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de Virtuele Assistent van Tele2

dutchweed — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:53:44 +0000

Tele2 zegt:Welkom bij de Klantenservice van Tele2. Waarmee kan ik je van dienst zijn?

Jij zegt:mijn abonnement is afgelopen bijna, en ik wil overstappen naar een prepaid abonnement, met nummerbehoud

Tele2 zegt:Als ik het goed begrijp wil je gebruik gaan maken van Internet & Bellen van Tele2?

Jij zegt:nee…

Tele2 zegt:Hmm. Dan heb ik je verkeerd begrepen. Kan ik je nog ergens anders mee helpen?

Jij zegt:praat ik nou tegen een robot??

Tele2 zegt:Dat begreep ik niet. Kan ik je verder nog ergens mee van dienst zijn?

Jij zegt:lekker slim

Tele2 zegt:Pardon, ik kom er niet uit. Ik probeer je te begrijpen. Kan ik je verder nog ergens mee van dienst zijn?

Jij zegt:ja dat lees ik!

Tele2 zegt:Ik snap je helaas niet. Wil je daarom contact opnemen met de klantenservice? Kan ik je verder nog ergens mee van dienst zijn?

Jij zegt:hebben ze daar wel hersens?

Tele2 zegt:Dat begreep ik niet. Wil je daarom contact opnemen met de klantenservice? Kan ik je verder nog ergens mee van dienst zijn?

Jij zegt:welke kleur ondergoed heb je aan?

Tele2 zegt:Sorry, nu snap ik even niet goed wat je zegt. Je kunt via mij een e-mailbericht achterlaten voor de Tele2 klantenservice. Wil je dat?

Jij zegt:wat is je adres schatje?

Tele2 zegt:Dat begreep ik even niet. Je kunt via mij een e-mailbericht achterlaten voor de Tele2 klantenservice. Wil je dat?

Jij zegt:ehh…

Tele2 zegt:Dat begreep ik niet. Je kunt via mij een e-mailbericht achterlaten voor de Tele2 klantenservice. Wil je dat?

Jij zegt:misschien wel…

Tele2 zegt:Ik heb je helaas niet goed begrepen. Hmmm. Je kunt via mij een e-mailbericht achterlaten voor de Tele2 klantenservice. Wil je dat?

Jij zegt:hmmmm

Tele2 zegt:Ik snap je helaas niet. Wil je daarom contact opnemen met de klantenservice? Je kunt via mij een e-mailbericht achterlaten voor de Tele2 klantenservice. Wil je dat?

The summer of 2009 – 1

dutchweed — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:23:52 +0000

Time for a little update,

Summer is gone, but I don’t mind… it was a painful summer so I don’t mind embracing autimn with all its colors

When the first of May we left (Luna and I) for our ‘voyage’, I had no idea what troubles lay ahead for us.

The first weeks in Bali were ceremonies; snorkeling, fun and party until the 21st of May we got back from a long day/night of huge temple ceremony. Riding in de back of our caddy, looking at the silhouettes of the palm trees against the magical starry sky, Luna started not feeling well.

By the time we arrived home, she was very sick; vomiting, fever, headaches. All night this went on and the days after she got slightly better…fever was gone but the headaches were still there. We all thought she had inflammation of the sun, because at the ceremony was not much shade to hide for us. When she felt “better “after a week, we could only leave the house at night, Luna did not support the burning sun anymore. A week or so later, Luna still wasn’t really better, we seen a doctor who didn’t give a diagnose, just some amoxicillin (medicine #1, beats most bacteria’s). I never been to a Bali doctor without leaving with that medicine, regardless what troubles I came with

Anyway, Luna was still not feeling 100% and a week later things got worse. The fever went up (high!) and down, headaches became unbearable, dizziness and neck pains started to appear. Now my alarm went of… these symptoms I heard of, could she have meningitis? All I knew about meningitis was that there should be some skin rash too… there was none. Still a day or so later we went to the doctor again, the time we arrived the fever was down for a while and the doctor could not find anything strange with Luna… maybe an infection of the throat, so we got another load of penciling again.

However, because she was dizzy, he advised to get a brain scan done when back to Holland. We went home again ( read: 1 hour drive to the doctor – snake road – 4 hours waiting before we see the doctor – jam karet – 1 hour drive back)

Exhausted Luna went to bed. The next day was even worse, Luna had been screaming of pain and I could not rely on the judgment of the doc anymore.

We went to the hospital in Amlapura. Been there before and knew it is primitive, but I was hoping they could help. All common tests were done, I tried to explain to them that I was thinking it was meningitis but I never got through to them because they had no clue what I was trying to say. Fever of Luna was low at that time; later when we got home with stronger penciling Luna got even worse and I started to slightly panic. I realized all options of healthcare in this primitive part of Bali were done; last option was to go to Kuta BIMC hospital. The only hospital I heard there was, runned by mostly western doctors.

