Month: May 2011

Bonding


Michelle was off to Divisoria with Yvette. So I’m left with Jeanne. When she woke up, I prepared breakfast of hard boiled eggs, sausages, and orange juice. She drank the juice, of course, and ate the egg but didn’t like the sausages. After breakfast, we played/read till she eventually got tired/bored, I then gave her milk and she napped, her usual pattern. Michelle was supposed to arrive with lunch by noon but she got delayed so we ended up having the chicken adobo I cooked for dinner the night before.

Unlocking the Huawei D100

I recently got a Huawei E5 with a Globe Tattoo subscription. Although I can easily share the Internet connection to my wireless devices, I needed my PS3 and Linkstation to share the connection and be accessible from my wireless devices. Supposedly, the E5 can be used as a USB modem. But when I plugged it to the USB port of my Huawei D100 router, it wouldn’t work. Next, I removed the Globe SIM from the E5, put it in my unlocked Huawei E1550, and plugged it into the D100. No luck either. It seems I need to unlock my D100, too.

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Baby’s Day Out: High Street

Michelle’s mom is out taking care of Yorick who was sick. When she’s not around, we usually leave Jeanne at Auntie Tita’s but they’re also unavailable for the next two days.  So I took the day off to babysit and Michelle will take the next day off.

Jeanne was napping when I received Michelle’s message that Jeanne’s urinalysis results have arrived and the doctor said she has UTI and would need to take antibiotics. I prepared my baby bag– a re-purposed Crumpler camera bag– dressed up Jeanne, drove to Serendra, and parked. We then walked the short distance to the Mercury at Market! Market! to buy the antibiotics.

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Huawei E5 (Globe Tattoo Superstick)

I finally got fed up with the recent erratic behavior of my Sun wireless broadband connection and decided to disconnect it. To replace it, I got the Globe Tattoo Superstick. It is essentially a rebranded Huawei E5 packaged with a Globe Tattoo subscription. The rebrand involves the firmware and a hideous Tattoo sticker that I promptly removed.

The E5 is a mobile 3G modem, router, and wireless access point. As a 3G modem, it connects to your 3G network provider (in this case Globe). As a wireless access point, it serves up to 5 wireless clients which can then connect via the router to the 3G modem, and then to the Internet. It has a battery that lasts at around 2-3 hours with one charge. A bit short but can be longer since you can charge it via USB from your laptop (now that’s a mutualism relationship!).

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