after two weeks, suddenly nothing..
hay.. the last time i wrote i was bago pa ang aking textmate craze.. and in the two weeks that it has been, i have to admit, i exhibited un-chelle-y behavior. i never went anywhere without my phone. my eyes grow about 75% bigger whenever my monitor here at work gets distorted because of an incoming message, while glancing at my phone, half-expecting a "New messages from Dewberry" alert.. i once contemplated on buying an additional charger when i can't find my charger at home. i would have really bought one had the charger not showed itself the following morning. i actually bought a bluetooth dongle to save precious SMS on to my PC (though it had other uses, some i have always wanted to use.. but never got around to buying myself a bluetooth dongle). it seems like i never saw a real need, until now. or was it a whim, not really a need. but seemed like one.
for a long time, battery life of my phone lasted an average of 5 days due to lack of activity. then, i didn't pay attention when my phone beeps for an SMS, might be a stupid prank by the network to hog 2.50 of my prepaid load on a single go, name it, 286, STAR WARS, CHRISTIAN B, MILYON, etc. i practically didn't care if my phone sat at home all day while i was out in the mall. it's not like anybody important would be texting me.
but for two weeks, yeah, i was un-chelle-y as i could be. the phone was one thing. music was another. i actually downloaded a bunch of erik santos songs and listened to them over and over again, as well as Color Me Badd's Wildflower. who cares if i couldn't sing along? as long as i could imagine dewberry singing those songs, i was ok. and imagine i did! count carlos santana and rob thomas in too. but then again, sometimes, i sang along too.. :)
another thing, when replying to SMS, my mind automatically flips to scan mode to recall if i had sent that message to him before. if not, scroll down to read another. maximum message capacity reached? no problem, delete the latest one i had sent him. no sense in sending the same message more than once, me was thinking. even if he had done it a couple of times.
and i actually entertained the unthinkable notion ate logs offered me about the weird "can we be textmates?" number which registered to my phone over the weekend. the person said my number has been in his phonebook since february and he didn't know me as well. i said, he must have saved the wrong number. the person (carl's the name, btw) now says he knows i am from CPMP (now where did he get that?) and telling me someone might have borrowed my phone to text him. nice excuse pal, i asked him if he knew one of my co recitalists.. and he comes up with a list?? WTF.. i ask these people he claims that he knows if they knew him.. and no one replied in the affirmative. he even misspells dewberry's name. dewberry says he doesn't know the person. determined to find the identity of the person, i texted our recital director in the afternoon, asking her if she knew who that was.. and got zero reply. during that day, another one texted me, a girl this time, but got a generic "sorry i don't really text people i don't know" reply from me.
not that this was the first time. i fire off a lot of those, especially when those unknown numbers register. of course i ask them who they are, as those might be people i know. but if not, i don't bother. i don't need a textmate. before, the rationale was having textmates meant spending load on some unknown person who probably had loads of time or money to spare. count me out. my friends don't really text a lot, forward jokes or quotes a lot. i only send "forwardable" messages about once a month, to all my friends. that's just about it.
but what was the rationale behind firing off that "i don't really give my name or text people i don't know" last saturday? i didn't need a textmate. i had one! who cares about wasted load? a peso spent for firing a reply was money well-spent.
so what was the notion that ate logs offered me then? she suspected that this person texting me was dewberry, using a bogus number, to see if i would reciprocate to being a textmate to an unknown person. she said she knew of someone who did this. she got me thinking. i actually did something a lot similar to this before (hehehe). texting with a style that was totally different from mine, all capital letters, misspelling some words to some person i referred to that time as my "crush". and this carl also misspelled dewberry's name. hahaha.. coincidence?
asa pa.. it not in the realm called reality. stupid me actually entertained the thought. and was amused by it. how could anyone be as stupid as i am?
okay.. i was enjoying week 2 going on week 3, at the expense of my load quickly being depleted (not really quickly, but being depleted a lot faster than usual. 300 usually lasted me more than a month). suddenly, yesterday, everything stopped. no message, no anything. not even a sign of an imminent demise. just died. i was down.. not really rock bottom but i kept on glancing at my phone now and then, only to find nothing, or a message from someone which wouldn't really cheer me up or i wouldn't want texting me.
something did cheer me up yesterday though, but more on that later.
i still texted him yesterday though, once i think. it was in the evening. still none.
i didn't text him today. really resisted the urge to. maybe he was doing the undertaking he was asking me to pray for some time ago. yeah. maybe. maybe because the 258 promo is over and he's registered with that. with the unlimited texting promo gone, what was the sense in texting? maybe he just gave textmates 2 weeks max (why an exact 14 days?). or maybe he's busy. maybe he ran out of load. maybe he was busy with rehearsals. maybe he's sick. maybe..
