Life Supercharged..!

It’s been so long indeed since I’ve been this happy. Not even on Christmas. No, not even that. Not even close. This is how it came that I feel this way…

See, my old PC was tired. Long and numerous have been the discussions between my wife and me to replace it with a new one. However, the business of living and daily worries have a nasty habit of creeping up and postpone such useful investment. In the end, she was never replaced ( By she, I mean the old PC, not the wife ). She just sat there, tired and slow; but ever-faithful to help me do whatever I need to do, be it working or gaming. I even got to the point where I told myself that this PC would only got replaced when she literally just stop working, and not before. You know, after all they say that it ain’t over till the fat lady sings. And a fat lady she is, indeed.

Until last Friday. Until suddenly my wife came home smiling; - telling me the news that she hit an unexpected jackpot that finally she’d like to buy me a new PC. And that she wouldn’t take no as an answer. Being pompous, I had my pride. I made sure that we had some necessary arguments first before agreeing to the recommended solutions from her. She had this list ready where she list down all the CPU specs that she wanted, complete with the estimated price. I, on the other hand, tried to argue that maybe a desktop PC isn’t what we need. Maybe what we need more is a new laptop. With that kind of budget, who knows, maybe we can look for a used one. But in the end, I found that I just had to concede and admit defeat. It was simply impossible to find a good used laptop with our budget. It wasn’t easy, though. I was dreaming of a new laptop when I slept that nite.

The day after, we went to a shopping centre famous ( or should I say notorious ? ) for its computer-related products, legal and illegal. We found a good store with a nice man for a seller, sat our asses down, sipped the complimentary glass of mineral water, and began the crucial negotiation. Pushed by desire but pulled by budget-constraint, I settled for a CPU with Intel Dual Core 1.8 Ghz processor and 1 GB DDRAM 2 memory. Not willing to be defeated in arguments two days in a row, I forced him to gave me a brand new, shining Simbadda speaker and subwoofer system. After going around, we finally went home bringing that new machine nicely packed.

Now, if you allow me, just let me skip the gruesome part of formatting the drive and data moving from my old machine. For obvious reasons, any writer who also happens to be a tech fan just won’t write about that part. Maybe one little complaint I’d like to log here is that I lament the fact that it gets increasingly complex to do the installation process of any newer OS.

That being said, my new CPU is now running Windows Vista Ultimate. It got me pessimistic at first as Vista is so resource-consuming, what with its shiny animation and all. But again, boy was I underestimating my own weapon : the new Dual Core processor paired with the DDRAM. I am not going to dwell in the technical side ( It’s a domain of my other blog ) but this is the point where I said that I am now feeling euphoric as I mentioned in the beginning of this post. Just imagine, as I write this post, my computer is running Winamp , Windows Live Writer ( a blog editor ), Windows Live Mail ( my default email client ), Last.fm software, Digsby ( a feature-packed but heavy-as-hell IM software ), Absolute Privacy ( a budgeting software, IE 7 ( my default browser ), AND Football Manager 2008 ( a game almost as heavy as AutoCAD software - the greatest PC game of all, by the way ) all at the same time !! No strike that; all of those at the same time with no system “hiccups” whatsoever !! ( see my desktop pic, look at those programs sitting beautifully in the Windows taskbar ).

Wicked. There’s no other word for it. A badass myself, I’ve had my share of past where I indulged on a lot of things just to get high. Let me tell you, my friend, I am never as high as I am now. My life is now supercharged !!

P.S. : This post is lovingly dedicated to my wife, Leonnie Flora Merinsca. My strong wife, personal Hera and angel incarnate. Dosvedanya, mi Inamorata….