Im kind of sick and tired of getting a new phone. The whole story goes back to about 2 to 3 months when someone in the family informs me that its time for my turn to get a new phone. At that time, there was no phone that interest me and it was design show period so i didnt hate time to research on it. So it got dragged to may, my graduation day. Had dinner with the designers and dragged along with me to look at m1 phones. Spotted htc hero selling at $198 and gladly informed my dad that night that i want that phone. We went down to the shop the day after and was told by the salesgirl that it was out of stock. Same story at the m1 shop at tamp1. Disappointed but oh well, thats life. Attempt #2 was me checking on m1 web weekly (trying to see if htc legend's price will drop) a month later. PC show came and m1 had this 4days offer for htc desire (yes, that currently ranked first phone) selling at $398. Over my budget but it was a good price. Happily informed my dad that i want that phone and will pay 50% of it. So we planned to get it that weekend. 2days went past and i received comments able having to spend so much money on a phone. Guilt drowned me and i told dad that im not getting that phone anymore. So came attempt #3 last sunday. After cracking my brain for so long, and reading reviewsss. I decided to get SE xperia x10 mini ($188 at m1). Informed dad in the morning and then the horrible news came. Dad told me that he just remembered that im supposed to get my phone under mum's line, not mine so i should be checking on singtel prices and not m1. My weeks of stalking m1 have been for nothing. Fine. Looked through singtel prices. They were close to m1's. So we went down to the singtel shop at tamp1. Looked at the dummy ver of xperia mini and realised its actually VERY MINI. Great. Dad told be its better to buy a bigger screen phone so we didnt get it in the end. Went home, i researched further and listed down a number of potential phones. Thought over and consulted a few peoples for the whole week, i finally decided to buy samsung galaxy spica $88! Which leads us to attempt #4. Went down to bedok yesterday to get it. 2 shops said its out of stock. We went back to TM, century square and tamp1. All no more stock. FINE. Lets order online. When dad selected recontract on singtelshop, the price of the plan came up wrong. We didnt want to risk mum's cheap plan turning into ex plan, dad wrote an email to the consumer service asking how should we proceed buying it. So now, we are waiting for the reply. If we succeeded getting it, i will hate to wait 2weeks before getting it. Great. The wait. This cheap phones going oos thing reminds me of myself buying my current phone 22months ago. The cheap phone i was targeting was oos and so i ended up buying this almost $300 phone (not that one in the photo, its the one im typing on now. The one in the photo is my prev prev phone which i am still using now). So ex. D: anyway, shall slowly wait for the reply. Oh my life. And if there is any phrasing or typo error, dont mind me. They always appear when i blog with my phone.