Before the next serious post , I wish to update you about the current state of  My f***ing VAIO. The cursor went upside down again! Besides, this time sometimes it randomly behaved madly and started bouncing all over the screen and clicked randomly! Moreover, the left mouse button stopped working! In the new situation of living in the Pounds Country (!), I decided to become a laptop doctor and repair it by my own! So I opened it as you see below:

cleaned the trackpad’s board and changed the faulty button! And all done!

Conclusion: If your VAIO went mad, simply open and clean the bloody trackpad! Everything’s there! Your guarantee service centre might tell you that the control chip was faulty, but that’s a lie to take some money from you!

P.S. I’ve chosen that title, because I am a physicist!

And here are some not much related random pictures of my favourite Jazz club in Manchester. It really worth spending a night there!

As you can see the saxophonist puts much effort to do it well!

The first day I wanted to open an account in Barclays I simply walked into a branch and asked one of the staff about the different accounts they have and their offers. She told me that the only free of charge one is our Cash Card. But you can only use it in the cash points. For your online banking you need the other one which will cost you just 5 pounds per month. I accepted because I knew that HSBC will charge me 8 pound so I asked her to book an appointment for me. Keep this in your mind, I shall come back to it at the end…

This afternoon, I walked into the branch in which I had my account. I went to the branch manager’s office, showed the letter to him and started complaining about the contents of it… “What’s this? You are irresponsible! This is irrational! This is ridiculous! I don’t have any correlation with the government! It’s not about the sanctions! You can’t do this … Blah blah blah…” He just replied: “I know, but according to the rules…” but I was so angry, so I interrupted: “Rules? Which rules? That’s all about the government! I am an ordinary Iranian national!”. Again he replied: “No, it’s about the Iranian nationals!” I shouted: “If you you don’t know the rules, I suggest you go and read them! Anyway, I myself now want to take my money out of here…”

Then I just did the process and went to another bank called Royal Bank of Scotland. I explained the situations for them and they told me they’ll open a bank account for me for free and I can do anything, including the online banking with it. At least they treated well. I emphasized: “I am an Iranian national. Are you sure I won’t have any problem with this account?” and she replied: “Sure! We have many Iranian clients”. So I asked her to book an appointment for me!

Just to check some other banks I went to the Lloys TSB. They gave me the same answer. They told me they don’t know why Barclays has done this and this is not a law coming from the higher authorities.

Finally I went to another branch of Barclays and told them I want to open an account and I am Iranian and I’ve heard that we can’t have an account here because of the sanctions! They told me: “No, you definitely CAN open an account here. But you can only have a Cash Card in our bank.” I told him: “But I want to do online banking!”. “Yes, you can!”, he replied!

I came back home and checked the Barclays website on the internet. Apparently I can do online banking and all with a Cash Card. I deduced that the banker deceived me for 5 pounds per month in the first day! So I shall transfer all my money to the RBS. Moreover, this is an irresponsible action of the Barclays or any other banks to close certain clients’ accounts only because of their nationality!!!

I’ve just received a letter from Barclays, the bank in which I made this mistake and opened an account, which says we’re gonna close your account in 30 days!!! It says “we have decided that we are no longer in a position to be able to offer services to clients who are resident in a number of countries, including Iran”!!!

What the hell is that? I have never had any correlation with the government of Iran. I have always  been under pressure of the Iranian government when I was in Iran. I have never committed any illegal activity. The sanctions are supposed to do  nothing to the Iranian people, but the government. Why should they close my bank account? Why should I suffer more?

OK, tomorrow I’ll walk into the bank and happily take my money off this crap! But I am so worried that I have the same problem with the other banks!!!

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Sorry for the long absence due to my personal problems. Last two months was not a very easy time for me. After that time, when I was planning to write an amazing post on ‘dance’, my laptop started playing with me!

I’ve bought my VAIO SZ740N5 about a couple of month ago. People warned me that this is just a crap; you can’t be sure how long your VAIO will work. But I didn’t listen! I thought that I am a very careful person and nothing terrible will happen! No shock, no software/hardware changes, no nothing! Nevertheless, about two weeks ago my touchpad started working inverted, randomly each time I boot or hibernate my machine! It f***ed me up! I did everything to solve the issue. I recovered it three times with Vista, XP and Ubuntu! I assigned the value ‘0’ to whole the bits in my hard disk and then formatted it thoroughly! I reinstalled the driver and anything you may consider! But it’s still the same shit! I talked to an analyst from Sony. I also studied different websites and forums including the notbookreview and the techsupport. It seems that there are many people having the same problem. However, Sony irresponsibly has not yet called for the laptops to be replaces. You have to be lucky to face the issue before your warranty ends. Otherwise you have to pay for their fault!

Moreover, other friends who have bought their VAIO in the same time as mine also reported different issues such as problems with their webcam and damages to the body in very unreasonable conditions!

Finally I strongly suggest you doubt if you are planning to buy a Sony laptop. Many better brands exist, including IBM and Toshiba.

Guys,

Because of lack of viewers, I won’t drop any post here for a while!