crying over spilled coffee

i had a truly traumatic experience on Monday. After going without any sleep on Sunday, i was a walking zombie, albeit a chirpy one, on Monday despite having back 2 back lessons from 8.30 till 15.30, followed by project meeting doing my favourite all time activity: Excel (can you sense my excitement ~) anyway, as i was sooo tired from 1pm, i decided to get 2 cups of long-black to keep me awake throughout the meeting. and this is where the fun begin!

as i was pouring coffee from the hot cup into my iced container, i pressed the fragile container too heavily and caused coffee to spill onto my laptop beside it! mental not: never attempt pouring of any fluid next to a laptop.

so, i came back that night a very sad boy (and probably with the bizarre look as above) and search all over the place for my warranty card and sent it for servicing the next day. Despite being rest assured that it'll take at most 2 days to get it fixed, i called the next day and they told me that they'll have to order a new keyboard as the store is out of stocks (yeah, i figure that not many people will get their laptop keyboard short circuited huh?) and i have to wait for another 2(!) days. So, after a prolonged period of going through my school days without a laptop and getting d/c with civilisation, i resorted to pestering Tina to lend me her IBM for a one night affair to churn out some articles and reports.

finally got a call on Thursday from the workshop and the engineer informed me that my keyboard was not eligible to fall under warranty as it was caused by spillage, at this point which i vehemently denied. but alas, he out-bitched me by saying that "well, it's spillage cos we found black stick substance in ur laptop" ok. fine, caught red handed. in fact, i bet he can still smell the coffee from the stain. so i had to pay 50 bucks for the repair which is actually cheap.

finally got my lappie back and i am now a happy man. oh, and since Thursday's physical sci lesson was one w/o my lappoie, Lauren and i were so bored that while the class were watching a clip shown by the prof's pet Mr. Ernest about black hole, Lauren and i took photos to entertain ourselves. the little things we do as students. busier weeks ahead as its officially rush time for all projects. 2 presentations due next week, another 2 or 3 the week after, and another 2 the week after the week after! phew!