Three times a year, all eight of us in the office sit around our conference table and get updated on how our galleries did the previous four months. It is also a time to voice our concerns about the goings on, good and bad. And we do short term goal setting, into long terms.... well, the short term goal set by D, our all around everything and my driver-when-he's-free, was to fix the internet connection which has been on the blink ever since. Not ever since Ondoy flooded Pasong Tamo Extension, but ever since PLDT connected it.
His very insightful, and very Pinoy solution, is to connect our own line straight to the PLDT router on the street (and not to the one in the building). He has followed our line physically and found that it snakes around the back of the gallery, into a clump of indistinguishable wires which are all spliced from one connection. Thus every time there is a problem (no internet), the person PLDT calls is Romy, the taong building. Now, Romy is no genius, and uses a screwdriver as his single tool for fixing everything. Read: he is useless. So D figures, if PLDT calls Romy, then it must be the building that's got a problem. So, why not make our own direct line crossing over our bridge, much nearer to the street than snaking around the building, straight into the box?
Let's see if it works.
Image: Gilda Cordero Fernando, Inang Bayan in Perilous Times, SLab Gallery, Oct 21 - Nov 21 2009
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