Yesterday's band practice was ok, went even though still feeling like ..........bleah........
Had a good practice when Mr vasdril conducted us. I don't know how to spell his name. We played Raining Men yesterday. Very nice song. After band we were told to grab lunch and report back to school. We were supposed to be making our band flyers and stuff. By this time i felt alot better. Zhun and I had lunch in our school canteen and talked to qing hui while she was having lunch break off the book shop. We went upstairs and i made a mess of the papers because of my l33tz drawing skills i wasted 3 coloured papers.
Afterwards left and went home played a little cs source. Then went for candel's barbeque. I left with yao zhun and his mum dropped us off at the bus stop opposite prime mart. Met choy chee, qian qian and pei yi while they bought drinks. Afterwards it was a hunt to find blk 476 or is it 486? When we found the pit zhun and i were told to go pick up more supplies and guide the new comers to the pit.Bought for them sweet potatoes and zhun got hot dogs. The fire got started quite late.
I exchanged ring tones with sherlynn and choy chee. We told a bunch of ghost stories. Some told were quite scary. Later played murder and some old man walked past and thought we were gambling. Went home around 10.40 and took the 410 . Got home around 11 and walked mysterious ways till 12.15
12/31/2004 01:53:00 pm
Monday, December 27, 2004Damn Flu
I HATE BEING SICK!!!!!'
I have to fall sick now of all times. Tommorow is the cathechism class gathering and band practice is resuming. The doctor i saw this morning was ANCIENT looking. Let me share with you the readers what happened from this morning.
Woke up at 9.30am had chicken soup for breakfast so as it would not cause pain in swallowing because of those BLOODY ULCERS in my throat and mouth. Then helped mum carrying kitty and smokie to the vet. Went to see the doctor as well. When we stepped in we looked at the receptionist and were quite shocked to see that she was VERY old. She asked us if it was the Cats or the humans who wanted to see the doctor, mum replied the human. When i stepped in i was astounded at the doctor. He was damn old, and looked very....unattentive, he even needed a hearing aid and had to shout to let him hear me about my prescriptions. The receptionist dispensed my medicine which were apparently in bottles behind the counter and that seemed like a very ancient method of dispensing medicine. But hey at least the medicine works now, i feel slightly better apart from still having a splitting headache and running nose and a 37.8 degree fever well lets just say i'm gonna get better soon. But tommorow evening i'm still going to attend my cathechism gathering even if it kills me, this is the last time we get to celebrate our final days as con 2 students. But if it gets that bad and i have to leave i will but at least i'd drop by to put down the exchange gift, shake a few hands , chat abit and leave off. I hope i'll be better by tommorow.
12/27/2004 07:41:00 pm
Sunday, December 26, 2004Just came back from J8 with mum, went to look for that trench coat i've been looking for , for months. I got a matching pair of long pants to go with it. After that went to have lunch at the mess area above the bus terminus. On the way back met ridwan on the bus. Had to rush off the bus when it reached my bus stop to answer the call of nature. End of log.
12/26/2004 04:32:00 pm
Ghost Ship?
Ghost Ship Legend Grows Off R.I. Coast
CRANSTON, R.I. - Rhode Island legend tells of a spectral ship that haunts the waters off Block Island, bursting into flame and sinking into the ocean. Depending on who's spinning the tale, the islanders involved in the human drama turned out to be heroes — or monsters.
The tales hold that the ship is the ghost of one that wrecked on the island's northern point shortly after Christmas 1738. Different versions say the vessel's appearance augurs bad weather and appears on the Saturday between Christmas and New Year's.
And while there's good evidence that a British ship, the Princess Augusta, carrying a load of passengers from territory that would become Germany, ran aground on the island on Dec. 27, 1738, there's accord on little else about the incident.
A deposition taken from the ship's crew shortly after the incident — and republished in 1939 — tells of a voyage in which provisions were scarce, half the crew had died, and others were hobbled by the extreme cold. In the document, crew members said a heavy snowstorm drove the ship aground.
