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firefox 3 is gonna be out pretty soon! the release version is already out but there are still a number of bugs so i think i’ll just be patient and wait for them to iron things out a little before downloading the new version. that was another damn bloody long sentence. gotta kick the habit of writing long, rambling sentences. short and simple sentences are so much easier on the brains.
there are just so many shiny new functions on the firefox 3! think i’m gonna have lots of fun using the new version. they’ve also decided to make the mac version appear more like an in-built mac programme. which only means it’s gonna look prettier on ally.
best of all, it’s gonna be fasterfasterfasterfaster!
if i had a mac desktop i’d be very, very tempted to get this! it’s the sideview of apple’s new wireless keyboard, in case you can’t tell from the picture.ultimate minimalism! it’s so freaking simple and sleek…..yum.
while i am thankful that adium allows msn emoticons to appear, i wonder if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
90% of the entire screen!
imagine that thing bouncing on your screen as a screen-sized emoticons. the chat window wasn’t even wide enough to show the entire fat-assed emoticon. it’s scary when that thing suddenly pops up right in your face.
the new ipod nano looks hideous. why did they kill the sleek-looking version? so what if this new one is thinner? it’s so much wider and now it looks like some product from creative. like some clumsy, bumbling version of the original ipod nano. ok, i know it’s only 52.3mm wide, but because it’s 69.8mm tall, it just looks squarish and definitely not sleek.
the colours are ugly too, what’s up with the pastel blue and green? maroon looks kinda weird too. are the designers at apple suffering from some colour blind thing? to sidetrack a bit, the ipod (regular) only has two colours, silver white and black. sheesh, pathetic is the word.
i don’t know about others, but when i’m out and about listening to music, i don’t need contacts and calendar functions in the ipod. what’s my mobile phone for, anyway? why the hell would i need a world-clock function in the ipod nano?
eeeeeek. if i were rich i’ll snap up one of the old ipod nanos which are all on sale now. the new ipod nano is just plain weird.
i hope by the time i need to get a new ipod they’ll have come up with the next generation which is hopefully, better than these monstrosities.
for the sake of $100, i have downloaded something called a ftp client or dunno what thing. it comes with an uber cute dock icon on ally, the truck you see next to the trash bin. i still haven’t figured out how exactly i can use this thing in future but at least i’ve downloaded what i need for the sake of that $100.
oh yeah, the red duck you see (4th icon from the left) is an instant messaging thingy, adium, which can log into msn, icq (ha!), yahoo messenger and what-not accounts all at the same time. msn pissed me off big-time cos it was mute most of the time while i was using it. there was a period of time i wasn’t such great friends with adium cos they didn’t display the msn emoticons and sometimes, i had a little difficulty communicating with those emoticon-crazy people i know. now that they enable emoticons, i’m enjoying a really great relationship with the adorable little duckie.
adium comes with funky features like auto-replies and customizable statuses, which is what i’m using most of the time. but i really hate it when i’m not logged in or when the internet connection is down, cos the duckie’s eyes would be blank and i’ll feel sorrowful for its blindness.
ok, i’m getting emotional over a duckie.
main point is, i feel high tech, i’ve got that ftp thing!
my internet connection has miraculously revived itself. it was no use waiting for technical support to answer my frantic calls cos no one answered them even though i waited for more than 40 minutes. out of determination, vanity and wishful thinking, i reset-ted the modem again and again. the led light which was supposed to be lit finally lit up again and i almost wanted to set some fireworks to celebrate. this means i don’t have to camp overnight in school. i was seriously considering doing that for tomorrow or sunday night, cos there’s an obscene amount of work due next week and i need the internet.
sometimes technology makes me appreciate small little things in life, like lit up led lights.
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a year ago, i’d probably be the last person on earth to know how much a can of tuna or a bottle of shampoo would cost, cos i didn’t have to shop for these things. what are mothers for? if i had to buy some groceries, i had the mentality of “just grab the one which looks the prettiest. they probably cost around the same anyway”.
a year ago, i visited supermarkets on an average frequency of once every few months.
this afternoon when i was doing my groceries, i saw some canned tuna on promotion (again).
oh my god, it’s only 77 cents each! the other supermarket was selling them for 99 cents each during their promotion last month! ok, let’s just grab four cans, one of each flavour.
then i walked by the toiletries aisle.
oh my god! the pantene shampoo and conditioners are going at $4.95 instead of the usual $7.95! oh damn, i only have enough muscle power to buy one of each. damn, damn, damn! i wish i drove, i would be able to buy at least two of each then.
i can’t believe the changes in my shopping behaviour. i am now an, [gasp] auntie!
that’s me, blogging live from school. was feeling cranky but i can’t help smiling cos the weather today is terrific. cool but sunny and warm enough to stay outside and get some desperately needed fresh air.
