When i first got my pager, i was really happy and thought that it was a trend that is catching up and so everyone will have one either in their pocket or bag.
Those days, when they first introduced the pagers into the consumer world, it was huge and bulky. In fact, it was black in colour and whenever someone pages you, the screen will light up and flashes the number of the person whom is paging you.
The pager that i subscribed from Singtel had this additional benefit that it can also display Totos, 4Ds and many other messages as well. I think if i don't remember wrongly, you can instruct the Singtel operators to put in certain messages so that the other party can see it on their pager screens.
Such was the services which you can subscribe to and during those days it was really fun to watch those messages rolling thru' in your pagers. Mine was a yellow smaller version which i bought and i even had a gold chain clip attached to the pager so that you can clip it onto your pocket and even if it drops out, it will not be gone. LOL...
Because its so small, you can just slip it into your pockets of your jeans, shirt, pants...etc... and you don't feel the weight of it at all. Best of all, you can also switch it to silent mode if you are in a position of not wanting anything to disturb you in. It can even vibrate as well and any batteries which you can buy off the shelf to sustain its life, which is easily obtainable anywhere.
I remember those days where cops, nurses, doctors and what else, depends on it and when it beeps, its time to head back to your office to attend to that urgent request made by your fellow men or colleagues.
But at times, it can be frustrating. When you page and page, no one returns your call or when someone pages you, you call back, you are unable to get that person on the line again. At such moments of anger, you wish that you had a Tai Ko Tai aka Handphone to call that person right at the moment he or she pages you and get to it and not let you wondering whom has paged you and what was the business all about?
Sometimes, it could be very urgent but you are unable to access to that person again!
Another scenario, where you are in a public place and you want to contact a certain individual, how do you do that? You can only page for him, and he or she is unable to call you where you are and hence, you have to resort to asking your friend, colleague, family members to page that person and instruct from there. Hence, it really could be a hell of a challenge to do that...as i think back then...
Things change, people change, technology changes as well...Nowadays, it is so affordable to have a Handphone and some even has 2-3 Handphones as well. It has all the features of a pager and you can make a call anytime you like. Erm...i think it has way overcome the necessity of having a pager now since its so convenient and cost effective and allows anyone to own a Handphone easily.
I'm gonna miss my pager buddy from today onwards....Bye Bye Pager...
Those days, when they first introduced the pagers into the consumer world, it was huge and bulky. In fact, it was black in colour and whenever someone pages you, the screen will light up and flashes the number of the person whom is paging you.
The pager that i subscribed from Singtel had this additional benefit that it can also display Totos, 4Ds and many other messages as well. I think if i don't remember wrongly, you can instruct the Singtel operators to put in certain messages so that the other party can see it on their pager screens.
Such was the services which you can subscribe to and during those days it was really fun to watch those messages rolling thru' in your pagers. Mine was a yellow smaller version which i bought and i even had a gold chain clip attached to the pager so that you can clip it onto your pocket and even if it drops out, it will not be gone. LOL...
Because its so small, you can just slip it into your pockets of your jeans, shirt, pants...etc... and you don't feel the weight of it at all. Best of all, you can also switch it to silent mode if you are in a position of not wanting anything to disturb you in. It can even vibrate as well and any batteries which you can buy off the shelf to sustain its life, which is easily obtainable anywhere.
I remember those days where cops, nurses, doctors and what else, depends on it and when it beeps, its time to head back to your office to attend to that urgent request made by your fellow men or colleagues.
But at times, it can be frustrating. When you page and page, no one returns your call or when someone pages you, you call back, you are unable to get that person on the line again. At such moments of anger, you wish that you had a Tai Ko Tai aka Handphone to call that person right at the moment he or she pages you and get to it and not let you wondering whom has paged you and what was the business all about?
Sometimes, it could be very urgent but you are unable to access to that person again!
Another scenario, where you are in a public place and you want to contact a certain individual, how do you do that? You can only page for him, and he or she is unable to call you where you are and hence, you have to resort to asking your friend, colleague, family members to page that person and instruct from there. Hence, it really could be a hell of a challenge to do that...as i think back then...
Things change, people change, technology changes as well...Nowadays, it is so affordable to have a Handphone and some even has 2-3 Handphones as well. It has all the features of a pager and you can make a call anytime you like. Erm...i think it has way overcome the necessity of having a pager now since its so convenient and cost effective and allows anyone to own a Handphone easily.
I'm gonna miss my pager buddy from today onwards....Bye Bye Pager...
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