Creativity Unleashed
I just came back from Creative Customer Care Centre to ask about the fees that I have to pay if I were to get a replacement for the scroller button of my Nomad Jukebox 3.
I promised myself that I would go for it if the fees were lower than SGD 30.
I happily came home afterwards with nothing, as the fees turned out to be SGD 133.20 excluding GST.
At that amount, I might as well get an iPod shuffle or Creative Muvo-series or some sub-$200 [insert cute China/Taiwan/Korea brand here] Flash Drive MP3 player instead.
Or does anyone want to buy me one? Valentine’s Day coming you know… Nothing can make a geek’s life happier than a new toy to play with. 
By the way, I overheard another customer’s complaint while waiting for my turn at the Customer Care Centre.
Apparently he somehow caused his MP3 player’s hard drive to crash. He then came to the Customer Care Centre, insisting on them to recover ‘whatever songs [he] put inside’. He ‘[doesn't] care how they do it because that’s what an after-sales service, especially one under warranty, should be like’ even though one of the customer service centre had already told him that the songs in the player are not included in the terms of the warranty.
The customer apparently didn’t care. He was even stupid enough not to have a backup copy of the songs he had inside the MP3 player. He probably never knew that there’s very little chance of recovering data from a crashed hard drive. Even if it’s a normal desktop hard drive, data recovery would probably cost him hundreds of dollars.
This is no ordinary hard drive we have here. It’s a smaller hard drive suited for those mini MP3 players.
The customer service officer appeared shaken and looked as if she was on the verge of tears.
Customers can be really stupid at times…
I liked the sky yesterday night and today. It was cloudless. Last night was so beautiful with the stars [insert poetic phrase here] and today the cerulean sky [insert another poetic phrase here]…
Too bad that the weather in general did not do justice to the beauty of the sky. It has been very windy–no, gusty actually. Add this to fluctuating temperatures and rain, and you get a weather just perfect for falling sick.
In fact, as I’m typing now, I’m feeling a little unwell, with that feeling in your throat that you get just before you actually catch a flu.
It’s time to start consuming those Vitamin C tablets.
(Well, actually, probably what I need more is breaking out of the habit of sleeping only after 3 AM).
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