you told me I was an internet addict, but if you keep saying that, that could come true. Remember, words are powerful and I don't have TV cable. 

But, I too have reasons why I don’t need an iPhone, yet. Here's my counter reasons:
1. I have my laptop as my surfing board
2. I have my reliable iPod video, filled with the songs of my life (yes, there are about 25,000 songs of my life, bear with me, I'm still getting older)
3. I like game, so do I need to say why PSP?
4. My phone is actually only a device that connects me to people I can't live without. Don't get it wrong, there are people I love, that's why there's a phone.
5. I have two hands, a pair of eyes and three working-well-and-I-love-them-all cameras. My G10, it's handy for outdoor activities and it gives a slight SLR look. My Holga and my Polaroid are for the romantic side of me, it's analog and not practical, but that's the whole point of romanticism. They are not banal.

Last but not least, I am not a gadget person, I'm pretty sure, my current phone possesses super power that I don't know how to activate.

But, being a good advertising man, my boyfriend is (yes, I'm sure he could sell ice cubes to the eskimos if he wanted to), he used my answers to get me "all your needs, all your gadgets and cameras packed into one device, called an iPhone". Should I sell the line to Apple?

Hot damn you've cornered me alright, darling. I don't have anything against it but it's just I'm not sure if I am ready to give everything I have and merge them to one thing. One perfect thing.
You know the thing with something perfect, you'll bound to lose it one day and you'll lose all. It's like putting all my eggs in one basket. I'm not ready. So, let me be left behind for now, let me stay unpractical, let me enjoy this complicated life of mine, boyfriend.