It’s Day 6 of my newly-restored DSL functioning flawlessly. I’m allowing myself the chance to feel a bit more upbeat. But then I remember what I went through to get the damn thing back, and my spine stiffens, my face crumples into a scowl, and I’m angry again. Yes, I still hate PLDT.

The storm had nothing to do with it. One day after Milenyo, power had been restored in our part of the neighborhood, and I happily surfed away in the next few days. Then I went to Bicol to visit my Pop, who’d just survived his own brush with vicious Nature. When I came back, the DSL was on the blink. Error 678, it said over and over. The remote server or computer or whatever did not respond, dial again, careful about your blood pressure (I made that up).

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