Archive for June, 2006

  • 29 Jun

    Posted by
    Joni


    Category

    Big Fat Bummer

    8

    This is the third day that my Internet connection at home is busted. Smart Bro is really starting to tick me off! Yesterday, I was calling their tech support for assistance but because the line keeps disconnecting, I have to keep calling them back until I’ve talked to almost 10 representatives! I’ve even memorized their spiels and S.O.P.s already. For crying out loud! By 10:30PM, I almost gave up trying to call and got tired of having to give out my name, reference number and explaining the nature of my call, but I so want to have the Internet reconnected asap. So I called again, and finally I was able to stay on the line longer than 5 minutes. The guy led me through their standard troubleshooting process for over 20 minutes. I did everything he asked me to do, but in the end, it was unsuccessful. :(

    I kinda sensed that the tech support representative had ran out of reasons why my LAN still has “Limited or No Connectivity”, so finally he tells me that “Ma’am, since this is the first that this has happened to you, I would suggest that you monitor the problem for another 24 hours and see what happens” — which just drove me up the wall even more. So does it have to take the problem more than once to occur so they’ll finally send somebody out to fix the problem for me?

    Anyway, I guess I have to exercise patience huh? …..even so! Waah.

  • 21 Jun

    Posted by
    Joni


    Category

    An Unexpected Visitor

    9

    Look at what my sneaky brother decided to suprise me with this afternoon! When I arrived home, I nonchalantly marched into my room and placed my stuff on my bed.eeew When I turned around I was startled by this creepy thing sprawled against my bedroom wall! I realized it was a fake lizard after a few seconds, but, who knew how else these little reptiles appear! I yelled called out my brother’s name a few times just to make sure. He didn’t hear me since he was asleep at the next bedroom. So I stormed out of the door as quick as I could and screamed outside my brother’s room. I got my revenge when he immediately got up from his bed since he thought from the sound of my voice that there was some kind of trouble. Then I hysterically asked him about that thing that’s just above my door. And he laughed at me. He actually laughed at me! So I told him to get his butt out of bed and get that bogus thing down from there. It’s so weird, I couldn’t even touch it even though I knew it’s not real. But after a while, when its fraudulence completely dawned on me, it didn’t bother me anymore. I always feared lizards (alongside frogs, roaches, rats, etc), so I had to give my brother a piece of my mind! But I did laugh with him right after. Hehe. Remind me not to kill him though. :D

  • 19 Jun

    Posted by
    Joni


    Category

    Sentimental Fool

    2

    Today, I went to visit our old apartment to check out some things. It’s been a 3 weeks since I left the place that I’ve gotten accustomed to for 11 long months. And I can’t quite put a finger at the feeling I had while I was walking along the familiar streets of the neighborhood and the safe apartment building I’ve grown to love.

    For someone who’s an introvert, I am often easily saddened and taken aback by the happenings/changes in my life. It’s just like the first week in college when I was crying every night because I couldn’t let go of my “high school” and I had a hard time dealing with the fact that I wasn’t gonna spend that much time with my batchmates anymore. And it’s like the time after college when I left home to find work in Manila and I spent all those nights alone in my cousin’s house crying because I kept missing everyone back home. And not only those lifestages, but some other significant things that took place. Yes, I could be such a crybaby. Ironic when I always wanna have something new in my life and yet I always have a hard time coping up with the changes that come with it.

    However, I know of a remedy known to most as the most effective one: time.

    Because after some time, I get over my issues and finally move on. It’s not always easy but it happens. And it’s not always easy looking back that road again because it reminds me a lot of how I used to feel, but after much more time I realize that I’m more callused that I think I am.

    Above all, it’s always comforting to know that I have a God who never changes even if I and the things I hold dear constantly do. After everything that has happened in my life, after I’ve stubbornly refused to let go of things I’ve gotten used to, and after all the good and poor decisions I’ve made, He remains faithful.

    I confess that at times I unconsciously shut Him out of my life. But like the stubborn God that He also is, He just keeps pushing Himself in. So I can be a worldclass coward-childish-crybaby as much as I want but in the end what matters the most is how I’m being comforted and assured by His presence. And He’s something no amount of confusion can change.

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