Kwentong Bayan

After only almost four months, I’ve finally encountered my first Mac bug.

This is through my superbeloved baby Ipod Classic 80gb (where all of what could have been my entire life’s savings went to) (Ohshiyet, dejavu itong pagtatype ko na ‘to about this topic…shyet. So this was planned….)

Nidrain ko lang ang battery because I never charge unless it’s empty (but when I sync it automatically charges, so kumusta naman). So eh di ayon, nagchacharge na (the usual apple logo when a charger is detected even appeared). But when I went back after some four hours to check, gudlak…the screen is garbled. Only lines of all sorts of colors could be seen. But the clicks of the scroll can still be heard. And it was still able to play the first song in the playlists (A1 - Caught in the Middle) - Oo meron ako nito! Bat ba!

Takte. Before the ipod (and before I was able to save up for it), my Sony walkman was my life. (No music, no life). Just imagine kung pano muntik gumuho ang mundo ko upon seeing the LCD all garbled. Lech!!!

Wala namang nangyaring masama sa kanya. Never ko pa sya nabagsak. Never nabunggo. Any press of the buttons won’t work. (I learned from somewhere that Mac’s version of ctrl+alt+del is menu+center button). But it won’t work!!!

So I tried plugging it sa laptop. It got detected and even updated all the new songs and videos i added. Pero garbled pa din sya.

I always had this belief na I always, always have a way around techie problems. And I haven’t really failed (except when my work computer’s motherboard crashed).

Restart, unplug. Plug again. There. Biglang sabi ng itunes na corrupted daw ang Ipod. Gudlak.

So now i’m trying to restore it with the latest software (which two weeks ago did not work, so I switched back to the original version). I checked some forums and many have complained (or at least nag-rant) about this. Thank God for the forums. At least I don’t feel alone.

Kinontact ko na yung pinagbilhan ko. Pag di to gumana I swear i should get a replacement. Mamamatay ako kapag hinde.

Sana magwork ang restore. I have firm belief on restore options. It always works for my windows problems.  But this is Mac now that I’m dealing with.

Sabi ko na eh. Ayoko talaga ng Mac. hay.

Bakit ganon? No matter how careful you are, despite taking all possible safety precautions, things are bound to get broken. Hay.

Keeping my fingers crossed.