Symbianize

Pearlista · #1 5th May 2009 Tue, 06:34

Mag-iisang taon na pala ako sa Symbianize, naaalala ko pa yung mga araw na bago ako magregister dito sa SB..
Kasikatan ng AirG nun, and bakasyon ng 3rd Year HS nun, madalas ako sa AirG often to leech sa nalalaman ng iba or show-off sa mga nalalaman ko, by the way sa mga mainstay sa AirG dyan, SymbianOS ang username ko dati dun.. Iba't ibang uri ng tao mayroon dun, may mga nagyayabang lang, naghahanap ng kapareha sa buhay oh naghahanap lang ng away.. Madalas akong may nakakasagutan dun, lalo na sa mga religious fanatics at mga Warfreak na walang magawa sa buhay..
Then geocities and mobilemo, premium places to download for freeloaders like me.. The hype back then is too much, to the point na I have to create my own 'momo' too.. Unfortunately nga lang, 10mb lang ang cap size ng pwedeng iupload kaya nung narating ko na ang maximum, nakasawaan ko din.. Buti na lang, may nakatuklas naman ng TBC FBT.. Hahaha, I could never forget yung process nun, wherein trial and error ang gagawin.. Super bagal nga lang kasi hindi pa INET capable ang sim ko nun and unreliable kasi dapat hindi maputol yung connection. Buti na lang, TBC gave way for a more flexible and long lasting way to surf or download for free: ang @trick.. Nakalimutan ko na kung saang mosite ko nakita yun pero, kumalat din yung trick and before long almost everyone is using it.. Then came the impromptu registration sa SB..

N70me pa ang cp ko nun and naghahanap ako ng paraan to configure yung music key.. And ayun, lumabas sa search is SB, and kailangan magregister muna to download.. I registered then started to leech until I saw how Symbianizers appreciate different literary works.. Being a self-acclaimed writer myself, I decided to post some of my 'rubbish' as Jo March would say, dito sa SB..
The first few months were lush with SB related activity for me.. Una is how to post.. Pretty easy huh? Nagregister ako dito sa SB using my mobile phone and hindi ko pa alam back then na opera mini 2.6 does NOT support flash.. In frustration nagtanong tanong ako sa AirG and they all answered the same, it coincided pa sa pagkamatay ng great grandfather ko and the 'Connection Lag' problem sa globe.. How I figured it out? Well, nung naglalamay kami, we decided na magpunta sa comp shop, I was adamant at first kasi I was thinking na why would I pay 20php when I could browse with my phone albeit the lagging connection? They managed to convince me and we went to a nearby computer shop. I opened a few sites, then nang papatapos na ang time ko, I decided to open Symbianize.. And lo! I finally got pass the rules page and I managed to post my first message..

