Pentium 1
It’s inevitable, isn’t? There will come a time when the disk drive that we have will be in critical level, in other words, there will be scarcity with the available disk space that we have. That only means that we have to add more space, or delete a few programs and files, or move them to an external disk. And in my case, the unused space that I have is starting to deplete. To make matters worst, I don’t know which files and programs that I have to throw to the recycle bin. I also don’t own any external devices that I can use. The only means to backup the data that I can do is by burning files in CDs or DVDs and you know how unstable they are.
Moreover, I’m starting to feel that the physical memory that I have is not enough. Even though my physical memory that i have is a whooping 1 GB, I can feel that my computer is acting sluggish sometimes. During simple tests, I still have to wait for a few seconds or even minutes before my computer will respond.
I also have to upgrade a lot of things. Not only hardwares but also the programs that are currently installed in my computer which also contribute to the sluggishness of it.
Oh, it’s not my laptop that I am referring to but my brain. For more than 18 years, my brain has been abused, damaged, and over-used especially nowadays where I have to memorize a lot of things. Seriously, I badly need to shut down or just even hibernate it for a while. My brain hasn’t rested for almost a year now from school work. My brain cells are dying. And if I were to sell my brain, I’m sure, I would only earn a few cents because no one would like it and it’s overused!
A couple of weeks ago, I had to subtract something. Yeah, simple Math. God, I wasn’t able to get the right answer. The thing is, it took me five minutes before I realized my mistake: I used the minuend as the subtrahend, and the subtrahend as the minuend. How stupid is that?
All I want now is a very long vacation in a quite place far from civilization where I can rest for weeks, I don’t have to think about school related work, annoying blockmates, read unreliable text books, incompetent instructors, and avoid eating in fast food chains1 so that my brain could have all the rest it needs.
Of course, if someone out there is willing to lend me his or her brain, I would really appreciate it!
BTW, I’m now hosting Kathrin’s blog. She’s one of my oldest friends in the Internet.
- Since last semester, I eat in a fast food chain at least once or twice a week. God, they should abolish the branches of McDonald’s and Jollibee near our school. [↩]
April 26, 2008 @ 7:45 pm
“Use it or lose it” they say about the brain….maybe it is the fastfood… not good for the brain… not good at all !
April 27, 2008 @ 12:58 am
Haha! You are so hard on yourself. Just because you had a minor mind slip or two, eh namamatay na brain cells mo. Using your mind to think kind of exercises the brain cells, doesn’t it? Haha!
But yeah, you need to “chillax” every once in a while.
My own mind slip, this was many years ago.
We were hanging out at our apartment at Quezon City. In the middle of the kwentuhan, I said, “Teka iinom muna ako..” So I went to our kitchen rack to get a glass. Instead, I picked up a platito. At nerealize ko lang ang blooper ko nang ibubuhos ko na yung tubig from the pitcher, haha!
April 27, 2008 @ 3:14 pm
Let’s hope you win a raffle to a trip to never never land so you can forget all your worries and forever be young.
Just as Rex said, you need to “chillax” every once in a while.
Do something for yourself!
April 27, 2008 @ 8:32 pm
Hope you can have a long, relaxing break to replenish your energy and give your brain some much needed “time off”.
April 28, 2008 @ 6:09 am
Ano na ulet yung minuend at subtrahend? Hehehehe.
Shucks, stagnant na utak ko sa simple math terms. Ang naaalala ko na math terms. log, ln, sin, tan, cos, square, square root, cube. Haha
April 28, 2008 @ 3:11 pm
Thanks for the plug.
We all have that moment. Ganyan talaga.. as we get older, we learn more and more things that we sometimes forget about the basic stuff.
I also did spring cleaning on my PC. Hindi ko na sya ginagamit for a month kasi yung laptop ng sis ko ang ginagamit ko. Nang ginamit ko yung PC ko ulit, super bagal na talaga. I deleted files (the sad thing is, I even removed some files without thinking na may sentimental value pa pala yun sa akin
), uninstalled programs and cleaned the Desktop. I even opened the CPU at cobwebs and dust ang bumulaga sa akin so nilinis ko din yun. So ayun, medyo bumilis na.
April 29, 2008 @ 10:35 pm
I’ve felt that way before, well, so many times. Right now, I have no drive to look for work, I just want to enjoy some vacation time. I know that when I start working, I will become sluggish, too.
…and I feel sorry for those who commented that didn’t read the whole post *hihihi*
April 30, 2008 @ 2:22 am
I’s supposed to comment about computers and tech stuff
but then I realized that your post is all about.. your brain.
Kinda confusing ah. But anyway, I caught your drift.
That means you’ve used up all your neurons. XD I dunno, I also suck at Math eh. But so far, I haven’t felt any wave of that matter. My brain is.. well, normally functioning (except for Math,
).
I think I’m having fun with your smileys too much.
May 2, 2008 @ 7:45 pm
I hope you’ll have your much-awaited break. Hehe. Medyo nakakatuwa rin na ‘yung post mo ay may kinalaman din sa numbers. LOL. :))
May 3, 2008 @ 1:42 pm
naku.. rest your mind..
yun yun eh! hehehe..