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Just want to pin down some thoughts and update here before I go about doing my work... Now is the beginning of a new month -- March, and oh no! Can't believe it! 2 months has passed just like that again! Argh~~~! And I haven't finished my CNY event updates and ... my Birthday updates... 
I thought that I am going to write all of these down now but since is the new month, I got many work to do...
You know it is kind of different to blog / write down what's in your mind right now the very moment, and to write a flashback of your life. Those memories that is closer to you in time, tend to be clearer in your head; and those of past-tense-stories, you will need a time of sit down and recall, of which it takes more time... So I thought of writing some random thoughts in my mind now rather than continue my CNY and Birthday updates! And I kind of worried that I will forget these thoughts so I think I better to write them down now...
~ A Lot to Blog, No Time to Blog ~
My life is full of "somewhat dramatic" stories that I always wanted to write them down... Those stories and thoughts are sooo interesting that I am so afraid that I will forget about them. This is one of the reasons that I started to blog, to write down all the interesting stories in my life... However, after I had setup a space in blogspot to blog, wanting or having the desire to write down every memorable events that I ever encountered, until now I still haven't written much of those stories yet... Just like in my "What's In My Mind Right Now?" column (only in lieh-not-enough.blogspot.com) had said, “有好多好多的想法，概念；有好多好多的回忆，都想把他们一一记载下来。。。因为我真得很害怕把它们给忘了。。。我发现。。。我是个健忘的人。。。”
I discovered 3 reasons for this...
1. Inconveninces for blogging, such as time and places and availability of Internet connection. No time, because of work, other stuff, daily / routine stuff, and stuffs that I always wanted to do. No places... Whenever I want to blog, I will prefer a place of quietness or being alone, because any distractions or interruptions will hinder my thoughts mechanism, resulting me forget what to write or how to continue the sentence or paragraph. When that happens, I will tend to become frustrated and losing my temper a little. And this is what I don't want to happen.
A place of quietness is not easy to get... Definitely, people will think of going to cafe, like Starbucks to use the Wi-Fi there to surf Internet or doing anything online with their precious laptop, but to me... I got a lousy laptop... Well, that laptop of mine, I just suddenly recalled that there are quite a lot of stories about it too! Not of good testimony though. But of those how noisy is it and it is not for outdoor purpose because the battery will run out within an hour... Erm... "an hour" was too nice of saying... Actually is within 30 minutes! And so, I can't go out to Starbuck with that laptop of mine and order a 10 bucks ++ coffee sitting there all day long to do my blogging! And that's why, I always wanted to buy a brand new laptop for myself... I am thinking of Sony VAIO... But nevertheless... I cannot afford it now...
I thought that I am going to write all of these down now but since is the new month, I got many work to do...You know it is kind of different to blog / write down what's in your mind right now the very moment, and to write a flashback of your life. Those memories that is closer to you in time, tend to be clearer in your head; and those of past-tense-stories, you will need a time of sit down and recall, of which it takes more time... So I thought of writing some random thoughts in my mind now rather than continue my CNY and Birthday updates! And I kind of worried that I will forget these thoughts so I think I better to write them down now...
~ A Lot to Blog, No Time to Blog ~
My life is full of "somewhat dramatic" stories that I always wanted to write them down... Those stories and thoughts are sooo interesting that I am so afraid that I will forget about them. This is one of the reasons that I started to blog, to write down all the interesting stories in my life... However, after I had setup a space in blogspot to blog, wanting or having the desire to write down every memorable events that I ever encountered, until now I still haven't written much of those stories yet... Just like in my "What's In My Mind Right Now?" column (only in lieh-not-enough.blogspot.com) had said, “有好多好多的想法，概念；有好多好多的回忆，都想把他们一一记载下来。。。因为我真得很害怕把它们给忘了。。。我发现。。。我是个健忘的人。。。”
I discovered 3 reasons for this...
1. Inconveninces for blogging, such as time and places and availability of Internet connection. No time, because of work, other stuff, daily / routine stuff, and stuffs that I always wanted to do. No places... Whenever I want to blog, I will prefer a place of quietness or being alone, because any distractions or interruptions will hinder my thoughts mechanism, resulting me forget what to write or how to continue the sentence or paragraph. When that happens, I will tend to become frustrated and losing my temper a little. And this is what I don't want to happen.
