The Pager Era

My Sunpage Pager

Remember those days?? the pager era ... was when I was in secondary 3 to poly year 1 or 2.

Yup those were the days, where holding a memo jazz was a big deal ! But I couldn't afford one. I can't remember if the one above is the only one I owned or the 2nd one.

Those Alpha numeric messages.. remember? only available for those holding memo jazz.. arghhh. As I watch them punching furiously on the public phonecard phone and feeling proud on how fast they can type a sentence of message..

But for those normal pagers like mine, we do have our own way of expressing our thoughts in messages. Remember those sweet little notes ? "6#9#577 Good night sleep tight tight" , "6000#177" Good morning, "1#177155#4" I miss u .( those who r interested to know more can ask me, I still have a list). I find these much interesting then nowadays SMS. especially those newly invented mesages so that u have to guess what it means. ( like cracking Da Pager code)

One of the pager pranks I made, which I still remember till today was I asked a friend of mine from another department(during my poly days where holding an ericsson handphone was a big deal, I can't afford) to use his handphone to give a page to my classmate. When he returned the call, my friend was to tell him that he was from the pager service provider company and to inform him that his pager subcription will be cancelled. Being suprised and unsatisfied, my classmate said "but I paid my bills!" and demanded an explanation(He sounded like his tears are going to roll down anytime). Well my friend give a reply which till today I am still puzzled what it actually means. "Your pager was cancelled due to customer restrictions".

They also introduced the introductry message where you can record or play music of approximately 10 seconds of your choice so that when your friends paged you they can listen to the music(emil chow's peng you was quite a popular choice) or your nice vocal that you have recorded. Once I recorded the sound of "duuuuuuuuuuuu", and so when my friends page, they thought that they couldn't get through and called again n again only to find out that they have drained all their phonecard credits. hehe

Then slowly handphones began to take over with more affordable prices and yes! holding a pager was still a big deal becos everyone will be looking at you if your pager beeps...