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MY 320GB HDD DIED! ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quite quiet day. Woke up with a start cos the starhub guy came to deliver and install the new modem. Then after that I went with my dad to ikea to find a suitable thing to mount it above my door cos we decided there was the best place due to the signal strenth from the SCV tv point compared to upstairs. In the end we got a thick wire thing we bent into a holder shape. He drilled it in while I was at church anniversary practise. Speaking of which, it was super fast and like.. wa man, just practise a little while. Its the first time I’m not singing though. It frees me up to do the tech stuff in such a more relaxed state. Went for dinner after with dency, yx and ther cherns minus the little chern. Ate unti like super full. Now at my heaviest I’m only 93! haha.. and the lowest weight I’ve recorded is 90.7 so far.

Oh well, I’m going to rest. Have to go early to church and read scripture. I feel my life is like a super SUPER flat line now and its really dreary. Like I have no interest in anything at all or drive to do anything. Sigh.

Went with ZG today to sim lim to get some hardware for my desktop and a 320GB HDD for his ailing computer. I was lamenting the fact that my graphics card only had one output and I would have to live with one screen for good.. but thats all changed! I caught sight of a repair shop which sells tons of 2nd hand stuff and found a gem in the dungpile.. Its an asus 7600gt nvidia card i think… and it works like a charm. Its about half the cost of a new one or less even at $75.

Crap, my dog ran out.. off i go…

I’m back. Its late at night and I think I shall go sleep.  I’m feeling just slightly off today. Was telling ZG how I have the passing I-don’t-feel-like-doing-anything-in-church feeling. Its just a feeling which usually indicates problems under the hood which I still am not aware of yet. I feel like I was a tranquil pond and somthing just dropped into it. Its disturbing me but I’m not too sure what yet. Anyways, I think its because I feel abit isolated even after spending decent amounts of time with people and all.

On that topic, I’m going fishing with my uncle on saturday from morning to late afternoon. I’ve never really gotten to know him very much and I hope this can change that.Sometimes I wonder why I look outward so much when my own family needs love and attention just as much as anyone else.

I’m listening to the piano tracks for cantata. I feel like I’m working on sound waves, not music. So disturbing. The music ministers  to me though.. even if they are just sinosoids, changing and moving so quickly. I wonder if this is what Saul felt like when he listened to David play. I played through quite alot of music for the CD I’m planning. In particular, one book which merges all the songs so beautifully into a long medley. I can operate the computer to record eunice but who’s going to do it for me? haha.. sigh.. auto punch in/out doesnt sound so great. Running up and down between computer and mics also doesn’t sound great. I need a friend and partner to see this through.. it’ll be close to impossible as a one man show. I need a SUPER techno geek friend in church.. where have all of them gone?? I feel like someone I know would fit the bill but thats just not possible.

One last thing, why don’t I have a cbox/shoutbox/whatever-box? Its so all well/not-so-well wishes can be stored together in this wordpress database so when I’m old I can pull out something you said 50 years ago and quote it against you. If I just get any old box outside its terrible, can’t store msgs, can’t admin it properly. I’d be so sad to miss out anything when it suddenly dies like tag-board.com did. Of course, this is also in line with the idea of this blog being entirely for self and my legacy. I mean, so cool. when I retire I might be so free I can take myself back in time to the times when I was young, energetic and stupid. Back the topic of boards, you can always leave a comment on the super convenient comment form that slides out (I did a code mashup of two seperate plugins to do that! No where else in the wordpress blog world you’ll see it.. I spent time on it, USE IT! haha..). Oh well.. I shall go to sleep and then wake up to jaga the house when the singtel ppl come and find out why my house phone cannot recieve calls.

Prayer:

1. YX might have dengue, pray that those little red spots don’t come out and confirm that
2. On the topic of dengue, thank God uncle Sam seems fine. His all time platelet low record is 4!
3. On the topic of uncle Sam, remember ben who’s enduring an excrutiatingly long summer holiday with pretty much nobody around. Seems to bring silence and solitude to life. Drop him an email please.
4. Those who started school seem to be MIA or sucked under so quickly. Pray for closeness to God.
5. For David Ong as he pretends to be a doctor in the day and start his real job as our double full time music director in the evenings about 5 days a week.
6. For unity. That people settle things directly with others and don’t cause needless firestorms when actually everyone just wanted the same thing

I am deskbound once more… Just handed my laptop to my brother. Its like a no feeling thing already. For everyone else, it’s like seeing me with one less limb now that I won’t be carrying my laptop around everywhere. Maybe my back will get better and my results will improve. haha.. whatever.. I have to get the TV on this media center PC I just took set up but the SCV outlet is like behind this heavy cupboard that I can’t do anything about. Guess no TV for now. This desktop seems snappy though. I just don’t like the keyboard. feels weird and a little too high. Not complaining about a 19″ screen though..

Okay, other than the Focusrite Saffire LE

I bought a pair of earphones today.. goodness, they just sound so great! A pair of these MylarOne X3 earphones are relatively cheaper than anything that produce the same sound quality and insulation. Its so quiet in these earphones that you can’t hear anyone talk once you put them on and have some music coming out of them. The great thing about such a high amount of insulation is that it allows you to listen to your music at very much lower levels than normal so you don’t spoil your hearing. Here are some pictures..

Fixed my linksys router which had trouble connecting over the weekend. It had to do with the DCHP lease time that my ISP provides. Since its only 4 hours, the router has to request for a new IP each time the lease runs out. Somehow, the router does not pick up a a new lease by itself and it has to be reset. This causes alot of grief.. especially when you want to use the net and find out you have to reset the router.

I read that alot of people have this problem and some ISPs even have lease times as short as an hour! And I though I had it bad.. My parents have been screaming about it and so we replace our aging 3COM router with a Linksys wrt350n. It didn’t work as I hoped it did, only worse. The Linksys had no reset button or function in the admin console. So when it disconnected it could not be reset.

I found that the router could be flashed with 3rd party firmwares which allow great control and function in this particular HWZ thread. The amount of control is awesome! I can even set the transmission power, set it on cron jobs and make it reset every few hours if I like. Its been up for about 8 hours, 2 lease times already. Should not have any problems this week I hope.

Sigh.. back to school again. Tests on Monday and Wednesday. I need to apply for ee2009 lab.. how troublesome.

Well, I’ve got one in my room now while hundreds of people kill each other and Mug poor geeky weaklings on their way home from the IT show. Its kinda overated and I have no idea whats the fuss. Anyhow, here are some pictures.

EDIT: oh dear! I just refered to the room as “mine”!  ahhaha..

This is a 4:48am inane post while studying but my bro came into the room last sunday and said that his Canon D400 was the best investment in his entire life. Well, I’ve had a best investment for about 3 or 4 years already!

I love my Altec Lansing 321. At $109 (quite alot at that time), it has been the absolute best, no regret purchase in my entire life. Here’s a snapshot:

Everyone should have a best investment in his/her life. Whats yours?

Yep, it is! Came in the evening. I had the opportunity to play around with Windows Vista and the likes.. must say its smooth but most changes i think are under the hood. Currently its more intuitive but for people like me who are so at home with the 95, 98 and xp file structures its abit disorienting. I must say its an imroovement although it is quite the copy cat of linux and mac. Installed open office, think no need to get any expensive overpowered powerpoint and word processor. We’ll see how people change and adapt to it.

Took the chance to calibrate my monitor’s colors so I can design and select colours properly. It really does make a difference! The coloursare more accurate and less washed out than they used to be. Yippee!

Heh, I finally got myself a ginormous hard disk. Effectively Its 300GB but thats good enough for me.