A place of quietness is not easy to get... Definitely, people will think of going to cafe, like Starbucks to use the Wi-Fi there to surf Internet or doing anything online with their precious laptop, but to me... I got a lousy laptop... Well, that laptop of mine, I just suddenly recalled that there are quite a lot of stories about it too! Not of good testimony though. But of those how noisy is it and it is not for outdoor purpose because the battery will run out within an hour... Erm... "an hour" was too nice of saying... Actually is within 30 minutes! And so, I can't go out to Starbuck with that laptop of mine and order a 10 bucks ++ coffee sitting there all day long to do my blogging! And that's why, I always wanted to buy a brand new laptop for myself... I am thinking of Sony VAIO... But nevertheless... I cannot afford it now...
2. Another reason, which I think is very true is "my interesting stories of life is getting more and more and so much more that eventually I couldn't cope up / catch up / capture with!" Ahaha... You see... the reason why I will skip my 2 "promised" previous updates and writing something different now, could tell that this is so true already...
I could still remember the time when I started this blog (blogspot one), I was in the "transition" of giving up my SPR status. For that, I also got a series of events that happened directly and indirectly related to the story... I thought of writing something else first, like more about myself before I would write the story down. But till now, I haven't written that SPR stories... Haha... And in fact, I haven't finished talking "everything about myself" yet... Whatever I wanted to write about myself, such as "A Typical Piscean" and etc, I also haven't written them yet...
Events... somewhat dramatic events, interesting events in my life keeps on coming and coming that I cannot catch up / capture by writing them now. And story will go on / carry on and somtimes, the twist will come in an unexpected way (well, that's why it is called a twist ya!) that might change the course or add colours into my story... I go about from one status to another status without writing whatever has happened... Status... include my spiritual well-beings, my physical health condition such as weight, emotional feelings, environment around me and stuff. And in fact (again), I haven't blog about my unhealthy and fatness condition until now, even I had lost some weight already! Haha...
3. The third reason simply because is... I write very long... Well, most people can agree with this. Time is used to write a super duper long entry! But to me, it is the every and very little details that eventually make up the big story, making the story the way and the reason how / why it is interesting what...
~ Why Am I Talking About All These? ~
Well... I started to write about this is because a friend of mine asked me whether I am happy or not in MSN. This is the reason for initiated this entry but however, this is not the answer for the question whether I am happy or not...
Actually, it was Eliz who asked me "Are you happy now?" in MSN yesterday. Though this question can be simple, casually asked, it somehow got me thinking... I went about telling her "I supposed to be happy, because I am supposed to be positive minded." Then she kind of like asking me to share... That moment all I had in my mind was one recent "interesting story" that I encountered, so I bursted out to her about the story, not in full details though. And one of the words that I used to conclude is something like this: "You may think that such case is rare, but to me, I already get used to it because I always encountered such things... A simple task that can be done within one step, will take me more than two weeks to accomplish simply because something happen in the middle of the process."
Well... that's already a very simple way of telling her... in fact, sometimes there are tasks that took months or even years to accomplish if you would believe... and to add on that "something happen in the middle of the process", is like, some more thing will happen in the middle of the process, and also in the middle-middle of the process... Haha... It is like: Step 1. Start, Step 2. Done. But because something happen in the middle, so the process become, Step 1, 1a, 2. If got more problem, then: Step 1, 1a, 1b, 2. But when Step 1b got problem of its own, then: Step 1, 1a, 1b(i), 2. For more steps: Step 1, 1a, 1b(i), 1b(ii), 1b(iii), 2.
You don't believe? Well... let me show you one of my life experience, the story that I told Eliz, but this time, in perfected full details... A story of "How I wanted to Install Symantec Norton Antivirus Software (SNAS) into My Office Computer" Sound pretty easy? NOT SO in my case... and now you could have total understanding that why my blog is always so long one...
1. Mami (Elyn) asked me to buy antivirus software because hers had expired.
2. Promised her to buy and that's before CNY.
3. Went to Cytech, a computer shop in Taman University (in Johor) that sells whole lot of cheapest computer stuff... A shop that I always recommend to my friends. I ordered the SNAS, but the boss said this needed to wait for the trasport to come, they don't have stock at hand. I was awared of possibility of delay, so I asked him how long, he said 2 days. So I reassured with him, "are you sure?" he replied, "if no accident, it can reach in 2 days."