First I went on the internet to read about meningitis, because her symptoms really pointed in that direction, except the skin rashes.

On the website of the Dutch meningitis association I read immediately that meningitis not always comes with the skin rash, and all symptoms of Luna fitted exactly into the meningitis profile. Now it was time to panic.

I wrote an email to the BIMC hospital to tell them I would arrive early morning with my 16 year old daughter whom I suspected of meningitis…

That night Luna stayed sick and early next morning we went to kuta to get to the BIMC a.s.a.p.

When we arrived we had to fill in a shitload of paperwork before seeing a doctor. (they will not help you unless it’s guaranteed you pay, so credit card check and stuff like that seemed to take forever)
When we completed all paperwork we could see the doctor. I could hardly speak of emotion > I was convinced my kid had a life threatning disease, but after a short inspection, the doc told me not to worry, it didn’t look like meningitis at all, and he would do some tests to see what was wrong with her : again typhus and most common tests (that were already done…) were done again. I kept telling them that I wanted then to test meningitis also, because she had all symptoms.
They told me they would do so.

Now I did not know what test were necessary for this > they only took blood and gave her an IV. I agreed she would stay 6 hours for observation. I’ll leave out the fuzz about a manager of the hospital repeatly coming to me with a list of costs I owed them…
Meanwhile my Balinese family is waiting outside.

6 hours later; we did not see any doctor anymore, just a nurse that changed IV or brought something to eat and drink.
6 1.2 hours later, I decide to go ask for a doctor who can tell me what;s up.

The doctor told me the blood results were all ok, but they like to keep her 1 day for observation, but we could go home too!

I looked that doctor in the eye and asked her : “Did you do tests for meningitis too?”and she answered me, “No, no need to do that, it is not meningitis”
Again tears welled up in my eyes, this time they were tears of frustration. I asked her in a desperate way: “Can YOU guarantee me it is not meningitis?” Her answer after a moment of reflection was No. Inside I exploded, with shaking voice I told her I demanded a test on meningitis right now! We were 8 hours in that hospital > I came to check for meningitis > almost $ 1000 (!) and 8 hours later I found out they did not check it at all, because THEY thought it was not that.

Now here’s the clue: to do the meningitis tests they needed a neurologist, they had to get her from sanglah hospital (in the same city)

They called her to come (after miss manager informed about the costs again), again it took hours before she cam, but when she arrived and examined Luna, it took less than 5 minutes to set the diagnose that I feared so much. It was meningitis, we had to act fast now.

Shit, writing this down is harder than I thought

Meanwhile Made and Gusti were still waiting for me, At 8 PM (we left at 6 AM that day) I already told them Luna and I would stay in the hospital, but they waited hopefully for us ’till midnight.

After the diagnose I was told she needed a lumbar punction to do a meningitis test, but before that they needed to take x-rays of her spine and a scan of her brains; miss manager came along with the costs again , and I started to panic when I saw her list; my credit card and all cash were not enough to cover this. O.M.G.!

But then they told me they could contact my insurance to ask if they would call me back. I was happy to talk to my insurance, they took over right away, gave full clearance for the costs over the telephone and would sent a conformation by fax a.s.a.p. What a relief, Luna would finally be cured! We waited for somebody to come pick us up for the scan and x-rays… waiting takes long. After (again) an hour I went to the hallway to ask what’s taking them so long?
I see the neurologist and the doc are killing time with a magazine!! They tell me they are not allowed to start the test until the fax with insurance clearance has arrived. Another inner panic explosion! What if that takes days?? They had the clearance through telephone already > time was ticking.

to be continued…

From this moment on there’s no more day nor nighttime for me. Events pass by like a movie.

Baba 2

dutchweed — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:15:46 +0000

Baba died two days ago.

As if she was feeling we are going to leave her 4 months behind… the past weeks she started to stop playing and eating less, and sighed a lot, I thought she was depressed because she felt something is going on in our family.

Last Tuesday I decided to go see the vet, to check her. He examined her blood, which was perfect on all levels, and told me that it could be either a virus or cancer of the lungs, since she had a breast amputated 6 years ago because of a bad tumor.

I went home with pills but she got worse bi the hour. The next day she could not walk for 20 meters anymore.

I went back to the vet, because her tongue started to turn blue from lack of oxygen. He diagnosed the cancer and told me we had to decide if and when we wanted to put her asleep.

We went home and talked about it and we decided we would wait ’till after the weekend, so we could get used to her leaving us.

The next day she was even worse so I called the vet to tell him I didn’t want her to suffer anymore, made the appointment for that evening, the vet would come to our house, to keep Baba relaxed, since she’s terrified of the vet’s place.

