And here I am, waiting for an "engineer" to come from 8m to 1pm to install my landline.
I decided to call BT costumer service just to confirm again that they were coming today.
For the 456th time I was told on the phone that they couldn't place my order, they couldn't find the address, there was no reference number, blablabla blablabla.
The first time I called, they told me they couldn't find my address so I sent them a google map with an arrow pointing to the house.
Then, after stating "first floor" they asked me to confirm that this was a basement.
After being transfered from one call-center guy to another I was told that my line would be installed on the 28th Feb, today.
And with so much work to do in the office I stayed at home today waiting for the bastards (pardon my french) to install the damn line.
The lady on the phone today, told me AGAIN that my address didn't existed, etc etc and then I told her that I was SO upset with BT that I was going to ask for my £125 back.
5 seconds were gone when she said: "I found it! I found your order! Ooohhh! I'm so sorry! I found your order!..."
Apparently they don't process every order in the same way. Orders that are placed on the phone are easier to find than the ones done over the internet. Don't ask me why, I just think they are a bunch of incompetents..
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
Buñuel
And Belle de Jour is another master-piece.
It's just a shame that in the late sixties people would smoke so much!
And the next movie will be Blow-up!
It's just a shame that in the late sixties people would smoke so much!
And the next movie will be Blow-up!
not unplugged anymore!
YEAHHHHHH!
Thanks to Dave, I now have internet! The dongle arrived today!
I'll be updating the blog more frequently now.
I wrote two posts in the last week or so and my intention was to take them to work and upload them from there.
21/02/08
Yesterday on my way home I stopped by HMV and bought two movies.
I bought Million Dollar Baby and Pollock.
While eating my Sainsbury’s microwave risotto, I watched Pollock.
I don’t know why, but I thought “Pollock” was a good movie that I had never watched.
I can now say that that it’s a good movie to watch when you have nothing else to do but even so you want to learn something about art and stuff.
I like the work of Jackson Pollock very much. To stand in front of any of his paintings is a life experience that I’m fortunate to say to have been through.
And I had Ed Harris in great consideration as an actor. I had no idea of how he was as a movie director and now I can say that I hope he’d stick with acting.
Today, Million Dollar Baby it is.
Another actor turned into director.
24/02/08
Million Dollar Baby is a brilliant movie! We often kind of guess how the ending will be… but not with this movie.
I’ve watched it twice this week!
Clint Eastwood is a genius!
Today the chosen movie to watch is Belle de Jour.
Changing the subject from cinema to radio, I have recently started listening to XFM and I’m very pleased with it! I was already a bit fed up with Planet Rock…
XFM plays only rock&roll and some songs that the good-old SuperFM used to play 10 years ago and that I missed so much. Nirvana’s playing now.
Having a digital radio makes the whole experience much more worth it. I’m very proud of my little radio!
Oh, and soon, soon I’ll be borrowing Dave’s mobile internet dongle. Which means that I shall be unplugged no more! YEAHHHHH!
Thanks to Dave, I now have internet! The dongle arrived today!
I'll be updating the blog more frequently now.
I wrote two posts in the last week or so and my intention was to take them to work and upload them from there.
21/02/08
Yesterday on my way home I stopped by HMV and bought two movies.
I bought Million Dollar Baby and Pollock.
While eating my Sainsbury’s microwave risotto, I watched Pollock.
I don’t know why, but I thought “Pollock” was a good movie that I had never watched.
I can now say that that it’s a good movie to watch when you have nothing else to do but even so you want to learn something about art and stuff.
I like the work of Jackson Pollock very much. To stand in front of any of his paintings is a life experience that I’m fortunate to say to have been through.
And I had Ed Harris in great consideration as an actor. I had no idea of how he was as a movie director and now I can say that I hope he’d stick with acting.
Today, Million Dollar Baby it is.
Another actor turned into director.
24/02/08
Million Dollar Baby is a brilliant movie! We often kind of guess how the ending will be… but not with this movie.
I’ve watched it twice this week!
Clint Eastwood is a genius!
Today the chosen movie to watch is Belle de Jour.
Changing the subject from cinema to radio, I have recently started listening to XFM and I’m very pleased with it! I was already a bit fed up with Planet Rock…
XFM plays only rock&roll and some songs that the good-old SuperFM used to play 10 years ago and that I missed so much. Nirvana’s playing now.
Having a digital radio makes the whole experience much more worth it. I’m very proud of my little radio!
Oh, and soon, soon I’ll be borrowing Dave’s mobile internet dongle. Which means that I shall be unplugged no more! YEAHHHHH!
Monday, February 11, 2008
posting unplugged
No, I don’t have an internet connection yet. And by the looks of it I will only get one in an-other month or so. Damn!
