thoughts for today

argggghhhhh! today is another frustrating day.....so be prepared to listen to me vent my steam.

as a follow-up to my post on the stupid services of astro, i received their monthly bill today. i am sure you will not be in the least surprised to hear that they have charged me for the non-existent box office movie that i purportedly tried to subscribe last month.

i called to complain and had to endure their "you have 7 phone calls ahead of you" - which i had promised myself the last time that i will never put myself through again. when it was finally my turn, i gave them all the relevant information.......and they passed me to another department, where i had to repeat everything i said. this young chap picked up, by which time i was steaming, and i gave him all my details - with my temper hanging on by a thin thread. when he claimed that i did activate the box office subscription, i exploded and gave him a piece of my mind, my voice rising slightly with each word of the whole story that i had to repeat. in the end, i think i frightened him into reversing the charge.

we shall see in next month's bill.

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i don't know how i manage to do it. yesterday, i ended up waiting for 3 people to get back to my messages...well, 4 to be exact. and....nada. zilch. total silence.

i sent out text messages to 2 people........and they never came back with any reply. don't you just hate to be on the waiting end? it kind of keeps your life on limbo. i started to wonder whether maxis' system was working efficiently or for some unknown reason, my friends are avoiding me. since i manage to receive messages from other people.....could it be the latter reason?

i called one of them today....and he gave me some excuse about the message not getting in. is maxis boycotting me? i think not. anyway, we talked and managed to come to an agreement about our plans - faster than any number of sms would.

people seem to think that texting is the most convenient invention for the handphone. i think it is a burden of mankind. it keeps you guessing about the reaction of the other party and also restricts what you have to say to a limited number of words. having said that, i am also guilty of over-relying on it.

i was supposed to call the 3rd person but i texted him instead, saying that i will call him at a later date. he called the very next day but it was not a good time for me to chat. so, he told me that he will call me again.....that was 3 days ago.

another friend promised he will call me....but after waiting for several months, i decided to call him instead. he told me that he has lost his handphone some time ago and my number with it.....hmmmm......i seem to be on the receiving end of a lot of excuses.........is it me..or is it them?

time to do some soul-searching..........