here i am in school, seated on an outdoor bench using the internet connection cos the bloody internet connection at home is down again. i thought it could be that i owe them money, but i just checked and my account is clear. can’t get through to the technical support hotline too. so yeah, i’m really pissed with the internet provider for the time being. i had to use my housemate’s laptop to send an email and i realised she’s completely helpless in technology stuff. waaaaaay worse than i am, ok? and i’m already quite a bad case.
she thought i wouldn’t be able to log on to gmail to send emails cos:
her: telstra next g works differently and doesn’t allow sharing of the connection.
me: oh, but you can still surf the net normally, right?
her: yeah, but they told me i wouldn’t be able to share connections and stuff like email services.
sometimes i think i meet some of the weirdest people in the world.
yeah, weird people like my groupmate who worked in singapore last year. his favouritest favourite food from singapore? fried bee hoon for breakfast.
while exploring all those absolutely cool and fun downloadable things for ally, i stumbled upon bonecho, which is a faster version of firefox for ally. usually i can’t tell the difference between these speed thingys but this bonecho is really noticeably faster than firefox.
it’s 99.9% similar to firefox too, except for small little things which you wouldn’t even notice if you’re not observant enough.
i think these people who write these codes are complete geniuses. yeah they may be geeky and nerdy from time to time but they’re modern einsteins!
now i can explore the world more efficiently. for instance, my search for a offline blogging tool can be made faster.
ok trial 3.
from the last post to now, i’ve explored yet another two options. both of which allows just blogging using simple text and non of those editing, image uploadings or linkings. unless i do them manually, i think.
sheesh, life sucks.
i wanted to download a programme which would allow me to blog even without starting my internet browser. there were a few to choose from so i just chose randomly.
i didn’t know how to configure my wordpress account with bleezer, the first programme i tried.
now i’m blogging on flock, which also works as an internet browser. the configuration is absolutely idiot-proof. but it defeats the purpose: if i am going to blog with an internet browser, i’d just stick to firefox.
ok now lemme try some other programmes.
Blogged with Flock
a really long time ago, i discovered gmail on the phone and i was extremely happy. i could access my email inbox when i’m on the train! on the bus! everywhere! reply mails instantly no matter where i was! in sync with the real inbox and with a pretty user interface too!
i suffered from withdrawal symptoms when i couldn’t access my gmail inbox in australia cos it would cost an obscene amount of money for that luxury.
i still love the application, except when i discovered that i forgot to delete the application from the 6280 i sold. i couldn’t disable the access from the real gmail account.
i did try, i swear i did. i went down to the shop where i sold my phone and asked them if i could get the phone and delete the application. alas, they’ve already sold the phone to exporters (to be resold to developing countries) and they assured me the exporters would “flush the existing things”.
yeah right.
when i was trying out phones in that shop that day, the second-hand phones had contact lists of the previous owners.
oh well, there’s nothing i can do now, except to change my gmail password and pray that the next user doesn’t abuse my email. and i’m also praying the next user is really from some other country, cos just the charges of accessing the application from overseas would be sufficient to deter anyone from using it.
did i mention that i had a copy of my contact list, undeleted smses and photos in the phone as well?
i swear i wasn’t planning to sell that phone, that’s why.
i am still home-broadbandless.
i think it might be because the housemate had cancelled her phone line, which is required for an asdl broadband connection.
and i can’t tap on the house owner’s connection. anyone techy person can tell me if a wireless broadband subscription plan is required to use a broadband connection wirelessly, or if all broadband plans work wirelessly, as long as i have a wireless modem router plugged in?
less than a month ago i was trying to figure what the hell ning was. and i pretty much got away without knowing what it was and how it worked.
or at least i could get away with it for the e-marketing course.
now i have to know what it is for my e-commerce course.
in case unenlightened soul is interested, ning is yet another version of social network. when will i ever be freed of social networks and technology?
sometimes i really detest technology. always keeping people on their toes cos it changes every other second. technology can move along without me, i’m happy with the level of technology i have now.
my dad sent me an email! WOW!
haha that is something, for someone whose english belongs to the cannot-make-it kind, for someone who’s not well-acquainted with technology.
it’s scary how middle-aged people are tech-savvy nowadays. my dad has picked up emails and internet banking etc, the msian’s dad blogs, and the mum of an ex-colleague (who’s 32 already) youtubes!
stupid collage of darling harbour from yesterday still can’t work properly. i miss photoshop. i miss proper internet connection back in sg.
am bushed from walking and walking and walking. too lazy to do more collages.
will be back.
i brought in a new friend for ally.
she didn’t like the first one, so it’s been sitting there waiting to be picked up by its buyer. the new friend came this afternoon, mysteriously wrapped in brown paper. the old-school brown paper which i love so much.i am in love with ally’s new friend too.
