Thursday, August 03, 2006
This Birthday Blows
Another year of my life just raced me by, speeding down the fast lane on the highway of life, and it didn't bother waving as it passed.Terrible, terrible metaphor!
But seriously, I was never the type who looked forward to birthdays. I probably did when I was younger, because back then I could look forward to shiny new toys and great boardgames (I had plenty of fun with Cluedo despite nobody in my family ever learning the proper rules... Scrabble and Monopoly, too).
And then I grew up.
Well enough of that. I'm pretty pissed off with what luck or fate or whatever has thrown in my way ever since I blew the candles on my cake. For those who aren't close to me, allow me to inform you that I rarely spend money on anything except food and the occasional movie ticket. And once I've saved up enough, I'll splurge my money on two things: books and electronics. The latter moreso than the former.
So, I get very agitated and angry whenever one of my electronic gadgets get damaged, especially because they're usually rather expensive. Within the space of 24 hours after blowing that cursed cake, I've managed to, directly or indirectly, ruined my computer's processor and my brand new, month-old Koss KSC75 earphones (it's a very long story that pisses me off further everytime I think of it).
That's about RM 400 worth of plastic, metal, silicon and solder.
And now I have to replace them. There goes an entire chunk of the money I earned from Synovate and from clowning earlier this year... Goodbye digicam... I won't be able to touch you until the day you become obsolete.
But thankfully, clouds have silver linings. The night before my birthday I had a blast with a certain someone who gave me certain somethings that really made up for all the petty (but expensive) shit I've been through in the past day. To that certain someone (you know who you are): Thanks a lot. You've really made a difference.
EDIT (4th August 2006): I went to Lowyat Plaza with my best friend today to buy a new processor, and then after the Lowyat trip, we'd attempt to repair the earphones with his soldering kit. I lugged the 7kg plus CPU all the way down there by public transport, and once there, the salespeople tell me that they don't sell processors for my motherboard's socket type anymore, telling me that it's obsolete already (the stupider thing is that they still sell the motherboard that I'm currently using)!
Imagine going shopping for artificial legs, and when you find one that you like, they tell you that it's not compatible with your knee, so you've to replace the knee as well; it's something like that. A motherboard's gonna set me back by another RM400 at least. So if I were to buy one, I might as well just add RM2,000 and get a friggin notebook instead...
And we tried soldering the earphones. It didn't work.
I've wasted an entire day and came to the conclusion that money hates me and tries to escape my pocket at any possible opportunity.
