My First Paycheque
I made a paycheque! Okay, so it’s not technically my first, since I’ve received cheques from my previous job, 4 years ago. But this is my first REAL paycheque from a REAL job. Ahem. So of course I took a picture of it to commemorate the occasion.
I’ve modified the picture to eliminate personal information - in other words, it’s an intentionally bad picture.
To celebrate my newfound wealth, I decided to share it with a lucky proprietor of some shop selling earphones. My Nokia N78 is a brilliant music phone that comes with very unfortunate stock earphones. I have no idea why they’re so bad. Even the headset on my old Nokia 6230 fit and sounded better than these earphones. So I went on a search for Sennheiser in-ear phones, because I primarily listen to my music while travelling, and it has to block out the bus noise (as well as the annoying TV Mobile dialogue).
I ended up paying $159 for a pair of Denon earphones instead of the Sennheisers, because a) the dude in the shop told me they were better and b) Denon’s a pretty low-profile brand so fewer people will have the same earphones. And I like being special. Later I found out I got pretty much ripped off, as the same earphones retail in the USA for 50 USD. But I was going to fork out more than a hundred for my earphones anyway, so I’ve not much to complain about.
They fit great and the sound is bliss, compared to the stock earphones. The sound isolation works very well, I’m stuck in my own little world once the music starts. And they also double up as impromptu earplugs when the aircon at work starts getting too noisy.
Unboxing pictures after the jump, to save bandwidth.
In its horrible blister packaging.
After some work with a pair of scissors, I manage to breach its plastic armour!
The back of the package.
The package without plastic armour.
The grand unboxing! From top: Earphones, 3.5mm stereo plug, carrying pouch (not that great but I had no pouch anyway).
Close-up of one earphone to show construction.
They are really very small and light. Bear in mind that I have small hands, if you need to compare.
It was a good day all around where finances were concerned.
June 27th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
150!!!! holy mutahhh
they look exactly like the sony ericsson ones that linda got with her twist 360degree sony e walkman phone
damn sekat teh ear thats why they block out teh noise
June 30th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Rich sia.
And as with butt plugs and quality DVDs, so with earphones.
Hell, probably anything reasonably expensive in Singapore is cheaper if you buy overseas.