right after the previous entry comes one to worship myself.i finally got everything correct.
and for a second i held my breath and pulled out the ethernet cable from ally. another exciting two seconds while i waited for the webpage to load. and the moment of triumph came.
i know i’m a drama queen sometimes, but i can’t help it too.
and now i’m comfortably in my own room using the internet! muahahahahahaha. now it’s possible to log onto msn late at night to talk to everyone! that is, provided i’m not drained from school and that i don’t have morning classes.
but still, this is the best thing that happened to me this week, i think!
welcome me back to the world, people!
it’s been a really long time since i updated and the main reasons are:1) i reset the router in an attempt to set up the wireless. i admit i’m hopeless at computer stuff. i have the passwords and everything, but i just can’t get it to work. not even when i connect it through ethernet.
2) i have been trying to get used to school stuff. the lecturers are darn serious about the readings. and my textbooks are gonna be imported from singapore. i have to zap textbooks and borrow from classmates (hopefully i can find some before the tutorials) to prepare for tutorials.
3) school internet is a pain-in-the-ass. they have surfing quotas (can you believe it?!) and by the time i manage to find a windows pc (so that i can msn), finish school housekeeping stuff on the very, very slow network, reply emails and am finally ready to log on, i can’t stay for long cos i have to rush home to prepare lunch / dinner. i don’t like to eat in school cos i fell in love with my own cooking.
JUST KIDDING.
it’s just weird eating lunch alone everyday. and it’s expensive too.
i realized how much i hate cooking for just myself. cos even when i cooked back at home (only when the parents were out gallivanting in some foreign land), i’d cook for the brother who eats like a horse. now i always overcook. there’s always so much veggies i end up eating at least four servings of veggies a day. and no, i haven’t lost weight yet.
so in an attempt to clear the food in my fridge faster and mostly out of goodwill, i cooked a dish for the adopted family. sharon (lady owner) was saying she felt guilty for me doing that cos i’m supposed to be studying hard and all that, and i went, “nah, i don’t do that kind of thing!”. as if the main reason i’m here is to cook and not study. but anyway she’s been taking really good care of me, giving me huge portions of fruits every now and then and buying everything extra i might need. so i thought it’ll be nice to give in return.
the drought here has subsided, i think. it’s been raining frequently for the past two weeks. with the gray clouds, a bit of blue skies and the beginning of sunset, this was what i saw:
a pretty blend of gray, blue and pink.
you thought i have a good view from my room eh?
just beyond my room, right at the bottom of the hill, they’re building a retirement village. i left singapore thinking it’ll be good to see the construction opposite my room at home all completed by the time i return. then i came here to see this:
beyond the perimeter of skimpy bamboos will be the ugly construction site. i must have an aura for renovation and moving. fortunately they’re in the end-stages of construction, so there’s not too much noise.
lastly, i was dressing for school the other day and i thought of a couple of years ago when i started school. remember my dressing in the first two years?
*shudders
and i do agree i’ve changed a lot since then. dressing, hair, everything.
i was wearing make-up every time i left the house, in a failed attempt to use up my make-up before i leave sg. now i don’t like seeing myself all dressed up and without make-up. so there, i’ve been wearing make-up to school too.
these are photos i took of myself a few weeks before i left sg, it’s kind of a milestone in my own timeline you know? guess i can do some compare-and-contrast thingy a few months down the road or something. or maybe not. where got money and time to shop for new stuff when i’m supposed to be erm, a poor student who studies hard?
but i’ve got new glasses though.
which, due to some screw-up, will only be ready on tuesday. will put up photos of myself in the new glasses! and because they cost a hell lot of money, i’ll be wearing them a lot more often!
oh yeah, i’ve been sleeping real early this week, when my brain isn’t ready to rest yet. so i’ve been dreaming a lot in the night. of family, friends, my old home, people i haven’t seen for ten million years, etc. etc. i guess i really miss home subconsciously, just that i’m currently happy enough not to notice it.
introducing to everyone, the final decision!
which i finally laid my hands on after visiting funan a few days ago. then sim lim, epicentre@suntec and epicentre@orchard yesterday.
i hate buying for computer stuff, cos there’s so many nitty gritty things. luckily my bro was there (main purpose cos i had to use his credit card) asking those small little questions.
i learnt that apple products use dvi instead of the vga thingy. so i have to get a dvi-vga adaptor in order to connect to regular projectors. he was asking the salesman about this and both of them turned to look at me, waiting to see if i wanted to buy the adaptor from apple. all i could manage was a HUH?
now i have to buy pretty little accessories for ally, so that she remains pretty and wouldn’t get disfigured.
