September 17, 2005

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September 12, 2005

I WON AN IPOD!!!

That's right. I won a 20GB Color-Photo iPod. Here's the story:

Sometime last month I was watching local tv which I hardly ever do. I think it was on MTV PR. So the commercials come on and I see this one for a contest sponsored by Medalla (local beer). First place prize was an all paid trip to go see the VMA's in Miami. If you didn't win the trip you were automatically entered for the second place prize which were the iPods. They gave away 30 of them. Honestly, I could care less about the VMA's. Every year they just get crappier and crappier. I only entered the contest because of the iPod and I always tend to think contests like these are rigged anyway so I wasn't expecting much. And I never win A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G. Last friday (Sept. 9th '05) I received a call:

Dude: "Yes, may I speak to Suzette B..."
Me: "This is she."
Dude: "Hello Suzette. This is Carlos from 'so-and-so' marketting. I'm calling you
today because you recently entered a Medalla contest, correct?"
Me: "Yes, that's right."
Dude: "Can you tell me which one it was?"
Me: "It was the VMA's one..."
Dude: "Right, well I'm calling to tell you that you didn't win the trip."
Me: (Hardy har har! I politely laughed at his lame joke since the VMA's had already
passed) "Haha...right, I kind of figured that one out..."
Dude: " 'Cause you saw them at home right?"
Me: "Yeah I did..."
Dude: "Well, really I'm calling to let you know that you DID win an iPod."
Me: "COOL! Where do I pick it up?"

And that's that. I picked it up today and they also gave me a carrying case that has the Medalla Light logo stitched on it. The funniest thing about the carrying case though is that it also has a sumo stitched on the front :) Alas, the iPod is going to be used by my sister. I already have an iPod, but it was definitely fun to win a free one! Free is the best kind!!!

September 8, 2005

The news reported today that hail fell in a town called Arecibo here in PR. If you've ever seen the movie Contact (Jodie Foster intercepts a alien message and builds a big traveling machine), then you've seen the huge satellite dish in the middle of the Arecibo mountains.

It's always hilarious to hear about ice falling from the sky in a tropical island :) Personally, I've never been in a hail storm here in PR (in the states, yes), but it has happened a couple of times. It always takes people here by surprise that hail can fall in PR: "OMG! What's that? What's going on? Ice? But it's not cold here". It doesn't matter how many times the hail formation is explained and why it can happen here, people always think it's some sort of phenomenon.

Even so, it's still funny to hear because it's unexpected and something I'd like to see. :)

September 5, 2005

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49 photos

September 3, 2005

I'm quite drunk.

If you've never been fortunate enough to receive a drunk call or message from the Suzy when she's drunk then you are missing out!!

Jo Ann, I must apologize hundred times since I don't remember what we talked about...again.

(the sun is coming up....I'm going to bed).

Q

August 28, 2005

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96 photos

August 26, 2005

I had a dream last night about a dog. The dog belong to my friend Jessica who was packing because she was moving, again. It wasn't your ordinary dog though. It was a multi-colored haired dog. I don't mean that it was white with black and brown spots or anything like that. This pup had blue, red, purple, green, yellow, orange, white, brown, black, magenta etc hair going on. All the colors of the rainbow were represented. And it wasn't dyed or spray painted on either...it was all natural. Quite intersting looking dog actually.

As if the dog being multi-colored wasn't odd enough, as soon as you touched it you could communicate telepathically with it. So there I was having a conversation with a rainbow colored dog.

Weird. :)

August 22, 2005

In my last entry I questioned if replacing a malfunctioning cell phone would be as easy as they said it would be. That of course wasn't even close to being true.

I found everything I needed...the box, the info, the receipt. I read the back of the receipt and already knew I wasn't going to be able to get an exchange at Radio Shack. See, if all these problems would've come up before Aug. 11th, it would've been cool because it would've still been under their warranty. Of course, that would be too lucky for me So I went to Radio Shack anyway and played dumb to see what would happen. As I thought, they said no.

So I called the Sprint Store back, they told me to call Sprint. Am I getting the run around here? Sprint said that since the replacement protection package wasn't part of my plan, I had to deal with the Sprint Store. Uh-huh. By now I already knew I was going to end up having to buy a new phone, but just for kicks play dumb with me and let's see what happens next!

Me: "Hello. I have a phone you guys diagnosed as having humidity/moisture. I can't return it to Radio
Shack because their warranty expired. And I found out through Sprint that I don't have the
replacement package thing and they told me to deal with you guys. What are my options?"
Sprint Store Lady: "Well, you have to buy a new one."
Me: "Buy a new one? This one is just 3 months old and it's still under manufactor's warranty."
Spring Store Lady: "Right, but because of the moisture the warranty is void. "
Me: "I can't even take it to another Sprint Store to get it fixed? "
Spring Store Lady: "No, they won't fix it because it's void."
Me: "So pretty much my phone is dead according to Sprint and I need to buy a new one."
Sprint Store Lady: "Yes, that's correct."
Me: "Ok. Thank you. Bye."
Sprint Store Lady: "Have a nice day. Bye."

So there it is...I need to buy a new phone. You know, I can totally understand if I spilled water all over it or something, but I didn't do anything to this phone. Warranties are for sh*t. Hm, maybe I'll open it up and see. It's already f*cked, so who cares! hahaha!

