Rediscovering stupidity

Coinciding with typhoon last Wednesday, I felt the shaking of my nerves looking forward for the electricity to come back. The main reason of course is to log on and check the status of everything that I need to check. The situation is not helping but good thing about it is, my alive cellphone battery - making me exercise my radio station-hopping abilities.

I suddenly got bored, thought of registering to the unlimited texting service of Globe so I could text non-sense things to everyone with the same network. Yay! One group message coming right up... "message sending failed" ...no enough prepaid credits left in the account. Argh! Stupidity #1.

Power was brought back around midnight. With much excitement, I grabbed the internet USB plug-it. The connection is really damn slow, a little bit disappointing, I tried to surf and found myself looking at the SMARTbro website page with a link to update the plug-it. I downloaded and run the program... but failed. Hmm, what went wrong? I opened the attached word file and became shocked with the instruction saying: "Warning: never close the tool when download procedure is running, such operations maybe seriously damage the card permanently!" Damn! Stupidity #2.

The plug-it is not working anymore, I mean, the auto-run is not auto-running (I know, redundancy..fine!) so I tried to launch the program update again but it was not responding anymore. Good thing, SMART has online customer care via twitter. And they were very patient in sending DMs to me to address my situation. In the end, I figured out that I must remove the USIM card before running the update. Lesson learned: read instructions carefully. Whew! Stupidity #3.

Special thanks to the SMART customer care representative who managed to tweet me for a couple of hours trying to figure out my problem and for the constant follow-up they are doing to make sure my concern is properly addressed. Happy ending: I run the update program again, this time USIM was removed and I patiently waited for the program to finish its business. My USB broadband plug-it is now up and running..again!

For a blog post

In front of my monitor, and a long day for optimizing my blog. I recently added some newsreels in sidebar and a running news headlines in footer. More updates to come as I figure out what else to include. Well, I need to post something right now because blog posts are rather more important and I don't want it to be left behind. What shall I post? Hmmmm... argh empty screen here:

One of the important tools I need, a broadband USB plug-it .. I just registered unlimited browsing here to monitor my online status... Oh a sneak peak of Pacquiao and me.. xD

Connection Disaster...

Oh well, my plans were ruined yesterday... or shall I say yesternight but this is actually not a big disaster..

The story is, I have this Broadband USB plug-it (very much popular nowadays) and I am a prepaid subscriber for Internet. This is helpful for people like us who are having a tight budget and do not want the stress and pressure of 'monthly bills.' Anyway, so yesterday I am so very excited to update my blog but I was still on the way home so I will not be able to log on and my account balance is not enough to register for an unlimited browsing. The moment I arrive to the terminal just a few kilometers away from home I am so happy to buy electronic load credits worth 50 pesos, just enough to avail the unlimited service.

I forgot my broadband mobile number so I requested to have it credited on my mobile phone number instead. My brain said, "you can just transfer the load to your broadband account as soon as you got home.. not a bad idea, eh." That is so right, I can use the share-a-load service to transfer the credits from my phone to my broadband. Great!

Here comes the scenario. Excited!! I had a text for the load transfer service and much to my dismay, no confirmation came after. I checked my balance every now and then and they charged me a peso. I waited for a couple of minutes, still no confirmation... woooo. Okay, enough of waiting, I decided to prepare my sleeping-mat, arranged my pillows, lie down and sleep. This midnight, I was awakened by a phone vibration. A text message was there saying that the service was temporarily down, something to that effect. Well, what can I do.. such a disadvantage for prepaid subscribers like me.

Anyhow, that's it for now, just for a blog update XD