i think i’m getting along with ally reasonably well, just that i haven’t introduced her to the wireless network at home. i tried, but i didn’t do a good introduction. thus they’re having a cold war. what’s the use of having a pretty little laptop but cut off from the internet?
bah.
this calls for a grand celebration!
the computer in my room has miraculously revived itself again! it’s done this so many times, i’ve got absolute confidence in its ability to save itself everytime it screws up.
now i get to face the good old mini cooper wallpaper and everything else in a colour one shade darker!
i hope this lasts.
i find myself incredibly lucky that my internet connection has miraculously revived itself.for those in the dark, the orange light on the modem indicating pc activity stopped blinking over the weekend. each time i tried to restart the computer and switched the modem on, i was devastated to find the orange light callously and stubbornly bright.
i succumbed to checking my inbox on my phone, without any idea how they’re gonna charge me for the usage.
i gave a last try just now, and thank goodness it snapped out of its bad temper.
phew, i am back.
p.s. i am generally fine, both emotionally and physically. things happen all the time, i just need to be alone sometimes. but don’t worry.
the new phone.
the moment i hit 21 months of the contract period i got this, cos i couldn’t stand the samsung keypad anymore. but as the sales lady was holding my old phone, removing the battery and sim card, i felt like taking it back from her. cos that phone was so small and pretty.
now i have a function-filled phone, and it took me 5 minutes to realise how to send a message. i haven’t figured out tonnes of stuff. and this phone is damn bulky.
i miss my old phone.
the brother got legally married, by the way.
on this significant day, i was dressed to meet the occasion of the solemnisation ceremony and the purchase of a new phone.
let’s just say that i looked strangely different.
my sister came into my room wanting to use the computer to view some video clips on a disc. she put the disc in the cd-drive and waited.
and waited.after a while, she asked me, “how come don’t have ah?”
jokingly, i asked “is that a vcd in the first place?”
“no, it’s a dvd. oh, dvd cannot play here ah?”
me, laughing my ass off, told her, “no, a dvd obviously requires a dvd player!”
“then how come other people’s computer can play?”
i told her to go downstairs and watch it on the dvd player. after a while, she came up and told me she couldn’t see anything on the screen.
me: “did you switch on the amplifier?”
“oh! yah hor!”
bimbo no. 2 couldn’t resist taking a photo of the pretty little ones:
apple is impressing the hell out of me.
as a pure business move to drastically increase profits i think their approach is ingenious. i mean, there’s so many people out there who like the design of apple products, but are just too stuck to windows. with this boot camp thingy, these consumers are freed to buy more and more apple products. man, i think their profits are so going to shoot up.
but then, apple has been relying heavily on their mac image and the strong cult following behind the brand. for some strange reasons passionate mac supporters hate microsoft to the core. i wonder what will this group of consumers think. guess they have no choice but to accept the changes that their cult leader has chosen to make.
maybe someday, their will be no wide gap between microsoft and apple. gosh, that’s kind of unthinkable. but at the rate apple is morphing, it might happen someday after all.
i’ve always wanted to delete a lot of contacts from my phonebook and msn list. cos these people are usually acquaintances or one-time project mates whom i don’t really want to keep in touch with.
theoretically it doesn’t make much difference whether i delete these contacts or not, cos it doesn’t take up that much space on my phone or computer. but i just don’t like the idea of having names of people i don’t know well on these lists.
in the first place, i hate giving project mates my msn. cos my msn nicks are meant to display statements meant for my close friends to see, not the public. and i find it disturbing that they are able to see when i log in and pounce on me, when all i want is a quiet afternoon to myself. i don’t want these people to know my habits, my thoughts, etc. etc.
though the phonebook offers me more privacy cos i only occasionally get messages from these people, it still irks me to see these names on the list. sometimes when i’m in the mood i’ll start deleting those irrelevant names. and when they message me, i’ll be trying to recall who the heck they are.
just like yesterday, i was savouring my peaceful afternoon, i was disturbed by this particular coursemate:
she: yoz did u succeed in uploading yr fyp online?
me: yup but who are u?
she: (her name). how u did it ah? i have been trying but didn’t succeed. did u do it under arp by staff?
me: icic yup i submitted under staff there’s a link under e fyp guidelines which shows e step by step instructions
she: hmmm maybe server down today..when u submit?
me: hmm quite long ago liao maybe last week?
and that was the end of the “conversation”. i mean, i was in the same project group as her three semesters ago and since then, she has never messaged me except on another occasion, when she wanted to ask me where i got the microsoft clipart picture for the slides that we worked on together.
so she obviously messages me, an acquaintance, only when she needs a favour from me. and also, there’s zero hint of courtesy on her part. not even a thanks when i replied to her messages and told her where to look for the instructions.
i get extremely pissed with rude people. and i remember how she saved her ass (and her friend’s) when they deserted my group so that they would have zero-risk of having to split up. the rest of us ended up being split up.
thanks ah. but i do bear grudges. for a looooong time.
sometimes i really, really hate the inconvenience of having to answer messages i don’t want to. so much for the beauties of telecommunications.
by the way, i’ve got a second msn address. i think i’ll start the switchover after graduation.
i’ll be glad to be freed of these people.
my computer is really, really possessed!
when i just tried to switch it on,
the first time it showed the black screen with “On” blinking.
restarted.
