My Player is a Playa’
Ah. Technology.
How will we survive without it? I simply can’t imagine living my life without my computer, my stereo, and my favorite one - my DVD player.
I always consider the DVD as my loyal faithful companion. A little bit like a dog, minus the pooping and the barking. It’s always there when I need something to cheer me up, it’s been with me during the hardest points of my life and no matter how busy I get, it never complains. Before I had a real boyfriend, I considered it my boyfriend.
Well, okay, it’s only a machine, but so what? It’s a lot more dependable than some living beings I know.
The other day I bought the complete season Six part Two of Sex and the City on DVD and I couldn’t wait to put it on my DVD player and be passively entertained for about eight hours or so. Just the thought of it was enough to give shivers - there is simply nothing more enjoyable than watching my favorite shows on DVD, because it’s all about picking my favorite episodes, the rewinding, the fast forwarding, the subtitled or the non subtitled.
As I inserted DVD 1, I waited with anticipation and delight and guess what.
It skipped over.
And over.
And over.
And then it stopped completely. It froze over, mid-animation process into the menu.
And it was only the intro to the episode selection.
I was totally non-plussed for a second, while having that “I can’t believe this is happening to me” look on my dumbfounded face. Though I knew this actually had happened before, it still threw me back completely, and all I could do was chanting out “Please don’t do this to me, not now” because it was just too devastatingly unbelievable.
I might sound like I’m exaggerating here but I’ve totally got a point. The previous DVDs that I bought were pirated and these ones were the original. Original. Nothing should have gone wrong with them. If there was anything that was wrong, it was definitely the player.
Yes sista, my player is a playa’. My fellow companion, whom I have always trusted to fix my whacked-out state of emotion. Is. A. Playa’.
If it were a man, it would be the time when I start to think about the perfect time for breaking up.
Whatever happen to technology making our lives easier? Now it’s just complicating things, making it harder for me to live and get on with my life.
I know that getting pissed off over a crappy DVD player is not really something to fuss over, but if only it wasn’t the only bad encounter I had with technology, I wouldn’t be writing this at all. On top of that, I had lost my ATM card about a week ago. The machine swallowed it in. Yes, the technology is skipping over and eating things in right now.
Technology fails on me, and I’m just about to have a nervous breakdown.
October 3rd, 2005 at 11:27 pm
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October 3rd, 2005 at 11:29 pm
ihh payah.. my kakakakakkakak is supposed to be longer than that!! well my advice.. don’t get anything/anyone near your heart.. be it man or dvd player, they’re just gonna disappoint us.
October 3rd, 2005 at 11:31 pm
well, I’m tired of pretending to be a cold-hearted bitch when all I want is to get cuddled!!! LOL…your kakakakakaaka is long enough to crazy woman!
October 6th, 2005 at 3:31 am
Can your player do more than just ‘play’ DVDs?
Hehehe…
But yes, agree with you on the importance of being able to immerse yourself in watching DVDs. It’s so therapeutic isn’t it?
October 10th, 2005 at 1:49 am
Haiz… you buy your DVD discs from mangdu arr? I just bought 24 season 2 & 3, and almost all the discs are f*cked! *sob* T_T
October 18th, 2005 at 2:44 am
Yes Ivan, I bought them from MangDu. I bought pirated SATC season 2 - 5 and they were mighty fine. The SATC season 6 part 2 DVDs were original ones and they are fwuacked too >:(