a nokia bus

i rushed onto an empty 151 the other day to go home, and was greeted with a refreshingly different interior. it was a bus advertising nokia, and the interior was somewhat made to look lush and lounge-ish - white leathery seats and all.

i headed straight for one of the three round seats more often found in the corner of a contemporary living room, and wondered who decided these spatially inefficient seats would be allowed in a public bus, usually pragmatically designed for maximum seating and standing capacity.

and then i was looking at the tv screen which replaced tv mobile (yeah!), which said i could switch on the blue-tooth on my hp to download the song playing in the bus. how cool is that! i risked looking stupid and flipped out my hp, and successfully downloaded a 20-sec clip for free.

by the time i had my fun, i had missed my stop. not that i minded. i think we can do with more nuggets of surprise and fun.

kudos to nokia for their marketing campaign. their outdoor movie thing, and the free concerts at esplanade too. if only their hps packed as much punch as the sony ericsson ones. oh, but the nokia prism. mmhmmm.