No Internet

DRUGGED

Sometimes, I think we're too reliant on technology, and too hooked on the internet. People work twice as hard to fight drug abuse, drug smuggling, drug trafficking, etc., but the biggest, most addictive, and yet most problematic drug is the internet. Practically 90% of the world is hooked on it, or can't live without it. I'm not gonna lie; that 90% includes me too. We're all internet junkies. We go through withdrawal symptoms when the presence of internet ceases even for a few hours. We become cold turkeys.

Last night, our internet failed. AGAIN. I switched it on after I returned from class, and after a few hours on the usual Facebook and college portal and world news and typing out my self-evaluation for the Terry Fox Run volunteering and skype, I took a dash for a quick nap. Waking up about an hour and a half later, I came out of my room and discovered the inevitable: the yellow light on the modem was blinking. Yes. BLINKING. Can you believe that? It worked perfectly fine the whole evening, and it wasn't even raining, and I take some forty(okay maybe multiply that by a hundred) winks and it just goes haywire! I left it as it was thinking it would sort itself out(our internet has a mind of its own; it tends to have bad hair days like humans, apparently), but when it didn't, and I needed to do work, Dad and Kor tried to fix it.

Obviously, they were unsuccessful. Despite all their best efforts(Dad was even on the phone with some maintenance lady from the internet people), I just somehow knew I wasn't gonna be accessing anything on the internet that night. And I was right. I've known my internet far too well; and judging by its history, it has a stubborn, stubborn character.

See what I mean? We're so wrapped up with internet, we can't live with it for one night. We practically treat it like family, sometimes better than family. When its sick, we rush to get it medical assistance. We unplug it to make sure it doesn't get fried by lightning during thunderstorms. We have it on all day sometimes. We communicate with it without fail..every. single. day. Hm. I think we treat the internet better than our family members. *Guilty confession*

Anyways, to cut the long story short(and also cause I'm rushing to go home cause I'm hungry but I wanna post this first while I'm at college where internet is existent just in case I go home and our internet is still on holiday or something), our internet is...still dead. I have a feeling its not gonna be up when I reach home, so I'm typing this out in the computer lab in school, just to remind myself that sometimes, you can live without the internet.

If I'm lucky Dad got it fixed while I was having classes. If not...then I'll have to find ways to entertain myself. Although these days I'm not suppose to be doing anything but studying. Okay I'm rambling now. It's nearly 4pm. Gotta rush home before the jam starts.... adios amigos! :DD

(ALSO I'M SUPER HAPPY BECAUSE THERE'S NO BIO TEST TOMORROW AND I DON'T HAVE TO STUDY TONIGHT I CAN FINISH MY THEATRE AND THEN LOOK FORWARD TO CAMP HURRAHHHH)

(...... that's the last time I'm eating Subway cookies. )

Ciao.