“error starting operating system”.
restarted.
hanged.
restarted.
hanged.
restarted with the windows cd, freshly arrived from my bro who mailed from across the ocean.
no power.
switched power plug off and on.
hanged.
tried again.
no power. no power. no power.
i almost gave up. but on the last time,
everything went smmothly. and the windows logo miraculously appeared.
something is very, very wrong.
note: day 3 of revived computer, day 2 of revived computer+internet connection
i was about to brag about my shopping experience last weekend, when the jinxed qiuling called me and MY COMPUTER JUST DIED AFTER THAT!! ok never mind, my aussie bro is back in town and he’s gonna fix it for me.
but anyway, yeah i’ve got THE diary. it’s red in colour, doesn’t look dowdy, made of nice leather material and erm, yeah slightly smaller than a5 size. it’s a week on two pages, not the ideal one day a page, but never mind, i can live with this format for a year.
now lemme go on to my first day of school.
the morning class was a screw up. the instructor’s great and everything, but the groups got screwed up again. due to the class’ warped concept of fairness. there’s no justice and fairness in this world anymore.
we were forced to split up our groups by the other groups just because they didn’t want to split up. and then they practically didn’t give us a choice to remain as a group or be noble and split. they just crowded around us and “invited” us to their groups (translate: split up). and the seminar manager wasn’t doing anything to help us, or make things fairer, most probably cos his group was one of those under the danger of being asked to split up too.
so this semester, i wouldn’t be doing any projects with my hangout gang. to those who say that i’ll make more friends and i should try to work with other people whether i like it or not cos working life is just like that, go screw yourself. i will have enough of working life in future, i already had experience of such stuff in the past, and they can give these “learning opportunities” and “character building lessons” to other brats.
second lesson of the day: we started to consider switching modules even before attending this class. cos out of a class of more than 40 students, there were 10 singaporeans. and yeah, the rest were norwegians. to put it in the words of a classmates, it’s like singaporean students experiencing an exchange semester in norway. i have nothing against norwegians, i’m just a little xenophobic and i am very uncomfortable with the local-foreign-students ratio.
so much for a good final semester i thought i was going to have.
the internet gives me a sense of security, i realise. or should i say a false sense of security.
just 5 minutes ago when i switched on the computer to start working on the report due next week, i felt kinda lost. cos even though the points are provided by my group mates and all i have to do is to compile and edit, i felt lost. maybe cos i had to start from scratch. i didn’t want to get connected cos it’ll be troublesome, having to talk to people on msn. but i couldn’t escape the truth, getting connected made me feel less lonely. basket, what has human interaction turned into?! even though i knew my group mates wouldn’t be online, i just feel better somehow.
just like the way i know i am safe and connected to the internet when i see my msn logging on successfully. otherwise i’ll feel so frantic. the way i start IE and is able to surf the net.
basket, i’m addicted to the net. i should quit this before it gets serious.
don’t think i’m not online just because you don’t see me on msn. i am online most of the time, just that sometimes i’m on invisible mode or not logged in at all. cos i want to avoid communication with other people.
basket, i’m becoming an anti-social being very soon. if that happens one day, please remember that once upon a time, yanyan was a sociable, noisy person who liked expressing herself through her voicebox, not with the keyboard.
i dunno how i should treat my dear little desktop anymore. it’s passed the phase of “restart-ten-times-and-work-only-once” phase. now it’s into short-term memory. all the personal settings i had for my account has gone missing. itz back to the ugly blue taskbar and the hideous windows default wallpaper. hideous, hideous *exclamation mark* (did i even mention that the exclamation mark’s not working again)
it’s such a chore signing on to msn too. cos each time i try and save the personal settings the computer just doesn’t remember it the next time i switch it on. so i have to start from scratch personalising everything.
yawn.
can’t be bothered with modern technology anymore. it disgusts me.
excuse me, i shall go to sleep instead.
the islamic network wishes to inform me, through gmail, about their latest islamic newsletter. i was thinking of replying to the email, telling them i am a firm believer in taoism and buddhism. but then again, i don’t think anybody at the islamic network will give a damn about my religious interests. worse, how do i know if they are the moderate ones or the extremists? what if the extremists set bombs under my bomb as a punishment?