I placed my ordered on 19th Jan (Monday), thinking that could get it 2 or 3 days later, i.e. Thursday. And we, Daddee (Meng Hua), Mami, Phyllis, Cai Yan and I had already fixed on Friday to have our "Reunion Dinner", and I thought that I could install the SNAS for Daddee & Mami on that day.
4. On Thursday, I went to take my order. They said the driver (who did the delivery work from other supplier) had already stopped working because of the CNY. So my ordered was delayed. I had to wait after the CNY of which, is not 2, 3 days... but 1 week.
5. The shop reopened on 2nd February, I went to check out again on 3rd Feb... Oh... the supplier there said haven't started work yet... or something happened... Gotta wait...
6. One more week over, think about Friday, the 13th, finally I had gotten the SNAS. So next thing is to go Elyn house to install.
7. In the end, we fixed a day on 20th Feb, Friday to go to her house to do the installation. And also, I expected they would gimme a "surprise Birthday" celebration! Haha... Indeed, the surprise came on...
8. the morning of 20th Feb, received a message from Phyllis that Elyn was warded into hospital, waiting for giving birth to the cute Dora. Indeed a surpirse...
9. That Friday night, after work, went to hospital to see Daddee & Mami. Mami was waiting for giving birth. In the end, we didn't have time to go to her house to install the antivirus software...
10. Mami only out of hospital on 23th, Monday. But their baby Dora had to stayed in the hospital for few days because of the skin colour stuff... Wanted to go to Elyn house to install the thing again, eventually, we fixed on 27th, Friday. It was the day that the baby came home too...
11. Finally, was able to install the thing into Elyn's laptop successfully! And the story didn't stop here...
The version of the antivirus software I bought allowed for 3 users' installation. I thought Daddee and Mami got 2 computers to install, but realized that they only needed 1 account, another computer could not access to Internet connection... Initially, I didn't want to install antivirus software in my computer this time round, but since I got extra users' account, so I thought of installig it.
THE NEXT DAY -- 28th February, Saturday.
12. Insert the installation CD into my office computer only to realize that the DVD-rom had problem.
13. Test the DVD-rom with another computer to confirm that it did not function already.
14. Went to Cytech to buy for a new DVD-writer. The boss asked me whether I want IDE or SATA. My old computer can only use IDE and of which... NO STOCK!
15. Suddenly remembered that my home PC supports SATA, went home and check.
16. Took out the DVD-writer from home PC, because it is IDE, I could use it for my office PC.
17. Went to office to install the IDE DVD-writer. Successful.
18. Inserted the installation CD and successful installed the antivirus software.
NOW... the biggest hit of the story is here...
19. The software now asked for activation, which required Internet connection. (anger not yet bursted)
20. Realised that I didn't connect the modem. So I did it and turned on the modem and tried again... then that software had a message saying that "failed to connect to Internet, make sure that I had connect to the Internet and try again." And it automatically launched Internet Explorer with a link that is... erm... broken... (anger not yet bursted)
21. Restarted and tried again. Failed again... Thought that something was not right already. (anger not yet bursted)
22. Tried go to Symantec main site itself, but received message "Page Load Error". Tried many times and still gotten the same thing. So I concluded that, the site must be busy. Let me wait for Monday to try again. So I went about doing my other work. (not yet)
23. After work, went to the shop again to buy a SATA DVD-driver for my home PC. The moment I got there, they were shutting down the door already... What a luck... (not yet)
24. Sunday went to Singapore... another side story here... so on Monday, 2nd March, i.e. yesterday, came to office and tried the activation again... SAME THING. (not yet)
25. Went to the main site again, SAME THING. So I googled about "Symantec site down" and... found news saying that someone, a hacker spot a bug or something in Symantec site, and the Symantec company shut down the whole Symantec site! Even until now! Yes... I just tried again and still "Page Load Error". Other sites work perfectly fine one lor...
This is one of the links to the news, from networkworld.com.
And for now... I couldn't stop the negative thoughts already... It is not that you can see an antivirus software company's web site got pulled down everyday of your life one lor... And even until now, I still couldn't activate my account. And the interesting story here is, on Friday, installed on Elyn's laptop it was perfectly successful! But THE NEXT DAY, (now you know why I capitalised these 3 words previously), when it was my turn to install for myself. I could not have it done perfectly! And to think that before installation, I gotta change a DVD-driver first! And I am not done yet with this story... now the Symantec site still down and..
