Losing (and retrieving) Laptops 101 - coursecode: LARL101

This course will cover the basics of losing your laptop. For learning purposes we will be using the IBM T43 as our demonstration set to simulate real life settings. By the end of the term you should be able to lose your laptop and retrieve it with ease and finesse.

Method:

1. Lose your laptop in a place with many surveilance cameras. eg. Dover MRT station platform seating area

2. Call any number remotely related to the place you left it at. eg. All the MRT stations. Leave your handphone number with them.

3. Do not call IBM because they don't give a shit

4. Do not call CIT because they are shits

5. Call your best friend to feel better (or worse depending)

6. Get a Dad who will love you unconditionally

7. Tell your dad, even if the retail value of the relationship may drop to around the same price as the missing laptop

8. Do not go and buy a macbook and buy cute accessories for it just because you think no one will ever give your laptop back

9. Wait 24 hours for the MRT people to call you back and say some dubious person returned it

10. Do not assume people returned your laptop because they found out that they couldn't unlock your computer and they were scared shitless after looking at the surveillence cameras again. Good will was involved.

11. Find ways to convince your dad you did NOT intentionally lose your laptop just to get a white macbook to match your Nintendo DS

12. Post your IBM T43 on yahoo auctions

13. Laugh