
“But I know it was right HERE!!’ bellowed Duncan unto the quivering form of Riley. “How can you possibly say you don’t know??!!” Duncan crossed the room and pulled the doors of the cupboard apart with such force that the doors tottered at the hinges. He pulled the insides and tossed them about, his jaws clenched. “You have no idea how important those are! You are so dead Riley.” Riley moved about anxiously, lifting books and pillows to see if he was lucky enough to spot it. The raw anger in Duncan’s voice, and his dour form made him shiver. He then slipped out of the room, only to be met by Pat, whose face was flushed red. She was standing with her lean frame rested on the door and bursted out laughing, seeing the expression in Riley’s face.
“What….god…” she couldn’t even speak, bouts of uncontrollable laughter seemed to choke her. Riley, at first amused, got rather annoyed and yelled “What the heck looks so funny, huh? Girls!!!” Pat, whose laughter seemed to be sparked off even more by Riley’s sudden burst, came forward to hold his arm. Riley pulled it away, like she was some untouchable. “You’re crazy!” “Hey, hey cool it Riley boy! Dunc’s pen-drive is with me.” Riley gaped at her for a second, then smiled as realisation struck him. “So it’s you folks eh? Hiding away Duncan’s stuff! His mobile phone? “With Kev” “Camcorder?” “David” “Wallet?” “Maggie.” Riley smiled wider, but sobered up a little and said “But I do feel sorry for that dude. He’s all worked up.” “Let him, let him. That’s the whole idea.” Saying this she whispered something to him and the two of them scampered off to the streets.

The clock was about to strike 12, and the world was enrobed in peace, if only temporarily. Duncan was moving about the room, tearing his hair apart. He was convinced that he was robbed, perhaps a burglar found his way into the room when he was away at the store. But how come he was the only one to be robbed? Thus he debated whether he should lodge a complaint with the police or if he should look for clues as Sherlock Holmes would, when the door was knocked. “Tap Tap Tap” Duncan hesitated. Was it the burglar? Was he back for something else? “Tap Tap Tap” He seized a cricket bat, and opened the door, ready to strike.
The door creaked and complained loudly, and opened to total darkness. A black form moved in a flash and threw itself onto him. Duncan fell back, startled. “Happy Birthday Duncan!” Several forms moved into view and thrusted boxes into his hands. The black form revealed itself to be Pat, who was in the prettiest dress he had ever seen. It took several minutes for him to realise what was happening. He was dragged into the room and a huge pie was smashed across his face. “Hey!!” Duncan yelped and resisted at first, but gave in in the end. He then remembered that it was the 19th of April, his 26th birthday! David, Riley, Pat, Kevin and Maggie stood around him beaming. “Happy 86th birthday, dude.” said David and Duncan evinced his best smile possible. He was on top of the world, he felt his life was indeed worth all the trouble, what with such great friends he had made.

He unwrapped the boxes to find his old camcorder, mobile phone and pen-drive replaced with sparkling new ones. “So it’s you guys!!” he exclaimed and Pat came forward to kiss him, “We’re sorry Duncan.” With lots of drinks and cakes in store, the five of them partied till 3 in the morning. Pat stayed back, and Duncan and herself sat at his balcony, chatting about everything under the sun. Duncan was exploring his gifts, of which the LG KB770 mobile phone was his favourite. “This is my selection” said Pat. “Mmm” said Duncan, surveying it. “Is it better than my previous one?” “Ofcourse! It’s the perfect mobile phone for you. I knew you’ll love the glossy, sleek build. It has a digital TV tuner, you know.”
“What? Really?” “Yes” went on Pat. “It can pick up free-to-air digital TV broadcasts. The camera is a 3.2 megapixel one, it supports HSDPA, GPRS and stereo Bluetooth.” “I see it has a microSD card slot.” remarked Duncan. “And USB connectivity too.” Pat nodded and said “It’s just 13.2mm thick.” “Wow, nice touchscreen, what, is it about 3 inches?”

“Exactly. The images look nice, right? The screen has a 400 x 240 pixel resolution and 262,000 colours. It’s a mini TV, you know. Features a DBV-H TV receiver and TV out functionality, so -” “So I can view everything in the mobile phone in a TV screen” interjected Duncan. “There is 3G” went on Pat, a little peeved with Duncan’s interjection. “What is the memory capacity?” “It’s a good 100MB – I know you’ll love me for this – it can be expanded to a whopping 8GB!” Duncan beamed, even in the dim light of the balcony, Pat could make out Duncan’s admiration building up for her gift. “You see the other secondary camera up front?” “Video calling.” stated Duncan.

He took a snap of her with the camera and saw that there was no flash, though the auto-focus and video recording features impressed him. “It has a document viewer!” said Duncan who was starting to like the KB770 very much. “Yes.” said Pat, proud of her choice. “Organiser is there too. So you can store your business stuff. There’s an email client, web browser and the usual SMS and MMS facilities. “Is it a GSM device?” “Tri-band with WCDMA 2100.” came the reply. “The talk time, Duncan is upto 4 hours and the standby time is about 300 hours.” “Let me guess, the weight…..um..is 100 grams or so?” “Wow Duncan, it’s 109 g!” replied Pat admiring Duncan for the umpteenth time.
The moon peeped from behind the clouds, he was jealous, for he did not have a woman as beautiful as Pat next to him. “It’s great Pat.” said Duncan. “I absolutely love it. Thank you.” saying this, he kissed her, and the moon hid behind the clouds, absolutely embarrassed.
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