the westcpa, which apparently, is an organisation for accountants in the “west”. god knows which “west” they mean. do they mean “west” as in angmoh, parallel to the “east” meaning oriental, which should be used to describe rugs and vases and not humans anyway. or do they mean “west” as in the western part of singapore? yah i do live in the west but why would a professional organisation in singapore send emails in chinese??
this is how the website looks like:
full of chinese. woah. it’s an accountant organisation in china i think.
and check out the ugly small little signs which say “NEW!”
by the way, why the heck did this accountant-ly organisation email me?!
if these two organisations took the test for suitability of target markets they will flunk badly. do i look like i’m a muslim? do i look or sound like an accountant? i doubt i have signed up with any websites remotely linked to these two organisations. unless tag-board counts.
gmail should do better with their spam control. it’s ok. i still love them a lot more than hotmail, who bothers me a couple of times every week to tell me my mailbox is approaching the limit. what the heck. and there’s still people who send mail to hotmail. despite me threatening them with all sorts of punishments that would take place if they do so. people obviously don’t take me seriously.
my laptop is once again, possessed. the cursor keeps moving across the screen by itself.
by the way, i really couldn’t figure out what’s up with tag-board. therefore i surrendered and headed for flooble. therefore i didn’t see any tags which was posted after 21st april 2005, 0200 hrs. i told you i didn’t like tagboards, didn’t i?!
a gentle little tap on the touchpad results in posting an entry three times!
i wish i can strike the next lottery. i wish i’d find a bag of money along the streets. i wish i will have there will be some unknown person who’d kindly and generously top up my bank account.
I WISH I HAD THE MONEY TO BUY A NEW COMPUTER!
it doesn’t matter whether it’s a desktop or a notebook. but i really really want and need a new computer! amazingly both the desktop and the notebook in my house are pentium IIIs. therefore they are really really really slow. they can barely handle a few programmes running at the same time. especially powerpoint and spss, which i use very often. the desktop autoshutdowns and always hangs. this laptop’s keyboard has gone totally berserk, together with the touchpad. sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t. and i even have to keep the fan blowing full blast at it cos its fan isn’t working anymore, and i certainly do not want to overheat another computer.
i really really really need a new computer.
WILL SOMEONE BUY ME A NEW COMPUTER?
MR MICHAEL DELL? PLEASE? I DO LIKE YOUR DESKTOPS!! PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE?
the computer in my room has passed away graciously after a few weeks of torment. poor thing. the postmortem proved that it probably died of overheating, due to the bad fengshui in my room. the cpu was suffocated for weeks, showing symptoms which were callously ignored by the two technologically challenged users.
i have to say that the deceased has served the family well for about 5 years. showing no major problems except for the minor tantrums which all technologically advanced devices throw once in a while to show their power and to highlight mankind’s vulnerability. indeed, it was tough serving 4 users who used the computers aggressively everyday, and it has suffered much hardship and humility.
a minute’s silence please.
now i just pray that this last, sole working computer in my house keeps itself free from sickness and lives to a ripe old age. cos the next few weeks will be computer intensive. at least it doesn’t perform its auto-shutdown stunts now.
i hope i get a nice new computer in my room.
*keeps fingers crossed*
yeah right. if you believe me. anyway i don’t want a tv in my room. but i got a tv lookalike in my room. itz a 17-inch monitor with the ass of an elephant. ok, if i look on the bright side, the computer has finally migrated from my brother’s room to mine, so i can now use the computer in the comfort of my room anytime i wish. my poor sister. she’ll be the intruder if she uses this computer. and she’ll certainly block my way when she uses it. oh well, we’ll see if i can get a smaller monitor which doesn’t look suspiciously like a tv. meanwhile, if anybody walks into my room and blindly congratulates me for having a tv in my room, i’m going to clobber the person on the head.
yeah, more complains. my 7-foot desk is left with about 4 feet workspace. and one drawer’s width of seating space. sigh. never mind, never mind, i appreciate the fact that the computer is sitting in my room right now. cheers!
oh yeah, did i mention that me the marketing genius scored my first A in ntu?? wheeeeee! all thanks to the pretty presentation and report my group came up with. yeah, and i got 2 Bs and a C too! itz the best results ever since i entered college. and come and think of it, i should be kneeling on the floor thanking all gods from every religion for helping me pass my accounting II paper. now i’ve finally got rid of accounting. forever. wahahahahhahahaha.
and because i did well in my exams (subjectively, i have low expectations), i’m in a damn good mood. and plus the fact that i’m happily employed. i’ve been seeing the beautiful side of the world. like this morning, i was in queenstown waiting for my driving instructor to appear, and i was silently appreciating the nice saturday morning. when i was younger, i used to appreciate saturday and sunday mornings very much. such mornings are always blessed with great weather. and i used to wake up around 7+ or 8am on sundays. and i’ll read in the silence of my living room. used to get irritated when my siblings woke up early on sunday mornings and switch on the tv, interrupting my peaceful sunday mornings.
