As we enter into the Thanksgiving season, I pause for a minute to give thanks for the things that make my life easier in Shanghai. Okay, so I haven't thought of anything yet but, I'm working on it. I do, however, have a very long list of things I absolutely hate. Let's start with internet access. If you've been reading the blog, I'm sure you've come across a few rants and complaints from Susan about the problems we are having with the internet and telephone access. We've had China Telecom and the internet provider over so often that I've declared them as dependents on my tax returns.What
drives me absolutely mental is that things seem to change on their own, like if the internet was possessed or something. We have our friends from China Telecom and the internet provider fixing the problem for 5 long hours. Everything finally works and a few days later we have problems again. I almost feel like someone is messing with me, as if I were a large but handsome lab rat, poking me with a stick and zapping me with electricity.I guess that you've probably figured out that we are currently experiencing problems, yet again, with the internet. We've given up on the phone. People call us at home and all they hear is beeping like a damn fax machine, beep, beep, beep, beep, what the hell! China Telecom doesn't know what it is so they won't fix it, nice!
Maybe we should try a more proven technology to communicate with our friends and family, maybe smoke signals, but they'll probably be in Chinese.