According to folklorist Michael Bell, of Cranston, within the century after the incident, two versions became popular.
The on-island version told of the residents' generosity rescuing and nursing back to health the ill and starving passengers, who had been abused and exploited.
The other version was immortalized by the 19th-century poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier, whose poem "The Palatine" appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in 1867. In it, Block Islanders recall the wreck — and some islanders' roles in causing it by igniting false signal lights to draw the ship aground.
Then, according to the poet, they plundered the ship "like birds of prey/ Tearing the heart of the ship away,/ And the dead never had a word to say/ And then, with a ghastly shimmer and shine/ Over the rocks and the seething brine, / They burned the wreck of the Palatine."
A year after the wreck, in another storm, the Palatine — apparently called by that name because it carried immigrants from the Palatinate — reappeared in flames.
In the poet's account, a century after the wreck and plundering, the islanders are still haunted by a blazing ghost ship which appears on some moonless nights.
It's not a flattering portrait, and it clearly rankled islanders of the poet's day. In his 1877 history of the island, Samuel Livermore tried to refute Whittier's version.
"Poetic fiction has given the public a very wrong view of this occurrence, and thus a wrong impression of the Islanders has been obtained," Livermore wrote.
He included an 1876 letter from Whittier in which the poet responded to islanders' criticisms. According to Livermore's book, Whittier said he "did not intend to misrepresent the facts of history," but wrote the poem after hearing the story from a Rhode Islander. Whittier acknowledged that it was quite possible his source "followed the current tradition on the main-land."
Livermore instead presented an account by a scholar of his day. According to it, the ship came ashore on Sandy Point, and once the tide rose, was able to be floated again, and towed into Breach Cove by the islanders. Many fell ill, died and were buried on the island's southwest side.
Today, a marker, installed in 20th century, stands at the site. It reads simply, "Palatine Graves — 1738."
It's the only major physical evidence of the disaster. Charlotte Taylor of the Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission said no wreckage has ever been found that could be positively linked to the ship. Martha Ball, the former first warden of Block Island and a life-long resident, said there's some evidence the ship was repaired and continued on to Philadelphia, its original destination.
Livermore blames the story of the ship's burning and other atrocities on "the testimony of a witch, an opium-eater, and a maniac" and concludes "Dutch Kattern (a passenger who stayed on the island after the wreck and was known as a witch) had her revenge on the ship that put her ashore by imagining it on fire, and telling others, probably, that the light on the sound was the wicked ship Palatine, cursed for leaving her on Block Island."
While Livermore dismissed the story of the islanders' barbarity, he was less willing to write off accounts of the so-called Palatine Light.
He noted that an unexplained light was often sighted off Sandy Point by people both on Block Island and on the mainland, and included in his book an 1811 account from a doctor — whom he called a man of standing — who had witnessed a light that resembled a ship ablaze.
More than a century after that account, talk about the Palatine Light remained.
"When I was growing up, they used to say of the Palatine Lights that no two people saw it at the same time. And everyone had a story about the Palatine Lights," Ball said.
Ball, who admits she doesn't have much patience for ghost stories, said an uncle who died before she was born was the only one in her family who claimed to have seen the lights. She noted with a laugh that he was the same one who also claimed to have felled six ducks with a single shot.
She believes the legend has hung on as long as it has mostly due to Whittier's work.
"I'm not really sure what would be floating around were it not for that poem," she said.
Comment: I don't really feel that this is absoulutely real but...for all we know it is. Christmas was a fun time yesterday at cal's place. Lots of things to eat for the lunch party. Many presents too. Some from a mysterious "SANTA". Well i'm off to watch early edition on hallmark
12/26/2004 01:09:00 pm
Saturday, December 25, 2004Christmas morning
Well my family's gifts have been opened, i got 2 books, Mum got me Navy Seals : A complete history from World War 2 to the present day, and from bro, Storming Eagles : The German Paratroopers of World War 2. From Gaya i got a nice new bag. From Dad i got it a long time ago , my new computer. Now awaiting to go to cal's place. Mum says she wants to get me that trench coat i wanted to so much so i think we'll be stopping at bishan.
