Chapter 4: My ~!@#$%^& Webmaster

(Thursday, 04:21 PM - 09/04/2009)

I get to meet with the cybercafe workers brother in weekends, due to his work. This man (Lets call him N) is working at some web designer company and also do some freelance work to people that need a website to be design.

In the weekends night, I call N again to ask the location of the meeting. Because N too lazy he ask me to meet him at his house (I don't get some people sometimes..if u want to do a business make sure u put all your effort to it..u get customer do all your respect to entertain them)

I bring the sketch to him and I got to tell u he seems to understand all details that I need for the website until I asked when this web can be done..

N: If I focus and have nothing to do, it can be done in 1 month...if im bz maybe around 2 month

Me: Thats good to hear, so about the price...can u give me your quotation?

N: ....for this kind of design...hmmm...it probaly takes around ...$1k...yeah...its $1k

Me: (hmmm its quit cheap than other offer)...err can u low the price a bit?

N: I think that is a good offer...the forum also cost me a lot..

Me: Ok then.. so its a deal!! U can start the work now...I'll pay when its done..

N: No....we do like a normal deal 30% deposit 70% after the whole web done...

Me: Tomorrow I'll meet u again to bring the deposit and the receipt

Again I meet with N to give the early pay, around $300 this happen at 27/December/2007. N say that he will put a forum first so people can come to ask when the launch or to see the preview of the manga. I get my forum in 10 days after the first payment. Actually I'm kinda happy to have Celestial Saga forum at that time...I put some topic at the forum..because nobody know yet about the website I get no traffic at that time....I also have no access to admin site, so I have to do the maintenance online. To make thing worse I have no basic in internet stuff..all the coding its makes me dizzy all the time....N know nothing about what topic need to put in each room so I volunteer to do it by myself.

Its been a month I only get the forum, so I call N ask him to meet...I need to see a progressation for the website...its very hard to get him, always when I call and asked to meet he seems like to have an excuse not to see me. When I get to see him, always got problem with his connetion to the web, "I think the server is doing some maintenance" that what he say to me.

After 2 months, I call him again and asked to meet, N give excuse that he is outstation for some work reason. Its fine with me if he got a work to do...

Me: hmm...then when can we actually meet again? I have my own time frame here, I need the website as soon as possible.

N: Sory..I'm very bz now..all the work stuff..I feel tired....don;t have time for my family also...

Me: ...............ok.....so when u will get back here?

N: 2 weeks from today...

Me: (Damn!!) ...........zzz...so when u probaly can finish the website?

N: I already done 40%..it be finish in no time...

Me: Ok...I meet u when u get back here to get the website if it ok with u..

N: Sure..

2 weeks have pass its already end of March 2008, I text him to asked for another meeting. I get this reply " U know...when u force me like this I can't focus to finish the website..give me another week..we meet on Saturday night" what on earth was that... to promise me that he can finish all in 2 month..its already the 4th month ~!@#$%^

I get to meet him on the Saturday night, and again same thing happen the server down...again?? so we just meet at some near restaurant to discuss about the website...this time I bring Raen. (Owh i forgot to tell u guys..that N have moved to another place from the first time I meet him) not very hard to find the place around 3 miles from Raen house.

I introduce Raen to N, then I quickly go to the website subject...every time I asked he seems like to change the subject....then he say he need another $200 for the web hosting...I leave him with Raen for awhile then I go to ATM machine to withdraw some money for the hosting....I give him the money with a words to him that I need the website in 10 days. N say he going to finish it a.s.a.p.

10 days have passed, I call him to meet to take the website and give the final payment. He not answering the phone, then I text him…a few minutes later he reply the text “I at Singapore now, the line is not very clear and expensive so we discuss it later...I’ll be back next week”. Now I start to feel something wrong with him, N trying to avoid meeting me because he’s not finishing the website in time.

After N back from Singapore, I send a text “Today, I need to see u today!” N agreed to meet with me that day. We meet at the cybercafe where his brother working, N open one of the PC there to show the website to me and Raen. N only manage to finish the front page without an link…just a static image and a dummy details.

Me: Can u let me know…when actually u can finish this website…its already July 2008 now…u take 7 months to finish this website? Why so long….?

N: …..err…err….I’m sorry due to my work I need to go to outstation many times…so I cannot finish this website…

Raen: ……………..

Me: huuuuuuuuuu………ok ok…this is your final chance ….next week I need all this to be done.

N: Sure I can do that!

Raen: ......................

Same as always a week have passed, he give an excuse that the server is down…almost 3 weeks he say the server down…but he said that the website already done. August 2008, I send another text to him “How come the server down for a month? Can u explain this to me?” yet I only got this reply from N “I’m at Beijing now, there are some function organize by my company for the Olympic”

I have enough, I do my own research…I contact the hosting company, it surprises me when they said they never encounter a down for this whole year. Then I contact N brother he say he just meet with N yesterday. What a cheater N is!!! Damn him!!....I send 10 text to him, then no reply…I call…he never answer anymore…N realize that I know he cheated me…then he moved to another house…I totally lost his track…and for N if u read this “U”RE A LOSER MAN!!!DAMN U!!GO TO HELL”

I loose 10 month just like that…I also sell my bikes for $800 just to pay for the website, will I continue for Celestial Saga manga when everything about this manga is not goes to my plans? I never give up on Celestial Saga…I’ll put all the effort to make this happen…I already start my own journey to make Celestial Saga one of the best manga…I will not stop until that happen.

The next  chapter continue on the 2^nd website T_T………..my bike ....