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The IRONY of Owning a Laptop

Friday, September 18, 2009

I can still remember how excited I looked last year when my ever supportive father told me I’ll be having a new laptop. Finally my rusty, old desktop PC will rest in peace!

So I nagged my ever supportive father to buy me one, eventually postponing my former request to replace my equally rusty, old mobile phone (which I had been with since I was in high school, good riddance). 

And after a month, I received a brand new laptop. It is not the “coolest” model in the market, but I [forced myself to] like it.

Irony#1

My younger brother would sometimes sneak up on my room  and use my laptop (naturally, I was so protective of it) to play online games with his classmates. After once discovering him exploiting my “property” without my knowledge, I scrapped him of his innocent ecstasy by placing a long password which in no way he will ever guess.

Irony#2 aka The Classroom Irony

I know that I am not the only one who has a laptop in our class. But I do not understand why, whenever we have a group activity, I seem to be the most popular laptop owner and everyone starts to point fingers at me “Si Jet na lang yung powerpoint. Dalhin mo laptop mo bukas, please.”

With my classmates’ pleading faces (and the girls’ [pa]cute giggles) I could not say “No. Mabigat. Hassle.I just nod. To think that in one way, I am helping the group.

Just like Spider Man, owning a laptop comes with great responsibility (and patience). It’s not entirely cool to have one. In a developing country like the Philippines, it’s more of a “need” than a “want”.

 

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