Friday, February 02, 2007

I woke up very early today than usual.

Since I was out of Damage Protection, I did something in Unification Wars to avoid huge planet loss. Unfortunately, no one has posted their reinforcements in the Outpost (OP) except Biovirus and Dodger. The latter posted over 500 Million PR while Biovirus has lower than 25% PR (of my total PR) in his OP. Anyway, as soon as I built my first ship, I got attacked and I had lost over 60k planets.

Then, Randy arrived home from work and as I was selling the blogs we normally trade in Blogshares Fantasy Stock Market everyday, my UPS blinked. A sign that we had a power interruption! I've waited for about two minutes hoping the power would come back, but, then, I decided to logout and close all my programs. Maybe I was too slow, it's hard to shut down PC knowing power outage does not take that long. I was still voice chatting with Randy when all of a sudden, my UPS shut down my PC, modem, and router. I then called Randy to let him know what happened.

Bored, I went out in the Balcony and looked down at the national road. I checked for possible reason what have caused the brownout. I even asked my student neighbor whether they also have power interruption. Convinced that the brownout is not only limited to our apartment unit, I called 16211 Meralco Hotline at 9:15 in the morning. Guess what they told me? There's a scheduled replacement of post in our area and power would be interrupted from 8:30 am until 2:30 pm! Shocked, I yelled at the guy who answered my call. I asked why they didn't announce it on TV while I do watch the news from morning until in the evenng. I then immrediately called Randy in San Diego to tell him I won't be able to login back until after they replace the post at past 3 in the afternoon.

Living in this building caused us inconvenience whenever there is power outage. No power, no water! How I will deal with my boredom if I cannot do anything? I couldn't do some cleaning without water nor sleep without fan or aircon. Anyway, I called the parlor which is just opposite the building and I had my hair treatment (without blower), foot spa, and pedicure. I even consider going to the gym and release my disappointment with the irresponsible Meralco employees for not informing the people in our area of the scheduled interruption. Randy and I had been exchanging SMS thru Yahoo!

At home, I called again Meralco at 2:45 pm. They said we're going to have the power back anytime starting from my last call. Randy decided to go to bed at 2:55 pm. As he shuts down his PC, our power has been restored. I jumped out of bed and called him. David answered it and called Randy. It's too late on his side and I told him to go ahead while my PC loads windows.

On the lighter side, both Randy and I missed each other so much. The time seemed quite long and boring. Due to their negligence to inform us in advanced, it cost me couple of overseas calls to get in touch with Randy.

Times like this, I hate the incompetence and lousy service of big companies in this country. Like PLDT, grrrr to Meralco!