Murphy's law struck! at my advantage*
Murphy's law is an adage in Western culture that broadly states that things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance. "If there's more than one possible outcome of a job or task, and one of those outcomes will result in disaster or an undesirable consequence, then somebody will do it that way."
It is almost certain that no presentation or event can pass without something going wrong. In my case it was the centre of my universe that shutdown .. My laptop ! And when?? Just 2 days before I was supposed to head to Copenhagen for a presentation.
That day was chaos.. The guys at the HP Service Centre said they would give it back only in 3 days, which of course was of no use to me since I would be cruising at 30000 ft. above ground over Afghanistan on my way to Europe. In anycase there was no other way... so I rented a laptop !! and took my hard drive with me on my trip to access any data that I needed.
I just collected my laptop today and its awesome !! Since my laptop was in its warranty period they replaced the entire LCD screen for me free of charge ! :) This incedently was the only part of my laptop that looked oldish due to some scratches... but now.. it looks BRAND NEW!