Mis-adventures of Ping with Alfie...

It was a bleak 5 days. Harsh. Cruel.

I had no Internet for a FULL 5 days! Aghast? Shocked at how I manage to survive those hours? without MSN, without Hotmail, without Yahoo, without Google. No contact with the outside world. Though I admit ashamedly, it was my fault. First, trying to be sneaky and beat the system. Second, being ignorant. That's the best combination for digging yourself into a hole and not getting out. Trust me. The full story was that I downloaded songs for a day and for the consequent days, I stopped downloading. BUT... I forgot to switch off my programme whenever I left my Internet on. So in the course of a week, I managed to rack up 6 GB. It would have been fine and dandy if I had actually downloaded all of the 6 GB but only a small, tiny fraction of it was mine. The rest was all uploading. *Bawls*

Oh and it's not all. Somehow, I managed to get my IBM screwed up. That does take quite a bit of skill as reputedly, "IBM are infallible, never ever hang". I say give me an IBM and I'll screw it up in less than 6 months. They probably never considered a customer like me when they built it. I should volunteer for computer testing to save future idiots like me in the future, from the pain and fear that strikes us when computers go horribly wrong.

It hung. Badly. Everytime I click on an icon, the computer just refused to budge. It hates me. I knew it. From the way the green light blinks when I switch it up. Quietly seething with fury. Every night when I am sleeping, it's probably plotting how to make my life more miserable.

HAH! A mere machine can't defeat me. I've got the better of it. I reformatted it back to it's factory settings. Yes.. yes.. Now, it's as tame and malleable as a sheep, putty under my hands. Ahhhh....the triumph of man over machine. Sweet, sweet victory, nothing is more satisfying. *applause please*

and that concludes my Mis-adventures with my laptop. I should give it a name, it does deserve one for being such a persistent and strong fighter. Defiant, fighting till the last "bleep".

Alfie, maybe.. *wink* [Jude Law; salivate]

The end.

Disclaimer: take it with a pinch of salt. better yet, make it a bottle. *grins*

Gowns, Pennying, Formal Hall, Matriculation....

Me and Friends after Matriculation Dinner

Firstly, apologies! I haven't been updating my blog since I've arrived here. I'll admit, Laziness was a Big factor in not updating it, as gosh! I do spend enough time in my room to actually update it twice a day. [surprisingly!]

Let's see.... what have I've done so far...I 've shook numerous hands and introduce myself as "Ping" which defeats the purpose of painstakingly choosing "Maggie". Officiallly, "Maggie" is now obsolete. Sadly, It didn't have a chance to live before It died. *grins*

I've had my Matriculation Photo taken which is absolutely horrible. Terrible. Horrendous. Aaarrgh! They took 4 shots and chose the two best shots to be selected by us students and I don't look Normal in either one. In one I was looking sideways. Weird sideways at that, only my eyes moved. And in the other one, I was grimacing. Ouch.... So, conclusion was, I didn't have a good photo and am NOT going to pay ten quid for it, no matter how high the sentimental value is. [vanity has spoken.. *grins*]

Punting, rowing, bop's, formal halls in gowns, homesickness, salsa, clubbing, Sainsbury, McD, walking in the rain, cutting up cadaver, supervisions, flu, eating Chinese food, laundry and damp clothes, phonecall from Sandora [yay!], getting my half skeleton, speaking 'lah's & 'ar's, exploring, just chatting...etc.

It all seems so surreal. At that moment.

Taking it all in now, I realize that I am glad. Glad that I had some good times, some bad times, some "let me try this" times, some stupid times, some really lost times and some Brilliant times.

Yes, I am glad.

*smiles*