My recent doi-head moment happened yesterday when I was SUPPOSED to be in genting. tak jadilah. aisy. no matter. my cousin syefik came over! so that was fun. syefik, you'll laugh when you read this one.
My dad uses a laptop, which has a slot where you can directly insert your SD card or multimedia card. I usually use it for my handphone's multimedia card, to transfer songs or whatnot.
well, to cut a long story short, yesterday, i went and put my sony cybershot's memory stick into the slot. Ironically, that very same afternoon syefik had asked me if a memory stick could fit into it, and i had answered no. but for some reason, i forgot all this, and, thinking that the memory stick was the same size, went and slot the memory stick into the SD card slot.
Exhibit A: The SD/multimedia card slot
Exhibit B: Comparison between an SD card and a sony memory stick.
So i went and slot in the memory stick. and it went right in. the whole thing. If it's an SD/multimedia card, it would partially stick out when you push it in, but not this one. uh-uh. the whole thing slid in, and it stayed in.
So i thought, 'oh,crap', and i started poking at it to get it out. which, of course, inevitably ended up with it sliding in even further. and after that, it got stuck. wouldn't budge.
Panic hadn't set it yet, so i tried jiggling it even more. Then, with rising apprehension, i took a pen from the jar on my dad's study table and tried to pry it out.
10 minutes later, with all efforts futile, mild panic finally came around and i resorted to lifting the laptop with the slot faced downwards and started shaking it with hope that inertia would lend me a hand and make the darn thing fall out.
Nope. no can do. Freaking-out was just around the corner, but i maintained a sort of silent(albeit a bit hysterical) composure, and starting to cabut all the wires and cables out of the laptop. subsequently, i proceeded to stand up, lift the lap-top, and did my next course of action, which was to shake the thing even harder. Maybe inertia was asleep and needed a bit of a wake-up call.
Ok, the thing still wouldn't budge. setting the laptop back down on the table, i was silently cursing the sony corporation under my breath, cursing them for making different sized memory sticks instead of the standard size all the other companies make. I concluded it was all part of their evil marketing conspiracy to make sure people had to buy other sony equipment to accomodate the stupid sony memory-sticks. In short, it was part of their plan to dominate the world.
My mind flashed forward to the near future, when dad would come home from work and i'd have to tell him that the daughter he had invested his money in to do A-levels in Sunway with hopes of following the footsteps of his eldest daughter went and slide a memory stick into his laptop and got it stuck there. AAH! somehow, that image got me panicking even further, and i started trying to get the thing out frantically. It was sorta like having to dismantle a bomb, and finding out that the clock, which was set to [5:00], meant 5 minutes, instead of the 5 hours you initially thought(a classic mistake only a doi-headed person would make,btw). You get frantic.
I was even examining the laptop to see where the screws were in case i could unscrew it, remove the outer shell, and get the memory stick out(when you get frantic, your inner McGuyver wannabe personality comes to surface).
In the end, it came down to this.
Exhibit C: The tools
A nail-clipper, a letter-opener, and a stationery blade. uh-huh.
Ceh, macam ape je. Nolah, i used mainly the nail-clipper and the letter-opener. I went and insert the letter-opener's tip into the slot so it was pressing on the memory-stick, and i used the nail-clipper handle and pushed it in so that it was UNDER the memory-stick. Then i kepitkan the two things as hard as i could and used it to pull the memory-stick back out.
Amazingly enough, it worked. i'm a bit in shock myself. common sense doesn't occur to me often, so when i do something and it actually works, it's quite a surprise. I call the technique i used the 'chopstick manouvre'.(indulge me by layan-ing my petty McGuyver/spy-work fantasies, ok?)
Well, thank God it did. I tested my memory stick as well as the slot again with a proper-sized card, and both worked fine. Nasib baik.
So kawan2, the moral of the story is, don't by sony digicams.
Nah,just kidding. the moral is, don't main sumbat je a memory-stick into a mysterious slot in your laptop. or, better yet, boleh sumbat, just make sure you've mastered the choptstick manouvre.
