pelf-ism is contagious

.. and I’m not sure if this is good news *winks*

Feli’s got very cute roommates, but I shall leave that for her. Cute, because one of them calls me “Jie” just like how my sister calls me!! When little Esther called me that, I turned around almost immediately and for a moment thought that I heard my own sister calling me..

So, after registration and the necessary cleaning up and all, I sent Feli’s Mum to the airport, and because two of Feli’s roommates were around, I offered to take them along. On our way home from the airport, I dropped the three stooges girls at the beach (on their own request, OK?!) and told them to be back by 7pm, or whenever other students started to leave.

It’s funny how re-telling my experiences and answering their Marine Biology-related questions made me feel. Nostalgic, that must be it. Sharing with them about the courses and field trips and what to expect kind of brought me back to those days when I was actually living it.. Sooo surreal.. It seemed to me that it was only yesterday that I met my roommates.. Those memories..

Anyway, back to reality. I will probably take my “new found sisters” to town this coming weekend for some shopping and jalan-jalan, after which they will be on their own for the next three years..

From the bottom of my heart, I wish you stooges girls “GOOD LUCK” *winks*

Satsuma from Ilmajoki, western Finland sent me this cute painted landscape card that depicts a typical area in Finland.

Satsuma says they have large fields with many farms but the sheep are not too common, unfortunately :((

I received a very peculiar call yesterday night. Apparently, a Mr. Ridzuan from Telekom Malaysia called, and enquired about how much I spend on phone bills per month on average. I asked him why he would like to know, he said that I had been selected as one of the lucky fixed line users who would be given the choice of a new package with the monthly rental fees of RM 26 waived.

So I allowed him to speak.

When I told him that on average my phone bills cost about RM 100 per month, he recommended that I take up a package where I can talk for 25 hours for only RM 128, instead of the normal price of over RM 300 per month. He also said that I would be given a trial period, which is in August, and that I could cancel it anytime if I found it not benefitting.

I said, OK, but please let me discuss with my fellow housemates.

He said, no, if I didn’t want to take up the offer, he would give it to another person in line, and reassured me that not everybody would be lucky to be selected for this offer.

Again, I stressed that I would like to discuss with my housemates before making the decision because if my housemates disagreed, I would be the only one paying for it. Plus, I said, my housemates seldom call home, so they might not find the package useful. I told him that if he couldn’t wait for me, he could give it to the next person in line, and that it would be OK with me.

Then he sounded differently. He suggested that I take up the offer and immediately activate it and he said he was sure my housemates would agree to it since the call rates would be much cheaper, at 19 sen per minute to any out-station calls as well as calls to mobile numbers, and that local calls would cost 3 sen per minute instead of the normal rate of 4 sen per minute.

I got really sceptical and impatient and said I would like to discuss the matter with my housemates. And I think he kind of gave up hope in trying to influence me. So he gave me a mobile phone number and said that if I decided to take up the offer, I could just send him an SMS with my phone number, full name and IC number. And this was when I thought this whole new-and-cheaper-package could be a scam.

I don’t know, have YOU ever received phone calls like this? Maybe I should make a call to Telekom Malaysia to enquire about this so-called new package. I smell something fishy..