SUPER(NOT)INTELLIGENT

anyone who visits this blog would know (or at least assume) that i'm not a very IT savvy guy. i don't have an attention-grabbing template for this blog. there are no photos of gorgeous guys for (most of) the readers to feast on. all there is, is a photo of a guy's mouth (yeah, that would be my mouth). and there are no links to the many great blogs and sites that i drop by regularly. why? partly, because i want to keep it that way. but mostly, because i don't know how to do these things ;P. but as incompetent as i am, i recently found someone who is even more terrible at this than me. this guy brought a new meaning to IT illiteracy among young professionals. and this guy... is none other than my housemate.

he constantly needs help when it comes to computers. and he asks some amazing questions (not in a good way - amazingly dumb). questions that make YOU question about the quality of some of the students that the government chose to use taxpayers' money for these people to further their studies overseas. and i, of course get agitated so easily by his questions. and apparently, he is aware of this. so now seems to have this 'ask aiskrem potong last' policy whenever he needs help with his computer.

last week. his laptop crashed. it refused to swtich off itself. the off button wouldn't work. the task manager refused to appear. he was already breaking sweat. "alamak apsal laptop aku tak leh off ni?" i wanted to ignore him initially, but i was afraid that he'd pass out from hyperventilation. so i told him. "cabut the cable from the plug and take out the battery. cut off the power source. lepas tu switch on balik". he obliged. but a few seconds after that, he commented, "apsal takde beza pun?" at this point i was rolling my eyes already. very reluctantly, i walked over to his place. "ko dah cabut battery?". "dah". but the battery was still intact. "ni ada lagi ni?". "eh bateri bukan yang tu ke?" he asked me while pointing to the floor. it turned out that he disconnected the wire from the ac adapter instead. i was speechless.

he had to send his laptop for repair because it kept on hanging. when he got it back, he claimed that his windows 2003 was removed and replaced by windows xp. a few minutes after using his newly-repaired laptop, he piped out "apsal windows 2003 ni rasa macam lain? macam tak best la". i, as usual. ignored his comment. but he wouldn't shut up. "apa la kedai ni tukar aku punya windows. sekarang screen aku dah gelap. balik ni nak kena pergi kedai komputer tu balik." uih? that's kinda weird. screen gelap? the curious part of me took ovr and i went to his place to check it out. "nampak lain kan? jadi gelap" he was asking for my agreement. at that point i knew what was the problem. i rolled my eyes (penat la asyik roll eyes ni), walk over to the plug point and switched it on (yup, he didn't switch on the power). then i went straight back to my seat (i love making him feel stupid). he was caught in hid stupidity and now he had to admit it. there was a moment of hesitance (that egoistic guy). but he finally gave in and said "apsal la aku bodoh sangat ek?" sheepishly (victory!). i just raised my eyebrow. i've been wondering the same thing for a while now, really

well, at least i won't have to worry about him finding out about this blog eh? ;P