Eta Uso's Mind Scripts

Blackberry; a mobile device famously called a perfect companion. It is a device that keeps your office and business with you wherever you go. However, as we all know, a Blackberry cannot function at its full potential without an active Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) or Blackberry Enterprise Service (BES) Plan. Having a blackberry was fun, but maximising its purpose for which it was built, has been a thing of frustration, thanks to Globacom Nigeria. I have been a Globacom Nigeria mobile subscriber for the past five (5) years and I must commend that it has been a period of smiles and satisfaction. I was impressed by Globacom Nigeria’s Quality of Service (QoS) as regards voice calls, therefore, when I finally bought a blackberry some few months back , I decided to hook onto “Globacom Nigeria’s Blackberry Internet Service” and this singular act of mine, happened to be my un-doing. No doubt, I had some blissful moments at the beginning but it did not last long, as the true face of ...

That moment of change of which I have been waiting for has come. I will be gone but I will be back; Stronger, Better and loaded with all The Best Things of Life.

It is 09:36pm on the 12th of June, 2010. I am on the bed; my mind is wandering and I am thinking of what to blog about. On one side, I am remembering that Nigeria started their world cup campaign with a goal down to Argentina and on the other side; I am getting uneasy with thoughts as to the reason why the blackberry network in Calabar has been down for three days consecutively. In between these thoughts, I am thinking about the political situation in the state as regards the forth-coming elections. While these thoughts where wandering, I felt it good to put it on paper. Anyway, while writing these thoughts down, my mind just got blank as there seem to be no thoughts coming through anymore. Therefore I am dropping my pen as there are no thoughts to put on paper for now. Till when next my mind starts wandering. Am Out! Astalavista.

I write this message with regards to the consistent grief and unequivocal failure being showcased by ZAIN Nigeria in Calabar, Cross River State. I have been a Zain subscriber since the year 2004. My Zain line, back then which was known as Econet Wireless, was the first gsm line I ever had. From the day I subscribed to this network in 2004 till date, it has been a case of continuous and consistent poor quality of service. All my friends, immediate family members and relations who back then were all on the Zain network, have all migrated to other networks and have permanently dumped their Zain lines which have been since disconnected by the network due to inactivity. I am the only person and I mean, the only person, within my clique of friends and family members that still uses the Zain network. My only reason for being loyal to the Zain network even with her consistent failure is just because it was my first line and it happens to be the line I put in my Year Book during my High School...

Sitting down scrolling through my phone on the 10 th of April, 2010 @ 6am and I came across the lovely pictures I snapped during my 3-day trip to Uyo last year, then suddenly, memories flow in like a speeding Ferrari and I just wished I could replay in detail, those moments of my Uyo trip once again. As the memories flew in, I could not help but write out my experience seen below. The reason for my trip to Uyo was in respect to an interview for students who applied to undergo their Industrial Training Attachment at Mobil Nigeria Unlimited. The beauty of my trip started just as we drove into Uyo, I was marvelled by the quality of the road both in width and thickness of which was almost under completion by the german construction giants; Julius Berger. The comfort and smooth movement courtesy of the new uyo road, which was near completion as at then was in a class of its own as against the bumpy ride of the expressway that links Cross River and Akwa Ibom State. Alongside the roads whi...

Got rights to it, in a fairly used state. It really did make me smile as far back as the year, 2007. But then, never did I know that I was in possession of one of the worst cars ever produced by Peugeot. This car, the Peugeot 306 only gave me temporary joy between the years 2007 – 2008. Since then, it has been a case of one fault to another even the fact that I rarely drive it to anywhere aside from school and back home daily. Another shocker came mid-2009 when I found out that Peugeot had long stopped production of the Peugeot 306 models, it then dawned on me that even Peugeot as a company knew that this model (Peugeot 306) was a failure. This car has been to the best technicians and mechanics in my city with no solution to the multiple problems it keeps generating daily. Right now I can only sit and hope for God’s grace to prevail. With this car’s continuous problem of ceasing and going off whenever the brakes are applied coupled with so many side-attraction faults that sometimes m...