What a complete disaster! My computer totally crashed when I switched it on this morning. I don't know how it happened. Maybe I shouldn't have added the “When will you die?” application on Facebook last night. It seemed a bit dodgy to me because according to the date it gave me, I should already be six feet under.

Anyway, the computer's gone to be fixed and won't be back until after the weekend. So there goes my weekend as well. I can't believe this is actually happening to me. It's like a nightmare coming true. I've been cut off from the outside world and am doomed to live in total oblivion for the next couple of days. What on earth am I meant to do without the internet for two whole days?

My parents seem to be quite pleased at the prospect. They belong to the ancient school of thought and believe that life was just perfectly fine before the advent of the mobile phone and the internet. That's so Dark Ages! They deem that Facebook is a total waste of time and want me to 'socially interact' with my friends in the 'real life'. They fail to understand that I do 'socially interact” with my friends online, at any given time of the day and it's more fun this way as well. Reading my friends' status updates helps me know just exactly what they're thinking and what's going on in their lives.

I wonder what's being written on my Facebook wall right this very minute. It's all I can think about right now. I usually check my profile at least a couple of thousand times a day to keep up with all that's going on. I'm sure I have at least a dozen replies from various friends. I wonder if my friend Fatima has put up photos of her birthday party yet. She probably has and would have received a zillion comments already. I'm missing out on so much stuff that it's not even funny.

I'm missing Twitter as well where I constantly follow updates from my favourite celebrities. Yes, I do want to know what David Archuleta had for lunch and what the Jonas Brothers' next move will be.

I'm so bored out of my brains right now. There's absolutely nothing to do...nothing! If I go sulking to my mother, she's just going to tell me to read a book or something equally mundane.

Or maybe she can take me shopping, but wait; how can I go shopping when I can't check on the net about the latest arrivals? I can't even ensure what kind of lawn prints and colours are 'in' these days. I guess I'll have to drop that idea too. I can't listen to music as I forgot to recharge my iPod on the computer last night. I haven't been this bored in years. Thanks to my computer and internet connection, my life has been hip and happening and I never get any chance to be bored to tears.

The only thing I'm looking forward to this weekend is for time to pass swiftly with the hope that my computer gets fixed soon so I can get back to my awesome life online.