i just hope he's ok. i'm nearing the brink of texting him again, just once for today. but to do it, i'd have to do it on my way to RCBC plaza. i'm watching a play tonight. :)
for a long time, battery life of my phone lasted an average of 5 days due to lack of activity. then, i didn't pay attention when my phone beeps for an SMS, might be a stupid prank by the network to hog 2.50 of my prepaid load on a single go, name it, 286, STAR WARS, CHRISTIAN B, MILYON, etc. i practically didn't care if my phone sat at home all day while i was out in the mall. it's not like anybody important would be texting me.
but for two weeks, yeah, i was un-chelle-y as i could be. the phone was one thing. music was another. i actually downloaded a bunch of erik santos songs and listened to them over and over again, as well as Color Me Badd's Wildflower. who cares if i couldn't sing along? as long as i could imagine dewberry singing those songs, i was ok. and imagine i did! count carlos santana and rob thomas in too. but then again, sometimes, i sang along too.. :)
another thing, when replying to SMS, my mind automatically flips to scan mode to recall if i had sent that message to him before. if not, scroll down to read another. maximum message capacity reached? no problem, delete the latest one i had sent him. no sense in sending the same message more than once, me was thinking. even if he had done it a couple of times.
and i actually entertained the unthinkable notion ate logs offered me about the weird "can we be textmates?" number which registered to my phone over the weekend. the person said my number has been in his phonebook since february and he didn't know me as well. i said, he must have saved the wrong number. the person (carl's the name, btw) now says he knows i am from CPMP (now where did he get that?) and telling me someone might have borrowed my phone to text him. nice excuse pal, i asked him if he knew one of my co recitalists.. and he comes up with a list?? WTF.. i ask these people he claims that he knows if they knew him.. and no one replied in the affirmative. he even misspells dewberry's name. dewberry says he doesn't know the person. determined to find the identity of the person, i texted our recital director in the afternoon, asking her if she knew who that was.. and got zero reply. during that day, another one texted me, a girl this time, but got a generic "sorry i don't really text people i don't know" reply from me.
not that this was the first time. i fire off a lot of those, especially when those unknown numbers register. of course i ask them who they are, as those might be people i know. but if not, i don't bother. i don't need a textmate. before, the rationale was having textmates meant spending load on some unknown person who probably had loads of time or money to spare. count me out. my friends don't really text a lot, forward jokes or quotes a lot. i only send "forwardable" messages about once a month, to all my friends. that's just about it.
but what was the rationale behind firing off that "i don't really give my name or text people i don't know" last saturday? i didn't need a textmate. i had one! who cares about wasted load? a peso spent for firing a reply was money well-spent.
so what was the notion that ate logs offered me then? she suspected that this person texting me was dewberry, using a bogus number, to see if i would reciprocate to being a textmate to an unknown person. she said she knew of someone who did this. she got me thinking. i actually did something a lot similar to this before (hehehe). texting with a style that was totally different from mine, all capital letters, misspelling some words to some person i referred to that time as my "crush". and this carl also misspelled dewberry's name. hahaha.. coincidence?
asa pa.. it not in the realm called reality. stupid me actually entertained the thought. and was amused by it. how could anyone be as stupid as i am?
okay.. i was enjoying week 2 going on week 3, at the expense of my load quickly being depleted (not really quickly, but being depleted a lot faster than usual. 300 usually lasted me more than a month). suddenly, yesterday, everything stopped. no message, no anything. not even a sign of an imminent demise. just died. i was down.. not really rock bottom but i kept on glancing at my phone now and then, only to find nothing, or a message from someone which wouldn't really cheer me up or i wouldn't want texting me.
something did cheer me up yesterday though, but more on that later.
i still texted him yesterday though, once i think. it was in the evening. still none.
i didn't text him today. really resisted the urge to. maybe he was doing the undertaking he was asking me to pray for some time ago. yeah. maybe. maybe because the 258 promo is over and he's registered with that. with the unlimited texting promo gone, what was the sense in texting? maybe he just gave textmates 2 weeks max (why an exact 14 days?). or maybe he's busy. maybe he ran out of load. maybe he was busy with rehearsals. maybe he's sick. maybe..
i just hope he's ok. i'm nearing the brink of texting him again, just once for today. but to do it, i'd have to do it on my way to RCBC plaza. i'm watching a play tonight. :)
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