Sometimes, browsing the internet while in transit or mobile is already necessary. Thanks to our telecommunications company, there are widely available choices for mobile internet needs.
PLDT introduced its WeRoam several years back and remains to have high rates (1500, 1000, and 799 a month). Globe happened to have its Globe Visibility few years later for a high-priced PhP 2,000 a month. Smart Bro, then, had its “Just plug it, its internet!” for only Php 799 a month. Just lately, Smart Broadband introduced its newest baby tagging it, “Smart Bro, may prepaid na!” - the prepaid version of Smart Bro anywhere but for a one-time payment of PhP 4,500. Unfortunately, whether prepaid or postpaid, it remains to be an expensive choice, whether you’ll buy a kit or pay monthly subscriptions.
Students simply don’t need expensive internet from these companies. The best way to surf the internet is to use your 802.11 /wifi enabled gadget and hook in a free wifi in your school or elsewhere or use your mobile phone’s internet (EDGE, GPRS, 3G, HSDPA). When using your phone, all you need to do is use your phone as a modem through your phone’s software (PC Suite for Nokia). Good news is that it now even works without a data cable (using Bluetooth).
Below is a comparison between Smart and Globe’s mobile internet.
Globe
Smart
Tula ng Pag-ibig
ni Francis Vincent Co
Kapag ako’y umibig,
Galak aking naririnig,
Bumibilis ang pintig,
Gabi’y di na malamig.
(Nabaon na sa Draft Messages ko. Dated March 28, 2008 8:17pm. Lugar: nasa may Forbes Park, Makati)
Alcohol
ni Francis Vincent
Sino ba ang tunay na boss,
Germs sa kamay na mapulbos?
Ang sagot ay nasa Green cross,
Bacteria, tiyak mauubos!
(Habang nasa opisina at nakatitig sa aking alkohol)
What is brain-picking? Mirriam-Webster defines the word as an act of gathering information from another’s mind. Answers.com defines it as an act of exploring another’s ideas through questioning. Based on Random House Unabridged Dictionary, it is the act of obtaining information or ideas by questioning another person. A brainpicker is the person who brain-picks.
In industries, brain picking attempts to elicit “information, advice and guidance from the consultant for free” - without consultation fee. Is it illegal? Of course not, it is the best way of getting information, even private information. To brain pick is not easy but challenging. The art of creating questions, particularly “leading questions”, can facilitate getting a more accurate answer.
TSAKni Francis Vincent Co
Tuwing ika’y lumalapit,
Swatter aking binubuksan.
At sa’yong biglang pagdikit,
Katawa’y nagpuputukan.
(TSAK - ito ang tunog ng isang electric swatter kapag may dumidikit na lamok)
Magic Sing
ni Francis Vincent Co
Sa kwarto’y nagpasukan,
Mikropono’y hinawakan,
Simulan n’ang kasiyahan.
Magic Sing, nagpasiklaban!
FTW! haha
“We are victims of NOT LOVE but THESIS!” (Glich, 2008) Where is the paper Boboy is looking for a while ago? Boboyco: “Nasan na ang papel?” =D I guess here lies the answer to the mysterious missing paper…
“I thought that my phone was just ok, but it was not.”
Sometime in June or July 2007, I was looking for a new phone since my Nokia 3230 will be two years old by August that year. My two year contract with Smart is about expire again since I got the line in 2003. So, it is supposed to be my third phone from the plan.
I did not get the phone in August. Why? Money matters. So, I had to have my hallucinating Nokia 3230 operated again, for the nth time. That unit was not that though since it had undergone several servicing and fixing, during warranty period and imagine, one day after warranty expired!
Going back, I requested the phone from Smart Wireless Center in Festival Supermall, Filinvest Corporate City sometime in October. They told me that I can get it, hopefully, within two to three weeks. So, good bye. My birthday passed but none came. Smart texted me and told me if I was interested in other phones, I told them, not at all.
More weeks passed. Christmas came but no one texted nor called. And after New Year, at least, they finally informed me that I can pick up the much delayed Nokia E61i.
Why am I again writing this? Not about Smart nor because of my old cellphone, but because of my increasing utility on Nokia E61i. Utility, I mean, as relative satisfaction from or desirability of consumption of goods.
Some of the milestones of my phone:
All these running at my 200 MB MicroSD which was initially included.
What else can I ask? In few months time, I will be buying a MicroSD with higher storage capacity, probably 2 GB or more (if still compatible).
All along, I thought that I made a mediocre decision in choosing the phone. All along, I thought that there were other better phones. But, all along, it was all within that boxed phone! A tremendous power which I discovered not so long ago.
This phone is absolutely an avant-garde!
My rating 10 out of 10!
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I used GSMArena’s comparative feature to evaluate which phone suites me. Check out E61i’s full specification and review.
Rockwell Center, Makati. I consider this as one of my “homes”. When I say home, it does not necessarily mean a house but more of where I stayed for quite some time - particularly during high school. During my four years of stay at Makati Science High School, I have been seeing a wonderful angle of the towers at Rockwell especially during Christmas Season. With some of my friends, I lie down on our cemented quadrangle and enjoy magnificent view with Rizal Tower spotlighted.
It’s now more than three years since I last lie on our school quadrangle at night, and now, the future generations of Makati scholars will no longer experience those magnificent and sometimes romantic vista. It all takes 200+ million pesos from Rockwell for the youthful 10 year old four-storey building and the adjacent Poblacion Market to be part of the emerging cosmopolitan.
In scientific terms, a black hole can suck up objects near it. And thus, the sucking of Rockwell began!
As the city government of Makati started the construction of the alleged 10-storey building which will tower along Kalayaan Avenue, within three years or so, I will be missing the view totally. Soon, it will be gone for good. But good news for Makati Science peeps, you’ll be just a stone’s throw from the yet larger and more promising Bonifacio Global City (although Taguig but once part of Makati). And my last comment - ten storeys? The city government is really making a statement.
The picture above is from the web, for obvious reasons. On the foot of the circular Rizal Tower, on the right side is Makati Science. FTW! :D haha.
photo from lainegallery
