Life Is Never Easi

moses
Swiped from fee_rachel.

It took a little more than a week to purchase a prepaid sim card starter pack in BSB. In particular, I was looking for Brunei's 'most saleable' prepaid sim card, i.e Easi by DTSCom. In the city center, I went from kiosk to kiosk, shop to shop, but nobody seemeds to sell it. If you want the reload card, they got plenty. Reminds me of Alanis Morisette's lyrics~ "ten thousand spoons when all you need is a fork...". I was nearly giving up, but then I found that there was a DSTCom branch just beneath my balls, at the nearby Yayasan. After lunch, I dashed over and made my purchase. Was thrilled that it took only ten minutes plus registration. FYI, it cost me BND30 for the starter pack with only BND5 credit inside. Unlike in Malaysia, Bruneians get a raw deal with prepaid. BND5 lasts you only 7 days. And each call you pick up is charged BND0.20. My favourite is the fact that if you don't reload the card, your credit will be forfeited in percentages according to the duration. Within a fortnight, one stands to lose 50% of unused credit. And the line dies if you don't reload it for 30 days. Pitiful. But beggars can't be choosy. It pays to hear your boyfriends voice over the phone when you're trapped in a faraway country. And I could also tell that KH sounded downtrodden each time I told him I failed to secure a local line. But in that period, I still had the alternative of sticking my face to the office window trying to steal DiGi coverage from the border towns. Now the only thing left is to find some privacy for some a phone-skank session. Hehehehehe.