| | Perfect Timing.
Don't we just love the little ironies in life.
You see, ACCA does not usually require assignments to be done, it's a 100% exam- based course.
Not unless you're also doing your thesis for a degree from OBU (Oxford Brooks University)
Which is what I'm doing now, in my last year of ACCA.
So besides blogging, Facebooking and all sorts of rubbish I do online,
This thesis, the one single time I actually need the internet for my research and analysis,
Of all the times it could have happened,
My internet crashed.
It happened quite dramatically actually.
It was a cold wet Saturday evening and the sky was dark outside.
Firmly decided on starting my thesis that very evening, I stayed home alone while my family went out for dinner.
I brought out my files and papernotes to the computer table and checked my email first, (read: procrastinating)
when suddenly a bright bolt of lightning blinded the skies followed by an immediate boom of thunder.
I shut my eyes and cringed, waiting for the thunder to roll away. I opened my eyes and it was pitch black, with the eerie sound of deafening silence.
A BLACKOUT.
Followed by my wails. NoooOOoooOoo..........
 
I'm not even going to get into the details of me being afraid of the dark,
Of me desperately feeling around the entire messy-as-hell table for my handphone for some light,
Of me giving up and feeling my way into my room to get my iPod (for some light),
Of me walking downstairs to find the main power box, all the while thinking, "My, what a big empty creepy new house I live in."
Nope. No details.
(Btw i unknowingly left my handphone in the living room, heh, explains why I get miss- calls so often)
My main concern was on my modem.
Or more accurately, my fried modem.
Possibly a fried router too, that's gonna cost me a bomb to replace.
And more importantly, my deadline for submitting the thesis to my mentor.
...................... panic button: on.
And I have some other things I'm supposed to complete hopefully before I leave for Bangkok this Saturday, which requires me using the blasted internet, so really, thanks, perfect timing.
The only good thing to all of this, my dad wasn't mad at me. Surprisingly though, he usually would be furious.
But I think seeing me in a blind panic made him go easy on me, heh.
Spent the whole of next day (Sunday) at Alda's studio PurpleHouz, working on my thesis over the internet,
thus forcing him to go to work on a Sunday as well  thank youuu.
And now I'm using the college library's internet which is slowish, and I'm exhausted from 6 hours of class and hungry and want to go home and going to face the mad traffic jam, -_-
And now I see that my Photobucket bandwidth has exceeded.
Greaaaaat.
Currently listening to: The creepy silence of the library at night.
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