IT

IT. Information Technology. Or is it ... Idiot's Tests? It should have been ITT. Idiot's Trials & Tribulations.

I never thought I am the IT kinda person. But I recently found out that there are people out there ... that are much much worse off than me.

A friend of mine recently called me and said, ey, Lembu, can you help out a friend of mine with some IT stuff.

I was like ... HUH? Dei ... since when I am IT expert?

Friend went, can lah .... I also IT buta wan. I think these are simple stuff. Just that my friend left a MNC and is working as a consultant right now and is having some problems with her notebook.

So I said, ok .... must be quite a challenge then. A former MNC employee and now a consultant. I really think she should get a real IT guy. Not me. Heck ... I only use word processor i.e. Microsoft Word @ work!!!! How da fark am I suppose to help this person.

Now ... the first time I helped her ... well, she is in her late 30s. And yes, I am very amazed that people nowadays don't know how to install software into their notebook. So ... nevermind. I helped. I thought that was it. There were many other occassions which I had to help with her notebook and then one day ... the ultimate question was posed to me.

Q: errr... u know, I have thousands of emails in my outlook and I think its too much already.

Me: huh? just delete lah.

Q: oh.... can delete ah?

Me: (duh silently to myself) errrr... yup. You see your outlook ... there is a delete function.

Q: oh ... thanks thanks.

1 MONTH later .......

Q: hello?

Me: yup?

Q: you know, my email ...

Me: why? cannot receive?

Q: no no. last time I delete all my emails ... they are still not deleted. they are all still there ..

Me: HUH? Errr ... you click on the mail, then you click delete .... riiiiiggggght?

Q: yah yah. I did that. but then hor ... all the mails I deleted are still there in my outlook

Me: huh?

Q: yah ... instead of deleting, the mails all went into the deleted folder

Me: (smashing my head against my table) errrr .... from inbox, you delete, it goes to deleted folder. once you are sure you don't want them anymore, then you delete it from the deleted folder ...

Q: oh. so troublesome. why this outlook so stupid. must delete so many times. Anyway, thanks ok? such a stupid program. must delete twice... so stupid

Me: errr ... ok. bye ... have fun with your emails. bye

Sighhhhhhhsss .... and I thought my IT is bad.