Merry Christmas to all of you once again. May god bless you and your families.
12/25/2004 11:43:00 am
2 words
Heres 2 words for all of you.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Just came back from mass, well mass was aprox 1hr 15 mins long today. This day nobody should be unhappy. Today's mass is different from others and i enjoyed it. Sylvia and Yong Kang made good buddies to attend mass with. Although Sylvia is not used to attending mass at my church its alright with me. At least it adds to the experiance between christian and catholic mass. Next year i'll be down there singing for mass. Just you people wait. Not that kind of just you wait like i'll be there don't worry style.
12/25/2004 01:43:00 am
Friday, December 24, 2004Christmas Eve
Well now its christmas eve but there dosen't seem to be the same christmas spirit as there once was in my life. I find christmas to be very empty this year. Its like i haven't acomplished something this year and can't enjoy. But theres no more time to acomplish old goals. 2005 is just around that corner and new goals are coming my way.
Dad collected the stuff from NTUC, 1 roll of honey baked ham(mein gott that is alot) , 1 packet of swedish roast beef, and one damn thick stack of bacon...Things are gonna get meaty around here.
Today i'm going for christmas midnight mass and i won't regret going for it. Enjoy your christmas all of you , be you buddhist, christian, catholic, confucius, protestant or whatever the religion. God will always be shining and looking down on you and making your path clear.
12/24/2004 01:19:00 pm
Wednesday, December 22, 2004Dying Loyalty
I find myself at a crossroad. I find my loyalty towards band etching away , in light of recent events i have decided that my choice in my future after secondary school will be in choir and not in band. Next year at Church Internal Service Program i will join the choir as my church ministry. One must learn to sing before they can play. But to my fellow band members who read this i will always make time to come back after secondary school. But till then i will stay where i am and live it through to polytechnic. Although i shall still continue to learn no matter which cca i go to after life in bps.
Next year with church internal service program, SYF, new subjects, taking leadership from Eoin in june for pubs, i can tell it will be a busy and tiring year. From this i can tell that i must be ready for these challanges. God give me strength to face these oncoming challanges and tasks.
I can't wait for the 28th of December, not because of band practice no...its because of the Catechism class BBQ, i should thank Greg and Liz for inviting the class to it. And to Eunice for bothering to tell me about it. Although the year is coming to an end and the next year is just around the bend, i will enjoy my remaining days of 2004 and live it to the fullest.
Somewhat and so i will take 2005 with a whole new light. The old self will be extinguished for someone different. Less pessimistic, more optimistic, less sarcastic, more positive. I will undertake these challanges to become a better person. Thanks again to Ridwan for helping me open my eyes to see the character i am and i will strive to change.
It goes to show that how one person's words can change a person's actions and i will be the living proof for it. I shall not question my leader's orders unless it endangers my safety. I will be less argumentive and more willing to learn. I will accept that the people around me will always be the same and have their limits.
More so...i find that i have few real friends. My closests friends are the ones that really care. To the other people i know i don't even know whether up there i'm really their friend or i am just someone you see everyday? I don't need that many friends but all i need are a greater circle of good friends. Although i may not show some of the people who may read this any hatred, anger or dislike deep down i may not like the person you are. If you do get this type of actions of anger , hatred and dislike from me , down inside i don't harbor hate and it dosen't stand. But to those which i bottle up i do it because i'm waiting for the time you will change your behavior.
A meaning full song by Joan Osborne, What if god was one of us?
