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Lost Backup file
I think I’ve just lost whole directory of files which I’ve worked very hard to create. I left it in a “backup server” which was supposed to be safe since the department paid over a few thousands of Ringgit monthly to maintain it. Now, the whole server is gone… That includes my backup copy which is also gone when my PC’s hard drive crashed, and my own portable pen drive backup got corrupted.
What a coincidence that all the backup files got lost at the same time. And it’s going to take me a lot of time just to redo the whole thing.
Sigh…
Just a small update
Let’s see, the last time I updated my blog was on the 1st September 2008. That’s about 2 months of inactivity of this blog!
To save the “I’ve been busy with exams and work” yada yada, let me just type out a few things which comes to my mind now.
RAM prices are down! My desktop is messy, my study room is messy and my cubicle is messy. Petrol price might be going down tomorrow.
Sorry to bore you readers. 
Fuel Price Review? Where?
Today is the 1st of September. I though the government is going to announce a new price for petrol today. Everyone forgetten already?
Sigh.
It’s still expensive now.
Getting out of breath…
Getting stressed out quite easily lately and because of that, I’m loosing focus and getting numb and out of breath easily for no reason at all sometimes. Could be my diet, could be lack of sleep, could be lack of excercise or could be I have too much to do lately.
Since I’ve completed most of my work in the office and have some time to relax a little, I do plan to do so. Maybe eat better, take less coffee and excercise a little bit every morning after I wake up and every night before I sleep.
I certainly don’t want to die due to stress. It’s certainly not worth the amount that I’m being paid for. Besides, I have so much more to live for then to die for. Right?
Vomit Blood
Done at least 18 different revision changes for my programs in the past 2 months!
Here’s a tip for Programmers. Never work for people who don’t even know what they want themself! You’ll find yourself in my shoes redoing everything just to satisfy those kind of people!
In my case, I’m not getting paid by every modification made… Which made things worse.
Bah.
Diablo III
Two decades have passed since the demonic denizens, Diablo, Mephisto, and Baal, wandered the world of Sanctuary in a vicious rampage to shackle humanity into unholy slavery. Yet for those who battled the Prime Evils directly, the memory fades slowly and the wounds of the soul still burn…
Yes, Diablo III is annouced and it looks like Blizzard is going to make it a free multiplayer game using Battle.net unlike World of Warcraft.
Diablo III will feature the same random level generator and 5 classes where the babarian makes a comeback. It will be using Havoc physics Systems so the enviroments can be interactive or destroyed.
Junk Mail not needed!
When you read an email, or composed something nice to read, it’s always nice to share out the laughter and the nice words or pictures you got. However, most people who just simply forward email without thinking and thus causes a bunch of junk mail or computers with viruses to pick up all your email addresses.
Have you ever wondered where those people always get your email address from? Well from your friends!
Just a few months ago, I had an email account which is clean. No spams, no junk mail and I’ve only used it for official purposes such as to sign up for something or subscribe to some electronic magazines. Everytime before I put my email address into an input box and click submit, I’ll read through the terms and condition and the privacy policy. I’m not one of those guys who would just simply click on agree or yes just for the sake of installing somethin in my PC.
Anyway, My email was clean for the few months and up to a whole year without any spam. UNTIL the time when I gave my email to one of my friend and he mass forward a whole lot of emails into his buddy list.
That’s when it all started. With only 1 or 2 spam at first every day, to at least 10 spam emails in collected daily. That’s not all, because I’m using this email for some official stuff, I need to filter out my spams to see if I’ve missed anything or if anything is accidentally moved to the spam folder. Usually, there’s always 1 or 2 important emails in the spam folder.
This has made my life reading emails a lot slower and harder. All thanks to the few persons who never used their brains when forwarding their junks.
So if you’re one of the people who thinks sharing something funny you get from your email is nice, think again! Don’t forward them or at least, use the BCC field to fill in all the email address of your friends!
Eradicating hardcore poverty
The Government is determined to eradicate hardcore poverty in two years despite the current austerity drive.
That’s what the they said.
Well, that’s also what they said 4 years ago. But it seems that everyone is getting poorer instead. The only people getting richer are the already rich.
For the past few months, I’ve been eating really cheap and lousy economy food in my canteen. Sometimes even just drinking some cereals for lunch and even skipping dinner. I used to pinch my wallet so that I could buy a new hardware or a new pair of shoes. Now, I have to pinch my wallet and even tie my stomach so that I can service my car! Already “ubah gaya hidup” mah.
As I look at the RM625 I got from the post office as rebate for the fuel subsidy, I can’t help but think how fast this stack of money is going to be spent. It’s only going to last me 7 times to the petrol station. That’s only 2 months!
I went for grocery shopping last weekend and the price of Tesco Value instant noodles has been replaced with what Cintan or Maggi used to cost. Wholemeal bread now costs RM3 instead of RM2. When the government asked us to “Ubah Gaya Hidup” during the last fuel hike, I supposed they were talking about our television usage, luxury food consumption, etc… I never know they were actually asking us to die of hunger.
More things to cut? Perhaps if I cut my hair BOTAK each time, I get to save more on haircut bills.
Waraoeh! Petrol Price Increase Liao ar!
MyVi’s fuel tank capacity is 40 litres. In fact, if you’re a MyVi driver, most probably you’ll be spending about RM60 everytime you refuel your car in the petrol station. That’s because the last bar when the fuel gauge meter starts blinking, you’d actually still have about slightly less then 10 litres left but no one dares takes the risk to go anywhere far with that blinking warning.
So, the previous price of RON97 petrol costs RM1.92 per litre. The last increase of 30 cents have already costs the price of everything to increase madly and the most affected people are THE POOR. The richer class of people probably have little impact to their salary, some have subsidised from their company, some businessmen actually earns more by increasing the price of everything in their shops.
In my case, my car is MyVi and previously, I’m spending about RM60 everytime I refuel. Now I need to spend about RM90 everytime I go to the petrol station. That means I’m pumping about 30 litres of petrol everytime. 30 litres multiplied by RM2.70 is RM81. ARGHHHh~!~!~!
Die la… I’m already eating cheap cereal for lunch only. Now eat what ah? Grass?