Make it happen.

Just as I was getting through the most stressful times of the past semester (i.e. when TV was the only best friend I had), the remote control decided to die on me. Which meant no more lazing on the couch for hours on end, with the luxury of not needing to walk to the TV set to change the channel or turn up/down the volume.

The couz and I tried fixing it - we thought the batteries died, so we got new ones but still it refused to work. A couple of days ago, three months after it first died on us, we got our faithful 'handyman' Aa-chan in to have a look and even after he took the entire device apart and gave it a thorough WASH (O_o), it still DID NOT work. Nonetheless, I believed that we could live with it. After all, it was just a TV remote. As long as the TV itself worked, nothing else mattered. All we had to do was make ourselves get up from the couch and walk a couple of steps whenever we wanted to switch channels or adjust the volume... even though it annoyed the hell out of us lazy pigs.

OH THE HORROR.

At the beginning of this month, I very happily took out 'The Godfather' one random afternoon and thought to myself, "This is the day when I will finally agree that it is the best movie ever made". The DVD was slot in, and the player started to whirr.

Eh? There was no image on the TV screen -- NO IMAGE. The DVD was playing, but there was no image.

My heart stopped. I redid the process, switched off the TV, restarted the DVD player, said a silent prayer, but nothing worked. I panicked and asked the couz when was the last time she played a DVD, she told me that the same thing happened to her while I was away and she didn't know why either.

OMG. The DVD player. My life. Just when I had all the time in the world to catch up on my 1001 bought-but-never-watched DVDs.

And trust me, when I say I tried everything, I mean EVERYTHING. I disconnected and reconnected the wires, turned on and off the player a hundred times, even resorted to borrowing wires from Piggy, but still there was no image displayed on the TV screen even though the player was running as usual. Even Aa-chan couldn't help much, except figure out that the problem was with the player and NOT the wires, contrary to my predictions.N

Damn it. I have only slightly more than two weeks before I leave here for good, so it makes no sense to get a new player, obviously. I do not have a DVD player in my laptop. I have SO MANY movies on DVD to watch, and a relatively decent amount of time to do so. BUT the damn DVD player just wouldn't cooperate!!!!!!!

The remote and the DVD player have died on me, and I too, am dying without them. Bleh!!!!!!

Ah well, guess I'm off to the (ex) neighbours'...

No need to cry about it
I cannot live without it
Everytime I wind up
Back at your door.

Maroon 5 - Back At Your Door.

And after the phone call with my mother earlier on, I was slightly perked up. Very much perked up, in fact. Raaarrrr my stormy universe! ^_^