紅 5

I'm posting this so I can easily find the bus schedule... Red 5 from our main street:

Checking credit on Nokia phone

I did it! I accidentally figured out how to check how much credit I have left on my SIM!! Woohoo!!! This is actually a great feat. It really is!! I kid you not! See, it's all in Chinese and nobody knows how to operate the finer details, usually... And it's quite disconcerting to not know if you're running out of credit and that text/call won't make it through. If I run out without knowing I'm running out, I have to go all the way to Zhishan to get a re-fill... Ugh. But now I know! I still don't really know how much calls cost, so I can't gauge how much time I really have left, but at least I'll know when I'm down to my last 100 NT, heh.

Oh, right -- this is how you do it:

-Type in *114*#
-Press green/go/enter button
-The number that shows up in the midst of all the Chinese text is the amount of credit left
-Yay!

:D

Carrefour SIM card refill

Finally! So I never again forget and have to hunt down various non-English-speakers who have never done it themselves and can't really help me... Thank God for store clerks who helpfully, even though you didn't buy it from them, call up the number on the receipt and find out how to do it, then figure it all out with you. I'm still surprised that the instructions are so unclear that nobody can ever figure them out, but anyway, it goes like this...

-Enter *114* (or whatever number is between the asterisks -- include the asterisks)
-Enter the top 12-digit number, the one on the second line after the total amount you paid for the card refill (it goes in directly after the *114*, no spaces)
-Enter # (no space)
-Press okay/call/go/green
-Wait for verification that credit has been added (e.g. "done" + checkmark)

Yay!

The bi-monthly receipt announcement:

http://www.tealit.com/article_categories.php?section=living&article=lottery

--And there you have it.