If God had a name, what would it be
And would you call it to his face
If you were faced with him in all his glory
What would you ask if you had just one question
And yeah yeah God is great yeah yeah God is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
If God had a face what would it look like
And would you want to see
If seeing meant that you would have to believe
In things like heaven and in jesus and the saints and all the prophets
And yeah yeah god is great yeah yeah god is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
He's trying to make his way home
Back up to heaven all alone
Nobody calling on the phone
Except for the pope maybe in rome
And yeah yeah God is great yeah yeah God is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
What if god was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
Just trying to make his way home
Like a holy rolling stone
Back up to heaven all alone
Just trying to make his way home
Nobody calling on the phone
Except for the pope maybe in rome
This is truely a nice song which has a very meaningful meaning behind it. For those who are in the folds of christrianity i feel that in this song that god is present in all of us and may be prsent in someone you know and love. He may be someone you saw on the bus with no friends. He may be that man playing the accordion in the underpass. It shows how much that even the beggar with the accordion needs a friend or two.
12/22/2004 09:52:00 pm
Monday, December 20, 2004History Written and Passed
For the viewers of saving private ryan i have found the true real life equivilant to the story itself. 4 Brothers of the Niland family. 3 of them killed only one survived. Fritz Niland survived and was in the 101st Airborne Div and was snatched out of the army. Although he was'nt just pulled for any reason. Its because he was the sole living son of his mother who would be able to care for her.
Tet offensive, 31st Janaury 1968, The turning point of the war against the Americans. It had sparked a very negative impact upon American influence with the point of the media. In the early times of 1961 the American media was very supportive of America's undertaking in Vietnam but after the Tet Offensive it changed. Supplies were brought to South Vietnam by means of the so named the Ho Chi Minh trail. A trail that cut across the borders of Vietnam that led from the north to the south. In 1965 the VC could only ship a few supplies over the Ho Chi Minh trail but by 1968 that amount that could be transported were nearly 2 or 3 times the original weight of supplies being able to be transported...
Tells alot about the war in vietnam huh?
I find the story about Private Ryan a good story to know of to even know that it was based off a true story without the fighting.
12/20/2004 07:22:00 pm
Reporting in
Ok, today's morning or more like yesterday's morning was pretty much nothing but a play game day. In the afternoon i got a call from Eunice from Cathechism class. She told me that our cathechists , Greg and Liz were holding a barberque at their home on the 28th of December. I would just love to go for it and i will. At 6.30pm. A $5 exchange gift no problem. Speaking of Gifts. I got bro his present already. He's damn happy about his new set of starcraft. Mum and I picked out my present which i will not be able to start reading till christmas. SEALS the COMPLETE HISTORY, sounds very intresting to me. Mum was asking me why the hell i wanted a History Textbook literally. Its not a history textbook, call it a refrence book, mother dearest.
I look forward to christmas and to celebrating it. I shall attend midnight mass on the 24th of December which is Morning on the 25th.
Tommorow gotta report for prefects meeting actually not tommorow today at 9am gotta report. Training for the orientation on thursday for the sec 1 registration. 2 more weeks to school re-opening. I love the holidays but i miss school days.
Which one do i love more? My free time or the working times?
12/20/2004 02:29:00 am
Saturday, December 18, 2004Back from camp
Well, Camp's over and i'm back. Just woke up from a nap. I lost my voice and i have to nurse it back to health. Camp was tiring , dirty , fun, wet and almost everything in one.
On the first day, Orienteering day. Played wacko and a few other games, Nayeem(CI) passed envelopes with people's names inside to send a letter to by the end of camp. I got Gerald. We played a telematch which caused many people to have rashes on the ass because of the catepillar walk...sleeping in the log cabin was much anticipated. I did'nt use the sleeping bag and it was DAMN COLD!
On the second day, Challange ropes from morning breakfast time to around 3pm with lunch at 1. I still can't catch the stupid pole on the challange pole. I did it 3 times but kept slipping. The flying fox was cool the initial drop was a frickin scare and then it was like whomp and up in the air going downwards. We played poison ball at night and played the really dirty night game where you are blind folded and have to walk around in talcum powder and all sorts of things....positively Disgusting.
