3 Week Without Internet Access? That SOUNDS horrible:)

 So, the only solution for that is that...I bought TELKOMSEl's SpeedUP modem bundle package.

My friends told me that it was an outrageous move from my part for not telling them that I would want to use internet only for 3 week..and for that I got to spend around Rp 400,000 or around 40,000 Won. Well...since I cannot just sit around doing nothing...much less to my being an internet (hope not true) addict....I got no choices but to buy this TELKOMSEL modem.  The package itself is pretty eye-catching with full of downloadable content...to start with.

But..the biggest 'surprise' was this. It had a unique SIM card that usable only for Facebook. er, whaaaatttt? 

I didn't need this. To make up for it, a customer service agent who helped me decide what package I should choose....suggested me that I should buy instead a free 3-month package with only a slight additional cost to the price of modem I bought in the first place.

And...here I am now: floating away in the internet..with this SpeedUP modem.

what to use afterwards? I will leave this gadget at home in Kediri so as to enable my family back home to 'communicate' with me after we go back again to Korea.

Not that they do not have internet access, they do. It's just..that..this is way simpler than the one they're currently using.

What? I CANNOT use my Facebook UNLESS.....^^

During my stopover at Changi Airport, I felt the urge to keep myself updated or at least tell my wife how the trip was. It was such a relief to find so many available free internet PC almost everywhere within the airport. This is something that I need to salute the Changi management for doing so. ^^

BUt...But ..But...a very very funny thing occurred.. 

I was just about to open my Facebook account when FB kind of questioned or wondered or suspected or put a suspicion on me. I mean...I used to open my FB account in Korea and when I was about to open it via some computers in Changi...the fb account asked me this 'silly' yet 'rather-hard' quizzzzzzzz..... 

I got to be able to match and identify the pictures of my friends randomly selected by Facebook. I forgot how many..but I guess...I got to make 6 correct guesses out of 10 being bombarded onto the screen.

Some of the pictures that showed up: Of course, I know who she is: She's been one of my confidantes back then in Jogja..."Giartina" or Nana, how I affectionately call her.

Thanks, Nana..for showing up on the screen. 

Then....a good-to-be-true quiz...well..well..well..of course I know who she is, well, the funny part was that...the FB Account showed me with lots of faces on one picture so I got to make sure that the names listed below the pictures DO match or correspond to any FACE available.

That's the challenge.

Surely..I know...who she is... 

Min Seonhee...my neighbor and my teammate in HUFS. There is Eunbee, too. But, since Eunbee's name was not on the list, I assumed that it must be Seonhee that Facebook wanted me to acknowledge.

and I did. 

Then...mr. Fahmi Arif Tsani...my colleague back home at Gadjah Mada University. Of course I know who he is...after all he is also in Korea, studying. 

So, well done Facebook...for giving me such an interesting quiz just to make sure that it WAS 'I" who was about to open and use MY OWN account in Singapore from some nowhere computer at Changi Airport.

T-express Roller coaster in Everland, Korea

에버랜드에 가본 적이 있다고 하는 사람들이 많다. 그런데 나는 사람들이 T-익스프레스를 탔다고 하면 느낌이 좀 달라진다. ㅇ[버랜드에 갈 기회가 있어서 한국에서 제일 유명하다고하는 최고의 롤러코스터를 탔다. 그 것을 탄 후에는 롤러코스터라면 T-익스플스만 한 것이 없다는 사실을 인정한다.

I uploaded a picture of what T-Express is like. I do not own the video. 

The credit goes to the one making this video. 

Well, 솔직히... 에버랜드에 가지 전에 그 유명한 롤러코스터가 있다는 것을 몰랐다. 방문시간이 3시간밖에 없어 가지고 제일 무서운 놀이 기구를 꼭 타야 겠다는 생각이 들었다. 테마파크의 팸플릿을 보자마자 T-익스프레스를 선택했다(?)...골랐다(?) ^^....
가보니까 줄을 서 있는 사람들이 얼마나 많은지 모른다. 좀 망설였지만 그 것을 너무 타고 싶어서 줄을 서서 기다리기 시작했다. 생각보다.....한 시간이 넘었는데 아직도 입구근처에도 못 갔다. 몰론 포기할 생각이 들었지만 좋은 기회를 놓치지 않으려고 노력했다. 기다리면서 얘기도 하고 사진도 찍었다. (사실....FB와 KakaoTalk만 보고 있었다).^^
...드디어 탈 시간이 되었다. 앞선 사람들이 지르는 소리를 듣고 도망갈 생각이 다시 있었다. 그런데...우리 뒤에 서 있는 사람들이 많았기 때문에 어쩔 수 없이 타야 했다.
T-익스프레스가 어떤 것인지 미리 알았더라면 탈 생각도 없었을 것 같았다. 너무 무서워서 더 이상 생각하고  싶지 않았다. 그 최고의 롤러코스터를 타고 난 다음에 다른 걸 탈 필요가 없다고 했다. 세계에서 6번째로 제일 높은 롤러코스터를 타 보아서 기분이 좋았다. 그 것은 진짜 잊을래야 잊을 수가 없는 추억이 되었다.

Phombies (Phone Zombies) ^^*

I am having the vague feeling that something hasn't really happened until I post it to Facebook or my Blog.
Oh NO......I'm addicted.


* http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/30/opinion/greene-smart-phone-addiction/index.html