I’ve been offline since the morning of Thursday, September 28th, 2006 due to the typhoon Milenyo. Our power was cut off 7:00 a.m. and the phone line came down a few hours after that. I just heard this evening that the power and DSL connection are already up, so I can hopefully be able to get online later this evening. I’m just checking up my email inbox to see if I missed anything important.
I’m at Ortigas, by the way, having some coffee and dessert in the aftermath of the Isulong SEOPH contest awarding. Our entry placed fifth!
Too bad we didn’t get to win the iPod Nano raffled off, though.
The crowd at the awarding wasn’t the usual blog meetup crowd. Well, okay, it was about 50% of the bloggers’ crowd, and the other half comprised the SEO people who were (likely) not really into blogging.
I’ll write about this later on, with some pics to boot. Right now, I’ll be enjoying a cup of coffee and some cake with my lovely wife.
(Just had to get online after three days’ being off the grid.)
Looks like I spoke (or wrote) too soon. Only a few hours after power was restored, it’s down again in our area. Must be some transformer that overloaded. Am now on battery connecting via dialup (trying to get in touch with Meralco via their website, but to no avail!). Sigh.
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5 Responses
ade
October 1st, 2006 at 2:06 am
1good luck in trying to contact Meralco. They’re practically unreachable right now, even to the media.
Faced Off with Milenyo (Xangsane) at Sonnie’s Porch
October 1st, 2006 at 9:07 am
2[...] Angelo Pilipinasspread the word:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
noemi
October 1st, 2006 at 4:38 pm
3So you were not able to use airborne? Thanks pala. I was only able to use Globequest in a nearby starbucks. Grabe, daming tao who like me wanted to get online. Hope you’re back!
Meralco Service Sucks » The J Spot
October 1st, 2006 at 10:37 pm
4[...] It’s been four days since we lost power at our place in the heart of Quezon City, Metro Manila, due to typhoon Milenyo and up to now we’re still in the dark ages. I thought yesterday’s power restoration was already permanent, but boy was I wrong. Just thirty minutes of getting home, the power went out again. And that was while I was taking a shower! Very timely, indeed. [...]
J. Angelo Racoma
October 2nd, 2006 at 5:05 pm
5@Ade, yes, they were really unreachable!
@Noemi, nope. I was at Katips, but the connections were down even if I could access the hotspot.
Well, I’m back.
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