Top Ten Things To Do When Your Internet Connection is Down
- Read your snail mail piling up on your desk.
- Remove all the junk pinned to you cubicle partition wall over the years – 1997 office memos, Dilbert comic strips (photocopied from In.Tech), takeaway menu from Domino’s/Ah Heng packed lunch, list national public holidays, advertisement for gym club membership, etc.
- Separate your trash into the three main categories for recycling – junk food plastic wrappers, finger nail clippings and bio-degradable left-over food.
- Do some REAL work for a change?
- See who among your colleagues can flick a paperclip the furthest.
- Launch 200 paper airplanes from the window of the 25th floor of your office.
- Challenge your colleagues to an exhilarating game of networked Hearts.
- Get to know that guy that has been sitting next to your cubicle – for the last 3 years.
- Play Minesweeper.
- I dunno, like, read a book?
18 Comments
GhOsT
My input:
Write my blog entry on a piece of paper and transfer it online, when the connection is back!
Cheers!!!
Inevitable
Call the god damn Steam-my-ass technical dept to complain and ask for a rebate …
mudslinger
knock kick bash your pc, even though you know it won’t do anything.
scream, ‘you stoopik stoopik stoopik internet’.
then hug your monitor and cry and say ‘sorry, sorry i love you, pls come back’.
if all else fails, you go for favourite pastime of all govt servants lor – tea break!
egghead
tell your boss you can’t work due to network failure and take the rest of the day off 😛
ShaolinTiger
I tend to tidy up my PC, all the crap I’ve downloaded, organise what I want, delete all I don’t then go through all my e-mail and reply some I haven’t replied yet using offline mode..
Then go to sleep in the server room.
Boone
Well, either Roy Keane or Pat Vieira holds the record for the most dismissal in the EPL (the Vinny Jones Award), and we’ll see who are potential thugs who can beat the record. Neill should be more than half-way there by now. He got away scot-free when he broke Jaime Carragher’s ankle 2 years ago.
Boone
Whoops sorry, posted comments in the wrong place!!
Boone
Ah, must try to avoid such a scenerio, have a back-up internet connection. Dial-up also can-lah; may not be able to do the bit-torrent thing, but can still send and receive email, read soccernet, star online or simontalks………
Papi
Go down to the food court to have teh-tarik.
JerryC
Go out and get some sun. With a Wifi notebook. And head for the nearest Hotspot. Yep. 😀
mahagurusia
Huahaha! Finally you can separate your arse from your chair without having them surgically remove. Take a walk and take time to smell the roses. 🙂
keng
blog offline, and leave a comment asking “how come no ppl commenting my blog”?
and later find out that the modem is not working, not the Internet connection is down!!
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husband
hahahaha mudslinger – anxiously waiting for someone to do that
Dangerous Variable
Call the ISP people and scream at them 10 times.
singth
pick your nose whole day….
simon
Ghost – use MS Word lar…!
inevitable – streamyx phone line also down… damn sickening…
mudslinger – i think you should spend less time away from the PC!
egghead – good one!
shaolintiger – i bet your server room also has an awesome aircon like mine!
boone – but those are the most important things in the internet!!!
papi – most of my colleagues and bosses would also be there!!!
jerryC – yeh i like that one!
mudslinger & husband – betul ke? your husband aa?
mahagurusia – sometimes can only smell ciggie smoke and haze 🙁
keng – happen to you ka?
dangerous variable – tried la, their always engage with other ppl screaming at them!
singth – after the first 3 hours then nothing much to pick oredi…
arins
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