Hear n’ There

Sometimes, things can go bad. But if something like this happens to you, then I’d rather term them to be very bad.

You have a Notebook, (which cannot be called a laptop); the primary Operating System installed on it is corrupt and hence it cannot boot.You have all your data on it and you have no other copy of it.The start-up DVDs are lying locked in a cupboard in a different country. No point, even considering Apple Customer Care here as an option. You know that you are the only person with an Apple computer in the place where you are living.

The other OS, goes by the name of Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition Service Pack 2. The very Operating System is raw ie. does not have anything installed on it other than the operating system itself.

Unlike raw Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition Service Pack 2 cannot be consumed without grilling it for hours, adding lots of salt and god knows what. Mind you, I don’t know how many burns will one suffer when one has to cook this. As far as I know, I am in considerable pain. It has a characteristic property of getting decooked (whatever that means) at important occasions. Such as say talking to your oh-so-hot crush.

You install- Firefox, Messengers of all kinds, Limewire, Azureus, Acrobat Reader, Download Manager <I rather tell you when this finishes>. Then re-download all the ebooks you had downloaded on your other partition.

You download them using a internet connection which is barely 115.2 Kbps. What else you unlimited usage during the convienient hours of 10pm-6am. Downloading at morning comes at the rate of 40p per minute. That boils down to 24Rs per hour and 384 Rs per day.You don’t even have the heart to calculate it for the whole month you will be staying there.

Your father has been transferred to a small place called Kandla. Though, it is not a place worth describing either, let me leave it for another time. For you really don’t feel like going into depression anymore, recounting all this is can take a toll on anyone. Another reason probably is, that you doubt if even anti-depressants would be available in this place.

When you turned to the list you had compiled before coming here, a list which you thought makes you prepared for this place. On the list you see-

Watch all the movies you downloaded for the holidays. Hmm.. Could it be that the saved and unseen for long copy, of the movie Eurotrip corrupt the OS due to lack of use? So when people crib about compatibility, do they actually refer to A rated movies? High chance of corruption then I say to this horny OS.

Read ebooks. Oh or is the OS busy reading the collection which you so meticulously collected and downloaded. Surely, LOTR cannot corrupt it in the usual sense. Digression- What is a story without any love interest. Arwen does not coun. She was there just so that you know that Tolkiens can write poems. Was Tolkiens gay? Gawd, they keep snogging all the time even in Harry Potter.

Weren’t vacations supposed to be fun?

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