but as i grew older, i began sleeping in late on weekends. by the time i wake up in the afternoon, there’s no more pretty mornings to appreciate. so there. and this afternoon i was sitting with a cup of post-lunch coffee at home. and i was admiring the rainy weather. when the rain stopped, there was a yellow bird getting the nectar from the flowers my mum grew. pretty sight. see? when i’m in a good mood, i’m crazy about the beautiful little things in life.
on the other hand, my mood has been going through ups and downs. despite all the happy things happening to me, one of my close relatives who has been extremely kind to my family has been very very sick. cancer. the second last time i visited him was last sunday. i visited him again last night, and gosh, i’m really scared. i mean, i know his days are numbered, but to see him suffering so much pain really hurts. besides, he was perfectly fit and strong a few years back. and i mean as strong as a bull. at the age of 80+, he could move giant flower pots (the brown coloured ones with dragon pictures on them). a few months back, he was found to be suffering from lung cancer. and the doctor declared that the cancer cells had spread a couple of weeks back. within these few weeks, his health is almost ruined. itz really really sad.
what can i say? these kind of sudden illness just reminds me to enjoy my present life to the most.
yes, i have a cursed email address. it never occurred to me that a popular email address like mine, with just the name (eg yanyan@blahblahblah.com) would be easy prey. to people who spam, or when some random soul fills in this email address as their own email while signing up for some online stuff. therefore, i was horrified to realise that my email account has been bombed, blasted, blown up by tonnes of spam.
darn.
my computer’s going mad. it’s getting very very very very very slow. yes, when i click on IE, it takes about 5 “very” typing time to start. ugh. and icq doesn’t work. msn goes on strike occasionally. cannot run the chinese program. hangs every other time i switch on the computer.
PLEASE DON’T DIE!!
raining raining raining!
wheeeeeeeeeeeee!
wah lau my pc’s getting a bit of flu and cough….
was operating at CPU level 100% for about half an hour before anything screwed up.
and i can’t use icq on this pc. always hangs.
not that its the only application that hangs often.
so does msn. and windows media player. internet explorer. even microsoft word.
i better start transferring my important stuff to the other computer just in case…..
maybe i should transfer some mayday stuff over too.
the other side looks ugly and boring without the regular mayday stuff.
sigh.
had the first presentation of the week today.
3 more to go.
and surprisingly this irritating IT guy with ugly shoes in my class commented that he like my presentations albeit my nervousness.
well.
good.
but i still feel like smacking him with my smelly flip flops.
dislike is dislike is dislike is dislike!
yawn.
another long day today.
wahahha. yes, despite the 4 hr afternoon nap i took.
goota start on 2 tutorial presentations and a group assignment later…..
the group assignment’s one of the last….
1 more major presentation and 1 final individual assignment for my biz comm
and i’ll be done for the semester….
not counting the little tutorial presentations here and there.
i presume life’s gonna get better.
and i’m getting used to getting money from my family le.
wasn’t very used to the idea of asking for money after my financial independence,
but hey.
beggars can’t be choosers.
i’m not planning to get another tuition job in the short run,
so i guess i gotta live with getting money from every working soul in the family.
ah, but i guess most of my pocket money this month will go to buying stupid shoes and stupid clothes for my BIG presentation for biz comm.
cos the dress code is formal.
and i have close to nothing which adheres to that.
ugh.
i think i’ve written too many reports recently.
which results in my ramblings with too much elaboration and not enough emotions.
lol
gosh the last time i blogged was one week ago!
ok i admit in between i tried to blog but the system just screwed me up
so i couldn’t.
but these few days i didn’t even had the time to.
don’t ask me why, cos u’ll hear me whining about the same old things.
slept at 4++am on monday night.
and it wasn’t exactly because i stayed up to do work.
more of insonmia again.
damn it. when i can’t get to sleep at such peculiar hours despite having laid on my bed for 5 hrs,
it just means 1 thing:
i’m too bloody stressed up.
i’ve thought of getting sleeping pills, and i’m most probably gonna do so if things don’t improve.
at least i had a very good sleep last night.
from 11pm to 1130am this morning, plus another hour of post-sleep nap.
i feel a little more normal now.
even though i’m sitting in front of the computer surrounded by my accounting books and papers
making the last dash before the deadline tomorrow.
ok, i still whined.
but but but
today when i opened my very tired eyes,
i saw a brand new pooh bear lying next to me!
hahahaha.
it’s a sign that my sister’s back from her thailand trip and i looked around my table trying to spot any traces of watches which i asked her to buy for me,
but there’s only the pooh bear. ok never mind, she tried.