However in the afternoon Baba started to act weird and within 1/2 our she died. I called the vet, but when he arrived she was already in a coma. She died in-between Luna and me.

We miss her.

So.. two of our old animals died in 1 month, and 6 days until we are in Bali. The irony …

The Balinese in our village would be rolling over the floor of laughing when they would read this post!

A dog is either a pain in the ass the you kick around and throw rocks (bad karma) at OR you catch it and you make a good sateh anjin with it.

Well I’m going to start the real packing now, make a checklist, papers, money, too many clothes that we’ll never wear over there, laptop, work, administration, medication.. did I forget something?

Baba

dutchweed — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:17:07 +0000

Our sweet old Baba is sick… she can hardly breath

The vet says it’s probably cancer, and we have to prepare to send her to her endless sleep.I miss her already! We got her in the same year as Butcher..they came together, they go together…

For 14 years she was our loyal friend, now we’ve got a few days left.

1992… Nothing has changed

dutchweed — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:07:01 +0000

Friday morning

dutchweed — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:32:20 +0000

In exactly 2 weeks, we’re off to Asia. I’m getting more and more excited, wondering how Luna will react to being so long away from home… and me too, first time without my papa! who was always in Bali when I was there. If any problems, he would arrange everything to solve them. This time it will be different, but now that I speak the language better, I’ll think I’ll manage, if not, well that would be my KARMA then (East Bali way of thinking)

I just booked a flight Bali -Thailand too!
21 July we’ll fly for 2 weeks to Bangkok, and we’ll travel around a bit too.
We will meet Jazz there and his (new) gf. He will show us around, since he’s there for quite some time now, he knows what are must-sees there.

Yesterday I called my friend Jacky. She lives in Bali with her son and it was soooo good to hear her voice, we were both trying to understand each other, but the connection was so bad we ended up with sending txt messages. It was fun to hear her laughing though.

The renovation of our room is finished now, so I can start cleaning there.
I had to go out last night to buy a new vacuum cleaner > ours broke down at the moment we most needed it!
This was vacuum cleaner number 4 in 3 years!! Can you believe the shit they build these days, just to keep economies going?
My first vacuum cleaner was at least 15 years old, was given for free to me and I got rid of it just because the iron robot was too big and heavy for me… I wish I never done that. They don’t make stuff anymore like they used to do.
well, I hope my new dust sucking baby will live longer and stronger

Oh jeah… look at the nice grave our Butcher has:

Close up of his present for the eternal hunting fields, some body stole it already, now there is a statue of a cat at that place (present of Marcia)

Connecting the World Through Music

dutchweed — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:23:35 +0000

This is one of the things I think , that make the internet a great place:

BBB

dutchweed — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:12:43 +0000

Bang Bang Bazooka – I’m The Devil – Promo-Clip from Tombstone on Vimeo.

see you on the other side?

dutchweed — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:11:18 +0000

If there is another side. and animal spirit and human spirit reunite, I will have a couple of animals waiting for me.

One of them is Butcher. He just died in my arms, he woke me up (to say goodbye?) and 20 min. later he stopped breathing. What a relief… he was in pain for too long, that’s for sure. But we had a big dilemma with putting Butcher to sleep, secretly hoping he would be OK some day… now he is.

sorry liefie dat we niet dapper genoeg waren je uit je lijden te verlossen

We

dutchweed — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:07:21 +0000

It’s been a couple of months now that Jazz lives in Thailand. He’s having a good time, new country, new girlfriend. I really have to get used to the new girlfriend part though… we loved Qiong his Chinese girlfriend so much. But of course he must follow his heart, and mamma must take a step back and stop thinking about daughters in law and stop thinking every gf will be a new daughter, haha.
Anyway, he’s having a great time, because of the crisis, they only work 4 days a week: so 3 days per week left to spend sightseeing with the girlfriends. Not a bad way at all to spend 6 months Thailand.

Over here we start feeling the crisis also, I’ve got less work and every month the money seems to vaporize. Still, not complaining, I realize we still belong to the wealthiest people on earth, but not the happiest!
When Luna and I will be in Bali (in 1 month & 3 weeks we are leaving!), we will have to live on a very tight budget, it will be fun!
Oh, I’m so looking fore ward to our 4 months Bali *sigh*., but I think I mention that in every post inhere
Francois found himself at the artist section of Gretch guitars!!
Next to names like Django Reinhardt, Brian Setzer and George Harrison, not bad at all huh?
He was so happy when he found out, and I’m so happy for him!
Bang bang bazooka has a new drummer now, and for the first time in years I like what I’m hearing when I listen to the rehearsal tapes.
10 may they will do the last gig with Rene and the first gig with Marc, the new drummer. Too bad I have to miss that party, but I doubt I’ll be actually missing it, while grilling my fresh caught fish at the beach.