8 comments:
HAHAHA. that. is what i call funny. okay sorry a sebb gelakkan. but well accidents happens. from that moment, youll know the what not of memory card sizes (really, they should make all in the same sizes!)
after your post, i remember the all the frantical tragedies in semashur when we, hmm, sometimes me, sometimes my friends, sometimes my jr, sometimes snr, tertinggal kunci dlm locker. lagi pulak time tu xde pemotong mangga kunci, or its about the locker besi. ape lagi, terpanjat2 la kat atas locker, and gne hanger cam penyepit la, ape la. i miss that.
good that you finally get the memory card out. what did your dad say? mesti die kate, ish ish, len kali xleh bagi anak akoo pc yg ader slot memory card nih. hehe jk.
"I concluded it was all part of their evil marketing conspiracy to make sure people had to buy other sony equipment to accomodate the stupid sony memory-sticks. In short, it was part of their plan to dominate the world."
For an unexplainable reason,i find this extract super hillarious.and if you say the last part about the dominate the world thing with a suspense background music,itd be even funnier.hehe.
or is it just me?
Blame it on the nerverecking exams im about to have this saturday.yeah,a saturday,can you believe it!
LOLOLOL.
you're not the first one though. haha.
what i suggested to another friend who did the same thing was to take something thin, stick double sided tape on it, and pull it out.
anna:ahah,it's ok anna,u can laugh all u want. i deserve it. but they really should have just made it the same size!kan senang.
omg, tertinggal kunci dalam locker! a classic mishap. Kalau locker besi, habislah kopak bende tu. ahah, tu lagi terrer drp McGuyver :p
my dad ah?....oklah, i admitt, i haven't told him yet. But i will! tunggu time die relax, di mane takde risiko kene marah(sbb even though i got the stick out, thatdoesn't mean that i won't get mara h for sliding it in in the first place :p)
aijud:lol, yeah, there shouldve been background music! like that star wars empirical(?) march ke ape tah, or the soundtrack to jaws, when the shark's about to attack. ah well.
you have an exam on SATURDAY?! the cruelty of the australian education board!or is it just ur uni? well, either way, i feel for you. saturdays are very much un-examy days. ape pon, good luck for it,yeah?
aman:alamak. ur idea sounds a lot more easier than my intricate(:P) chopstick manouvre. haiya! why didn't i think of that? because i'm a doi-head, that's why. grr.
but it's nice to noe i'm not the only one who does this kind of mistake. very reassuring,heh.
i wonder why this all sound too familiar.
oh, ive been there and done that.
:p
ok fine nani, you went through it already. but did YOU manage to come up with any fancy manouvres, huh?HUH?
heh. don't answer that.
OK. Im in the Library right now. This person next to me must have thought that im sort of a freak or something. But I had a good laugh, after finishing 1 exam paper! 5 more to go!! What's horrible is that there's not much gap between the exam papers. So kene study laaa lepas nie.
Cheeeeh! You sounded so confident when you told me that you Dad's laptop did not have a Memory Card Slot. I bet you tried slotting the Memory stick into the SD card Slot just to findout whether your dad's laptop is a mutant or anything yang menyebabkan it can read anything that is slotted in. you would have felt very proud kan? lol
Good for you dapat keluarkan the memory stick. Or you would kene marah oleh Pak TEH. I could Imagine your facial expressin when trying to shake the memory stick out of the Lap top. warrrkhh>:-< Funny!
i WOULD agree with the Moral Value!!! Dont buy Sony's stuff. Instead, buy Nikon Camera like mine! heh ~ Atiqah Mokhtar Panass~
Luckely your desktop computer takde Floppy Disk Drive. Or Ade Ke? If ade, May I remind you not to slot in a mini CD or a Memory stick in it. Obviuosly You would know this, but who knows you would try? Heh,
ahah,syefik, i don't know WHAT spell came over in to main sumbat je the stick masuk the slot. yeah, maybe i was subconciously hoping the laptop would be able to read it anyway, despite a difference in size.
and yes, my desktop does have a floppy drive, and no, i was not and will never be(i hope) dumb enough to stick a memory card/stick in there :p
good luck for the rest of your papers!i'm rooting for ya. we go genting when ur done,yea?
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