kids, listen to big brother aaron...

... don't check your email just before you go to bed.

From: devnews@sonyericsson.com
Subject: Sony Ericsson Developer World News - January 2005
Date: February 01, 2005 09:39:09 PM GMT+08:00
To: aklw@yahoo.com.sg

Themes Creator for Mac

A number of Apple Mac developers have requested that Sony Ericsson provide some of its popular content development tools for use with Mac OS. Their wishes have finally come true! Sony Ericsson has published Themes Creator 1.60 for Mac OS X. Also supporting the Sony Ericsson V800, the Sony Ericsson Themes Creator 1.60 (including Developers' Guidelines and Release Notes) is available here >>

... continued, but irrelevant to my grief, hence not reproduced.

great. after i buy a Motorola, you decide to sweeten the Sony Ericsson experience that little bit more. granted, not enough to make me choose a, say, S700i, over my Razr V3 even if i hadn't bought a new phone yet, but still enough to make me smack my forehead. sure, extremely superficial, but i always liked the ability to custom create or download a limitless selection of themes for my old Ericsson. and now that i can do my own with my Mac instead of through some clunky online interface that breaks all the time, well. you know how i feel. and if you don't, tough.

however, that was not all. my indonesian friend, who has gone back to indonesia to await the 2004 GCE 'A' Level results, recently bought a BMW 330Ci, customized it, and entered it in an auto show. he didn't win, and not even because the car he honestly thought was better than his anyway [a Mercedes-Benz CL500] won, but because a Nissan 350Z. i have nothing against that car, i would love one, but i would much rather the BMW or ever the CL500 over a 350Z.

back to the whole don't-check-your-email-just-before-you-go-to-bed thing. he's just sent me pictures of his BMW and the CL500. now i don't know whether to feel sympathetic over his non-win, or wildly envious that he's entered HIS BMW 330Ci in auto shows when i can't even run Need For Speed: Underground on any of the PCs here. the saddest thing is that i abhor modified cars. a little bit of customization is fine. but when the car starts not to resemble its original self, then, well, what can i say. you might as well be driving a Honda Civic, Toyota Vios or Subaru Impreza.

shit. six hours left on the clock.