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Hello... it's been a pretty bland weekend for me this week since everyone ele is busy (not many pple to meet) and i didn't plan anything for this week too.Sunday, September 7, 2008 Well, saturday morning i left shortly after breakfast to Sim Lim Square to fix my external hard disk which has been spoilt since... July (??). Have been procrastinating for a really long time on this. Turns me off to do anything about it since when i see it, it reminds me of the fact that i've lost alot of my songs. Apparently, if you don't know, i accidentally dropped my extenral hard disk one afternoon and since then, it became cranky. Either it will suddenly hang and hang my stupid laptop as well, or it can't transfer things back to my C/D Drives (selfish bastard of a HDD). Well, fortunately i managed to salvage most of my songs that morning before going down as the "SERVICE CENTRE" so called was actually only a COLLECTION CENTRE. So the assistant there (not IT-trained) could only replace my cranky HDD with a new one. So if i didn't salvage my stuff myself, they would have been GONE FOREVER. Thankfully i managed to find a way. Since i can't copy things back into my other drives, i realised that i could play each individual song on windows media player and "save as" into my C Drive and it worked! for 95% of the songs though ahah. But that's SUPER GOOD already haha. But with the new hard disk, there came ANOTHER problem. HOW TO FORMAT A HDD. If you DON'T ALREADY KNOW, i am a completely computer idiot. Designing my blog the way it is now is ALREADY A FEAT to me. Plus, you should know i am a MAN WITH NO TALENTS haha... other than gossiping maybe hahah (JOKING). So i was totally clueless about how i should go about fomatting it. The other time when i bought it from the sim lim shop, the shop assistant was very nice to format it for me and so i could simply plug it into my computer and JUST USE. No wasting my brain cells on how to configure those stupid computer stuff which i know nuts about. But not this time. So i searched the internet, looking for step-by-step instructions on how to format my HDD. Went to website and the the manual given online was totally incomprehensible with my limited knowledge on computers. So after two plus hours sitting in front of my stupid laptop, i achieved nothing. And i stopped to meet Yang Sis at City hall first haha. ******************************* Sidetracking from this "How to format my HDD", i met Yang Sis over this bland weekend cause she was the only free (and willing) to meet me, and also because her boyfriend can't get out of camp haha. Went city hall since Orchard is still the same, Vivo is too far, Bugis is too crowded haha... Plus i needed to go somewhere in the city to call it "GOING OUT" haha. Nothing much other than the fact that i ATE ALOT. Until my stomach hurt a bit haha. First i ate Korean cuisine (at food court haha), with Ice Kachang after that. Then along the way back to MRT, we stopped at the HongKong cuisine restaurant to have a "long" of Xiao Long Baos haha. Anyway it's good that i'm starting to develop more of an appetite for after meal food. Like deserts and stuff. Hopefully in time i will have a MORE normal figure. Speaking of which, Yang Sis, as usual everytime we met, will tell me a bit of her boyfriend. So this time she was telling me that she and her boyfriend was of the same height, which technically means if they get married, she CAN NEVER wear HEELS cause it will "sia suay" the groom (like obviously... girl taller?? tsk haha). So i think she's told her boyfriend before as a passing remark but didn't think it was anything serious to ponder over. But apparently, when she went over to his house last weekend or so, she went to his room and saw that he was reading a book titled "HOW TO GROW TALLER"!!! O.M.G. I think her boyfriend's pretty funny. Or maybe the actions he do. haha. Well, you know those stupid PSPs that ALMOST EVERY young and not-so-young males (and some females) bring along with them and seem to play them WHEREVER THEY GO? Well, her boyfriend mentioned to her that he felt like buying it. But like me, Yang Sis has deep disdain over those stupid PSPs and obsessive behaviour (of playing it everywhere), and so told her boyfriend that SHE HATES THOSE TYPE OF GUYS THAT PLAY PSPs EVERYWHERE THEY GO. So the boyfriend's attitude totally change, and doesn't have the urge to buy it anymore. To disturb her boyfriend (like she ALWAYS does), she will always suggest to go to those PSP shops and suggest her boyfriend to get it and the boyfriend will go "NO NO DON"T WANT LA! NO I DONT WANT TO BUY!!" haha... The crazy things people do out of love. I can never understand. ************************************** Well, coming back to HDD... After i reached home, i was in the"sian" mood for the stupid HDD but on another hand was like "if only i could try it just another time" (after every try). So i sat down and tried again and again. Then, I found this forum website which provided step-by-step instructions after i googled on "How to format an external hard disk" haha. The instructions were (and i quote):
Well, i was stuck at Step 5 . I just couldn't see the "Create Partition" which is totally sickening. (Which was why i decided to try again only after i went out with Yang Sis) Apparently i was right-clicking in the wrong places. Damn me. It was at one random moment when i right clicked a random place for my HDD under Disk Management and it FINALLY had the OPTION - CREATE NEW PARTITION!!!!!! I was SO HAPPY. I quickly clicked it and well, the rest is history :) SO HAPPY! I was really surprised and holding my breath the whole formatting process cause i can't believe it was really happening (You know i dont want to hold high expectations only to get disappointed haha) After a few minutes, there it is FORMATTED and i could use it!!! The disbelief and ecstacy i felt. haha. (the steps above are really good! - which goes to show i'm worse than an idiot haha...) I am happy because first, it is finally resolved after so long and could back up my stuff again. Secondly, the fact that i managed to format it toally by myself. haha... I know it sounds like i'm really dumb but i REALLY LEARNT A SKILLl! Haha... I was even contemplating whether i should get to some computer shop and pay them to do it for me but on hindsight, that would seriously reflect how dumb i am right??? hahaha.... Yups, i seldom say i am proud of myself. But this time i REALLY AM PROUD OF MYSELF haha. Never in a million years would i think i am capable of doing such stuff by myself. Speaking of which, i just read this article on REFLECT section of the Sunday Times and Sumiko was talking about the EXACT same problem we face, being "At the Mercy Of Machines" where she lamented how useless she feels whenever she encounters such technical difficulties and has no clue how to resolve it. Because i was in such a good mood after reading it, i actually wrote to her. (Remember the last time i wrote to Suzanne? haha.