Just wanted to share my first contribution as guest columnist for Stuff magazine. This is the April 2010 issue.
I have permission to repost it so here it is!
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[Column Starts]
To start my column off, I should like to maintain that while I may be on the geek side of girl, I am still a girl first and foremost. Which explains why I can’t always understand the way men behave around gadgets.
It’s a mystery to me why men have a burning need to own gadgets that have so many functions it will take them ten lifetimes to discover all their uses, never mind actually use them.
Say, a man is shopping for a phone. He gets weak-kneed when told a certain phone can do a million things including file his taxes and throw out the trash. It doesn’t matter that he’s shopping for a phone. It only matters that his phone must have at least one more feature than his colleague’s phone.
Girls are easier to comprehend. We want a phone that can make phone calls. And maybe tweet. And look pretty and shiny. End of story.
Well, alright, I grant that I do expect my phone to have an Internet browser. An e-mail application. And GPS. And a shopping guide. It’s moving with the times. But men, they like to move beyond. Beyond common sense.
Sample conversation: “My phone can calculate the current wind speed and translate that into the number of revolutions a hamster makes on a wheel!” “And why would you want to do that?” “I don’t know. But it’s cool because I can do it and you can’t.”
Perhaps there is a higher reason for men to be hardwired this way. But if there is one, I have yet to discover it. Perhaps you can tell me.
[Column Ends]
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By the way, I bought a cheap S$10 iPhone case in China.
So silly looking, but cute, right?
But it’s really cheap stuff. The blings are actually a line of stickers and they keep unsticking and I have to keep sticking them back. Right now, one corner has fallen off from the rest and disappeared.
Oh well, it was fun for a while.
Kewl column. Too bad I’m not a fan of tech magazines.
Really like that iPhone cover though ;x
@Sheylara: Here’s to many more columns to come!:)
It is interesting to have a pretty gal to write in such a man dominating magazine. A breath of fresh air. What a waste that it is scare but too short.
err.. its not an april fools right.. ?? lol
btw i heard that iphone cost half in sg compared from indonesian price..
it cost around 700-800 USD here.. (not sure bout 3Gs one)
what about yours.. ??
“My phone has a built in altimeter!”
“What for?”
“I wanna see how high Mt Faber is…”
@sheylara thats most likely why is was so cheap
lol stickers on a phone case give me a brake o…o
Good stuff (sorry couldnt resist) Congratulations on the 1st column
@Princessa – Thanks, dear! :) My iPhone case looks like a wreck now. The blings are all over the place :P
@RN1209 – Thank you!
@twcheong – Heh, thanks. Short and sweet mah. :P
@zield – Huh? Why April’s Fool? I don’t know how much iPhone costs here. But the 3GS one is about $1100. With contract, only a few hundred.
@Dallas – LOL. I see you agree with me? :P
@stormy – Yes, cheap stuff are good for a bit of fun.
@Lx – Hello Lex. Thanks for dropping by again! ;)
I always like the buy Sony Ericsson Camera phones so I can take photos with pretty girls, friends or the nice view around me. I currently have a Satio and K850i.