2 years back, the battery started to fail & she implored me to get her battery replaced as she can't study without them. the new battery is about half the cost of a new set, so i got her a new 8GB one instead. i posted it here.
now, that has given way as well. it seems these china-made screens & batteries don't last long. although i had previously agreed to get her an iPhone after she's completed her O-levels, she now asked if she could get a new 64GB iPod touch instead of the iPhone.
it arrived this week......
....except that i got her a 32GB unit with this message......
was i being mean?
nah....i'm just a loving father with a cynical sense of humour.
14 comments:
u r such a great father..
Wenn,
thanks, but i'm not exactly generous to a fault, am i?
Nice. At least she didn't ask for a tattoo, like my niece did. *lol*
Cara,
hopefully these gadgets will keep her mind off tattoos & belly-button rings!
Doc,
I'm sure she's a smart girl and will repay you more than the pound you ask for ;-)
This ipod story of yours reminds me of a similar experience. At the end of last year (or was it early this year?), my youngest son got his PMR results. I promised him I'll buy him a new mobile phone as long as it's below RM1k. He says he doesn't want a new phone but an iPod Touch. I ask, what the hell is that? He says it's something like an MP3 player. So it's not a phone, I ask again. No, he says. So I say, why don't you want a new phone? A good phone can also play MP3 songs.
He gives up. He mumbles, `Susah lah nak bagi abah paham...'
His mom comes to the rescue, `I'll buy it for you if your father doesn't.'
LOL...with humour too
Oldstock,
your son could be like my daughter - communicates mostly by sms & FB, & only very occasionally by phone. that's why the phone is not important but yes, that mp3 player must be top of the range.
he a mummy's boy, isn't it?
S Kucing,
i'm not sure she was humoured by that remark.
i don get the gift message... :S
Medie,
this is from the Merchant of Venice. Antonio was unable to repay his debt to the moneylender Shylock, so the latter demands a pound of Antonio's flesh instead as payment.
That's so very nice :) (the gift, not the message!)
Fibrate,
yeah, dark humour.
Mine is 10 kg of flesh! Read this too late, or I could have sounded that to Chris (son) when he checked his luggage last night.
We went city hopping. He came in to Kuching with 9 kg luggage, and went back with 19 kg luggage.
What did he buy?
3 t-shirts from HK
1 shirt from KL
1 shirt from Singapore
1 t-shirt from Singapore
2 pants from Singapore
And many many badges and souvenirs from Scouts shop in HK, KL and Singapore! He is a scout, I am a brigader..
Yan,
somewhere along the line, was the chain of command broken?
:P
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