Laptop Laid to Rest...

Over the weekend, Yen went back to her hometown for the Qing Meng festival. So I had the whole weekend to myself. It all went well until the laptop died. It had several symptoms over the past few weeks, but most of the time I managed to restart it. On Saturday night, went over to Merv's place to get it diagnose.

Yen was telling me that this is so much like a patient going to see the doctor for consultation. Actually come to think of it, that analogy really did relate very well. The laptop's served me for a whole 4 1/2 years. Over this period, it's been in and out of the hospital with a major heart transplant. The hdd was replaced on time but that lasted like only 5 months. It was an ailing machine that had to be put to rest.

No matter how much we tried to save it, it kept breaking down. Kinda reminds me of my first car, the Astina. That one really broke down a lot. When it was handed to my hands, it was pretty much 8 years old. Things were starting to give way, the radiator had a leak, clutch died and it had a top gasket leak. It went in and out of the workshop every other week. I was about to contemplate a B8 transplant but my dad stopped me. So what did I do? I did the next best thing, sold the damn thing and got myself a Wira turbo. And to top it all off, when his car had a broken windscreen, who's car he drove at full throttle all the way down Terasek? Nothing puts a smile to my face more than putting the foot down on the accelerator and feeling the g-forces pushing you back to the bucket seats.

Now, back to my dilemma, I'm stuck without a laptop till I get mine from hp. In order for that to happen, Maybank has to send me my credit card for Ming Tzern to place the order through hp's portal. Depending on when the morons from Maybank sends me my card, then I will have to wait at least a week for the laptop to be processed and sent.

Thanks to Merv, he's loaned me his laptop for the time being for me to be accessing my mails from home and doing what I spend most of my time doing, reading forums. Ahh, life's good.