icame, isaw, (ibought) ipod

sobrang tagal na that i have been imagining how this moment would feel like. months na. ngayon, its here, its real, its mine, its ipod. shuffle, at least :)


ako at ang aking ipod

i took a few minutes off from work today and walked along the Magnificent Mile to visit the Apple store. the store wasn't that huge pero it was spacious and techie-looking enough to be a bit intimidating...there were displays of their latest and greatest on top of large white tables and counters. it felt like a laboratory somehow or an operating room to me. pero on top of the operating tables would be these handsome looking gadgets bearing an apple icon on them. there would be laptops everywhere, imacs, nanos, minis, ipods with speakers, ipods with headphones, ipods connected to laptops (displaying various apple software, the only thing i could recognize would be itunes), ipod accessories like socks, arm bands....everything ipod. pero i ignored them all. i knew what i was looking for and my heart was set on buying the simplest, the humblest, and the cheapest, hehe -- ipod shuffle, 512 MB for a dollar less than 100. i just know, this is for me.

sige na nga, i did look at the nano...but i didn't see any reason why i would trade the shuffle for the nano's lcd, photo library, calendar and the oh-so slim casing. i didn't need those. i just wanted to listen to my favorite music. its that simple :) whenever. wherever.

so, i did what i came to do in that store and walked back to my place kaagad. as soon as i got back, i connected the ipod to my laptop and installed itunes. after that, pumili na ako ng mga songs to fill my ipod with. im glad lee placed his mp3 files in our support laptop! for sentimental purposes, im sharing my first ipod playlist to you all. here's a list of the 83 songs i have in my shuffle, which would play for around 5.6 hours:



*unwell by matchbox twenty was the first song the shuffle played. it was a song i had listened to a lot a few months back :)

nice no? if you'd like to listen to a song from this list, just email me and ill send the files to you. id really be glad to do that for you :)

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kwento ko lang. in the Apple store, different kinds of people were coming in. from the balding suit-wearing executives, the moms wearing mom pants buying colorful ipod socks, the geeky ones checking out the imacs or the latest ipod-compatible speakers, the shiny happy young ones who already have ipods in their hands or pockets checking out the latest itunes...it was pretty cool. the only place where i would usually observe a similarly diverse crowd would be in food courts. galing. i really think music could be the universal language :)