The Want of a Handphone

Pagers were all the rage when we were in poly. Suddenly, everywhere you turned, there's someone with a pager. Being without a pager, means you're uncool. (The Motorola memojazz was the IN thing of the moment then, I had a transparent blue one) Handphones were not IN yet coz they were super expensive and unless you're one of those rich pups or needy working executive, you basically will not even think of getting one. There was this day when my ex raised this topic to me. The conversation went something like this. KS: I think I wanna buy a handphone. Me: What? Whatever for? Do you know how much it costs? KS: I know it's expensive but I think I need it. (A handphone, any handphone at that time cost almost a thousand dollars.) Me: You need it? Are you sure? It's not as if you have people paging you very often. You're not all that popular you know? My pager even beeps more than yours moron. KS: ok lor KS Sulks. He sulks constantly for the rest of the relationship. I supposed he was more than thankful that it didn't last long because not long after this conversation, we broke up and KS had his handphone.