Charafantah's Cave

Anyone remember 4 years ago, when i made a gadget called Pokia? it was a mimic of the original Pokia phone (now called Hulger); Here it is:
 

Anyway, i was surfing on ThinkGeek a couple of days ago, and found they have a “Retro bluetooth headset”, it’s basically the same idea of the Pokia, but with bluetooth

So i decided to make my own, thanks to Samer for the bluetooth headset, i used the old headset from my old pokia, and changed it into a bluetooth headset

I used Motorola HS820 bluetooth headset, my Samsung D600 phone and a Bell Phone retro headset from an old phone i had.

disassembling the headset was easy

The difficult part was to fit everything
in the headset and make
the buttons and charger to work

So yea! if you see some crazy dude talking in a retro headset with no wires connected to it, thats me and my bluetooth phone

And yes, i am a crazy geek

I never complained about my luck, but am pretty sure am not lucky at all, just a few examples before telling you what happened to me:

• My car price went down 6,000LE 5 days after i bought it
• My car went into 2 *BAD* accidents and i wasn’t even driving or in the car
• I never lost a cell phone, they all manage to*DIE* with no obvious reason ( i don’t drop them or anything)
• I never won anything, i always have to be last in queue and NEVER found a good parking spot
• Anything i buy must be outdated or it’s price decreases just a few days after i buy it
• All my favorite cloth MUST get teared or something gets spilled on it

These are a few examples of what my luck brings me, but i never complained because am pretty sure there are people worse than me.

Anyway, for some weird reasons, it’s only the 15th of the month, and am TOTALLY out of money, not only that, but i haven’t paid my car installment, i have a few debts and off course i need money to live to the end of the month.
I will not mention off course traveling in eid vacation or buying new cloth…this is luxury to me now that i can’t afford… specially that all my plans of spending the xmas and new year abroad has vanished

So, i was with my parents yesterday getting some stuff done, when my father wanted to check something on my phone, so i take it out, i start the camera, and there’s this weird error that keeps popping up, everything i try is not working.

So i restarted the phone, and”hello!” there is no answer, the phone screen is dead, i can’t see anything, ok great!!!!just exactly what i need now! a broken phone….

According to murphey’s law, and because problems must come together i will not remind you that ALL my contact numbers are stored on phone, there are a dozen people that am expecting calls from and whom i don’t want to answer, i have to make some VERY important calls (i might get money out of it)

Anyway, i gave up to my fate, but suddenly this morning, something weird happened, i had the phone switched off and i tried to put it on again ( i know if it’s on or off from the keypad lights) and BOOM!!! it’s working again….

So, it’s good news, right? WRONG!

I thought to myself, if this phone is going to break soon, i must copy all the contact to SIM card so just in case it happens, i save my a$$…

Only to find out that the COPY to SIM option is no existing on the phone!!! i go like WTF!!! it’s not there, there is only copy to phone, but no copy to SIM….

And the copy option have disappeared from the contacts menu too….i googled for 30mins, with no results, i restart the phone, and still no result.

I hate all cell phones, i hate samsung, and i hate YOU ALL! ALL!! :@

I now want around 2000LE(350$, not too much, eh! can you lend me some money, plz? ) to pay my due bills and afford living to the end of the month without begging in the streets (عامة الشتاء داخل…..ممكن أسرح بعربية بطاطا)

Why this happens to me?and why in the most inopportune time? again, it’s the Murphy’s laws i guess….

Readers Discretion is Strongly Advised

The following story, explains the Murphey’s Laws and show how they work in real life.

So, i went to After8 (it’s a pub in Tahreer التحرير in Kasr El Nil Street شارع قصر النيل), well, the place is very nice, it’s very small and crowded, but the atmosphere is very nice, playing Live Music from a nice band (i don’t know the name), and from time to time the DJ takes over, it is a bit expensive (17.5LE for a small mineral water bottle, thats a ripoff) but i don’t really mind, the place is really good.

Anyway, am not doing a review here.

At around midnight, my phone battery started to die and kept saying low battery.
My friends left at around 3:00am, and i had to stay waiting for a foreign friend of mine whom i will meet in a place nearby. He was so late and didn’t call, so i left, and on my way out i tried to call him, offcourse, the phone died on battery.

I couldn’t call him, and i can’t get the number, i went back again into the pub, to ask if anyone has a charger, but luckily, no one owns a stupid samsung phone like i do.

So i headed for my car, which was parked far away (near Omar Makram mosque), i remember that i had a car charger somewhere in the trunk.
After a long while  looking through the mess, i found the charger, plug it in the car, only to find it’s not working.

I started to get worried, that my friend will come and will try to call me, to find my phone switched off, and he will probably get lost and will not know what to do.

Now the problem is that even i can find another phone and put my SIM in it, it will not work, because i use the phone memory to store all the numbers.

Luckily, i remembered that i have my old SIM card in my wallet (i just changed my phone line a few weeks ago) and it have the number of a friend who knows the other friend number

The thing is that i don’t have a working phone aslan phone   i wandered around, trying to find an open koshk at 3:45am in down town!!!

 

 

Luckily, i found one that is still open, in a street nearby After8, but the guy is sleeping, i wake him up, ask him to do me the favor of putting my SIM in his phone and make the call.

The guy was nice, and he accepted, i plug in the old SIM, got the number, now i had to put back my original SIM to call the guys (because the old line is not working anymore), i preferred to do this, because my friend will probably not answer a weird number waking him up at 4:00am.

 

Just when it starts ringing, the old nokia phone died….i asked him what’s wrong, he told me the battery is shaky, try again and try not to move.

 

Finally i managed to get the number, and i called my friend, to find out that he is waiting for me right next to After 8.

I thanked the guy, i tried to give him money but he refused, thanked him again and left.

 

Off course, you all know that i get lost quite easily in down town.

And i had no clue how to get back to After 8, so, since it was 4:00am, and there is no cars in the streets, i decided to go back in the wrong way of the street so i know where am going.(yes, its wrong, my bad, i know )

 

For my luck, just when am about to get into the correct way of the street, a police officer saw me, he told me to stop, so i stopped at the right.

 

He came to me with another guy in normal cloths, and he asked for my license and registration. (el ro7′as)

I told him am sorry, am a bit lost, it’s 4:00am  BLAH BLAH BLAH

He asked me where am going, what am doing now etc….

Then he said, you seem to be a nice guy, (ebn nas w keda), and he held the license right next to my face.

 

So i say: “Thanks, can i leave now?”, he says: “Yes, sure…..it’s just that am out of credit, and you know scratch cards to recharge  the phone are expensive and such” “انت عارف بقى الدنيا ليل وأنا معيش رصيد, عيزين نجيب كارت شحن كدة ولا حاجة”

So i understood he will not let me go unless i pay him, i took out 20LE and gave it to him, he handed me back the license.

 

I go and meet my friend, just to find out that he lost his wallet, which had all his credit cards, important docs and 1300LE…

We head to each and every place we went to, and as expected, we didn’t find anything.

 

We went home….

 

Summary:

• If you think things cannot go worse….THEY CAN AND THEY WILL!!!!
• If there is a chance of several things going wrong at the same time, the one that will cost most damage will occur first.
• But still that doesn’t mean i didn’t have fun before that in After 8
• All police officers must be shot in the head, or somewhere else