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Rant: A Week of Misery

Submitted by moodz on Sunday, 5 November 20069 Comments

I decided to take out some 18 days of annual leave right after the Eid Holiday, as I haven’t been off since the beginning of the year, thinking it would be some time to chill out, relax and zoom out of the never ending worries of the Bank.

Little did I know, this will be a leave to remember..

1. Excavating work right outside the house: As another answer to the ever so famous question I dare to ask every once in a while, what does the government do with the income from Oil. The answer decided to show up right in front of our house. Thankfully, they are finally installing a state-of-art, technologically advanced sewage network right here in Riffa! Just around 150 years after the successfully construction of a 21,000 Km sewage network under London. (Source)

The good side is, I will no longer have to take those trips to the local municipality asking them with a fake smile to send someone over to clean our in house sewer storage. The bad side? We have a 20 feet deep bunker that runs across the entire neighborhood. Park your car outside, don’t expect to have it anytime before two weeks. Oh and live with the scratches and dents.

2. Mobile Phone Broke Down: I still can’t recall why on earth did I buy that Imate K-Jam PDA. Other than it being a sexy catchy gadget, it broke down on me twice. The first time it was thankfully covered by the warranty (Motherboard was entirely changed), but now.. all of a sudden it decided to die on me. Gone, bah, nothing. It refuses to run.

I run along to buy a new phone, the Sony Ericsson M600 caught my attention a while ago, and it fills up all my needs. 3G, QWERTY keyboard, touch screen. And it comes without a camera, not once have I used the camera on the KJam, not much of a picture taker I tell you.

Anyway, I buy the phone. Come home, start playing with it and getting used to the keyboard and menu when it stuck me. The phone does not support Arabic. UGH! I need Arabic support for work! The solution? A $50 software called Psiloc Crystal Arabic is what I require. I couldn’t find it cracked. Guess the day that I actually buy software have finally came.. ugh the disgrace.

3. IPod Broke Down: Right up at its 1 Month Anniversary it refused to work for no obvious reason, my brother asked me if he could take it over to school. I refused, he still did. And he broke it. Now I have to live with the misery. A 4GB IPod Nano is laying lifeless before my keyboard as I type.

4. Leave Cancelled: My collegues father just passed away, I am supposed to report to work tomorrow morning to cover his absence.

Ahh, some leave..

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- 6 November 2006 at 2:40 am

BuZain said:

As they say, it never rains but it pours.

I stupidly bought a k-Jam sometime ago and I’m on my toes since then waiting for it to brake down at any time.

- 6 November 2006 at 9:49 am

moodz said:

BuZain:
The KJam wasn’t all that bad, I am a heavy mobile user. If there’s one thing I loved about was its long lasting battery (if you skip the fact that it’s memory got wiped out twice for running out of charge while outside) it still managed to work “fine” till the last.. month, when it’s speakers started to sound funny, I was losing calls (it rings on the other ends but I don’t get a call notification on the handset), until it eventually just died on its own.

I could be of some help if you need anything, that thing gave me some serious hard time I tell you! Let me know how things go!

- 7 November 2006 at 11:53 pm

BuZain said:

Thanks for the offer. Honestly speaking, I haven’t seen any quirkies from it yet except 2 very annoying things which are bearable to an extent.

First issue, it doesn’t receive calls all the time and the calling party gets a “can’t be accessed” notification. This i overcame by enabling the free “missed calls SMS notification” service from Batelco.

Second issue, when I receive a call and try to get the k-jam out of its case, the screen display rotates to landscape for no obvious reason and the mobile becomes unresponsive for a couple of seconds with the ringing sound cutting then the display gets back to portrait and I can answer the call. It is annoying because I loose calls by the time this rotation thing finishes and because it looks plain silly and out of control. Apart of the two issues above, I rarely have problems that can’t be fixed with a soft reset; touch wood

- 8 November 2006 at 12:38 am

Requin Bleu said:

I had the KJam too – was pants!

M600i replacement is having Arabic support.

- 15 November 2006 at 7:58 pm

$!ckbh0y said:

I’ve had a few bad weeks myself – but things are starting to sort themselves out.

)

- 15 November 2006 at 8:02 pm

Abdo said:

Hey, just dropped by to say hi,

I just got the M600i, pretty cool phone if u ask me, probably saying that becasue i bought it but anyway, I came accross this page, a blog where there are instructions for how to make Arabic support for the phone, and for free

http://www.2by4.org/content/2006/09/15/getting-arabic-in-you-p990i-and-m600/

cheers and have a nice time at work

- 5 January 2007 at 1:57 pm

shist said: