I did the stupidest thing again this morning. My phone is quite sensitive so sometimes even when I hold it and move around I will unintentionally lock it because the keypad is accidentally pressed and it will be locked after 3 incorrect tries. 

So the same thing happened this morning and I had a sudden thought that even though my screen is locked, if I lose my phone, people can still take out my SIM card and steal my data right? A daring thought came to my mind to lock my sim but I figured that I would do it after I tapped into the mrt gantry (still had some sense there thankfully) but as you could tell..things didn’t go exactly like I planned.

Somehow there was already a default sim pin lock code?! (Which is found from your initial SIM card barcode or sth) and I didn’t know I just thought I could set my own and again I was oblivious to the fact the phone setting asked me to key in 3 times (I tot was just to verify; my sense really flushed down the drain sia) and as you would have guessed, the 3 times was a prompt to key in the correct pin else it would get locked and yes..my sim really got locked in the end ☹️

I was unable to turn on my data the whole train ride to office and I couldn’t call the M1 service for help cos the sim was locked. Never did I wish harder to reach office so I would have wifi (and play my mobile games!) and then the whole morning/period after lunch I was frantically trying to reach M1 by FB and emphasizing again and again that I COULDN’T CALL THE HELPDESK TO RESOLVE THIS and I didn’t have an alternative number to use to call because my office is so secure I couldn’t make personal calls out using VOIP but thank goodness my VOIP could receive calls and someone from M1 eventually called me to give me a new sim passcode to unlock my sim and I could have data again

Whew. Pretty tiring recounting what happened here but gentle (and mindful) reminder to myself to think thrice (and maybe more) before attempting stupid things again!!

i really dont like ppl touching my stuff!!

last week i was really annoyed at my landlady for what she did. so i prepared a parcel for jl + calean as a birthday gift for nathan and i had arranged qxpress to pick it up. i left for work the next day and placed it on the shoe rack above with the qr code for the courier to scan. later that day at work, i received a whatsapp from my landlady saying that she has taken in my parcel. siao liao i thought. i was 100% sure that it was the one i put out for qxpress because i wasnt expecting any parcel delivery. i replied her asking what colour was the parcel, was it yellow? she replied brown. ok a bit of doubt that it wasnt the qxpress parcel i put out but still 90% sure. 

when i returned home i sighed when i saw that yellow parcel outside my door. no wonder the qxpress status said pickup failed. i had called qxpress that day to enquire and they did say the uncle didnt manage to pick up. 100% sure the reason is cos she took the parcel in. nvm. i put it out again the next day at the same place and i msged my landlady that this parcel dont need to take in, it's for courier to pick up. and even so, the addressee wasnt even my name! at this point i was a bit annoyed because i kinda wasted 1 day due to the missed pickup but what she replied me made me fume even more. she said that she didnt know (understandable) and she wouldnt have brought it in if she saw me take it out and i should have informed her about it?!?! the last sentence was so out of line!! it became my fault because i didnt inform her?!?! i was so pissed but i still tried to hint subtly that i get notifications about my parcels and she doesnt need to take in my parcels for me (ie dont need to kaypoh!!!) 

in the end the pickup failed again the next day and i had to submit a refund request for it because it had failed twice and i was panicking frantically to use grab/tada to deliver but overall settled. paid a bit more for the tada express ($14.27 as compared to qxpress $4.30) but whatever right, things are not a problem if money can solve them. please tell me my feelings are justified :/