I was playing the rather splendid DVD from Crimson's wonderful live set Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind the weekend before last when the Blu-Ray player I was using suddenly decided not to work. The DVD is still inside it as the machine just shut down and refuses to open the rather nifty little sliding tray you put the disks in to play them. I was left flummoxed, and still am as I've really no time to attend to failing electronic devices.
In fact, the list of failing, or failed, devices we own is now fairly extensive. The television in Maison KL gave up the ghost this year and is in sore need of replacement. Similarly we removed the tv set here since the number of odd blotches on the screen made it difficult to watch anything. This was temporarily replaced by Hakim's huge set which he's waiting to move into his new apartment when it's ready, but that should be soon, so we'll need another replacement for that. The set-box we got from Singtel has not worked for yonks, so we've been watching Starhub, which suffices for now, but we're still paying for the Singtel so we need to do something about that. And the Bose CD player has been refusing to play CDs for around a month, though the radio is working, so that's something.
I've got a feeling I've missed some other defective item, but that's enough for now. I have a vague feeling that things used to last longer, but if they ever did those days are long gone.
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Hi Mr Connor, I was a student in your (probably 1st) class in TKGS(3A then 4A in 1988/89. I've done the journey the opposite way to you. Been living in England for since 1997. I read your blogs occasionally. Still remember you writing the word 'occasion' on the black board, commenting that you never remember how many c or or s in the word. Thank you, sir! I have never mis-spelt that word since. More recently there's auto-spell check on most electronic devices. Electronic devices are meant to be bought, used for a short period to time and replaced. only old people use them to point of them(electronic devices, not people) breaking down. :p Even Karang guni men do not even want old electronic devices anymore, even the working ones (again, electronic devices, not people).
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