On the third day, Captains ball in the morning. Lasted till around noon, then had field cooking and we finished the rest of the magi mee that was rationed to us. 11 packets we cooked for the 6 of us....afterwards we had group discussion for a long long time. Had dinner around 6 or 7pm and we had our campfire till 11pm plus, not enough time to perform so they cancelled group A and B's performances and no tenting! Whee off to the bunks and sleep!
Today all the way to this point in time, Woke up went for PT under Vanvina and then went for breakfast and area cleaning. Everyone wanted to get their asses home as fast as possible. After area cleaning we went to the b-ball court at around 10 and crapped around till 11.30 and went to take photos and the bus came and we got on and went back. Yi wei and I were talking on the bus the whole way. When we got back to school we brought some stuff back to the prefects room filled up a survey form and the top 3 were announced. EOIN EE as Head Prefect of 2005, Aslinda and Bei Ying as Assistant Head Prefects of 2005. The rest will be disclosed on monday as seen fit by Mrs Tan. I thank Ridwan for helping me open my eyes and see the truth about myself. Esther's dad fetched me and ridwan back to sin ming and i thanked her and her dad and came up, un packed and ate the rest of the tuna from this morning and knocked out. Till now. Was woken up when Sis dropped the box of a cheesecake inside on my chest. I also lost my voice! I also worry as my blog seems messed up...
12/18/2004 04:46:00 pm
Tuesday, December 14, 2004Its that time again.....
Well tommorow is camp day for the prefects, i'm all set.
But i still do not escape the torment of carrying that insanely heavy bag to school in full school uniform. I'll be back here in 5 days after today. I'll look forward to the day i return. However when ever i return i feel that i enjoyed the camp. I'm ready to start the cycle all over again. Be pushed to the limit and over exert myself and then slack down to stone all day. I seem to have lost all the adrenaline left from sec 2 camp. i don't feel enthuism to rush about or be quick in my push-ups anymore. I finially got my hands on Sid Meier's pirates. Yong Kang bought it for himself i just copied it. Well alot better then dling it. Thanks Kang hope you enjoy it as much as i did, i had alot of fun.
Aside from current life matters.
I've been listening to April Sky by Vinnie Moore alot. Everytime i listen to it i get an impression in my mind. It tells a story to me. I feel that it suits the song very well. It starts like this...
Picture it as a love story, something happens to the once happy couple. They broke up but each of them lament the lost of the love that once was. From then on the couple work together to reforge the ties that once were.
The song tells the story slowly but i'm not a person for deciphering music. I feel that it suits because of the song's very "sad" impression at many points and many of its happy points and a certain part that sounds like a flash back to what the couple once did together.
This song has alot of meaning to it. Who ever has heard this song share your views.
12/14/2004 07:19:00 pm
Saturday, December 11, 2004Tears of the sun
All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
Just watched tears of the sun.. If you've ever seen a more touching show its this. A small US platoon of special forces soldiers were sent to rescue one doctor residing in Nigeria. The doctor refused to leave the people she treated and demanded that she take along the people who were fit to follow. The Platoon took them but later lied to them and took off with the doctor in the helicopters. The Lieutenant turned around and told the helicopters to take the refugees too old and too young and then their epic journey began to reach the next landing zone. Many men perished. In what became an intense battle later on between a nigerian brigade and the american platoon. The americans managed to get the doctor safely but with the death of 6 of their men. Only 4 of them survived.
The quote above is one of the many famous quotes made by great people.
12/11/2004 10:52:00 pm
Friday, December 10, 2004Well yesterday was pretty much a stay at home day. Nothing much went on. I finially finished downloading Pirates! but to my dismay....its not the real mc coy. Tricked. I went to play badminton with bro after he came back from the dentist and we played for a while. Hes not even able to serve the shuttle cock...haiz... I'm doing nothing now except this and listening to Ground control to Major Tom. I just played CS Source a while ago i'm getting that naseous feeling. Today i have to go to another meeting. 9.30am at Macs at AMK. Bei Ying really wake up damn early....
But i'm not even tired to sleep now. Jeebus.
