1. "The internet has stopped working."
This should not even surprise me. I arrive at the office in the morning, take my computer and can not get online. To my horror the modem is doing the flashing lights of doom dance. As usual, after a strong fit of hysteria, I called my ISP and they say, "Bu MAAF, ada gangguan jaliran," (there is a problem with the network). I could have told me that. So the emails are answered on the BlackBerry and a few cups of coffee have been. The Internet comes on and off all day and I just grin and bear it.
2. "I can not get on my own website, because my provider thinks I'm a pirate."
This is great. you spend months preparing your nifty website that you can not even access (the rest of the world can, mind you) because you were once inserted the wrong password more than three times. Why it must be more than three days service provider to resolve the problem is beyond me.
3. "the phone is dead. I'm sorry, what were you saying? "
How many times have you been in the middle of an important business call or argument with your boyfriend or girlfriend and the phone just died? Then you must restart the phone, wait, type your password, wait, approve the date and time, wait, then call the customer back and deal with the formalities to apologize or call your loved ones back and answer, "You hanged over me ?! "
4." Your site is nice, but I can not find any info on it! "
It seems that the people misunderstand the developed a website - it must provide the user with information about the company, not you taken a tour of "How cool our pictures look and if you roll over the image, the pop up Oooooh ... . Aaaaaaah! '(Standing ovation from the crowd.)
5. "I can not see your Flash website on my BlackBerry ..."
6. "I'm in the shower and the lights cut"
Age problem here and there may be two kinds;! Breakdown of electricity from the power company or the damn switch in the fuse box has switched again because he can not put the hairdryer your roommate just put on. Scream grope in the dark waiting for eyes to adjust, towel seized, and Stomp slowly through the house, arms outstretched like a scene from the "Thriller" video MJ to the fuse box or just simply rest flow like a wet dog while you wait PLN to solve the problem at source.
7. "ITunes Indonesia sucks."
what is this? Why is if I create an account in the UK, I can download music, apps, movies, TV programs and more, but if I create an Indonesian account all I get is applications and music ? Surely the same should be available no matter where your account is registered? Jobs, could you kindly haunt me with the answer?
8. "My iPad does not work because the wifi is too slow!"
I bought my boyfriend a iPad2 (WiFi only but at least I'm not the 32GB and 16GB!) for Christmas and after the initial excitement, I am faced with the anxiety and distress when it turned out that none of applications it downloads work. you should have seen his face, he was mortified. it was a complete disappointment. We tried all sorts of things and as soon as we were able to connect to a broadband wireless connection, bam, like any magic worked .
9. "I downloaded a free app, but now I have to pay for it?"
So you look for the ages in search of cool applications and locate an awesome guitar tab application that reads, "Free! Access thousands of feet!" After downloading, it is it should have read: "Nothing is free! This is a scam, do not download me! "What a waste of time.
10." The phone number on the Internet does not work. "
Last but certainly not least, why my work phone bumps everywhere. you browse the web looking for the phone number of a business and after ponsing around the site, you eventually find it. you call the number and rings ... and rings ... and rings. you hang up and try another number listed and it rings ... and rings ... and rings. you try the first number again and just when you are about to give up, the phone is answered with a loud and unprofessional, "YA?"
at this point, you hold back the frustration and ask that while you can, " ini toko kabinet? "(Is it the store of the cabinet?).
"Apa ??"
"Pak, toko ini bukan kabinet?" (Is the furniture store or not?)
"Hah? Oh, sebentar, "conducted by" TUTI! ADA YANG Telfon! "That kindly shouted near the mouth for you, thank you very much.
Tuti just the phone and sounds like she just woke up from a sleep a month. "Iya ..?"
Anyway, you get the picture. At the end you realize that kabinet Toko was transferred there a year and you just spend 15 minutes talking to Tweedledee and Tweedledum in an almost incoherent dialect of Bahasa. You hang up and start the process again.
Let me know if you have experienced the same or other frustrations of technology while living here. One more point I have to do is no matter how the above can make you crazy, it does make you laugh and they say that laughter is the best medicine!