Never Judge the Book by the Cover

That's what I learned from buying the Sony Ericssson P990i. I had always despised all the versions of the model. They just looked ugly. Possibly the ugliest you could find in the market for the same class and range from other brands.

Had I had a choice I would not have bought the P990i, for the ever same reason that is because it is just ugly! However, strangely enough once I started using it, I just fell in love with it. It looks ugly, but: very comfortable to hold, has all the right buttons at the right places, has dual keypads which are just so practical, top class camera pictures of 2 MB, top quality sound, 3-G enabled, name card scanner and wireless access among other features.

Check out the complete overview at the official web site of Sony Ericsson

"A phone, PDA and imaging machine packed with media and applications to support business and leisure activities. It takes the work out of the job." - Sony Ericsson

The Rest of the Days in Munich

My litte girl's condition worsen on the second day. The temperature was not settling. As a result, I had to stay in looking after her in the morning while my other half went out sightseeing. In the afternoon, when her condition improved, we took a short walk to the main pedestrian area, and took some pictures and visited some of the shops having sales. The Cathedral on Marienplatz was amazing.

Dinner time ... it's pizza and pasta.

Short Break in Munich

Last year, the destination was London. Not a great place to be in winter, but it was not best option given the free (sort of) accommodation at the Berjaya Hotel and cheap flight ticket (99 CHF, how much cheaper could it be!). This year, with my daughter in the new classification of "child above 2" ( i.e. no longer an infant), travelling by flight could become quite expensive especially when you wait till the last minute to make the bookings. So, in the end the decision was to take a 5-hour train journey to munich and spend a few hundreds EUR on a 3-star German hotel for a few nights. What a way to waste money.

Actually, it's not that bad taking a long train journey. Apart from the daughter getting too excited at times and decided to go up and down the seat for like 20,000 times, the journey was quite relaxing. We arrived in Munich just after lunch time. What a freezing day. Sooooooo freaking freezing. The moment we stepped out of the train station, I could immediately see a few halal kebab takeaways. Hmm ... looks like eating will not be a problem then in the next few days. Locating the hotel was not difficult, especially when you employ a humanoid navigator. The cost is probably much higher and comes with no warranty. But, definitely much better in terms of user friendliness and functionality. She also comes with other goodies.

Munich is a dead city on 26th of December, likewise any other locations in Europe for that matter. I took a quite stroll along the main street to get a quick glimpse of the city. Pretty nice with some really amazing old buildings around. 26th of December was also the day we practically spent the whole second half of the day killing time in the hotel room. Too cold to get excited, and my little girl also began to get sick again. Thank god there was a German TV channel with back to back EPL matches.

Dinner time ... what else, kebab.

The rebirth of my humble blog

After stopping blogging more than a year ago, I thought it was a good idea to start it again. All the entries below this one are those transferred from my earlier blog.