Blue Screen and Black Days

I hate my laptop.

Recently it's been crashing so much and refusing to start up. 2 nights ago it refused to start up for 2.5 hours - only the blue error screen and black "Windows has failed to start up" screen kept mocking me. Was such bad timing then too. Thank god for friends and their laptops.

Since then I didn't dare turn off my laptop or even let it sleep, because this is such a crucial time for me to stay in contact - not just for course registration, module mapping, but even floorball back home. But last night I stupidly had a moment of belief in the laptop and turned it off to let it rest. This morning I wake up to another 2.5 hours of futile waiting and fervent prayers for the laptop/Windows to just start up - and nothing. Seems like Waseda doesn't have a computer repair centre unlike NUS so I will have to check up on Fujitsu instead. Doesn't look good though - the Fujitsu Japan website was all in Japanese only, and it didn't seem like they have a physical repair centre; more like they send people to repair it. And I'm not so keen on getting a repair either, since I think my warranty is already over (laptop going on 2.5 to 3 years now) and I don't think I brought my recovery disks and what nots over. Hope it won't be expensive. Such lousy timing. I guess I should just be glad that it's not in the middle of when I was doing a term paper or something.

I hate my laptop now. Ugh.