My dear Mum helped me to send my laptop to the Acer Service Centre at Jurong East today. I wanted to tag along, but she said that she'd be able to do it faster since she leaves for work at 8 am. This allowed me to sleep all day as I was feeling feverish. (I hope it was not because I was worrying over my laptop; it makes me feel so dependant on it.)
She came back at around evening time with my laptop and a receipt. It turns out that my hard drive had crashed. (At least it wasn't a virus this time so I can say it was not my fault.) I have always wondered how such things happen. I hope it was not becasue I was over-stressing my laptop or something, leaving it on the whole day. Anyway, my Mum told me that the warranty for my laptop had expired by one week and that we were supposed to pay $400+ for the replacement hard drive. Fortunately, the technician was kind-hearted and waived the charge since it was our first time and we were only a week late for our warranty. Wee, such a nice guy.
I am slowly putting back all the stuff on my laptop again. This time, I installed AVG Anti-Virus and Zone Alarm first. Next is MSN, and maybe, I guess Maple. I am gonna miss all the anime and comics I have downloaded; some of which I haven't even read yet. Oh, well, I should be glad that this happened after I have graduated; it would've been a nightmare if I had to re-install JDK, J2EE and all the various development kits.
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