I purchased the Nokia 6120 Classic cell phone, with 3G computer access, so I could go on line, as I explained in last month’s blurb. Thirty days of wild surfing on the World Wide Web and E-mailing people I’ve not heard from in a few years and some I don’t want to hear from. As with all things local, it came to an abrupt halt.

The phone locked up, I mean no buttons worked, and would not even shut off. Using my cagy brain I pulled out the battery and popped it back in, now it won’t turn on. Okay I’ll take it to Globe in the morning. In the mean time I’ll put the Sim card in my old phone and except for the computer use, I can at least call and text.

The first of many mistakes! Since I am on a monthly plan with Globe you can’t move the Sim card, for if you do, the new phone shuts down, I don’t know how, but then all things electronic perplex me. Such as setting the time on the Microwave oven, programming my DVD, hell, even the remote on my Sony TV is trouble, as with programming channels on Dream TV. I don’t even want to broach the subject of my car stereo! Thank your stars that I understand the spell check in Word or you would have to translate every thing I write.

Off to Globe I go, carrying my two cell phones and a sad story, hoping that they can solve my problems. My old phone they activated with a minimum of fuss, the other phone has to be sent to where? You guessed it, “Mega Manila,” I should have known that from the git go.

For outside of “The Mega Manila” nothing can be repaired, found and or accomplished. Maybe that’s why their twenty six senators, are all from Manila and won’t leave? I might sell my house in Bataan and move there, except for the flooding and open manhole covers.

So until the 1st week in July I’m off line and have to go to town to the Internet Café beside OG’s. The drinks are good there, (at OG’s) and now I have an excuse to go, not that I ever really needed an excuse for a cocktail.

June 12th there was an Air Supply Concert on SBMA, I can’t speak to the quality of the music, but if you like “Nokia Cell Phone Ring Tones”, it was the place to be, and it is all you heard, similar to a movie theater.

When I was younger we used to hold up a lighter to the band, now it’s a Nokia! And they flash! Factoid: the number one camera maker in the world is Nokia, and I was thinking it was Kodak.

So I’ll stop grousing now, and try to remember that it was I who had chosen to live here!