When I moved to Makati, I had to switch to Globe because they managed to have two antennas on every floor. My SMART number was my first number. I had it for about six years. It sucked that I had to tell everyone that I changed my phone number.

Not only that. Globe’s GPRS rates are horrible. I love SMART’s flat rate at P10 per half hour. Not to mention that SMART had a better quality of service (in the context of GPRS). “You won’t know what you’ll be missing until it’s gone” as they say.

On the bright side, most of my contacts are on Globe. It was a bit easier to call them. No more trunk congestion. Also, I sorta got into this exclusive circle of the txting craze. I got my daily barrage of sweet “quotes” with group messaging. Props to this unlitxt promo.

Last Thursday wasn’t my lucky day. I forgot that I placed my phone on top of the ATM. When I went back for it (just about 5 minutes), it was gone. Since there’s no way to turn off the XDA, I could call it and whoever took the phone couldn’t do anything about it unless they pulled out the battery and smashed it into smithereens. Unfortunately, my SMART sim was clipped inside the phone.

I kept calling my phone but no answer. I sent a message asking to return the phone and I’d reward them for their trouble. After thirty minutes, there was a reply. I was so thrilled that I wrote the wrong answer telling them to just leave it to the guards at the bank. They probably thought I was going to dupe them with the reward and didn’t show up.

Losing the phone didn’t have a big impact on me. I didn’t feel like I lost a limb. What sucks is that the important notes and contact numbers are in there. ActiveSync is shit. Microsoft misinforms by giving you an option to backup your mobile device everytime you sync it. Much to my luck, you can’t retrieve the database from the “backup” (or it’s not that easy). Yay Microsoft!

But since I love having the “power” to check my mail while on the go and the ability to read my eBooks, I’ll be getting an XDA again and maybe, just maybe, I could still load my phonebook there.

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