Just back from watching the Final Destination 4 from the theater. The story line that use from 1 to 3 are plane crash, road accident and the roller-coaster collapse. Now, for the Final Destination 4, the story begins from escaping the death from an car racing incident.
Does this movie appear in the right time or wrong time? Especially at the month of September where the Singapore F1 race is going to kick off too. After watching the movie, the tragedy happen in the movie so horrifying that people might not want to buy tickets to watch the live race. More over, the fences and barricades are build for temporary purposes and its definitely not good enough compare to the permanent race track. (hopefully I'm wrong!) However, this movie sparks that viewers safety is a very important and need to be fully taken care of. Hopefully, after this movie, they'll improve or take extra precautions on both the drivers and the viewers safety and hence minimize accident happen. Or else, history will repeat itself like last year Ferrari team accident.
As for me, I'm not really a F1 fans and probably I'll just stay home and watch it live from TV.
Aug 30, 2009
Aug 14, 2009
$500 for 1 year warranty!
I've bought DELL laptop on March last year. Using it until early January this year, the laptop graphic card started to have problem. So, they replace the whole motherboard for me on the February as it is still under warranty.
1 Month later, another problem arise. The LCD screen unable to turn on when the laptop is power up. The whole mother board still running and I still can hear the Windows log in tone. Intermittently, I'm able to power the LCD but most of the time, I failed.
So, I called the DELL service center and they diagnosed that the LCD and LCD cables are the root of the problem. They claimed that its not the graphic card problems and refuse to repair for me again. Since I'm out of warranty, they said that I need to renew the warranty by paying SGD$500 for a 1 year extend warranty + repairing fee. It's $500!!! just to extend another year of warranty. If I do not pay, they will not help me fix the LCD cables. Currently, the HP mininote is around the 1 year warranty price. How will I willing to pay $500 just to fix my LCD cables! More over, I checked online and the extended 1 year of hardware warranty is just $200++. With accident plan cover, also cost about $400++!!! Why they charged me extra? Do you think is it worth repairing the LCD of 1 year old laptop by paying $500? Or I should just use the laptop and pray that I can turn on the LCD on the 1st attempt?
1 Month later, another problem arise. The LCD screen unable to turn on when the laptop is power up. The whole mother board still running and I still can hear the Windows log in tone. Intermittently, I'm able to power the LCD but most of the time, I failed.
So, I called the DELL service center and they diagnosed that the LCD and LCD cables are the root of the problem. They claimed that its not the graphic card problems and refuse to repair for me again. Since I'm out of warranty, they said that I need to renew the warranty by paying SGD$500 for a 1 year extend warranty + repairing fee. It's $500!!! just to extend another year of warranty. If I do not pay, they will not help me fix the LCD cables. Currently, the HP mininote is around the 1 year warranty price. How will I willing to pay $500 just to fix my LCD cables! More over, I checked online and the extended 1 year of hardware warranty is just $200++. With accident plan cover, also cost about $400++!!! Why they charged me extra? Do you think is it worth repairing the LCD of 1 year old laptop by paying $500? Or I should just use the laptop and pray that I can turn on the LCD on the 1st attempt?
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