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Bunting, HP Frenku itu…

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 by Agro Rachmatullah

Waktu handphone pertamaku rusak, aku dibelikan Fren oleh bapakku. Inilah keadaanya saat ini:

HP Fren

Model HPnya Samsung sekian sekian dan menggunakan CDMA. Dilihat dari luar sepintas sih sepertinya tidak ada yang aneh. Tapi kalau dibuka:

Baterai HP Fren yang keluar dari tempatnya

Loh, kok baterainya njengking dari posisi normalnya? Inilah alasannya:

Baterai HP cembung

Kalau diperhatikan baik-baik, terlihat bahwa baterai HPnya cembung, seperti perut wanita hamil! Sial, aku memang sering meletakkan HPku di dekat HP-HP lain, tapi aku tidak menyangka hasilnya akan seperti ini. Ada yang lebih mengerikan lagi:

Baterai HP retak, siap meledak kapan saja

Salah satu sisinya retak, seperti telur yang akan menetas! Aduh, sudah berapa bulan ini ya…

OK, kita kembali serius karena ini masalah fatal. Ya, baterai ini sepertinya bisa meledak kapan saja kalau dibiarkan terus beroperasi! Kalau meraba baterainya langsung, kecembungannya benar-benar terasa besar dan mengerikan.

Memang baterai HP ini sudah cukup lama bermasalah. Terlalu gampang ngedrop! Tapi aku nggak pernah kepikiran kalau baterainya sampai menggembung seperti ini.

Beberapa waktu yang lalu, saat sedang makan di warung lesehan sama temanku, temanku itu membuka HPnya dengan alasan yang aku lupa. Aku juga ikut-ikutan membuka HPku, dan jreeeeng betapa kagetnya aku saat melihat baterai HPku seperti ini. Untung saja ketahuan waktu itu, soalnya kalau dibiarkan terus bisa-bisa aku jadi korbannya! Tahu kasus baterai-baterai laptop Sony meledak yang menyebabkan recall besar-besaran? Ngeri…

Sampai aku beli baterai baru, aku nggak akan nyalain HPku. Ah teknologi emang bikin pusing… Daripada capek mikirin HP, mending dengerin musik H!P dulu deh… (Pun, pun, pun… Apa ya bahasa Indonesianya?)

No need to read this…

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007 by Agro Rachmatullah

I got a temporary modem to replace the fried one, but the situation is still unideal because the internet has been on and off. Worse, the connection was completely blacked out for the last 2 days.

So, I set out to go to a net cafe to blog stuffs. Of course I’ve prepared the stuffs on my flash disk so I could just copy-paste here.

But alas! After some seconds of browsing the flash disk, the contents just dissapeared from Windows Explorer. I tried plugging to another USB port and guess what?!? The contents are corrupted!!! (many files missing, file names using weird characters, etc…)

That why I hate technology with a passion… They simply don’t work! (oh, you DON’T want me to blog about how my mnemosyne data was corrupted by a UPS failure and I lose 3 days of work (thank God I have a backup)!!! Oh wait, I just blogged it…) Sometimes I think that life would be perfect if I was born a couple of centuries earlier, living as a farmer and not having to deal with the thing called computer…

Nuff ranting and whining. I’ll read some news and then go home…

Fried Modem

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007 by Agro Rachmatullah

I’m now in Purwokerto. Will be here until an undetermined amount of time because I don’t take any classes this semester. Need to start working on the final project…

The cable modem got struck by lightning so I can’t browse the net from home. Other isteresting stuffs are the existence of a 12-stringed guitar (cousin’s) and a violin (brother’s friend’s). They have the potential to suck time because I enjoy messing around with musical instruments (though no good at any).

I’m tagging this post lavishly. Tagging is an awesome Web 2.0-ish feature that should be used to its full extent. Look, my blog is even featured on http://wordpress.com/tag/Japanese/ (screenshot) because of the sheer number of Japanese-tagged posts :).