random ramblings + SGS

I woke up this morning around noon-ish. Hey, I had a late night last night. I watched Man United get overran in midfield as the lack of pace from scholes and carrick got exposed too much. Anyway, looked at my phone, which was upgraded with Darky ROM 9.5 Steel Blue theme (more below), and there was a voice mail. Phoned it. "Unfortunately both your outgoing and incoming flights to Kuala Lumpur has been cancelled." What?! How could Singaporeairline do that? So, apparently they decided to cut down flight numbers to Christchurch and no longer will fly on those dates. $%$&!@ Long story short, I contacted the travel agency, and fortunately they can rearrange the flights, however via Auckland, which is an additional stop, and longer travelling time, but I still arrive on the same day which is the crucial part. But still, I wonder if I could be compensated for this. The main reason I choose them was the direct flight factor. Anybody had an experience getting compensation from this sort of things? A free upgrade to Business class would be nice :D

So, last night, the thing that kept me awake was my phone (samsung galaxy S I9000). I decided to upgrade Darky ROM 9.0 to Darky ROM 9.5 and go a little bit further adding Steel Blue theme. Well, what happen was, I flashed the wrong theme (steel blue 4.0) and it just bricked my phone. It was stuck at booting screen. Luckily, Odin rescued me, reflashed the phone & now it looked great & still as fast as before. If you're noob than all these will sound gibberish. Here's the run down:

(1) Samsung galaxy s is an awesome phone. Listed as #2 as top gadget of 2010 by the Time magazine behind the iPad (which means it was rated better than iPhone 4). It uses android operating system.

(2) Heres an article describing what ROM is.

(3) The stock ROM for SGS is laggy. When I didnt know about this custom ROM thingy, I was disappointed with the phone. I wondered how it got those high ratings. I previously owned an Omnia and found that phone quite disappointing. Then my mate mentioned about this. And luckily, somebody posted on facebook about darky's rom. Gave it a try and just wow. Blazingly fast. I would definitely recommend this phone now. SGS 2 is coming out soon too, wider, thinner, lighter, better display!

(4) Moral of the story: If you cant spend the time or willing to learn to tweak your phone, then iphone is for you. Otherwise, android is so much superior imo as the potential to customize ur phone at your will is just vast.