Amused

Hey! 

So recently I made a buying decision that fairly blew up about 2-thirds of my internship pay.. But I feel that it was a worthy investment, and I'd much rather spend it this way than on something potentially frivolous that wouldn't help me out or add value to my life in any way. 

Okay enough suspense. I purchased a Macbook Pro with Retina display and am loving it now more than ever (because I just installed Microsoft Office and Adobe for freeeee~ student perks). This way, I have the comfort of familiarity when working on school stuff, plus the added perk of the heartbreakingly pleasing aesthetics that Macs are famous for :') Also, I think one thing that Apple definitely has over other laptop brands is its keyboard. I've read a lot of reviews and watched multiple videos of people talking about what they like (and dislike) about their MacBooks. Yet, I don't recall any one mentioning the wonderfully designed keypad that it has. Now I am no computer genius, so bear with me as I attempt to describe the amazing usability of this machine. I think it's the spacing of the keys that makes each one so comfortable to press. Without forcing you to stretch your fingers too far or contort them in weird positions, it gives you just what you want, without too much effort. Know what I'm sayin' ?

For some reason, when I bought this, all the 13" Macbook Pros with 128GB were sold out islandwide!! And no one even knew when the new stock was to arrive.. How does that happen?!! My dad insists that it's a marketing ploy to get people to pay that additional 300 dollars and just buy the 256GB one instead. I for one think the fact that school starting for all the universities might have something to do with the low stock of laptops in stores at the moment. Marketing ploy or not, I fell for it. hee.  Moving on~

What's got me so tickled is when I went to school today to ask if the programmes (mentioned above) could be installed under school licence. The dude at the counter (which I'm sure was Filipino, i love Filipinos, they're funny) was the one who helped me out with the installations. Let me just digress here and relate the ridiculous way in which my school's IT help department works. It's a room called the IT Help Desk with whitewashed walls and a bench for you to sit on and wait. Upon entering, you have to type your student number onto a screen and hit the 'ENTER' button. Following which, a receipt with a queue number would promptly dispense with those classic receipt machine beeps. Do you see what I'm getting at? White walls, benches, queue numbers?? The place is literally a clinic !! All that's missing are the sick people. (Which they sometimes have as well). 

Anyhow, on this exceptionally empty day (empty because it's actually exam period for the peeps who're still in school - I'm exempted because I had internship this month.. though now probably more broke than the schooling kids.. ) you'd think they would make an exception with the queue number system because, quite frankly, there was no queue. But they do love their protocols! So I typed in my student number and before I even had a chance to sit down on the bench, it was called!! 

I walked right over to the counter and told them I wanted to install Adobe. Here I'll skip right to the funny bit which is when the guy asked me to come up with a password for my account. 8 characters long, 1 symbol, 1 uppercase. Shouldn't be too hard. right? nope. I had at least 10 unsuccessful tries with different combinations each time. If it wasn't so ridiculous, it would've been infuriating. 

So naturally, since the guy was the IT expert, (and I was at the IT HELPdesk), I swerved the computer in his direction and asked for help. He kept telling me that I had to follow the instructions (which I was!!) and then turned to his computer friend and laughingly joked that I "still can't get in" because apparently coming up with a password was probably the simplest IT thing to do and yet it was hard for me. huh. Still having trouble, and wanting to harness his IT expertise instead of just having him sit there waiting for me, I suggested that maybe he could invent a password for me and just tell me what it is. My adobe account was hardly a private thing anyway. At which point he said, why don't you use your boyfriend's name? Which sent his computer friend into a fit of laughter. 

My reaction was to laugh it off with them, just saying "my what?.." and moving on as if I hadn't heard it. But what I should've said probably instead of feigning ignorance of his reference to my non-existent better half was this:

Computer dude: "You should write down your boyfriend's name"
Me: "Oh I don't have one, but..what was your name again?"

"And how do you spell that?"
*Proceed to type it in*

Just for fun! :) HAHAHA That would've been really funny. And I think he would've appreciated it too. I mean if you want to joke/flirt, just make it obvious. Don't do the snide obscure remarks that just make things awkward. I think he might've actually helped me more after that too. Too bad I only think of these funny comebacks after I've left the crime scene. LOL okay I don't know what I'm saying anymore. But yes, this is what had me amused on the bus ride home. 

Will check in again with something more common-sensical and less frivolous next time! Hope you have a good day too :)