Tennis Chatter

There is an unwritten professional ethic that unless you are dead or dying you have to do what you have to do.

The recent earthquake in Taiwan left our network cables in tatters. Our virtual reality has been in total blackout for days.

Repair has been like a crawling hundred year old turtle. Timing is the key to log into the internet nowadays otherwise one gets a daily dose of frustration. Most people have lives to live outside their PCs as well, yes, thank God! Even calling overseas is tedious and telephone operators’ ears and noses are actually breathing fire from hearing customer complaints coming at full merciless speed. Lest we forget, customers are always right. Despite delays and to make up for some days’ absence beyond my control I will try to do multiple postings in a day.

In fairness I am pretty sure that network servicemen are working overtime to fix the problem. Cables were supposed to be buried underneath the ocean so frogmen are now starting to grow gills in their long exposure to water.

Since internet service is a marketing construct brought about by technological outburst, Asia went catatonic for a while when all electronic lines were disabled after the earthquake. Pre-internet days are dragging things in slothful pace. You can feel a silent panic happening since isolation is not anymore a sound policy today. Something in this manner: “No internet? Fine! Still no in connection? How long would this go on? Tennis season is already starting and I have deadlines! Oh, my, what should I do? I have forgotten how to write long hand now!�?

Here’s the scoop: this is the best time to stop and smell the flowers.