My Favourite Accident

I accidentally dropped my camera during the other night at Double O, while celebrating ORD with the Raven Kids. So needless to say, the camera wasn't functioning properly, and died down eventually, with it's feeble last words being "lens error, restart camera". I thought it was just as simple as restarting the camera to fix the problem,

but no,

there wasn't a freaking 'restart' button in sight. So i decided, with much reluctance, to fix the problem only when i got back home. (before i came to that decision, i was actually scanning the camera with the help of guo bei's handphone light, trying to find the button in a dark club...real smart.)

even when i got back home, i could not find a way to restart the camera. so the same morning when i woke up, i went online to see if i could find the canon tx-1 manual, which i could not. so i kinda resigned myself to the ill fate of my camera and the arduous journey i had to take to the canon centre to repair it.

but then, a stroke of genius happened.

one night after that morning, i was bored. i looked at my dead camera, and thought, "argh...what do i have to lose...i might as well drop it and see what happens."

hence, i decided to drop the camera on the floor again to see the effect. after dropping it, just to make sure, i hit it quite hard a few times.

it came back to life.