Cruising on Hells Highway

Interesting week to say the least. The progress on the remaining 2 assignments is going good, although a slighty little abit rushed :P .

But you really don't want to hear any more about my academics, now would you? Just yesterday there was some kind of power outage + phone line disconnects going on in my neighbourhood. That left me internet-less for about 12 hours. Only now I realized how much my friends and I are dependant on the Internet. Let me tell you more...

At the first sign of the lack of connection, people were still calm and steady, thinking its just a minor, temporary disconnection. But as time goes by and the phone lines confirmed dead, people were just standing around as if they just lost their will to live. After it became evident that we had to spend the night senseless, we went around searching for things to do, like single player games. Anyone remember those?

Well, it wasn't that worse off for me, I still had to complete a programming assignment (I just had to mention it!), and other that, a PS2 and a bunch of games I've yet to even start playing yet (RE4 comes to mind...). And so ends Day 1.

Everyone was optimistic in the morning, thinking the previous night was just a nightmare, something that will end after waking up. Too bad. PS2 is a life saver.

Towards lunch time, to my delight, my phone line rose to life once more. I immediately start tasting the sweet sweet honey that is the Internet. I was tired, so I decided to queue up some downloads and go take an afternoon nap.

Only after I woke up, I realized that the rest of the house (which uses a saparate second phone line to go online) hasn't recovered their connection yet. o.O. Unfortunately, I didn't think of sharing mine AT THE TIME, thinking its just a matter of time before they get theirs back (Yeah I know, flawed logic, but Hey, I'm not a saint). Besides, they were on their way out to early dinner and didn't come back till late at night. So I just finished up my assignment, sent it to the right people, and played some Guild Wars :D.

But after they came back, and found out the connection on their side is still out, the pressure was on me to share my connection. And so everyone was happy. Except me, but only a little (can't download for god knows how many nights).

Wow that was a long story, hope you enjoyed hearing about how selfish I am. Cheers!