Snooze

Frankly, I’m a little bewildered at my impressive ability to not just bloody wake up when alarms of any sort ring wildly at my ears. Most of the time, the same scenario happens: I set the alarm, it beeps and hoots and blares out pre-planned edited versions of various MP3s and all I did most of the time, unconsciously, is to press on the Snooze button.

Other times when my subconscious is blur enough, I’ll press on the Ignore button, which effectively ends my alarm, and usually causes me to be late for college or plans of whatsoever.

Most of the time, I overslept when I’m unmistakably tired, after a long, exhausting day at college, set my alarm for half an hour or 1 hour later and I managed to wake up all blurry-eyed to the bangs and calls of my name at my door - 2 hours later.

Soo one fine day being yesterday, the genius in my head jumped out with the most brilliant idea that anyone can possibly perceive, like a jack-in-a-box. It went “tingting” and I recoiled and clapped my hands in glee, while further feeling remorseful for not resurrecting the genius in me sooner.

Anyhow, I went on Google and did a little search before downloading this tiny program creatively named Computer Alarm Clock. It has all sorts of clock-related features that one would expect, but the only one feature I’d ever utilise is its alarm.

Fuyoh, can add your mp3s to the ‘playlist’ of the alarm clock (there’s also an optional preset of a cock crowing, and since I don’t want to raise suspicious of me raising a live barnyard animal in my very room, I left it aside), so once you’ve set your date and time, you simply leave your PC on, and that’s it.

(My laptop’s in my room, probably a metre away from my bed, so using it as an alarm isn’t a problem at all.)

So my playlist at the time has two songs: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children – Those Who Fight and Mika Nakshima – GLAMOROUS SKY, both quite loud, and rock-ish, because hey I wouldn’t want to wake up to the serenading sounds of The Amazing Grace, or even Enya’s Only Time. I raised the volume of my laptop, and slept.

About 30 minutes later, I was rudely awakened and thought my fucking handsome neighbours are at it again with their ridiculous blaring of their hi-fi that somehow made it to my room upstairs. It was only when my mind moved out of my subsconscious domain that I realised the music was coming from my laptop; and being substantially pissed at the music, I manoeuvred the mouse, clicked on the ‘OK’ button, and jumped onto my bed again.

And slept for another good 2 hours. Am I a pure genius or what.