Hmm........

cronology:
1. This is one thing i fell in love with when i saw it for the first time about 3 years ago. I was amazed by the idea of small harddisk that has mp3 codec - a replacement for ur CD-walkman (who uses them these days anyways?). I had to have it.
2. A year later i saw the 2G iPod ones in apple store - with a heavy price tag of 27K for 40Gigs.
3. Then everyone arround me seems to be buying one. Its no big deal anymore... iPod goes mainstream.
4. But when i had to buy one i didnt even consider alternatives like Creative Zen - It had to be iPod.

Well im definitely not regretting it. It has made office-home commute more bareable - shuts me off from the noisy traffic.
As some wiseman said "make sure your day is good till 10am - the rest of your day will turn out to be good" (well, something like that). Thats what iPod is doing for me. A great way to start your day on bike - all you get to hear is music (well if you like deathmetal that is) no vrooom, vroooom no keeeeck, keeeck. Not just that you wont hear the old man in battered rickshaw/supra cussing you when you overtake him. You smile back at people who scream at you and you forgive drivers who just tried to kill - you have better things to do than get into a fight. Sounds like perfect solution for roadrage isnt it? except - my mum thinks the load music on my walkman will get me into trouble