12/10/2004 02:32:00 am
Wednesday, December 08, 2004Bad Day
Today is definately not my day at all. I had intended to go and play badminton with them but ended up going to orchard road with them and doing absoultely nothing. I had intended to play Badminton and Golf today but nooooo had to be orchard....i feel i have literally wasted my afternoon doing nothing. I would have enjoyed if i did'nt feel so left out. If they'd actually start talking as if they cared then possibly i can be happy with it. I think many of us in this world are too caught up being sarcastic and bull shit. I find myself guilty of that crime too. I'm sarcastic but i intend to change that. Nobody likes taking sarcasm in the face especially when it rubs in.
12/08/2004 09:02:00 pm
Mysterious Ways
Just watched Mysterious Ways on the hallmark channel.Today's episode was about a man, a high flying executive, who is haunted by a crime he commited 2 years ago by his imagined friend spike. He has a heart attack and falls on the road. Someone dials the hospital with all the information as stated and stating he was allergic to a certain medicine and puts away the phone at the bottom of the hill without leaving any finger prints. Strange things start haunting him. Firstly when he returns to work within one day a fellow employee accuses him of writing on his office wall "steer clear" and a few days later when the man is in the carpark going to his car he hears a basketball being bounced and finds the word cheater on the rear window of his car. He sees a phychitrist but is not comfortable with it. A recording of the 911 call and a video tape of him in an elevator being tormented are taken. The 911 call was done by a young boy. The Video tape showed no one tormenting him when he swore he saw a boy doing so. He goes to see his brother and there again he is haunted by his imaginary friend. In the end he goes to see the girl he knocked down while on the road 2 years ago and left her for dead. He apologises to her and is arrested for the crime. Later on while Decklan and Peggy are talking about it Peggy lifts up a notepad that read Ben wins. Decklan swears he never wrote it but its in the exact same handwriting as the earlier 2 messages Ben the executive saw.
[Imagine that, an imaginary friend coming to haunt you for your past crimes. Spooky huh? It tells you very much that you should always take responsibilty for your actions whether anyone is watching or not. Your guilt will eventually come back to haunt you. Although the story itself is fictional who knows something else may haunt your memories for your past deeds. So the moral? Be responsible for your actions before it comes back to haunt you.]
12/08/2004 01:22:00 am
Tuesday, December 07, 2004Deeds, Mr Deeds
Just watched Mr Deeds with mum. Its DAMN funny. I just love it when Adam Sandler acts in movies. He's just damn funny. Its starts where adam plays a pizza man who inherits 40 billion dollars from a recently deceased "Uncle". He enters the big city and knows nuts and acts totally wierd to the city folk who are not accustomed to his own small town behavior. At home hes a riot but in NYC hes a wierd kid. The media is constantly making his life a living hell. A reporter who would do anything for a story goes undercover and films him doing his deeds. Her producer makes a mockery of him. While in the process she finds herself falling for him and that was after the part where she was pretending to be molested by a fellow worker to get his attention. Her friend got a beating of a life time from Deeds for attempting "molest". It just goes on and hes a sucker for poety and is damn good at it too. But it turns out that his Butler was the only living REAL relative to his so called uncle. It turns out that Deeds never was the benefactor of his uncle but the supposed butler who's call sign is SNEAKY SNEAKY!. Damn its a great show.
12/07/2004 01:59:00 am
Sunday, December 05, 2004Its an OUTRAGE
SANNERVILLE, France (AFP) - Some 150 people, backed by D-day veterans, demonstrated against plans to build a garbage dump near a site of the 1944 allied landings.
The demonstrators, who included local politicians and former soldiers, waved banners demanding that the site, Maizeret, where parachutists and British commandos landed, be preserved as a "place of memory".
The association of veterans of the 46th Royal Marine Commando also expressed their concern in a letter to the regional governor, saying that as the recent 60th anniversary of D-day commemorations showed, thousands of Normandy veterans were still alive, and would be distraught at seeing a dump at a place where French and allied lives were lost in fighting Nazism.
