I’ve moved in my new accomodation for about 3 weeks now and I haven’t got a phone to use. Thanks to Telstra, and some issues with the landlord. Well, my housemate and I decided to register for a phone number. Since there’s a phone line installed, so we assume that we won’t require the service of Telstra serviceman. Bull, after 3 days (the activation period), we pick up the phone, there’s no dial tone, no nothing. We called up Telstra several times. They’ve checked the number to verify, they’ve sent data packs to the number and it returned 100%. But we still pick up the phone hearing nothing.

After some checks in our house by the Telstra technicians, they’ve found out that it’s actually a line problem from the local exchange to our house. Who would had expected that? Now we’ve to pay $99 to Telstra for the check ‘coz it’s not their problem at first. It’s their policy, we were told earlier by Telstra. Anyway, it’s gonna be the landlord’s problem, all charges goes to him until the phone is working, by law.

I’m now online through an employment service in Oakleigh. It’s free for all jobseekers, but not for personal use though. But it seems that there are no monitoring going on here, so why waste the resources? Furthermore, this place is about 5 minutes driving from my place. It’s cool. Oh yeah, talking about driving. Gotta say it’s a f*ck*d up week last week. I had 2 near-accidents, if it’s not for my Sharp-Instinct-for-Collision-Prevention skillz, I woulda end up with a junkyard car. Although I do have a cover note from AAMI, a 14-day free insurance cover, which I have to pay to continue being covered. This is actually my first time driving in Australia, and the systems are really a mess. There are “hook turns” in the city, which I’ve seen for the first time anywhere in the world. Only Melbourne has it. Will explain how that goes in future posts.

Everyone prays for my phone line to work again as soon as possible! Thank you.