Edgar Chiang

Just a couple of days back, I received a bill shock for my handphone and I am still reeling in pain from it. But I have no one but myself to blame for it.

It all started when I went for a short weekend overseas getaway with my friends. All was happy and gay until I received a call from office. What I should have done there and then was to tell the caller that I am overseas and they should call somebody that is back home. Maybe because of some misplaced notion of responsibility or something like that coupled with not reading the rates of calling from that place, I continued to answer the call and tried to troubleshoot the problem for a good 20 odd minutes which eventually still needed somebody back home to do some intervention.

All in all, the total damage from this 20 odd minutes is 80 plus bucks. An expensive lesson learnt. When on holiday be on holiday.