ok, quite surprising, but that’s not the important point.
the highlight is, the pooh bear has an octopus sitting on its head!
yeah i agree that land animals are land animals and sea creatures are sea creatures
and they shouldn’t even be stuck on each other
i mean, i wouldn’t be surprised if that blue octopus was spotted on nemo,
but how many times in your lifetime do you see a soft toy of a land animal and a sea creature together?
it doesn’t really make sense,
and i’m really tempted to separate the two of them,
especially since i think the octopus and pooh bear will look ten million times cuter if they were separated
but never mind, i shall not come in between them.
yay
i’m currently bonding with poky pok!
poky pok is such a nice chap who’s even-tempered and doesn’t get cranky
except for the occasional buzzing, which all laptops do, so no fault of poky pok.
the free access lab is school is strangely crowded,
even more crowded than a usual school day
has the whole nbs given us too much work to complete during the holidays or what?
ok anyway that’s why i’m bonding with poky pok, courtesy of weiwei who generously
volunteered to let me use poky pok, went all the way back to her hall
and called me to tell me she left her keys behind at our table.
so i had a glorious walk in school and discovered that weiwei has become a lot more neater!
i think itz a scam - that she left her keys behind so that i can see her room…..
(wenwen: she’s really neater than last year!)
oh well.
i’ve digged up some dirt about coca cola in japan - and that’s my mission of the day.
hopefully it’ll be useful…..
as for what i wanted to say yesterday, i really can’t remember what i wanna say.
wahahahaha
i shall continue sourcing for information with poky pok
and blog when i reach home lateR!
wheeeeeeee!
poky pok rulez!
to my utter disgust,
my internet connection screwed up AGAIN.
at the the precise moment when i clicked on “publish post”.
and that was a pretty long post.
*curses and swears*
i shall repeat what i wanted to say IF i feel like it.
some other day.
when the sun will be shining,
the birds chirping.
when i’m high from mayday.
and have 5000 bucks in my bank.
ok, ok!
i’ll do it some time next week!
meet my new tech-savvy pet : wa-wa-meow!!
hahahahaha
itz a species called 128mb thumbdrive,
requires no food and sleep.
and best of all,
ITZ FREE!
courtesy of mf.
=)
ok, don’t ask me how the name wa-wa-meow came along.
the malaysian and i have been holding naming contests for our stuff.
so the textbook i lent her (which she promises to treat with love and respect) is christianed kiki lala.
ok i will stop playing with wa-wa-meow now
and concentrate on my assignment.
i’ve got lots to catch up with.
ok
i admit i failed to put up the music file
stop laughing, stop laughing at me!!!
i am not to be ridiculed
will anyone please enlighten me on the art of html…..
my computer has declared war against me
it refuses to operate gta properly
meaning i can’t even start the damn thing
then the speakers has refused to obey the volume knob
it plays at the same inaudible volume despite me turning it to full volume
and while it plays the quality is like……………….my brother singing.
hahahahahahaha
wait till i’m rich enough to get a laptop on loan from school
then i’ll surf the net in the comfort of my room anytime,
listen to my mayday music even though the cd player in my room is spoilt
oh wow
this very instant when ashin did the “rock” singing thing, the speakers woke up
wah the speakers are like me. only listen to mayday hahahah
ah ah there it goes again
inaudible volume
ok i shall concentrate on my first assignment of the semester for the next couple of hours
i love school!!
you all love school too, don’t you?
if you don’t i won’t be friends with you anymore
cos model students like me only make friends with people who like school
blogger took me seriously when i mentioned voodoo dolls and black magic a couple of posts ago.
now my banner offers a site where i can buy voodoo dolls and learn to cast spells.
hahahahahaha.
itz amusing, these folks.
5 more mins to battle time.
the next time my internet connection screws up, i dunno what i’ll do…..
i think i’ll go berserk, literally.
was trying to get online just now.
i tried for one bloody hour,
which meant i restarted my computer and the modem thingy more than 10 times.
i gotta climb the stairs to get to the modem.
up and down up and down up and down.
what the heck.
i can’t believe there’s not a single sheet of blank paper left in the house.
at least, not publicly owned.
hahahaha i have a private stash!!
used for emergencies like now.
private stashes come into use when you need to print out some stuff urgently and when you discover your other 3 siblings have used up every single sheet of blank paper.
business students can be pretty sneaky at times.
tmr i’m going to drive down to the driving centre where i’m supposed to take my driving test on 11th june.
either i’m driving all the way there or my instructor’s doing so.
i think he’s doing so lah.
who the heck can trust me with driving a car across half the island?
i won’t even trust myself.
i don’t even look at all 3 mirrors when i turn.
i’m horrified by myself.
but i gotta pass the first time round!
800 bucks. 800 bucks. 800 bucks.
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