First few threads and post were ala-someone-who-happened-to-know-this-or-that, haha, halatang bago pa lang.. There were times too na may nakakasagutan ako na overzealous member ng isang sect or something, you know him right? I guess it's not right for me to correct whatever thing he has to say sa paniniwala niya, but then he started to pinpoint certain things against what I believed in so I knew I had to say something.. Answering against his taunts being hurled at my faith in face value is hard, lalo na kung tutuusin, cp lang gamit ko, opera mini 2.06, and kailangan talagang magresearch sa mga pinagsasasabi niya.. In terms of faith, ang alam ko lang mostly is historical not doctrinal and, alam kong mali ang mga sinasabi niya but then kailangan ng evidence kaya ayun, copy-paste sa mga sites.. There were some of his questions that I didn't answer, kasi paradoxical and magspark lang ulit ang isang argument with which my patience's at end.. Na-ban din siya eventually, pero the arguments we've had highlighted yung early months ko dito sa SB..
One of the breakthroughs sa fbt ng globe na hanggang ngayon ay ineenjoy natin happened around this time: opera mini 4.1 na minod ni sir Aed. It made surfing sa cp na mas madali compared sa painstaking slowness ng om 2.06. The event culminated sa pagmod ng iba pang application and ang biglang pagkalat ng trick na dahilan ng bigla ding pagbagal ng connection.. Nagsimula ding magkalat ang mga taong mapagsamantala na binebenta ang fbt sa mga taong hindi pa nakakaalam..
Before I knew it, I became addicted sa SB, kada pag-uwi sa school, I would always find time to post in a number of threads. Symbianize became an outlet for my literary side, more so that my friends aren't that type.. I would post crudely made rubbish poems written out of reverence to that special someone, hoping for nothing just my words be heard (or read?)..
Speaking of that part, hindi ko makakalimutan ang mga naipayo ko sa mga namroblema sa Love and Friendship subforum ng SB, mga payo na I know sa sarili ko na hindi ko kayang gawin.. But then there were these times na may mga problema din ako and I really have no idea what to do, I posted some threads where I receive, to my perception, mga imposibleng solusyon such as tell her, humanap ng iba.. Then I realized na that's exactly what I am doing, practice what you preach huh.. Well, in the long run, I managed to do or more precisely, managed to tell her and try to find someone else after I realized the folly of what I'm doing..
Medyo nagsubside ang senti part, pero it gave way sa frenzied 'posts race' in my part.. There's this time kasi na I somewhat view the number of posts as some kind of status symbol sa SB, yung tipong hindi dapat magpahuli.. Kaya ayun, I subscribed sa halos lahat ng forum games (seeing it the easiest way to increase my post count), welcomed all the newcomers and posted nonsense answers in several threads.. Haha, you could never imagine kung gaano makipagunahan sa forum games na gamit ang opera mini 4 and ang slow connection ng globe.. There's this time pa nga na I thought unfair yung iba kasi may pasok ako so I can't catch up at only after class ako makakapagpost.. Anyway, that 'frenzied posting' part dragged on until the time I realized the emptiness of such thing.. It coincided pa with several heartache problems in my part.. Kaya ayun, I slowed down, and finding wisdom in the quote "Work is the panacea of all ills" I made myself busy to ease the hurt kahit superficially lang..
Madami nang nagbago since I first saw Symbianize..
Wala na ang fiercely pro-Symbian who scorns all other operating systems, ang Jesus-freak na mahilig pumuna sa mga mali ng ibang religion while blatantly ignoring ang shortcomings ng religion niya, ang senti na mahilig magsabi ng mga bagay na sa sarili niya ay hindi kayang gawin, ang nonsense poster na masyadong napapraning sa postcount and ang bata na akala mo alam na niya ang lahat..
In their place ay nariyan ang curious sa os ng iba at gusto ito itry lahat, ang tolerant Catholic na marunong rumespeto, ang matiising nagmamahal na tahimik na naghihintay, ang poster na gustong maging makabuluhan ang lahat ng posts niya sa SB at ang binata na nakakaintindi na kaunti pa lang ang kanyang nalalaman..
Pero andito pa rin ang Warfreak na na nagnanais pasabugin ang mga institusyong sumususpinde ng mga walang kasalanang estudyante at nagnanais na ikalat ang pagkakapantay pantay ng lahat ng tao sa pamamagitan ng ballpen at internet.. Hahaha, joke lang..

Rarely na lang ako nakakapagpost or nakaka-OL sa Symbianize, I've missed out a lot and medyo nakaka-OP na rin with so many new members, new groups and new activities.. But Symbianize will forever remain as some kind of cyber-home for all of us.. A place of camaraderie for everyone na kayang magbehave, hahaha, and a place na outlet ng creativity ng lahat ng member..

Thank you sa lahat lahat..

You've all made my one year sa Symbianize worthwhile..

At kahit hinding hindi mapapantayan ang L. I. L. Y...

I love you all..
Symbianizer Forever..
SymbianOS
Pearlista(PHista na dapat, haha)
Frustrated Warfreak
Sentifreak
WarSen