my avixe….

i have to say this tiny little thing has done more wonders and a great service for a good four years. it will be hard to part from you.

my avixe which has gone through the ups and downs, all through the sleepless nights, endured the PCs in the libraries or cybercafes or computer labs, braved through the viruses by stupid smartasses. and then all kinds of knowledge saved in your tiny ‘mind’. remember the goddesses and the subcultures, the numerous assignments, my SECRETS, programme documents and databases. you’re the only thing who knew me well enough, especially throughout my studies,far away from home, you’re the closest thing, well one of the things, i can call family. you’re always with me everywhere i go, without you, i am truly lost and handicapped.

even after we graduated, you’re still there for me. and we have endured four good years together. without any glitch, except for that only one time you had to be reformatted.

i remembered, when i just found you, a friend said that you won’t last long, for your ‘cousin’ which she owned, left her shortly after owning it. but i didn’t believe her then, i said, never mind, we’ll last as long as you can. and i’m glad i trusted you. for you have been true to me…..

my avixe…thumbdrive.

i find myself unable to part from you….

Laugh out loud people, but yes, i can be attached to the things i owned. very.

ok…next to another thumbdrive story…. i was ‘shopping’ with my brother. he wanted to buy some computer game laa, so i was looking around the computer shop, particularly searching for an external harddrive…but weeiiii, expensive seh!! so i moved on towards the cashier, and saw thumbdrives. i never intended to buy anything…now here’s the interesting part, even though it may already be ‘basi’ news to most of you (but heii, having a loyal thumbdrive denied me to be searching for others)….

ok, three years ago, to get a thumbdrive below $50, ok, you can get one, but it will only be 156mb, which come on lah, ciput jer!! if you can buy a 256mb, means you’re a WELL-OFF kid in the block! what more a 1 GB thumbdrive, with a cool brand and a stylish look (whatever that is). and thumbdrives are like the IN THING~ so when i got my 256mb avixe at a very corner shop, manned by cute bollywood-looking Indians at Sim Lim at a very affordable price, i know we’re fated to be together!! (ok, drag)

so NOW, i was really surprised, really really surprised to see that a 1GB, thumbdrive now cost…..i can readily give you 1GB thumbdrive if you answered this correctly……. but yeah, you cannot blame me for being ignorant also, i’ve left school since like, what? last May?? i don’t really need thumbdrives the latter half of the year!

it costs a mere $20 la weii!! 3 years ago, 1GB will cost almost a hundred dollars you know!!! you can see that blue FlashGO! thumbdrive, $20. i had to get it.

so ok, that’s the story between the new and old thumbdrive, like the Prince and the Pauper, or like the Barbie Princess and the pauper(ette)?? or like…..ok ok stop. 😉