I can’t remember how fast these things were in Portugal but for sure that they weren’t as slow as here. I asked for a BT landline in the very beginning of the month. Yesterday, I was told that the line would only be activated on the 26th Feb. Only after it’s working I can call Sky to install internet and tv. Pat says it’s better if I call Talk Talk and get inter-net/phone from them.
I need help here guys, can anyone tell me which operator can provide better value for money services, knowing that I have already requested a BT line with cheap calls to other european countries? (landlines only)
I can live with no free-view tv. What I need is cable or satellite. I need good series and good movies. I don’t need silly old crappy english soaps and contests. I don’t mind watching brazillian soaps for 2 weeks when I’m on holidays but english soaps can even be worse than the portuguese ones. Believe me!
My friend E. from work gave me (or rather saying, lent me) a tv set. It’s a small tv but keeps me company. So far I can only see 4 channels. It has an aerial that takes me back to the 80’s (and before that) when there was no such thing as clear, sharp images. On one channel there’s a soap called Echo Beach that resembles the “Morangos com Açucar” crap. It’s set in Cornwall where every teenager is a model and all the parents are in their 30’s and look very good as well. Not a portrait of the brits AT ALL. I only saw one episode and there was an indian kid and a black girl. This makes the soap very PC and represents the general public. The indian kid was talking about Bollywood movies. Now, how cliché is that?
Living with no internet is far worse than living with no tv. I *need* internet. I need to blog, I need to chat, I need to see who’s online. I need to post pics and see other’s pics. Has Zaka posted anything on her blog lately? Is Celia adding stuff to her new crafts blog? What about skype, that wonderful thing that lets me talk for hours with my friends. And youtube! Youtube is another wonder! How am I supposed to watch music videos now?
Living in an "unplugged" house is very odd. Not for me at all. I need to read the papers and see in "correio da manhã" how maria das dores is hanging on in prison. I also need to read real news... Yesterday my dad called -from PORTUGAL - to tell me that Camden Town was on fire and that the Hawley Arms pub was no more. I used to live right around the corner to that street. If I had internet at home I could’ve checked some news websites. But because I only have free-view tv I could only watch 2 contests (like who wants to be a mil-lionaire with casino chips) and two soaps or dull series... And at 11.00 pm Scary Movie was on. I didn’t see 10 minutes of it and I PROMISE I won’t ever watch that stuff again. YUCK! How can a comedy movie be so boring???
Anyway, enough complaining. I’m fortunate enough to have a mobile phone from which I can text and call whomever I want to.
The lack of internet or tv makes me watch DVDs. Not on E.’s tv though. I watch them on the laptop.
This week I saw the Fight Club (I like Edward Norton more than I like Brad Pitt), I tried to see Goodbye Lenin (by Wolfgang Becker) but I can’t speak any German and the subtitles were incomplete. I just wanted to see it again, I saw it on the cinema a few years ago. Totally recommend it. And today I saw Carandiru (directed by Hector Barbenco). Again, I already had seen the movie. If you like Brazilian cinema, this is a masterpiece. A bit bloody and raw but its set on an overcrowded prison where a massacre happened not that long ago. A true story told by the in-house doctor. Dave, you should see this.
I have a few more DVDs sitting on the book shelf to watch and they are:
• Belle de Jour - Luis Buñuel
• Blow-up - Antonioni
• Domicile Conjugal - Truffaut
• L’amour en fuite - Truffaut
• Big Fish - Tim Burton
• Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind - Michael Gondry
After I finish this list I’ll have to buy / borrow more dvds. I accept suggestions.
I’ve started reading Salman Rushdie’s "The Satanic Verses" and I’m listening to Muse a lot. I can't get "Hysteria" and "Blackout" out of my head!
And that’s enough blogging for today. I will post this from work tomorrow and read your comments on my email there.
Oh! and please if you already have my new address, please feel free to write letters or visit! (as it says in the blogs description you can send flowers and chocolates as well that I don’t mind)
I can’t remember how fast these things were in Portugal but for sure that they weren’t as slow as here. I asked for a BT landline in the very beginning of the month. Yesterday, I was told that the line would only be activated on the 26th Feb. Only after it’s working I can call Sky to install internet and tv. Pat says it’s better if I call Talk Talk and get inter-net/phone from them.
I need help here guys, can anyone tell me which operator can provide better value for money services, knowing that I have already requested a BT line with cheap calls to other european countries? (landlines only)
I can live with no free-view tv. What I need is cable or satellite. I need good series and good movies. I don’t need silly old crappy english soaps and contests. I don’t mind watching brazillian soaps for 2 weeks when I’m on holidays but english soaps can even be worse than the portuguese ones. Believe me!