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here's my reply to her article (a bit repetitive): Hi Sumiko, I must admit it's been such a pleasure to read your article today in the Sundays Times about us, or rather you, being at the mercy of machines. To be honest, i am also a tech idiot who knows nothing about computers, electronic appliances and whatever gadgets there is in the market. The only thing i know is to use them for the basic function they serve and never dare attempt to use their other functions. If you say you're ashamed, then i would have to (very embarrassingly) say that i'm more ashamed. For one, i'm a young teenager in his twenties, exposed to the daily dose of technological news and experiences with the electronic gadgets. But then, i'm sure we can't equate exposure to absorbing knowledge on them since i have total disinterest in anything technology and simply incapable of really understanding anything about until it happens to me. Furthermore, i am a male. Not being sexist here (and neither am i remotely sexist), but it appears to me that most males have the tendency to have an inclination towards tech gadgets and most importantly, the skill to tackle technological difficulties (i suppose that's why most of our technicians - including yours - are males). That is why i probably feel even more incapable and ashamed when i proclaim that i am a technological idiot. Just prior to reading your article, i faced a similar mind-boggling and annoying technological nightmare - i call it a "heart attack" - of my own. Having dropped my external hard disk on the floor, i got it exchanged for a new one at the collection centre yesterday. However, as it was clearly only a collection centre, i was provided with a unformatted external hard disk. Clearly with my limited knowledge on computer stuff, i was clueless as to how to configure it. Previously when i bought the hard disk from a store, the shop assistant very kindly formatted it for me, which saved all troubles and worries for me. And i would just have to plug it into my computer and ala, it can be used! But fate was not so kind to me this time round. So I went home and searched the internet for the model, in hopes of finding an idiot-proof manual that could help me resolve this technical difficulty i faced. I did find one, but one INCOMPREHENSIVE (to me) MANUAL it was! So i resorted to googling "How to Format an External Hard Disk" but apparently i guessed i was like looking for a treasure without a map - very lost indeed. Fortunately, just like you, it was resolved just last night itself by some dumb luck when i right-clicked something (forgot what it was) and now my worry is over. After this experience, as well as many other similarly horrifying experiences before that, I'm not sure if it's a good or bad thing that we've become so reliant on technology nowadays. I've heard people say they can't live without their hand phones or that they'll rather die than have no laptop/computer to use when at home. And scarily enough, i find myself in the same shoes. We have become so dependent on them that without them we feel we are unable to function. I suppose this is the irony of being too technologically advanced. A part of me refuses to give in to the fact that i'm dependent on these technologies to function and live normally (or at least satisfactorily). But i guess it's time that i too, pick up these essential skills. To put it simply, i just can't bear to go through another "heart attack". Simply, Joel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Well, if she replies i'll inform you :) Sunday was, as usual, a day for rest. In the afternoon, my family went to visit my grandma at TTSH as she felt and broke her shoulder... It's so sad seeing her in and out of the hospital but there's nothing i can say or help with other than visiting her. Not sure if i've said this before but i think she doesn't remember who i am right now compared to my other brothers. Her health became more of a problem these past few years which coincided with my sec 4 and jc years (read: SUPER MUGGER days) and therefore i never attended any family functions with my mother's side other than CNY. So now when i visit her, she hardly knows who i am, maybe she thinks i'm some random friend of my brother... Oh well... At least she knows my mother has four sons and i'm NUMBER THREE. That's sufficient already i guess... Just before that i went to collect my notes back from the idiotic tuition house i went for one time. (TRAUMATIC enough tho haha. ) and went to hub to walk a bit to buy a gift for Chai Chai as her birthday was approaching on 11 Sep. So in advance, HAPPY BIRTHDAY Chai Chai! She's probably never read this but well, it's the thought - of mine - that counts right haha. In office, we have decided to get a bag for her and since Jem can't find it after trying os hard, i felt i should do something as well by helping to find. Thank God the hub sells the bag we were looking for so i could contribute haha. Just pray they'll like my choice of the design haha... After all, besides my two bosses, she's the one i consult the most on work and she's been really nice to advise me many a times. So for her niceness, THANK YOU ! haha. Celebration's tomorrow morning so we'll see how it goes. haha. Well, this has been a sufficiently long entry about random stuff so i shall end here! Enjoy the week :) music.city.soul || 9:08 PM || 0 comments |
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