The Construct

Rant alert. You’ve been warned.

Sorry, friends who think that Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen is the movie event of the year. Or if you’ve watched it and are raving about how mad the whole movie was. I can’t say I share your sentiments. I do understand why you’re all raving about it. I really do.

Watched the movie with the Dearest earlier today and as the day draws to an end, I think that it was nothing but a cost write-off amounting to Php 270 and two and a half hours of my precious time. Even the appearance of a scantily-clad Megan Fox spooning a big bike wasn’t enough to redeem the movie for me.

*Possible spoiler alert!*

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Author’s Note: Rant alert. This piece was written with rage. Read on at your own risk.

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I just can believe how expensive everything is nowadays. I was cleaning my desk a couple of days ago and stumbled upon an old Shell receipt with the price per liter of their then flagship fuel Velocity was Php 16 per liter. Php 16!!! Those were the times when me and my college barkada (with me as the perpetual pilot) would be able to go to SM Megamall and back to UP in within our 3-hour break to grab a movie. And it was indeed cheaper to bring a car than pay for fare for 5 people.

I queued up for gas and the price for Shell’s flagship V-Power is at Php 58+. My Php 1000, which was supposed to last me for the rest of the month, filled my tank with only 17 liters. Which, given the mileage I get from my car would allow me to travel 145 kms. 8-10 home to UP and back. Even minimizing the number of trips I have to make in a week failed to cut down on my transportation expenses. I still have to go to UP since I’m already in the process of writing my thesis proposal. And just the fact that making the trip costs a lot sucks balls.

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After almost a week of not being able to sort things out with my web hosting provider, my site’s fully functional again. I can now access my subdomains (which I use for the forums and my English learning blog) and my FTP. (What good is one’s site if the administrator can’t access it via FTP?)

But I’d have to say, this has got to be part of the whole collection of horror stories of people with (supposedly) the country’s top web hosting provider. Crummy technical support and false advertising (as of this writing my uptime tracker says: 85.7143% uptime contrary to their claims of 99.99%) can surely piss me off.

If this is just Pareto principle at work then I am very much disappointed.

I apologize to the few constant readers of this blog. My web host crapped out again and this site was down for a span of more or less 72 hours.

I would have blogged on a few things over the weekend but thanks to crappy web hosting service that wasn’t meant to be. I’ll be busy the whole week and the only blogging I’ll be doing will be for LifeSpy and Autojab.

I’m still trying to resolve a few issues with whatever they did to my site. But I’d have to say that I am very dissatisfied customer.

Again, I apologize and thanks for dropping by.