Thursday, September 17, 2009; 3:04 PM
I'd been receiving nuisance call and SMS recently. Fed up!
I have this habit of switching off my mobile's network connection before going to bed, but still leaving the phone phyically on; 'cos the phone's alarm + vibration is a must-have to wake me up every morning.
I won't miss any calls anyway.. 'Cos I've got Singtel's missed call alert service.
I didn't used to cultivate this habit off switching the connection off until I read on articles that sleeping with mobile phone under our pillow can cause harm to our body. The radiation emitted from the devices can cause turmor overtime okay???
So people, please stop sleeping with your handphone under your pillow!!!
Last Sunday, as usual I switched on the network connection in the morning, and shortly an SMS notification came into my inbox:
" CallerAlert
81XXXX51 tried to call you 10 times while
you were not reachable. This service is
brought to you by Singtel Mobile. "
10 times!!! Because I slept quite late the previous night at around 2am, it means that this fellow must have called me 10 times between 2am to 7am!!!
I didn't recognize the phone number so I tried calling but the phone was switched off... I decided to brush this aside since I couldn't get through the line.
I almost forgot about this incident completely 'till I received an SMS from this midnight caller:
" Sorry sorry I call wrong last nite . . Hope did not
disturb your sleep . ."
WTF. How could someone call the same wrong number again and again for 10 times???
I replied asking who he/she is, NO REPLY. So I called, NO ANSWER.
I concluded that this person must be drunk calling me at such hours but couldn't get through me so he/she called and called. When he/she woke up the next day in the evening with a big hangover, he/she scrolled through his/her call log and was shocked / regretted that he/she actually called me SO MANY TIMES at such hours and so decided to drop me a message to apologise.
Then, there was this morning while on the crowded train to work. I received an SMS which took me such trouble to fish the phone out from my bag, just to read this message now still being left unanswered:
"Harloo.. How r u?? Whn getting married?? Hee"
I replied asking who he/she is. NO REPLY.
Be it someone I know or do not know. But could you please at least have the courtesy to reply my SMS or pick up my call, can't you?
Period.
