My new best friend

I bought an ipod when I went to Manila a month and a half ago. I realized I "needed" one during my trip to Switzerland. While waiting in the airport, I had to pull out my CD walkman and my CDs from my bag for me to listen to music, and I realized that it was so cumbersome to have that kind of setup with a portable music player. My friend Tricia also told me that it's good to have an ipod because it's possible to move pictures from your digital camera flash card or memory stick to the ipod. That way, you will never run out of space in your digicam and you don't have to bring your bulky laptop with you when you travel.

So I finally got myself the sleek black 30Gb video ipod. My other friend Joyce told me she was so surprised it took me all this time to get myself an ipod (she would've thought that since I was so into music that I would have had one a long time ago already). And so far it has been my favorite purchase this year. I had it with me when my mom and I traveled through Scandinavia and when I visited Copenhagen last weekend. It also allows me again to listen to music while I work (I don't want to download mp3s to my work laptop) which is a good thing when I need to do routine tasks for long periods of time, like testing and documentation (the music I hear seems to be good ambient noise for me and allows me to concentrate more, go figure). So far it's just been the perfect companion. And I'm not even using it to its full potential yet - I've ripped only about half my CDs, I haven't uploaded any videos or downloaded podcasts, I haven't been able to use it to store pictures, and I haven't built any playlists or organized my music.

Unfortunately, I did my 'new best friend' a disservice yesterday. While walking to the train station I actually dropped it! I was horrified when it happened! Good thing it was in a protective felt cover but there's a small scratch now at the edge of my ipod. I seem to have this awful propensity to damage my favorite things. Can you say 'klutz'? Argh! Oh well. It still works and it could have been much worse - the ipod could have been broken with the fall. I guess I can live with the scratch.