Death of a gadget

A couple of days ago, our home laptop was struck by a virus. I only discovered it when I realised my entire work folder that I had created for this year was wiped out from my portable hard disk after I plugged it into our 'sick' laptop, and I could do nothing to recover its contents. Sigh... there goes all my lesson materials and admin documents. Furthermore, many many weird unknown programme files appeared in the disk... actually gives me the goosebumps to even think of what these weird files might be. The only consolation is that since it's only slightly more than a month into the new school year, my loss isn't considered that great. But still, such an experience is always distressing, especially when technology is such an integral part of my job. ;(

Hubby was a darling though. Although he hates having to deal with technology-related problems, he knew I would be badly affected if I could not work properly on the laptop, so he spent his time at home the next day trying to download 'doctors' to cure our laptop. So now the lappie's more or less ok, but my portable hard disk is, unfortunately, in the 'cannot-make-it' state. Since it's been with me for quite some time, I thought I'd dedicate a post to bid it farewell before I go shopping for a new one some time soon, I hope.

Adieu, my gadget pal... Adieu. T_T