The One About A Lazy Saturday

I was in a ultimate procrastinating + weekend mood today. It seems like I was in denial and refused to accept the fact that I have work waiting to be done. So, I woke up to the arrival of my parcel (read the post before), ate lunch, played games, watched F1 qualifying (very saddening btw), watched snooker tournaments, and went back to sleep again. Woke up for dinner and went to grandparents’ place and hung around till almost 11. Came home and continued watching tv and now sitting in front of the pc. Urgh…

Btw, when I woke up from my nap, I felt like there’s a black cloud over me and I was in a bad temper, for no reasons that I can remember. Annoyed for nothing. Weirdness.

I do not feel like correcting people’s work now so I shall leave that for tomorrow. Actually, I never ever feel like correcting people’s work. Crappy work that is. I feel like I might burst a blood vessel or something doing it.

The night is still young. It’s not 12.30 yet and hopefully I can get something done tonight. And oh yeah, I wasn’t home so I couldn’t do my part for Earth hour. Wonder how it was around town though.

The One About External Hard Drive Back2Life

La la la ~

My external hard drive is back to life! ~

With its blue glowing light and low steady hum.

After having access with it cut off for 2 weeks, we are finally reunited!

All my precious data and files. Aww.. I missed you!

Oh… In case you’re wondering or are facing the same problem with your Western Digital EHD, email to customerservice@wdc.com and state the model of the external hard drive, address, name, etc and they’ll send it to you! Thank goodness they did that, or I’m never gonna get another WD hard drive. Thanks for the replacement power adapter! And oh yeah, I applaude them for being on schedule. They stated in their email reply that they will ship it within 7-9 working days. And 9 working days it is (including saturdays)!

The One About the Fantabulous Wallpapers

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Got these fantabulous wallpapers from deviantART and InterfaceLIFT.

And yeah, my new custom header’s from there too!

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The One About First Draft, Dead Kitty & Empty Room

Finally~ I finished my first draft and emailed it to my supervisor at a little past midnight. I am tired and sleepy but somehow managed to stay awake till now (2.45 am). I have never ever worked my asses off so hard during the weekends!

Anyway, I was sad to find out that the siamese cat at my grandparents’ house died. Found it at the roadside stiff, cold and eyes wide open so we are guessing that it got knocked down by cars or something. It’s depressing since we’re so used to seeing it everywhere in the house. And it follows us around, moving silently. The cat loves my 1-year-old cousin and it doesn’t fight back even if he kicks it or pulls out its hair. It’s a strange cat but strangely loveable too. It usually sits in the patio, outside the door, looking in at the family watching television. It is strangely comforting to see the cat around. I am not much of an animal person but I liked stroking that cat. And now it’s gone! gOoOoooOooNNNNnnneEeeEeee~

And my brother left today. He was back for only a week. And now that he went back, the house seems relatively empty. Despite the fact that I can type as loud as I want to now (the pc is in his room), it just feels so… empty. Empty is the only word to describe it. I can still see him online but it just doesn’t feel the same. How’s it gonna be when he leaves for US?

It’s Monday again. The start of another dreadful week of deadlines. A game of pool/bowling anyone?

The One About 5 Hours of Thesis Work

I am always procrastinating and hardly ever doing any work until I can see the looming deadline. For once, I opened my work on a Saturday night and sat for *counts* 5 straight hours doing work (thesis :P). It is now 3.30 am and I am tired and my backside hurts.

But the main thing is, I have finally compiled about 80% of my thesis and the rest should be completed tomorrow *crosses fingers*. Let’s see.. what else do I need to do tomorrow?

1. Complete logistic regression

2. Discussion

3. Conclusion

4. Abstract

5. Table of contents/figures/etc

6. hmm.. can’t remember what else

If I get all that done tomorrow, I can hand it in on Monday and concentrate on other work.

*stretches*

Btw, all these while since my external HDD’s power supply died out, I have been using my bro’s power supply since he happened to be back for the week. But he’s going back tomorrow and I will not have any more power supply cable. With that, I hope I copied everything I will need from the EHD or I am screwed because I will not be able to access it anymore for the time being until I get a replacement one. And yes, there is very limited space left in my pc so there wasn’t much I can copy anyway.

