23 years old
Saturday, January 21, 2006
23 yrs and 3 days old to be exact.. very much wanted to blog on the day of my birthday itself.. but well..
It just Sucks.
My first few days of my bday didn't go very well.. in fact right after the 'celebrations' I found my laptop soaked in water.. I tilted the machine and water came pouring out of the slots. It sucks coz I can't blame anybody for the damage.. it was my part of the 'celebration'. It sucks even more when people tell me "谁叫你不要出来？"
Like I wanted it that way.
I rather no celebration and my laptop back.
Just a year ago my Nikon Coolpix 3700 got water seeped in and it was rendered unrepairable because it was corroded in the insides. Fearing the same fate for my laptop I sent it for repair immediately.. only to have the idiot at the repair centre tell me "If cannot switch on 99% is motherboard problem. We have no stock for motherboards now must wait till next week."
Hello? Next week everything would have rusted to death la can you please open it up to check?
But I couldn't tell him that. Coz I still have to find a way to smoke through that it was manufacturer fault so I dun have to pay. And this sucks.
It sucks if I have to pay to repair for my laptop. I can't even justify it as a birthday present for myself. It sucks more if my laptop had the same fate as my Samsung D500 and have the warranty voided for such a damage repair. It sucks even more if my hard disk is faulty and I lose all my data inside.
And you know what is the suckiest thing of all? The nice photos of MafBrothers we took on that day itself were in my computer and there's no other copy of it. FUCKED UP.
It sucks that I'm suffering from laptop withdrawal symptoms.. I'm keeping myself so occupied now so that I won't think of using the computer.. I go to central library during the day.. go Harbourfront to repair my lounge DVD player.. watch DVDs.. Watch IHG... go for Chingay.. Go out buy clothes.. anything but stay at home/room and start being moody about the demise of my most prized possession of all.
I suck at technology. My Coolpix got corroded in Bintan seas. I bought a Coolpix which screen got scratched during Chem Eng FWC. My Creative Muvo just spoilt for no reason (Hard Disk Fault) 11 days after warranty over and the palmtop I've been using as a replacement just got lost w/o me knowing when and where and how. My Sony Ericson Z600 screen just blacked out on me 1 year after buying it and the Samsung D500 I bought got run over by a 2 cars stupidly 3 months after buying it.. and the warranty's now over. So the only surviving device.. my laptop.. drowned on my birthday itself. I suck shit.
I want to repair my camera.. I want to buy an iPod Nano.. I want to buy a Pocket PC.. but now I have to put all these on hold because I anticipate the repair of the laptop to cost more than 1K.
It sucks that I'm super poor.. I'm not paid for tuition.. I'm not reimbursed for SECC.. I'm not reimbursed for Block Comm.. I lent money to a CSM which ran off.. I lent money to a friend who is worse off than me financially. I have to borrow money to buy xy's bday present.. I have to borrow money to buy a textbook for her.
The more I type I want to cry..
I'm Lousy.
18th January. Lounge Opening. Block Comm Worksession. Attendence: 4/10.
Can't blame them though. SP rehearsal.. CMB meeting.. Tech Crew last minute duties.. SWOC.. Hospitalised.. Overslept. And Murphy's Law had to set in. The DVD player couldn't work when it's supposed to. The laptop couldn't play properly.
Movie marathon started more than 1 hour late. The food came down even later. Francis had to buy Fries from Uncle Vincent to pamper the crowd first.
"What is Block Comm doing? JCRC President had to buy fries for us to eat?"
= You are lousy.
And I held my temper. I was fuming inside at everything that happened.. piling on top of the anger and frustration of my dead laptop. But I kept cool on the surface. And all I did was talk to my comm members that I need at least 5 people each session. Come to think of it.. what a lousy thing to tell them.
It was a lounge opening but I didn't say anything to 'open' the lounge. It was a movie marathon but very few people came because it started late. Deep down I know I failed my first mission of the semester.
Just yesterday when I was PMSing outside my room to get over my withdrawing symptoms.. strumming the guitar away on the hammock.. Francis came to me in his usual moody mode
“这样gek seh啊？躺在这边弹guitar?”
“没有东西做嘛...”
“没有东西做就想想怎么搞好你的Block Comm”
=I'm telling you you are lousy. Buck up.
You know you are lousy when you don't do well enough to inspire successors.
Happy Birthday to Me.
To be fair to all those who celebrated my birthday.. It was really want of the best birthdays I have celebrated. Maybe it was because I didn't expect much in the first place. But it was extraordinarily great to have my 2 groups of people I value most celebrate with me at the same time.. albeit it being a massive struggle and fight but everyone enjoyed ourselves.. including myself. Thank you all so very much. =)
And it was the birthday I received the best presents (after my 21st). Though simple.. I really wanted a pencil box all these years (you know something that you won't spend money on but you really want?).. Thanks gabe and mark for that. =) And was very very happy with the cool glow-in-the-dark T-shirt by the level7 girls (Meiqiang, Yiling, Xiuying, Shyuan) and Zibin.. solved part of my CNY new-clothes shopping headache. And the colonge from xy made my day too.
And I love my Block Lounge. It really looks like a lounge now.. with the fresh coat of paint.. new arrangement.. rack.. hi-fi.. pictures hung up.. more spacious and clean.. It's a fantastic sense of satisfaction everytime I step in. Block D Lounge used to be the worst among the 5.. but now I dare say it is the best.
*closes eyes*
I wish all my problems to be solved soon.
Signed off at
3:31 am
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