Brain "cell" damage

I was given an early birthday gift by my brother and Pia. I was told that my bro is going to hand me down his Siemens SX1. It crashed during an accidental removal of the memory card. Anyway, Pia called me today informing me that the phone already arrived together with her nokia 7610. Needless to say, I was ecstatic all day waiting for the time she gets off from work.

We agreed to meet up at the Festival Mall at 7, but she arrived at 8 because of the traffic. My sister and I were like babies given a candy when she first showed us her gadget. Oooooohhhh and aaaaahhhhh's were all we could say. Next came mine, I jumped with glee at the mall as she presented me with -- dig this-- my very own cellphone.

Then came the glitch- it won't start. The message "app. closed" keep appearing on the damn screen and it wouldn't yield to my pleadings for it to start-up. Aaaaarrrggghhh! We went to the cellphone centers inside the mall scouting for repair shops and a memory card for her nokia. Some of the cellphone techs told me it was a major crash in the system and that fixing it would mean opening the phone up and a damage of P1500 outright would be likewise inflicted on me. No way! I figured out I could figure this problem out.

On the other conquest for phone frills, Pia shelled out around P2000 bucks on a memory card only to find out later that it was the wrong kind. Another 15 minutes were lost by waiting for the refund of her payment. There was no more time left for the mall was about to close. Another bummer was when we spent a few minutes at a semi-closed Smart Wireless Center only to be told that they can't provide us with what we need. Total bad luck...

We just decided to drown our sorrows at the Superbowl Of China. Dinner was at 9:30 and comprised of spicy chicken and some wanton noodle soup and garlic rice. We waited for another 10 mins. still, no dinner yet. We were served the wrong food thrice and waited for what seemed like eternity before we can pig out. I was nearing the end of my wits hadn't it been for that funny waiter who insisted we come back for their halloween party at Sunday. I was thinking, THIS was already halloween, with all the ghouls of pessimism haunting us all the way. Add to that the rain and the fact that I still have to spend at least a whopping P3000 (fix and a 128 MB MMC) on my heirloom cellphone.

I did not want to sleep without fighting, so I searched the net for a good 2 hours only to find at GSM Forum the answer to my dilemma--- A hard reset. All I have to do is push 3 certain buttons on the phone at the same time, and presto!!!!!! Instant reformatting of its Symbian OS!!!!

Tsk!tsk!tsk! to think I would have been fooled by the technical jargons and all the bullshit those techs have explained to me. Hehehe... what do you know? I'm smarter!!!

Now I can proudly say how I thank my dear brother Patrick and Pia so much for the wonderful gift.

Thanks guys! I love you so much!