That’s what is displayed on my screen after connecting to the Internet.
It’s been a week after our phone went dead. My parents and my in-laws have been badgering the service people at PLDT to go to our place and fix the problem. Thank heavens, at last they went to our house yesterday. That’s PLDT’s excellent customer service (bleh!).
We could make voice calls now.
Unfortunately there is a faint hissing sound while we’re using the phone. That might be a symptom to yet another problem with our phone line.
This manifested on my modem connection. Apparently the line isn’t ‘clear’ yet.
As to how many days this can be fixed, I don’t know.
All I know is that aside from the fact that it took PLDT a week before deciding to go to our house and fix our phone line, my father has been burning their own phone line following up on PLDT to install a DSL on their place.
Service comes as slow as molasses, yet the bill collection goes as fast as Schumi on his F1 race car.
Just today while taking my lunch I decided to watch a set of files sitting on my hard disk for a few weeks already — Gundam Seed. I chanced upon the files while cleaning up the server’s hard disk, apparently somebody placed it there to provide entertainment during breaktime.
I immediately fell for the great artwork and the story. Being a Transformers, Voltes V, Daimos, Laserion and Macross fan during my childhood days (Did I mention that I bought a 12″ die-cast, fully-poseable and variable Macross VF-1J while I was working in Japan a couple of years ago?), I found myself drawn again to robot anime (I’m not really a fan of Naruto and all those being shown on TV lately).
The files are in DivX format, so unfortunately I cannot just transfer it to a regular CD — I don’t have access to a DVD writer at work. I’d just have to wait for lunchbreak to watch it bit by bit.
It’s well worth the wait, anyway.