Once you start using a Computer you become addicted to it..When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is to check if I have e-mails that arrived in the night. Every day that God makes.Sometimes I get good ones, most of the time I get garbage..
So when I was in Asingan in 2003, the first thing I did was to ask where I can go to check e-mails...My sister Ester suggested PSU, her place of work. So we had to take a tricycle go to the middle of the fields ( the ketegan between Domanpot and Bactad), then climb up 4 flights of stairs to the highest floor of the building. I was about to ask some students "Dont you have an elevator here?" but they might feel insulted. I don't like to look like a dork in there, knowing that Asingan is still my birthplace. Anyways..
So I entered the Computer Department. There were several computers there being used by students. A newcomer in PSU would find it hard to distinguish between Instructors and students. My sister refered me to an Instructor in Computer Science. He went to the Internet on the most reliable PC in the room and said, "OK, Sir, you go ahead.."
Silently I said, "If I can get into AOL here in Asingan, it will be the biggest miracle since the parting of the Red Sea.." I typed AOL Anywhere on the Computer. I waited, waited, waited...Then it finally brought me to the familiar environment of AOL.Yessss! .But only in my mailbox..Well, thats all I want anyway.There was no AOL Software in that PC..So my day was completed.Although I did not find any interesting e-mails, I was happy. Tommorow I have to either come back here to PSU which is a pain in the ass because of its location, or find another decent PC in Poblacion.
The next day, I met Alex Romero my kumpare. He told me they have a PC in school and his wife Mare Menchie has also one in their house.."Thanks heavens, "I said.."Can it get AOL?" "I dont know, you have to find out.The only thing I know in that Computer is to play Pinball"..Pare Alex answered.
I was able to contact Mare Menchie later.. I used the PC in North Central School. I brought my Digital Camera too and I took her photo with some other teachers, then showed them how to use the digital photo as a Desktop Art. "You can print these, you know" I told her. "But you need a printer.." She said she have a printer but finding photo papers in Asingan is like trying to find snowflakes in July.."Nobody likes to sell you papers, even in Urdaneta or Dagupan" she said.."they are reserving it for their own use.." But anyway, I was able to e-mail my friends in California.." You know where I am writing this e-mail?..Here in Asingan!!" I told them..I felt like a man sending a message from the moon!
Well, I recently bought a laptop..Just in case I could take another holiday in Asingan..But then, where can I use it in Asingan?..There are no wireless relay systems in Asingan ( at least not when I was there ) ..Maybe if I do take another holiday in Asingan, I guess I will just leave my laptop here in Toronto..Anything can happen on the way from Toronto to Asingan and from Asingan back to Toronto..And when I say anything it is REALLY anything. Especially all with those sharks at the Airport customs area waiting for a good bite.--#
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