爆機

I have no idea how the hinge broke. After dealing with some hardware problems with Dell laptops at work, my gut feeling is that this problem should be something I can fix myself provided I have the parts, so it led to my first eBay experience.

Lesson learned:
I should have called Dell first before looking at eBay, it turns out that it costed more to buy on eBay than order the part directly with Dell. It's also more hassle with this particular eBay purchase - the seller is in the states and I have to make some special arrangement to pay him; also I'm losing on the currency conversion.

The part should be arrived at my office next week, hopefully it is in good condition.

萬般帶不走 唯有 Pod 隨身

Christmas gift from 亞 Ra...I'm lovin' it!

Thank you brother!

End of Parole

I hope to accomplish at least one of these during the Christmas holiday:
1. clean up the room (which looked like a scene from Armageddon or The Day After Tomorrow)
2. read the new books that I just bought
3. clean up old emails

Here's the report card:
1. all previous lecture notes are bundled up nicely. It's a pity to see how many trees I killed indirectly.
2. I'm only half way through, but my course already started :(
3. *not started*

Not bad...