Maizeret lies just outside Sannerville, which was evacuated of its civilian population and then totally destroyed in a massive bombing raid in July 1944 designed to assist a breakout from the landing beaches.
[Who ever intends to do this its an outrage i tell you. Its a source of remembrance that unity allows anything to happen. Its serves a purpose to say that in times of need allies and friends are important. Without the allied effort, Hitler would still control Europe!]
12/05/2004 03:00:00 pm
Saturday, December 04, 2004Status Report
Ok, so today was pretty much boring. Took bro's comp back to the shop because of the network card. Contact problem..pffit..well now it works fine at least. Then played games for a while and then went to watch movies with mum but had to leave to help Wai Lun with his computer. Left mine on to do some downloading.
I only accomplised part of the job. Wai Lun's comp was unable to connect to the net because his modem was not set properly and its a frickin dial-up. I totally forgot how to do dial up modems.
Then after i finished up there it was 5.30 and walked down to the bus stop with Wai Lun and after that took the bus to church.
He who is ashamed of his sins is not afraid of the lord and he who is not ashamed is afraid. Not afraid of his power but of his goodness because you wonder how you could ever have been so evil as to do these sins infront of him. A quote from Father David.
Well now doing the last of the downloading. 71% on the patch for 1.6 battlefield. Was watching we were soldiers a while ago. I feel that US intervention in Vietnam was a slaughter of America's flower of youth as many of their men were killed in action and permenant wounds that would never heal over time would scar the men who lived through. The screams and the firing would forever haunt them. War is one of the most dangerous things man have stupidly forced to be made. Wars would never occur if there was peace.
12/04/2004 08:19:00 pm
Recovery
The Computers are back and they are juiced up and ready to rock and roll. Heh.
Sent the comps to the shop for repairs i had to lug both of them down before the prefects camp discussion thing. I sold off all the old parts for 70 bucks which was just nice for the repairs. I bought a floppy drive for my comp too..15 BUCKS!
My poor wallet has a hole already. Eoin if you read this...you owe me $13.40 for the cab fare that night.... Afterwards when the guy checked through my cpu he noticed a faulty hdd and removed it. Damn..40gb down.. sigh..i'm gonna buy 80gb from Gyver's dad. Its also due time and i think its time to get a original XP cd soon.
12/04/2004 01:26:00 am
Wednesday, December 01, 2004The great crash cascade
Today...a cascade of computer problems. Starting from 3am. After playing AA i get sudden resets and problems with the master drive of the comp then i can't boot up successfully each time. Only a certain amount of times will succeed.
In the morning there was prefects meeting about camp. Upon returning i tried the comp again. This time the same problem became more serious. John came over and played bro's comp but had to go back for a while because his dad needed him. Yi wei came over too, he wanted to play CS- Source and he got his wish but half way through the computer CRASHED!. Yes CRASHED!
Things went spinning out of control. Firstly i was unable to boot at all and there was a cold boot every time and bios could not detect the HDD's at all! I enlisted Yi Wei's help but soon i found myself working alone as he went to play the comp with john. I opened it up and i sorted through my computer. I then thought of an idea. I had 2 drives. The OS was on the main master drive. The slave drive contained 2 additional paritioned drives and held nothing but games and junk. I swapped the cables for the master and slave drives. I installed win 98 on the slave drive C and in the process wiped out the entire. Then after setting up i wiped clean the master drive and installed xp over it. Things went well after this. Had there not been a second drive i would say adios amigos to my comp until i got a new hdd.
Then to add. Chris has been complaining about his computer being too slow for a long time. So i gave him 128mb more ram to help him but as we boosted the speed to 256 bits the computer stopped entering windows and locked us out the minute it reached the main screen. I really can't handle this problem. Its just too complex. Dad's taking it to the shop tommorow. Band pract again too. Master Class..
From the Straits times
Pity that girl who fell from the 4th floor of her school after her pract. Tsk tsk.... but something bugs me what in the blazes was she doing that could make her fall?