Friday, April 14, 2006

PC: Problematic Crap

Haha....yeah, old me being a teacher. Anyway, yes Kelly, you do get treated like god when you utter one simple, harmless word in english. Here in my college, lesturers have especially low self confidence when it comes to speaking scientific terms in english. They, full grown men with wrinkles on their forehead and grey hair, would say one english term and then look at me with big, shiny, watery eyes....along with quivering eyebrows (ya know, just like when a lil' cute girl ask her mom for a candy) until I nod my head in approvement of their pronunciation. And now that i'm in my 4th year, it's gotten worse. Lects now thinks that I know everything, just like the Oracle in the Matrix. Sigh....another year of worshipness in Japan.

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PC...most people would say that it's "Personal Computer". Well, I beg to differ.....to me, it's Problematic Contraption....or just plain Crap.

You see, I brought with me Windows XP Professional SP2 from Malaysia back to Japan. And so I tried upgrading my PC from SP1 to SP2 . Well, after i loaded my cd, it failed to fully detect my hard disk drive (HDD). My hard disk is 250 Gbyte....but it detected only 130 Gbyte. And so i lost all my recorded video clips and photos....all those pics and movies that I've treasured soooo much. All those funny pics and vids. All my masterpieces.......
I then tried to load my old SP1 cd...guess what? That ciplak Malaysian CD did something to the HDD...and I had to reformat everything!! And there goes my songs...all of it.

Then at that moment of non-chemical, non-preservative, pure frustation, I was enlightened. I realised that as globally used as English is, it have not yet created enough words for me to curse at my PC at my moment of frustating frustation. This could be my shortest entry yet, The End.


PS: To say that i would go for the original from now onwards, nah..... RM10 Cds are just to temtpting to deny.

4 comments:

Kelly said...

well my college is smart then,they hire foreigners as our teachers,so no worries there.Even if my sensei is a Jap,she speaks fluently as she is married to a foreigner and was frequently oversea..So i guess no chance for me to be THe Oracle here huh?good luck in ur teaching though..

mayc said...

mine speaks native engrish.. so everytime i answer.. he says, 'yes, thats right.. but, native speakers use......'

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anyway, i still enjoy them.. the only time i can speak english here...

Anonymous said...

my eng lesson is a free time...my american teacher have us buy elementary school books and play games like monopoly so called to improve our eng...cant complain playing board-games with jap girls though :p

Nizam said...

yes... i go to my eikaiwa same class with ah boon. it feels like heaven there. hahahahha....