Quest for a Nokia CA-42 cable

Since I moved to the city I have been wanting to post some of the photos I took using my Nokia phone. It's not a fancy shmancy phone (I've had it for three years) but at least I can take pictures with it - some are even surprisingly good (depending on the light I think, or the angle, whatever) - since I can't afford my dream Cybershot phone...YET!!! Hehe.

The phone has no Bluetooth nor a memory card, it has Infrared. And since I'm a cheapskate and did not want to shell out 600 buckaroos to buy the connectivity cable (which I really believe should come with the phone when you buy it, hmp!), I bought myself an IR USB device, for a couple hundred bucks less. It served its purpose, I was able to upload my photos to my PC back in Daet using the Nokia PC Suite I downloaded from the Internet. However, right now I can't seem to make it work. I left my Installer CD in Sta Rosa, so I had to download the PC Suite again, but it's been upgraded. Now it won't detect my phone. I guess I need the CD to install the hardware for the USB IR device, but I can actually trasfer files from the PC to the phone, so I don't know why it wouldn't do it the other way around. Sigh!

My roommate said I can find connectivity cables at CD-R King, but we went there this weekend and there's no CA-42 cable. Sucks.

It frustrates me that the cable has to be product specific. Why can't they just one connectivity cable for all phone models! And why oh why don't they just include it in the freaking package when you buy it?

Till I can afford a new phone with all the fancy shmancy features, I'd have to find a CA-42 cable for my Nokia 6070. And since I'm still cheap (hehe), I'd walk into every CD-R King store all over just to find one.

Sheez. Better just get the original cable for a cost huh? Wah.


(photo from myworldphone.com)

Maestra Po!!!

I just learned last Monday that I passed the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET). Yay!!! Out of 111,666 examinees...I got lucky.

I didn't even go to any review center because I didn't have the moolah. I just gathered all my notes from school, my photocopies and lecture notes - it took me a week of serious filing just to get them organized. My boyfriend also gave me one of those reviewers so I used it to test my knowledge after reading.

When June came I was already in panic mode, because most of my classmates enrolled themselves in review classes which started in April and would end in September. I was anxious because I thought I didn't have enough material for the exam coverage, and I was reviewing at my own pace which was a couple of hours twice a day. Just reading, then testing myself. About a month or so before the exam date I went to Laguna and found a comprehensive reviewer for Professional Education, and my major which was English and Literature. I photocopied the two booklets which belonged to my niece's teacher who was also an English major and was set to take the board. Those booklets, I believe now, saved my arse. Most of what was in the Prof. Ed. and Major part of the exam can be found in those reviewers.

Basically it all boiled down to self-discipline and sheer will. There was a time I got so depressed because I felt I had so little time to study everything. I actually thought I was doomed to fail. The fact that most of the people I know, like my teachers and schoolmates, expected me to pass with flying colors only added to the pressure. I almost didn't want to take the exam.

But hey, here I am...not certified yet, but I got through the first step! I am more than grateful. I got one less thing to worry about.