My friend E. from work gave me (or rather saying, lent me) a tv set. It’s a small tv but keeps me company. So far I can only see 4 channels. It has an aerial that takes me back to the 80’s (and before that) when there was no such thing as clear, sharp images. On one channel there’s a soap called Echo Beach that resembles the “Morangos com Açucar” crap. It’s set in Cornwall where every teenager is a model and all the parents are in their 30’s and look very good as well. Not a portrait of the brits AT ALL. I only saw one episode and there was an indian kid and a black girl. This makes the soap very PC and represents the general public. The indian kid was talking about Bollywood movies. Now, how cliché is that?
Living with no internet is far worse than living with no tv. I *need* internet. I need to blog, I need to chat, I need to see who’s online. I need to post pics and see other’s pics. Has Zaka posted anything on her blog lately? Is Celia adding stuff to her new crafts blog? What about skype, that wonderful thing that lets me talk for hours with my friends. And youtube! Youtube is another wonder! How am I supposed to watch music videos now?
Living in an "unplugged" house is very odd. Not for me at all. I need to read the papers and see in "correio da manhã" how maria das dores is hanging on in prison. I also need to read real news... Yesterday my dad called -from PORTUGAL - to tell me that Camden Town was on fire and that the Hawley Arms pub was no more. I used to live right around the corner to that street. If I had internet at home I could’ve checked some news websites. But because I only have free-view tv I could only watch 2 contests (like who wants to be a mil-lionaire with casino chips) and two soaps or dull series... And at 11.00 pm Scary Movie was on. I didn’t see 10 minutes of it and I PROMISE I won’t ever watch that stuff again. YUCK! How can a comedy movie be so boring???
Anyway, enough complaining. I’m fortunate enough to have a mobile phone from which I can text and call whomever I want to.
The lack of internet or tv makes me watch DVDs. Not on E.’s tv though. I watch them on the laptop.
This week I saw the Fight Club (I like Edward Norton more than I like Brad Pitt), I tried to see Goodbye Lenin (by Wolfgang Becker) but I can’t speak any German and the subtitles were incomplete. I just wanted to see it again, I saw it on the cinema a few years ago. Totally recommend it. And today I saw Carandiru (directed by Hector Barbenco). Again, I already had seen the movie. If you like Brazilian cinema, this is a masterpiece. A bit bloody and raw but its set on an overcrowded prison where a massacre happened not that long ago. A true story told by the in-house doctor. Dave, you should see this.
I have a few more DVDs sitting on the book shelf to watch and they are:
• Belle de Jour - Luis Buñuel
• Blow-up - Antonioni
• Domicile Conjugal - Truffaut
• L’amour en fuite - Truffaut
• Big Fish - Tim Burton
• Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind - Michael Gondry
After I finish this list I’ll have to buy / borrow more dvds. I accept suggestions.
I’ve started reading Salman Rushdie’s "The Satanic Verses" and I’m listening to Muse a lot. I can't get "Hysteria" and "Blackout" out of my head!
And that’s enough blogging for today. I will post this from work tomorrow and read your comments on my email there.
Oh! and please if you already have my new address, please feel free to write letters or visit! (as it says in the blogs description you can send flowers and chocolates as well that I don’t mind)
Sunday, February 3, 2008
the departure
3.2.1.0..take off!
this blog will be in sleep mode until I have internet access at home.
this blog will be in sleep mode until I have internet access at home.
Friday, February 1, 2008
dinner set - silly girl
And there I was wasting most of my lunch hour in Marks&Sparks choosing some plates for my mini kitchen.
From a range of 6 sets that they had there, it took me a half-hour to decide which ones to pick.
And then I bought the cheapest set (of course), all packed up in a nice box.
I've been carrying the measuring tape in my bag since I started looking for a flat. I needed to make sure that everything fitted there afterwards.
And my friends who know me best, know that usually I'm good with this stuff. Moving, getting furniture, planing ikea kitchens, bossing around builders, making sure that all goes perfect.
BUT because I'm nothing but a SILLY girl, I now have 4 plates that don't quite fit in the cupboard.
The cupboard is so narrow and the plates are wider than usual that the door doesn't close.
grrrrrrr!
From a range of 6 sets that they had there, it took me a half-hour to decide which ones to pick.
And then I bought the cheapest set (of course), all packed up in a nice box.
I've been carrying the measuring tape in my bag since I started looking for a flat. I needed to make sure that everything fitted there afterwards.
And my friends who know me best, know that usually I'm good with this stuff. Moving, getting furniture, planing ikea kitchens, bossing around builders, making sure that all goes perfect.
BUT because I'm nothing but a SILLY girl, I now have 4 plates that don't quite fit in the cupboard.
The cupboard is so narrow and the plates are wider than usual that the door doesn't close.
grrrrrrr!
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