Time for a change Innit!!! (part 3)

A failure according to Nokia

The N-Gage! I remember when I bought this mobile it was because I was hooked on the novel concept of gaming on the go on my cellphone. Before I finally got around to buying it; I googled like crazy to find out where I could get the games online and found some mirc channels where I could get some.  This mobile helped me through some tough times as it was when I had this mobile that I kept flunking in my exams and earning the anger and disappointment from my family. I remember playing rayman and tombraider on it a lot. One thing that irked me a lot was that you had to hold the mobile sideways to talk and that always earned me some amused looks from people when they saw me. Nevertheless I sold this mobile of mine to a friend for a couple of thousand rupees after a year or so I think. 

One of my fav mobiles!

 My next mobile the Nokia 6630 was one of my favourites and one that I enjoyed using immensely. The camera was 1.3 Megapixels and that was fairly high end as 2 megapixel mobiles were just on the horizon then. Infact I had this phone when I was going for a 10 day trip to swat and I took a ton of pictures and videos with this phone and they turned out pretty good. Since it had a bigger screen than most mobiles in that age; I used to convert and store anime series and movies on the memory card so I could easily pass the time when the load shedding started. I remember watching one after I had my nose operated on , to fix a blocked nostril, and it helped me pass the time wonderfully. Greed got the better of me though as when I learned of the Nokia 6680 with its led flash; I went and gave my mobile to a guy I knew at a local game shop. He ended up gambling all my money away and I found out about that  after finally getting pissed off at being yanked around for weeks that I stood at the shop for a few hours till his boss finally came clean about what might have happened. In the end his boss ended up paying me what I was owed but I still was short of a couple of thousand for the 6680. 

Um not as good as I expected.

What can I say about this phone of mine. Well it was not as good as I expected and was my first windows mobile.  But the reason I don’t know much about this mobile because I did not have this mobile for long. It was during the monsoon season that it rained so heavily that the whole city was flooded. I remember that the KPT underpass was fully flooded and many cars were floating around in there too. The whole 3 swords area was so badly flooded that many underground parking areas of apartments were full to the brim with floodwater. It was during that time that my late brother and me tried going to the Clifton Meezan Bank and I was scared silly cause if my brother took his foot of the pedal we would be stuck in waist high flood water. Water had started seeping through the door by the time we parked the car somewhere high enough to get out to check if the atm at the bank was open or not. It was at this fateful moment that an army truck rammed into the footpath near me resulting in a big wave that succeeded in filling my car with dirty floodwater. I began shouting obscenities at the driver who countered with a valid argument that. See the place was so flooded that it looked like a small lake with no signs of footpaths and such so anyone who was not a regular visitor of that area would not know where the footpaths were and were not. So what happened to my mobile was that I foolishly took it along with me and during the drive it slipped out of my pocket and fell by my feet and I did not notice it. It was swept under the seat by the huge army truck generated wave when I opened my door and I did not find out about my mobile till later when I found it, after searching high and low, lying in a puddle of dirty water under the seat. It was completely ruined and had no chance of being repaired so I was without a mobile phone and trying my best to not be too disappointed too much. It would be a few months before I got around to acquire a new mobile as my dad was pissed at my stupidity and was not going to buy me a new one just yet. 

3 Swords area and the KPT underpass completely flooded.