Proof Of Existence

It was a rainy day, it had been raining pretty much the whole week. I’d just finished watching a movie, and I was chatting with my brother, complaining about how my ipod was already on its way out, when like a rifle shot from the clouds, a bolt crashed right into home, casting the house house into darkness. I walked out of my room, stunned. I had knots emerging in my stomach, anxiety overcoming me. Direct hit with a thunderbolt usually equates to blown fuses, destroyed technology and technically a lot of grief. And I was right. I reset the fuse box and the lights flashed to life. I did a check. Astro, working. Tv, working. Modem, surprisingly working. Wireless, dead. I dashed up the stairs to my computer. The moment of truth. I hit the button on my monitor, it turned on. This’s a good sign. My speaker system was working as well. I punched the ON button on my CPU.

I pushed it again. And again. And again. It wouldn’t turn on. I flipped the switch at the back of the rig off and on, it still wouldn’t work.

My heart sank. My computer, everything, basically all my memories, gone. It took me years to accumulate my collections of music, images and stories. All gone. Mom sent the computer to the computer shop to get diagnosed. The people said it was just my power supply that got fried, so mom paid around RM200 to buy a new better one.

I got the machine back, but there were a few problems. The multitude of fans weren’t working, and when I finally managed to get it to boot up Windows, it immediately died.

It was then that I was certain, it was dead. I’m hoping that my graphics card’s still safe at least…

Anyway, it’s Chinese New Year, so Happy Chinese New Year!

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