Zain Ghana is currently running a promotion called Happy Day where for ¢2 per month, every other day sees you getting back credit for the calls you made the previous day.

Here’s the thing: although Zain charges 8Ghp per minute for calls (and that’s billed per second), they somehow forgot to mention that when using your bonus credit, you get charged 14Ghp/min and calls are billed per minute. You made a call for 13 seconds? 14GHp gone. Since most of us are unable to squeeze our conversations in nice round numbers, you’ll find that you run out of bonus credit rather quickly.

Sneaky bastards. I wish I had come up with it.

I’m a little hooked on photography. Have been ever since my mum came back from a trip to Spain in 2004 with a dinky little point and shoot. If I remember correctly, it was an Olympus C310Z . Since then I’ve abused a few more P&S cameras. Sometime this  year, I decided to take the plunge and get myself a DSLR. Of course, this being Ghana, there are no shops (at least not that I know of) that a person with my limited budget can get a DSLR at a good price. So, having no credit card or paypal account, I did the reasonable thing and asked a friend to order one online for me.  (more…)