This author is currently on hiatus for the ignoble cause of mugging. The public is advised to remain calm, as this routine protocol has been shown to have no effect on one's violent tendencies in 96% of cases.
| Friday, December 01, 2006 |
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A few days ago, it was the bus that broke down. Now my computer has followed suit. On Wednesday night, when I was engaged in yet another raid in SCO, the screen suddenly froze. Alt+Tab, Ctrl+Alt+Del, nothing happened. So i turned off the power and back on again, and my computer refused to start up. Unable to do anything, I went to sleep, hoping that a miracle would happen and it was just a dream or something and everything would be okay in the morning, but of course the gods were not on my side. I suspect my graphic card was fried, since the "power" light on the CPU is on but the monitor insists on telling me "No Signal". And YES, i've already checked the connections. Now im blogging from Ang Mo Kio library, which is just a short walk away from my home. And rates here are not cheap at 3 cents a minute (that's $1.80 per hour) for restricted internet connection. They even banned invisionfree.com under "Chat". It's amazing they didn't block Blogger too. Furthermore, they only accept payment by CashCard. So I had to plead my mother to lend me her CashCard ("$1 only", i begged). Until my dad comes home from China on Sunday, I won't be able to get my computer fixed, since it's rather heavy to lug it all the way to Sim Lim Square on a public bus. So it probably means no posts from me at all for the next couple of days. And now im resigned to blogging with a very old version of Internet Explorer, beside this young boy who's playing around with the monitor settings. What luck. |
'Twas teh winnar at 2:32 pm.
