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Angry Birds Rubber Toys

So, I actually bought the Angry Birds “rubber duckie” type of toy for my son over the weekend. It comes in this box of 6 characters from the game. Price is PHP999.75 at Clipper, Waltermart Makati City. Not cheap for a rubber toy, but mind you, the eyes of the birds (and a pig) pop out every time you will squeeze them – cute!

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Clipper should pay me for advertising their product :D

The Day My Smart Mobile Phone Went Semi-Dead

Been using my Smart-locked Sony Ericsson W760i for almost a month now. It was preactivated with MMS and Mobile Internet. I was able to take picture shots with it, then post it directly to the web (via BlogSpot and Twitpic).

Then suddenly, when I was about to post a picture of Robyn during luncht time today, I got this odd error:

Connection failure. Check settings. If problem persists, please contact your operator for support.

Thinking that my GRPS/3G/MMS settings was the problem, I made an OTA request. Got the new settings saved, and the same problem is encountered. So I tried to dial the Smart Customer Service Hotline *888. An odder voice prompt error was encountered:

The subscriber you are calling can be reached through text messaging. Thank you!

Using the landline, I was able to contact the Customer Service of Smart. Their advise: for me to wait for up to 48 hours to check if I still encounter error. This is what I hate about Smart (Bro, Buddy, etc) — waiting game.

Stupid Policemen

Later this afternoon, Rose and I decided to take Robyn for a stroll twowards the EDSA end of Evangelista St., some ten blocks away from our place. Our first stop was Mercury Drug to claim my replacement Suki Card (was demagnetized weeks ago). Since Robyn was in his stroller, I was obliged to take the accessibility ramp, which is at the far corner of the street. Approaching the ramp, came a brand new Isuzu DMax marked with PNP (no unit nor district indicated) on the sides. Had no choice, but to give way — that’s weird; at the airport, pedestrians are always the highest priority (next to aircrafts). Now, the PNP patrol car is blocking the accessibility ramp — damn cops! Three men — not in their uniforms — disembarked the DMax, and I told the driver (in Filipino, politely), “Bossing, hinarangan naman po ninyo yung accessibility ramp.” The guy from the passenger side replied, “Hindi, sandali lang kami.” But I stared on the driver, and he must had thought that I was right, and went back to the patrol car and moved the vehicle so as not to block the ramp.

Come to think about it, being cops, they should be the one’s who should know where to park properly. Business establishments spend extra effort and extra peso just to build these accessibility ramps, yet these men in uniform (not in uniform in this case) disregard disrespected the mere fact that the ramp was built for accessibility of disabled, old, and simple tax payers.

Stupid policemen. Should had brought my digicam with me.