Rebate and gone

Last Friday, I went to get the Rebate for my bike and car.
Guess what? All the money gone in the same afternoon.

But it is for a good cause. Upgrading my car's audio system. Bought a new stereo system, Pioneer = CD(mp3 and wma) and tuner At the same time change the speakers. Cause my old speakers are twisted by the sun.

But after a week ++ listening to it, I found out that I need to put a set of speakers in front. Not actually need but you get what I mean. Maybe a set of tweeters.

Kiss- Because I am a Girl (18SX)

This is a very good song. First heard the song when I was in College.
Just watch the video below and it may bring tears to your eyes.



Here is the English translation of the lyrics:

I just can't understand the ways
Of all the men and their mistakes
You give them all your heart
And then they rip it all away

You told me how much you loved me
And how our love was meant to be
And I believed in you
I thought that you would set me free

(REFRAIN):
You should've just told me the truth
That I wasn't the girl for you
Still, I didn't have a clue
So my heart depended on you, whoa

(CHORUS):
Although I'll say I hate you now
Though I'll shout and curse you out
I'll always have love for you
Because I am a girl

Been told a man will leave you cold
Get sick of you and bored
I know that it's no lie
I gave my all, still I just cry

Never again will I be fooled
To give my all when nothing's true
I won't be played again
But I will fall in love again

(REFRAIN)

(CHORUS)

I loved you so
Now you leave me in the cold
How could this be
I thought that you'd only love me

Into the night
I will pray that you're alright
You hurt me so
I just can't let you go

You took advantage of my willingness
To do anything for love
Now I'm the only one in pain
Will you please take it all away

Never thought being born a girl
How I can love you and be burned
And now I will build a wall
To never get torn again

(CHORUS) [2x]

Scandisk Error

Remember the day that I lost my partition while resizing my external HD?
I am able to recover it after trying a few recovery software.
One favourable review is by using Active Partition Recovery.

I have been able to get my partition back but there are a few files that are corrupted. Tried to scandisk but an error came out.

"Windows was unable to complete the disk check"

Damn it... Then I have to use chkdsk. Found a few errors and fixed it.
But still got problem. Right now I just leave it for a while. Until I have more time to backup my data and try repartition it again.

The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is New Volume.

WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

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CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
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Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.

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Damn the slow Web

These few days my internet sucks. Really damn slow. Don't really know what is the problem. Either the DNS server is acting up. But I'm using openDNS so I don't think that it is the problem. Anyway my downloading is fine. It is just the web surfing that is damn slow.

Here is the internet traffic report. Seems like the whole Asia is experiencing packet loss.

Region Current Index Avg. Response Time (ms) Avg. Packet Loss (%) Asia 59 373 21 % Australia 79 182 > 2 % Europe 76 228 6 % North America 88 114 5 % South America 87 122 0 %

And here is a more detailed report on the Asian router.

Router Location Current Index Response Time (ms) Packet Loss (%) misschaos.chaos-studio.com China (Shanghai) 29 204 62 ns2.rilinfo.net India (Bangalore) 70 294 0 gsrmum.vsnl.net.in India (Mumbai) 73 264 0 core-mgl.cbn.net.id Indonesia (Mangole) 78 215 0 router1.iust.ac.ir Iran (Tehran) 0 0 100 gi0-1.thr-001-core-1.ctel.ir Iran (Tehran) 72 279 0 nat.mindu.co.il Israel (Tel Aviv) 77 223 0 cs1mr1.comsourceone.com Japan (Tokyo) 0 0 100 itr-test.isp.qa Qatar (Doha) 74 257 0 gateway.ix.singtel.com Singapore 79 202 0 tpnoc1-osr-transit.ix.giga.net.tw Taiwan 83 170 0

Frogs for lunch

Yesterday had frogs for lunch. :p Tasted quite sweet, but I dont know whether it is because of the herbs that are cooked with it or the taste itself. The Chinese called it the Water Chicken(水鸡) because it tasted like chicken. But for me the texture is more to fish than to red meat.


And it is quite expensive too. RM 30.00 per Kg.

Nabau

Sarawak has just recently recovered from a major flood. You can click on links from my friend to see the flood in Sibu by Wen and Tsai.

Last week there was a news about a huge snake reported in Utusan Borneo and some Chinese newspapers.

The locals here called it Nabau. It is a mythical creature. Something like the Loch Ness monster.

Nabau is giant snake according to the Iban folklore.
It is huge and may have a goatee.
Some may even have legs.

Some say that if you swim under the Nabau, you will never be bitten by any other snakes because you swam under the King of Snakes.


This picture is labeled as Dipa. Not sure what it means.
Anyone?

Anyway here is a blog about someone who knows more about the origin of the pciture. There is a bigger picture there.





This is labeled as Dipa Btg Igan. To me it doesn't seem to be like a snake.
Maybe photoshoped? Tell me what you think..

Car trouble

Another RM111 gone yesterday....

Suddenly cant switch into gear 1 in my Waja. Actually cant even shift into other gears at all. Seems that the gear is stuck. Luckily the car behind me at the traffic light did not press their horn. They know that I have car trouble since I switched on my emergency light. At the traffic light they avoided to wait behind me. hahaha...
Tried to shift the gear a few more times and finally can get the car to move. So I drive slowly to the workshop.

Finally I arrive at the workshop and guess what? The car can't move anymore. hahaha.
Why do I laugh? Cause the car was stuck at the entrance and like it or not, they have to fix my car first. If not cars won't be able to get in or out of the workshop.

Anyway I guess it was a problem with the clutch since I am unable to shift my gears.
Even when I had fully press down the clutch, the cars still tried to move.

They finish fixing my car at around 4 pm. Sigh.. No time to rest. Morning have to work. Then help a friend set up his streamyx. Then fix car. Then badminton.

System restore failed

Had this problem with my system restore after I restore it as a result of my deleting the user account on my pc last time.



System Restore is not able to create a restore point.
Please restart the computer, and then run System Restore again.

What am I going to do?
Here is a tip from the net. Want to try it later.


statemgr MUST be enabled in msconfig for system restore to
work.

To check:
Start>Run>(type) msconfig>Startup Tab>make sure statemgr is check>OK>restart if prompted to.

Then try this if it is still not working.

1. Restart your computer in Safe or DOS Mode.
2. Click Start, point to Search, and then click For Files or Folders.
3. In the Named box, type wininit.ini.
4. In the Look in box, click Local hard drives, and then click Find Now.
5. Right-click the Wininit.ini file, click Rename, type wininit.xxx, and then click OK.
6. Close the Find Files window, and then run System Restore again.
7. If the previous steps do not resolve the problem, run the following command to repair the damaged portions of your registry:
Start>Run>(type) scanreg /fix


UPDATED!!
I cant even do scandisk! I tried to scandisk in the tools tab.
Have to use the DOS based CHKDSK.
And found quite a lot of errors.
Fixed it and hope it will be ok

Recovering from a Partition Resize

Damn it!!! Just now was trying to resize my partition on my external hardisk. Suddenly my pc went kaput and now my hardisk is unformatted!!!!
Was using EASEUS Partition Manager. Trying to resize the partition. Then create a new one. 300 GB is too big for one partition.


How am I going to recover the data????
I have lots of file in my HD! :(
My ebooks, mv, animes, software, songs.. Aargh!!!!