26. 2nd March, went to buy the SATA, LG 22X DVD writer and installed it on my home PC. But kind of "not compatible", and in fact, the motherboard of the PC has already got problem itself... and that, was another story about that home PC of mine...
Now... finally... "Am I happy?" I should be... And that's another story too... Ahaha... Got such interesting source of story to tell, should I not be happy? And that just reminded me... my lovely Jesus had told me in person, "I only want you to be happy..." So I am!
I could still remember the time when I started this blog (blogspot one), I was in the "transition" of giving up my SPR status. For that, I also got a series of events that happened directly and indirectly related to the story... I thought of writing something else first, like more about myself before I would write the story down. But till now, I haven't written that SPR stories... Haha... And in fact, I haven't finished talking "everything about myself" yet... Whatever I wanted to write about myself, such as "A Typical Piscean" and etc, I also haven't written them yet...
Events... somewhat dramatic events, interesting events in my life keeps on coming and coming that I cannot catch up / capture by writing them now. And story will go on / carry on and somtimes, the twist will come in an unexpected way (well, that's why it is called a twist ya!) that might change the course or add colours into my story... I go about from one status to another status without writing whatever has happened... Status... include my spiritual well-beings, my physical health condition such as weight, emotional feelings, environment around me and stuff. And in fact (again), I haven't blog about my unhealthy and fatness condition until now, even I had lost some weight already! Haha...
3. The third reason simply because is... I write very long... Well, most people can agree with this. Time is used to write a super duper long entry! But to me, it is the every and very little details that eventually make up the big story, making the story the way and the reason how / why it is interesting what...
~ Why Am I Talking About All These? ~
Well... I started to write about this is because a friend of mine asked me whether I am happy or not in MSN. This is the reason for initiated this entry but however, this is not the answer for the question whether I am happy or not...
Actually, it was Eliz who asked me "Are you happy now?" in MSN yesterday. Though this question can be simple, casually asked, it somehow got me thinking... I went about telling her "I supposed to be happy, because I am supposed to be positive minded." Then she kind of like asking me to share... That moment all I had in my mind was one recent "interesting story" that I encountered, so I bursted out to her about the story, not in full details though. And one of the words that I used to conclude is something like this: "You may think that such case is rare, but to me, I already get used to it because I always encountered such things... A simple task that can be done within one step, will take me more than two weeks to accomplish simply because something happen in the middle of the process."
Well... that's already a very simple way of telling her... in fact, sometimes there are tasks that took months or even years to accomplish if you would believe... and to add on that "something happen in the middle of the process", is like, some more thing will happen in the middle of the process, and also in the middle-middle of the process... Haha... It is like: Step 1. Start, Step 2. Done. But because something happen in the middle, so the process become, Step 1, 1a, 2. If got more problem, then: Step 1, 1a, 1b, 2. But when Step 1b got problem of its own, then: Step 1, 1a, 1b(i), 2. For more steps: Step 1, 1a, 1b(i), 1b(ii), 1b(iii), 2.
You don't believe? Well... let me show you one of my life experience, the story that I told Eliz, but this time, in perfected full details... A story of "How I wanted to Install Symantec Norton Antivirus Software (SNAS) into My Office Computer" Sound pretty easy? NOT SO in my case... and now you could have total understanding that why my blog is always so long one...
1. Mami (Elyn) asked me to buy antivirus software because hers had expired.
2. Promised her to buy and that's before CNY.
3. Went to Cytech, a computer shop in Taman University (in Johor) that sells whole lot of cheapest computer stuff... A shop that I always recommend to my friends. I ordered the SNAS, but the boss said this needed to wait for the trasport to come, they don't have stock at hand. I was awared of possibility of delay, so I asked him how long, he said 2 days. So I reassured with him, "are you sure?" he replied, "if no accident, it can reach in 2 days."
I placed my ordered on 19th Jan (Monday), thinking that could get it 2 or 3 days later, i.e. Thursday. And we, Daddee (Meng Hua), Mami, Phyllis, Cai Yan and I had already fixed on Friday to have our "Reunion Dinner", and I thought that I could install the SNAS for Daddee & Mami on that day.
4. On Thursday, I went to take my order. They said the driver (who did the delivery work from other supplier) had already stopped working because of the CNY. So my ordered was delayed. I had to wait after the CNY of which, is not 2, 3 days... but 1 week.
