Approx. two months ago my mum called me from a shop and told me she she was standing there trying on her dream jacket. 299€ for a jacket from MAKIA. She asked me should she buy it and I said no, it’s not worth the price. Around one week later she called me again, from the same shop, and said now she’s buying it anyway (thanks for the info). I didn’t think any jacket could be worth the 299€, but now when I’ve seen it (and tried it on!) I totally get the point – now I want one as well. The thing my mum was less excited about was that I happened to want same color as she has, and then we would obviously have to check what the other is wearing every time we see each other – it would be so uncool to turn up in the same jackets.

This was before I tried on the yellow version. I have now really found my dream jacket and the price is killing me! Buttons are falling off these jackets (maybe it was just one bad batch and bad luck, but the point is that if you think that 300€ will give you perfect quality you might be wrong) and some of the zippers felt so annoying that they might not survive in my use. Still I’m so attached to that damn jacket that I might even consider paying the full price and hope it will last for the next 5 years, so I wouldn’t have to regret I spent a fortune on a jacket…

PS. Dropin is having a d-days sale… so if you’re in Helsinki and if you want that jacket as much as I do, try your luck in the Kauppakeskus Forum shop, you might find your size and color with a 20% discount tag. Hurry up before 27.11., but I have a feeling they might be sold out before that…

Image from MAKIA website

The other side of my heart belongs to the Nokia Lumia 800 that I got on a two month trial today. I can’t stop looking at it, it’s so beautiful. In London I absolutely did get pissed off when I realized it wouldn’t – at least yet – come with an N8 quality camera (and sort of that it didn’t come with the NFC either, but I personally do not feel I must get NFC, so it’s the camera that mainly bothers me). But when I look at the tiles and compare them with the Symbian platform layout and the icons and how outdated those actually look compared to this… come on, the camera can’t be that bad, maybe I can survive with it although it’s not an N8! I just can’t let go off the tiles anymore, they’re here to stay.