Terribly frustrated with my new compaq presario

Yes you bet I am! I was terribly upset the other day. A few days ago, they changed the battery of my notebook since although it shows a fully charged battery, once I remove the plug it has no power.

Well I noticed the new battery does not charge so they told me to bring it in the afternoon of friday. I went to Electroworld and guess what, the sales person attending to me was not there. Apparently he had to leave in haste due to another upset customer who demanded a unit replacement.

I think that was unfair since I was nice on the phone and he committed to wait and just becasue someone else got angry he will leave? When I learned that, they heard me utter some expletives and hurriedly left to go straight to the Compaq service center at the Robison's Summit bldg in Ayala.

I earlier talked to Nikka Singson of HP and mentioned my utter displeasure with my notebook. Since she will be in a meeting soon, she told me to look for Don Maililin who holds office at the 34th floor (not sure) but will go down when I arrive. When I went inside the service area, I asked for Don and it seems he was waiting so the security guard called a certain Johnny who led me to a room.

He took a look at my notebook. Tried upgrading the bios. He asked if I update the bios and I said I never knew I must update it! One updates the OS or anti virus system but never a notebooks bios! I said I will never leave my notebook for I need it always.

So many reasons after, he offered to get a service unit for me on monday. I called the sales head of electroworld so the two of them can talk. I demanded that they back up my data to be transferred to the service unit.

Today, saturday I brought my notebook to Electroworld so data can be moved to an external HD. Bryan, the person attending to me said he believes the compaq people should not have updated the bios program since that was not the solution to the battery problem

It took him three hours I guess to back it up. Am seriously mulling writing to the president and demanding a unit replacement.

If this does not happen, I guess I have to tell the people in the industry of this terrible experience with this brand.

Tire Lock in Lucena!

Tire Lock in Lucena!

Rowena and I had to go with Jude to the quezon rural bank since he had an apointment with a lawyer. Wanted to get back to manila early since we had a scheduled Web Conference at 6pm.

I was kinda fidgety when we had to wait while he talks to some people. Anyway, to cut the long story short, what a small world, the lawyer he was talking to turned out to be the father of lella, my kumare and barkada.

After their talk, Atty. Medenilla treated us for snack in their fine dining area. I was the one who said we had to go after the meal otherwise time is ticking and soon will be dark.

When we went down the bldg, good lord, Jude noticed his right tire was locked! Apparently we were in a No Parking area! To think I was in a great hurry to leave, now we got more delayed.

I think its a racket of the municpaility. There was no "NO Parking" sign at all. The line along the side street was white and you would think its a parking space just like in manila. We learned that white meant no parking!!!!!!! I still think its something dumb but I guess no one has really complained intently.

After about half an hour, jude's friend I think paid the fine and they removed the lock.

Had to take a photo since its the first time I saw a tire get locked due to parking violation.

Another trip to quezon

quezon with rowena

This is barrio concepcion, right at the boundary of Candelaria and Sariaya, Quezon. Trecked here since someone was interested in developing the area.

Good thing it didnt rain, otherwise it would be muddy and I just wore sandals. Forgot to bring my closed shoes in the condo. We stayed only a while and got some vegetables for the house and my rabbits :)

A very long.......movie?

verylongengage

I had been mulling to watch this movie ever since last weekend but never got the chance to. I never even knew the storyline then when I received a text from Carol last saturday saying she just watched this great french movie.

I never realized it was french! Hmm the more I got interested. Carol was one of my converts (after Bebeth) to the french language. After her stint at Cervantes, she immediately enrolled in my fave language school, Alliance Francaise.

I learned it was a war film and I usually hate war stuff but I did catch the last show after doing some grocery and a quick supper. Yes it was long (more than two hours) but I guess it had to be that way to show the depth of determination and perservarance the lead had to go through.

There were english subtitles but sometimes I try to freshen up my french by not looking at some of them :)

Btw, it won the best foreign language film. Worth a try.