5. The shop reopened on 2nd February, I went to check out again on 3rd Feb... Oh... the supplier there said haven't started work yet... or something happened... Gotta wait...
6. One more week over, think about Friday, the 13th, finally I had gotten the SNAS. So next thing is to go Elyn house to install.
7. In the end, we fixed a day on 20th Feb, Friday to go to her house to do the installation. And also, I expected they would gimme a "surprise Birthday" celebration! Haha... Indeed, the surprise came on...
8. the morning of 20th Feb, received a message from Phyllis that Elyn was warded into hospital, waiting for giving birth to the cute Dora. Indeed a surpirse...
9. That Friday night, after work, went to hospital to see Daddee & Mami. Mami was waiting for giving birth. In the end, we didn't have time to go to her house to install the antivirus software...
10. Mami only out of hospital on 23th, Monday. But their baby Dora had to stayed in the hospital for few days because of the skin colour stuff... Wanted to go to Elyn house to install the thing again, eventually, we fixed on 27th, Friday. It was the day that the baby came home too...
11. Finally, was able to install the thing into Elyn's laptop successfully! And the story didn't stop here...
The version of the antivirus software I bought allowed for 3 users' installation. I thought Daddee and Mami got 2 computers to install, but realized that they only needed 1 account, another computer could not access to Internet connection... Initially, I didn't want to install antivirus software in my computer this time round, but since I got extra users' account, so I thought of installig it.
THE NEXT DAY -- 28th February, Saturday.
12. Insert the installation CD into my office computer only to realize that the DVD-rom had problem.
13. Test the DVD-rom with another computer to confirm that it did not function already.
14. Went to Cytech to buy for a new DVD-writer. The boss asked me whether I want IDE or SATA. My old computer can only use IDE and of which... NO STOCK!
15. Suddenly remembered that my home PC supports SATA, went home and check.
16. Took out the DVD-writer from home PC, because it is IDE, I could use it for my office PC.
17. Went to office to install the IDE DVD-writer. Successful.
18. Inserted the installation CD and successful installed the antivirus software.
NOW... the biggest hit of the story is here...
19. The software now asked for activation, which required Internet connection. (anger not yet bursted)
20. Realised that I didn't connect the modem. So I did it and turned on the modem and tried again... then that software had a message saying that "failed to connect to Internet, make sure that I had connect to the Internet and try again." And it automatically launched Internet Explorer with a link that is... erm... broken... (anger not yet bursted)
21. Restarted and tried again. Failed again... Thought that something was not right already. (anger not yet bursted)
22. Tried go to Symantec main site itself, but received message "Page Load Error". Tried many times and still gotten the same thing. So I concluded that, the site must be busy. Let me wait for Monday to try again. So I went about doing my other work. (not yet)
23. After work, went to the shop again to buy a SATA DVD-driver for my home PC. The moment I got there, they were shutting down the door already... What a luck... (not yet)
24. Sunday went to Singapore... another side story here... so on Monday, 2nd March, i.e. yesterday, came to office and tried the activation again... SAME THING. (not yet)
25. Went to the main site again, SAME THING. So I googled about "Symantec site down" and... found news saying that someone, a hacker spot a bug or something in Symantec site, and the Symantec company shut down the whole Symantec site! Even until now! Yes... I just tried again and still "Page Load Error". Other sites work perfectly fine one lor...
This is one of the links to the news, from networkworld.com.
And for now... I couldn't stop the negative thoughts already... It is not that you can see an antivirus software company's web site got pulled down everyday of your life one lor... And even until now, I still couldn't activate my account. And the interesting story here is, on Friday, installed on Elyn's laptop it was perfectly successful! But THE NEXT DAY, (now you know why I capitalised these 3 words previously), when it was my turn to install for myself. I could not have it done perfectly! And to think that before installation, I gotta change a DVD-driver first! And I am not done yet with this story... now the Symantec site still down and..
26. 2nd March, went to buy the SATA, LG 22X DVD writer and installed it on my home PC. But kind of "not compatible", and in fact, the motherboard of the PC has already got problem itself... and that, was another story about that home PC of mine...
Now... finally... "Am I happy?" I should be... And that's another story too... Ahaha... Got such interesting source of story to tell, should I not be happy? And that just reminded me... my lovely Jesus had told me in person, "I only want you to be happy..." So I am!
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