My PC scared of my dad?

Just now, after coming back from my grandma's house, I decided to test my PC again before I told my dad. Same problems occur again.

After I told him, I manually shut down the PC using the Power Switch on the CPU. After a while, my dad came to look at the PC so I switched it on.

Somehow, it seemed like the PC was scared of my dad. It was working fine when he was here. My dad even check his emails, etc and still was working fine. Hmm... Weird...

I don't understand why this happened. So I shut down the system and restart again to test. This time it worked. That is how I can blog right now.

My dad told me that he had called the IT guy actually. His advice is if the PCs got problems, don't bother fixing them back as they are pretty old system actually. I can't believe my ears. I know the PC in my bedroom is the oldest following by the PC in my dad's room then the PC in my study room.

Due to all the mix and match, repair and changing of these and that, I had lost count of the PCs' age. I just know my part of my mouse and printer had turn yellow from the constant exposure to indirect sunlight that shine into my room. I just know that my PC in my bedroom is still using a mouse with rolling ball.

As I lost count of the PCs' age, I thought my PC was at most 1-2 years old. But my dad told me that it was much older than that. After a hard attempt to recap, I think I had this PC before I had my piano and that was in March 2005. So I thought it would be about at most 3 years?

I just went to dig out the invoices for the CPUs. Managed to find out the date for my PC in the study room and the date for my dad's PC. His PC was dated back to 24 May 2002 and my PC was dated back to September 2003.

Hmm... My PC was near 4 years old and my dad's PC was more than 5 years old? That would meant that my other PC in my bedroom is an antique. Wow!!! No wonder that IT guy told my dad that our PCs are very old. No point getting them fixed if they are down. He was sayingthat this moment, this problem might be solved, following moment another problem might arise. So he suggested that we should get new PC if ours are really down. Maybe that is why my PC is back to normal when my dad is home. It knows it would be in trouble if it is ill.

Well, I supposed even though he (the IT guy) is out to earn money (Once, on the second or third visit, he even charge us by per hour in addition to other charges, etc), he is still honest with this issue. I'm glad he is. I had been worrying also because in case he went all out to earn money, we would spend more than unnecessary.

I guessed after hearing these, after confirming the ages, I am much relieved. Yet at the same time, I was hoping they can last as long as they can especially when now, there is another issue to take note. The TV in the living room is totally gone.

For me, I know it might be expensive to get a new TV especially when my living room is big so a normal 21 inch TV be pretty small as compared to the current around 40 inch flat-screen TV. I supposed can try to look out for a normal (maybe 29 inch) TV which was the size of the previous TV that we had in the living room. I guess that should do the job rather than trying to get it repair when it was down again like at most 3 months after last servicing. But all in all, this is what I think and feel. It would be my dad who make the final decision. If he decided to get it repair, I guess I won't go against it. We can just give it a 1 last attempt to revive it though.

But it would be really bad timing if all are down at this moment. This moment when the sole family income will be totally back to my dad. This moment when I am short of cash. This moment when I am trying to look for part time job just to make my ends meet without asking money from my dad.

Damnit. I saw 1 clinical assistant post for evening and weekend at around JE a couple of days ago but I decided to try my luck to source for 1 even nearer to my house so that my parents would not worry so much when I knock off late. I shouldn't have done that. I should have try to call and ask. What have I done! *Sigh*

And yesterday after trying to guide my cousin, Michelle, a primary 2 kid, for her english homework on cloze passage, I realized I confirm can't teach to give tuition. Especially English. You might think that I had graduated with a Diploma and had been working for 4 years plus. How can I not know how to teach a lower primary English. Yet I am stuck... My grammer sucks, my vocabulary very limited, etc etc. I can't even think of a word for a primary two cloze passage. How can I teach this way?

So giving tuition is confirm out of question. Unless I can specialized in Mathematics which is my only strength. Yet, I had no confident after lost contact of the subject for ages. I need to recap. I need to know their syllabus, etc. Hmm... It's harder than ever to get a part time job...

So please! Please! PLEASE!!! I begged the PCs at home to last as long as possible till I manage to find a part time job that could earn more than what I need for the next few years.