uber sob-ness

I’m sure all of you have heard about my rather huge and chunky solid black brick-like IBM Thinkpad (one of the last of its kind, i tell you! Lenovo took over the company’s notebook business soon after). Well, I’d managed to make the previous one last 4-5 years before giving it up for this laptop. However, while typing out the last post for your reading pleasure, all of a sudden my screen went black. Then I realised that in fact the laptop itself had turned off! 

A few days later I dug out one of our old IBM power cords, wondering whether that had fizzled out on me. I plugged it into the wall socket, into the laptop, and saw the little green light of hope light up on my beloved. However, any pleasure fizzled when I saw the green light fade, and I realised that it indeed was the laptop which had gone kapoot  

Now i have to find a thinkpad repair centre and send it in (it’s only 3.5 years old! I’m determined to resuscitate it!!!!

To add onto this despair, on my way home on Friday, I found out that Federer crashed out during the first round of the Toronto Mastersl

And to top it off, I went to a Starbucks outlet on Friday (wanted to celebrate a not-disastrous yearly review at work). Much to my despair, I discovered that they had stopped selling the Dark Mocha Frappuccino!!!!! Ugh. 

So I picked up a bunch of satays from a foodcourt near my house on the way home instead. Small consolation, but it sort of did the job.

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