Yawn… time to sleep and wake up for breakfast and sending brother off to airport. Till then… zzz

The One About Torturous Sucky English

I am up to my neck in assignments and I dare not count how many are still undone and I live for the week, as in I pay attention to which deadlines I have to meet for the week and not the following because there are simply too much to do. There’s so much to do that I am forced to put down my desire for a new camera first. That is how busy I am. The reason I can’t wait for the weekends now is because I will have 2 more days till weekdays where I have to hand in my assignments.

Okay, that aside. Why am I raving about how busy I am? Because amidst all these, I still have to entertain friends’ requests to proofread their theses and drafts. It’s not so bad if it wasn’t for the horrible english which doesn’t make any $#^$&% sense!

Oh please, government of Malaysia. Put more emphasis on the English language already! Stop the $@%#$#@ debate over what language to use for Science & Math. You’re just gonna churn out more and more people with sucky english and torture more of those like me, having to proofread and correct the work of the people with sucky english.

You’re wondering why I have time to blog about this when I am supposedly so busy? I’m about to go nuts. I need to release all these “compressed” feelings…

Back to correcting people’s work (when my own isn’t done yet)…

The One About the "Infallible" Hard Drive

Before external hard drives came along, I always lived in the fear of losing all my data, media, homework, etc. Sure we can burn them into cd/dvds but more often than not, we don’t do that.

Then along came EHD and I bought a 500gb one and I stuffed it with whatever I have. I forgot that it is not infallible and I depended on it like a lifesaver. In goes everything I have and as a result, my internal hard drives are hardly used.

So where is this story going? I’m sure you can venture a guess.

Yes.. It screwed up. The power supply of the EHD actually. I plug it into the power socket and turned it on. It blinks and goes back to the dormant state. Screwed.

More than 300 gb of data and stuff. *sobs*

Thank god I didn’t need anything in it immediately. Maybe except my dramas. I was looking forward to watching Reaper Season 2 Episode 2 which I just got today. Bah.. Have to go shop for a new power cable + adapter I guess. Let’s hope it’s not too expensive *crosses fingers*

The One About Social Contract

I just watched House S05E17, titled “The Social Contract”. Spoilers ahead.

 

A patient was suffering from a bacterial infection (etc, etc.. the diagnose is different towards the end) which causes him to say everything that comes to his mind. This means that he does not filter anything he says, at all. So you can imagine, it’s like being a jerk where you criticize everything you don’t like and compliment things you like excessively (such as sexual fantasies) and saying it to people’s faces. He hurt his wife and daughter by speaking the truth and telling things as he thought it is. As House said, eventually his family will leave him. He’ll have no friends. Even if he does have one, he’ll eventually drive his friend away as well.

I think this brings a lot for us to think about. We do not speak our minds most of the time. We say what we want to say or what we think people wants us to say. For me, I probably speak only 20 to 30 percent of what comes to my mind. I do not know about you. This makes us hypocrites, me included.

And yet, why were we taught that honesty is the best policy? In life, we gradually realize that some things are better left unsaid and some lies are for the goodness of all. So, I guess it’s better to not know some things. Like the patient in that House episode, the ultimate truth will drive everyone away. People do live in denial and do not accept all the facts in life.

For instance, if people ask me “How’s your…?”, I’ll cut them off before they can go on and say “Don’t ask.” Oh btw, I’m referring to my FYP. And yes, don’t ask.

The One About the iPhone in Malaysia

My eyes opened wide when I glanced at the headlines “iPhone 3G is finally here” in the Star Online. So Maxis did keep their promise and brought the iPhone here. But you’re gonna have to sign a contract with Maxis to get it. And the rates are a little confusing. Basically, the more you pay every month for the Maxis postpaid plans, the cheaper your iPhone is gonna be. hmm…

I do like the gorgeous iPhone. And I love the idea of owning one. But given my present financial condition, I’d say that I am not getting one anytime soon.

If you ask me if I would trade my dream camera for the iPhone, *thinks* it’s a no brainer. I’ll say no albeit slight hesitation.

Update: I just found out the 3G in iPhone 3G means higher speed internet connection and it does not have the video call function! Bah.. I’d rather get the first version cheaper despite slower data connection…