Afterlife

Let’s continue from the previous post. I stay at MPH for 4 hours reading a few books before I get my butt home. That person at the counter starred at me, do you know we Malaysian all have thick skin ? Hahahaa I went to confront him told him I was doing some research at school but no cash to buy all this computer books that guy told me no worries go ahead but if his boss is around I need to stop doing that. then I told him no worries if his boss is around I’ll get my ass out of the bookstore. So on that day onwards I always go back to the MPH bookstore to read up on computer related books. Thank god I took 2 months to understand how does a computer work from the head to the toe what is CPU, memory , ROM and etc… Even dont know what the heck is DOS , Disk Operating System IBM and blah blah. MS DOS wa lau all this jargon really kill a secondary school student at my age. At Last I was able to boot my x86 computer with those floppy disk left behind by my dad’s friend I saw some message like MS-DOS 3.3 or something like that then a prompt came up something like A:\_ <blink> <blink> . Then as per norm I went back to the bookstore look for more information.

After all the crash course at the book store I even wrote my own notes on the piece of paperI finally learn a few commands like DIR , EDIT , ctrl+alt+del , MORE TYPE and etc. Even I started to learn QBASIC writing "Hello World" PRINT something … the more I know what can this machine can do I got hooked and keep going back to the bookstore. 

I wrote a program that actually move a blinking cursor in QBASIC. Don’t ask me how did I do it I just got hooked with those syntax and etc start tried and error kinda of learning. I wrote automated menu list files , format floppy disk and etc.. 

Some intro how did I get into gaming. During my secondary school I was given a x86 by my dad’s friend. BIG GIGANTIC DINO size computer with a monochrome display(Green black and white display). In fact during my young days I have no interest in any gadget and technology stuff. Well you know people in KL,Malaysia they are all crazy about sports. Badminton and blah blah. I am used to be night owl , reading comics and etc… therefore I was so bored after chit chat with a friend of mine staying in our house , she rent a room but we kinda close thou. I took the huge computer into my room. I was like asking myself how the fuck can I start this computer ? Using the word start cause at that time I am not a IT person yet we use boot now pardon me. So it was simple man just slam on the power button like those normal electric appliance. Freaking noisy when the computer startup beep beep and grinding sound all over the machine.  I saw a message " Invalid disk or something like that can’t remember". Beside that giant machine there is a box of floppy disk, 5 inch size floppy. Invalid disk messgae came out from the monochrome display do you know at that time there is no internet? in KL there is no computer books to loan from the library. Ohh well dont even think of public library man. I told myself call it for the night. Went to sleep and next day after school I went to MPH bookstore. I took at look at those computer books on the shelve What the hell pricy tag on those book how can a secondary student afford such books man ????? how ????