Etisalat

My internet connection got disconnected yesterday. It appears I forgot to pay the bill and I'm too lazy to go somewhere to go online at, much more go to Etisalat to settle my only-a-month overdue phone bill. That's what life's like up here. The whole telecommunication business is being monopolized by only one company (that's why it's called monopoly, silly). There's no other way to connect to the internet if not over Etisalat (still, monopoly. Am I making myself clear enough?). So unlike back home, where there are so many prepaid and postpaid ISPs that you can hardly choose what's right for you (you know, in terms of how fast the connection they're offering is, how many attempts you so have to make before you get connected, how many times you get dropped from their server, that kind of stuff). There's Blast, E-volve, ISP Bonanza, I-tipid, the list goes on. Okay, the bottom line here is I'm trying to make a point. The question is, am I getting there? Anyways, sorry for the inconvenience.

The night my internet connection got temporarily disconnected, my sister and I were doing blog stuff. She was editing her template. It really was her first time. That HTML crap Blogger uses (as if other blog servers don't use HTML) could be a real headache at times, and could leave your layout pretty banged up if you realized you're not in the zone for HTML codes right then. Add some links, share her profile, get her scrollbar to look a bit more teeny and pink (by the way, she's only 14, I think), well, that's what we were trying to do. And then this stupid computer went berserk and the copy-paste function just wouldn't work at all. It's funny how computers could carry on super complicated programs and sometimes forget how to process even the easiest instructions.

Todays, we had really yummy carroty mashed potatoes, Australian roast beef, butter-garlic toasts, and undressed vegetable salad. They dressed the salad with butter, I did gravy. Hahaha. My mom's the best chef in the world. We ate like we're gonna do a hunger strike or Arabic fasting the day after. It's so much fun to be not worrying about any diets.

I'm blogging with Word right now. And my computer's doing fine (this is so not normal). Please pray for me. So pray that the next time I post something, I would actually be on a terminal with internet access. I so hate this feeling.

Oh, and one more thing, I'm actually trying to write a book. It's kind of like an instruction manual, or a tip book. Check it out here.