R.I.P. LG125

August 20, 2005

After a week of pill popping and uncontrolable drinking, it was time to take my cell phone into rehab. I just couldn't take it anymore. LG took over my room...there were bottles all over the place and random Audiovoxx, Verizon and who knows what other cell phone coming in and out at all hours! :)

My phone had been acting weird all week. In the middle of conversations, all audio would disappear even the key pad tone. Then when you tried to call back, it wouldn't work. Another symptom is that the outside display light randomly turns on without anyone touching it. It was like it had light hiccups. So yesterday I took LG into rehab (the Sprint Store).

I waited in line and then proceed to describe my phone's strange behavior to the Sprint lady. She gave me a ticket and said I had to wait and hour and a half. No problem. So I walked around the mall wasting time and came back at the specified time only to stand in a half hour line. When it was my turn, the phone was still not ready. It was already 5pm and I was starving, so I went home and returned at 7pm. I waited in line for an hour! Soooo sloooooow!

Anyway, so I finally got my phone back and the Sprint man tells me, "You're going to have to call Sprint because your phone has humidity". Can you just imagine my 'WTF are you talking about' face? All confused and in disbelief I just repeated what he said "Humidity...I have to call Sprint" and he said yes. My phone is only 3 months old, doesn't have a scratch on it, never been dropped on the floor, toilet...nothing! And it has humidity????? My cousin's cell phone does a triple back flip into the toilet, dries off and continues to work perfectly. Mine gets a little mysterious moisture and stops working???

Today I called Sprint and the dude said that since it's still under manufacture's 1 year warranty, I can take it into Radio Shack with the receipt and get a new one. Pheeew! I'll have to do that today or tomorrow, but I'm still skeptical. It can't be that easy, can it? We'll see what happens.

August 19, 2005

I changed rooms recently. My old room was small, one window, dark because it's painted purple and very good to sleep in. With the new room I wanted something completely different. The new room is bigger, has 3 windows and I've painted it orange and yellow. When I was chosing the colors I guess I had a craving for Starbursts. It seriously does look like the Starburst candy exploded in my room. :) Because of that and the fact that there are 3 windows, there's always tons of light in the room. Actually, one of the windows has a sofa throw over it because that blind had to be taken down when the a/c was installed. Even so, it's still a very bright room. It's great!

...... .............

At first I was waking up at 5am because of all the light, but I now have a handy little blind fold so that's no longer a problem.

August 18, 2005

This is what the sky has been looking like all week long on the island:

It's been raining every day. And not just rain, but the whole package: rain, lightening, thunder, darkness, power outages. We just had a 2 hour power outage because of the latest passing storm. Honestly, I don't mind the rain. What I don't like is that it could be 12pm, but because of all the dark clouds, it looks more like 6pm. Also, the thunder tends to make the doggies go crazy.

A couple of months ago, I was in the tv room talking with the family when out of no where this lightening hit our backyard. The tv room has these glass doors which lead to the backyard so you can see eveything. I saw the lightening through the corner of my eye. Then immediately the thunder was so loud it made everything vibrate a bit and I also heard a "ppsshhhh" from where the lightening hit the grass. My mother screamed...I laughed...the dogs went crazy :)

August 11, 2005

New Doritos Chip: Tripioso

Just by the name I highly doubt that these chips are being sold in the states. Then again you never know...they might be sold in the PRican communities. This is the first time I've seen them. The name "Tripioso" makes me laugh. Doritos has adopted a PRican slang word to promote their new product. Actually, it's probably new to Doritos, but not to me. These are flavored (corn) tortilla chips which I used to eat all the time at my brother's baseball games. They were just made by a different company and I can't remember what they were called. Everything gets recycled and made new again, huh?

Definition
Tripioso: taken from the english word 'trip', but more in the sense of 'trippy'. Means that something (object, event, action, etc) is very, very cool and/or exciting.

August 10, 2005

The PR Telephone Company Sux! It's been about 7 years since we moved into our current house. And it's been 7 years with the same phone line problem that no one seems to want to fix. What's the problem? Well, there seems to be some other line that's crossing with our house line. The phone might be working perfectly, but out of no where it sounds like someone picks up a different receiver and starts dialing a random number. It does this in tone, hangs up, picks up again and dials in pulse. Hmmm. Thing is that when this happens you can't pick up the call waiting because the line is open. So you say..."Let me hang up and maybe it'll go away". BAD IDEA! If you do that, the dial tone disappears and you have to wait a while till it decides to come back...could be 5 min, an hour, 5 hours who knows.

Another lovely thing it does sometimes is sometimes you hear the annoying sound of a fax machine in your ear when you go to answer the phone. It's like, "Hello...BBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPP!!!!!!!!...ah f*ck!" Yesterday it decided to do something totally new. There were 2 dial tones instead of one. When you tried to call someone the tones started going crazy and obviously your call couldn't go through.

Have I reported this malfunctioning line to the PR Tel. Company? Numerous times. They've even checked out the whole house and found nothing. They always say the same thing, "Oh, it's probably a crossed line in the main box outside the neighborhood, but I don't deal with that". THEN SEND SOMEONE WHO DOES! Alas, there's nothing for me to do, but report the f*cked up line again and stay on their asses this time until it gets fixed.

August 8, 2005

This past weekend I decided it was time to move into a bigger and empty room. In the process of moving all my stuff, I found something quite interesting. Check it out...

My Pre-K ID!

Don't I look like such a badass kid? haha! A family friend once told me "When you were little, you could kill anyone with your stare". Is it still true today? I don't know...I'm not scary, I swear. :)

August 4, 2005

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88 photos