Dear blog,
It has been a while, I know. But do know that I still want to pen my thoughts on you. The smooth and seamless way my thought seem to flow to my fingers as they glide across the keyboard to type out some coherent prose gives me so much pleasure...almost as much as curling down on a couch with a good book amidst the hazy, perhaps rainy melancholic day. With a cup of nice Kava tea, too, yes! I don't know why, but the sound of the rain patters is comforting to me.
In the absence of all of the above (notwithstanding the torrents of downpour and the floods in certain states), I am left with no choice but to be left without you for the past few weeks. Being Internet-less has become a norm for me, and I've weaned my dependence on Internet. Nevertheless, this has come at a price for me. I'm being cut-off from some of my friends and family to whom I would usually correspond and engage via Internet. Also, my blogging and blog-surf has taken a backseat not because of my schedule but my deprivation of Internet. Sure, I can always go to a cyber cafe and do my stuff (which I did) but it just isn't the same as settling down on your own pc and do your thing.
On another note, my many many phonecalls and complaints to TM and TMnet has been tiring and despairing to say the least. I can recite their replies (yes, they all answer and end in the same way and they ALL have the same methodology of questioning ) and the only difference between the many that I have had the bloody privelege to communicate with only differ in their competence in the subject-matter and gender. I've tried citing the same problem to different operators ( I call in intervals ) and funnily enough I get different answers all the time. It's like I'm asking from where the sun rises...and their respond would range from East to my arse to what is a sun? ( I no understand what you saying... ) Yea, it's that appalling. Yet, I've also had my chance of talking to some who were helpful and were competent (or so they sound). All that being said, they all still 'layan-ed' me...Most of the time I was courteous but sometimes I just blow my top like when I was promised my Streamyx last Thursday only to have it delayed.
I can go on ranting but it will not do much. Hopefully I'll get the problem resolved soon. Funnily though, I've already given up hope. I'm just content to hanging out in friends' place to "borrow" their Internet or just head to nearest cyber cafe.
I hope to be able to visit you again soon, I hope. Till then, I'm going to fight my losing battle with the monolith Corporation again.
inaesb
