I will not be forgetting Friday, the 5th of June for some time. Quite a few things happened but clearly the biggest was my laptop crashing straight down to hell! Ya thats right, my Rs 85,000 juggernaut decided that since the warranty period was up it could now begin to give up on me.. It began just a week after the warranty ran out when the application on hand would suddenly hang and all I could do was remove the battery so as to force a shut-down (crude but effective), then came the "Sleep" problem where sleep no longer worked and the aforementioned solution took place. The last few weeks saw graphic issues with pink dots/lines on the display panel but a restart took care of it- till yesterday!
I was playing a great game of Dota, albeit with AI, when the screen blurred and the pink dots appeared. I knew Vista too had a blue screen of death and I finally saw it when it said there was a critical (That didnt sound good even for me) error with the display adapter and Boom- a magic restart only to have the screen come like a 1990's screensaver with waves of White and Black moving slowly! I swear I took this harder then the end of college last month as my days of joblessness were survived only with the help of my laptop and its 500 GB hard disk of data..
So I was on my way to the HP service centre when the person I bought it from calls and tells me to come to him as he can fix it himself in 10 mins.. Happily I changed buses and went about 2 Km walking on the course of which a thunderstorm gave me company but I was finally able to reach a dear friend by phone so I never noticed the rain! Anyway I reached the place and she (Yup, the "he" was currently unavailable and she was his wife) takes a look and tells me to go to the HP service centre itself.. The HORROR!!
An hour later (which included 20 mins of walking in sludge), I found myself in the service centre where the guy in charge tells me I got no warranty left - I know that, Sherlock! But then he gives a sly smile and speaks in Konkani (Does everyone in Mangalore speak my mother tongue?) and suggests that I get additional 2 year warranty for rs 6.5K rather than spend close to 20K on repairs- typical Konkani mind working faster than computer (You see, Chacha Choudary was also one of us!) and then the big bomb: Laptop will be out of action for 2-3 weeks minimum..
Then just as it was time to head back home a most vicious rain strikes and I am drenched fully waiting for the bus to arrive. I reach home at 1:15 pm only to learn my car driving class is at 2 pm, rushing through a lunch I arrive just in time but not enough luck was left for the day as the instructor proceeded to belt me twice for not ever touching the brake pedal & just decelerating for sudden turns..
Gym followed at 2:30 and after all the running around previously followed by a hard work-out I weigh myself to see I have GAINED a kilogram.. Incredibulous! But the day was still not done, for on the way back I took a different route and found myself close to a broken down building which I later remembered had this children's tale of being haunted.. I am gonna explore it soon but till then I have to find a way to exist using my lame old pc which I neglected for the last year.. sob sob!
Oh and at 6 am today, I found out that it was STILL the 5th of June back in the US of A and that I won a lottery to an apartment of my choice at Rice Graduate Apartments so finally something going well..
I was playing a great game of Dota, albeit with AI, when the screen blurred and the pink dots appeared. I knew Vista too had a blue screen of death and I finally saw it when it said there was a critical (That didnt sound good even for me) error with the display adapter and Boom- a magic restart only to have the screen come like a 1990's screensaver with waves of White and Black moving slowly! I swear I took this harder then the end of college last month as my days of joblessness were survived only with the help of my laptop and its 500 GB hard disk of data..
So I was on my way to the HP service centre when the person I bought it from calls and tells me to come to him as he can fix it himself in 10 mins.. Happily I changed buses and went about 2 Km walking on the course of which a thunderstorm gave me company but I was finally able to reach a dear friend by phone so I never noticed the rain! Anyway I reached the place and she (Yup, the "he" was currently unavailable and she was his wife) takes a look and tells me to go to the HP service centre itself.. The HORROR!!
An hour later (which included 20 mins of walking in sludge), I found myself in the service centre where the guy in charge tells me I got no warranty left - I know that, Sherlock! But then he gives a sly smile and speaks in Konkani (Does everyone in Mangalore speak my mother tongue?) and suggests that I get additional 2 year warranty for rs 6.5K rather than spend close to 20K on repairs- typical Konkani mind working faster than computer (You see, Chacha Choudary was also one of us!) and then the big bomb: Laptop will be out of action for 2-3 weeks minimum..
Then just as it was time to head back home a most vicious rain strikes and I am drenched fully waiting for the bus to arrive. I reach home at 1:15 pm only to learn my car driving class is at 2 pm, rushing through a lunch I arrive just in time but not enough luck was left for the day as the instructor proceeded to belt me twice for not ever touching the brake pedal & just decelerating for sudden turns..
Gym followed at 2:30 and after all the running around previously followed by a hard work-out I weigh myself to see I have GAINED a kilogram.. Incredibulous! But the day was still not done, for on the way back I took a different route and found myself close to a broken down building which I later remembered had this children's tale of being haunted.. I am gonna explore it soon but till then I have to find a way to exist using my lame old pc which I neglected for the last year.. sob sob!
Oh and at 6 am today, I found out that it was STILL the 5th of June back in the US of A and that I won a lottery to an apartment of my choice at Rice Graduate Apartments so finally something going well..
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