Tuesday, October 28, 2003
sorry about that extremely stinted blog yesterday, i was really in no frame of mind to provide more information than that. i was depressed but couldn't cry, in pain but the pricks didn't mean anything. it might sound like an exaggeration, but it was really abysmal, and not a pleasant experience.
anyway, the story is...what's new...computer problems again. see, my comp hung for no reason and when i tried to restart it i was told a registry file was either missing or corrupt, and i needed the original bootup cdrom to fix the problem. not a big issue, just get the cd and reboot the comp. 2 complications: i dídn't have the cd, and i don't have a cdrom drive. my comp has an external cdrom drive and the guy who sold it to me couldn't find it so he didn't pass it to me when i got the comp (he's still looking for it, hopefully really hard right now!). but yeah...so the other thing i could do is look for someone else with an external cdrom drive, and hope that works immediately when plugged in (not a 100% guarantee, but not entirely hopeless too), so i found someone else with an external cd rom drive, but in the meantime...these 3 computer-savvy (or supposedly) guys on my floor were trying to do all sorts of things with it, force it into ms-dos, using floppies instead, what not...and in the middle of that process, suddenly the comp just refused to cooperate. it would turn on, beep 4 times, then turn itself back off. so we all thought the hard disk was dead, and there was nothing anyone else could do. now this really distressed me, coz it's the 2nd comp in this semester to give me that scare...well, couldn't do anything, so i went to bed, praying really hard all the time. in fact, i was praying all through the night (couldn't really sleep well as you can imagine), and i got up this morning still praying and praying. was doing qt, when it struck me...my comp had been unplugged from the charger for quite some time, maybe it was just the battery dying, and not the hard disk, so i plugged it in to see, and thank God! i was right...so now i still have the problem of the missing registry files, but at least that's something i can work on. i was so grateful that God had answered my prayer (somewhat) that i was literally kneeling down, thanking him. think if my roommate had woken up at that time she would have been in shock. but yeah, pls pray that i'll get this sorted out soon, that i'll find a cdrom drive that works, or that the guy who sold me the comp will find his (pray that he'll get on it! have a feeling he isn't trying very hard).
but other than that, yesterday was a pretty good day. got back my english midterm, got an A, yay! without the minus this time...got back my psych midterm today, i got 89/100, which is one mark short of an A, so i'll have to do really well for the final to pull an A off, but it's doable. and got back my shakespeare paper today as well, got a B (kinda expected it, didn't have time to see the reader for him to check my paper before turning it in), but there's one more due and the final's worth a lot more, so if i try really hard i could still manage an A.
but all that aside, yesterday i had navigators small group...after the meeting was over, i was asking my roommate to take a picture of the rest of the girls in the group, when suddenly the door burst open and the guys (who had been having small group meeting upstairs) came in singing "a very happy unbirthday, to you, to you!" to me (cf my alice in wonderland entry two days ago), and you can imagine...i was totally confused, and in shock. even more so, when they hauled out this chocolate cake. turns out they decided to celebrate my birthday (very very belatedly!) even though it was over because they didn't get the chance to do it on the actual day. don't ask...i'm still puzzled as to what inspired it, but it was truly touching. there were so many people in my room eating cake it was funny. think my floormates must have been thoroughly confused and thinking, "how many birthdays a year does this girl have?"...but yeah, thank God for small blessings.
well, off to study now, hope i can get my comp fixed soon...pls pls pray! would really appreciate all the divine help i can get.
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anyway, the story is...what's new...computer problems again. see, my comp hung for no reason and when i tried to restart it i was told a registry file was either missing or corrupt, and i needed the original bootup cdrom to fix the problem. not a big issue, just get the cd and reboot the comp. 2 complications: i dídn't have the cd, and i don't have a cdrom drive. my comp has an external cdrom drive and the guy who sold it to me couldn't find it so he didn't pass it to me when i got the comp (he's still looking for it, hopefully really hard right now!). but yeah...so the other thing i could do is look for someone else with an external cdrom drive, and hope that works immediately when plugged in (not a 100% guarantee, but not entirely hopeless too), so i found someone else with an external cd rom drive, but in the meantime...these 3 computer-savvy (or supposedly) guys on my floor were trying to do all sorts of things with it, force it into ms-dos, using floppies instead, what not...and in the middle of that process, suddenly the comp just refused to cooperate. it would turn on, beep 4 times, then turn itself back off. so we all thought the hard disk was dead, and there was nothing anyone else could do. now this really distressed me, coz it's the 2nd comp in this semester to give me that scare...well, couldn't do anything, so i went to bed, praying really hard all the time. in fact, i was praying all through the night (couldn't really sleep well as you can imagine), and i got up this morning still praying and praying. was doing qt, when it struck me...my comp had been unplugged from the charger for quite some time, maybe it was just the battery dying, and not the hard disk, so i plugged it in to see, and thank God! i was right...so now i still have the problem of the missing registry files, but at least that's something i can work on. i was so grateful that God had answered my prayer (somewhat) that i was literally kneeling down, thanking him. think if my roommate had woken up at that time she would have been in shock. but yeah, pls pray that i'll get this sorted out soon, that i'll find a cdrom drive that works, or that the guy who sold me the comp will find his (pray that he'll get on it! have a feeling he isn't trying very hard).
but other than that, yesterday was a pretty good day. got back my english midterm, got an A, yay! without the minus this time...got back my psych midterm today, i got 89/100, which is one mark short of an A, so i'll have to do really well for the final to pull an A off, but it's doable. and got back my shakespeare paper today as well, got a B (kinda expected it, didn't have time to see the reader for him to check my paper before turning it in), but there's one more due and the final's worth a lot more, so if i try really hard i could still manage an A.
but all that aside, yesterday i had navigators small group...after the meeting was over, i was asking my roommate to take a picture of the rest of the girls in the group, when suddenly the door burst open and the guys (who had been having small group meeting upstairs) came in singing "a very happy unbirthday, to you, to you!" to me (cf my alice in wonderland entry two days ago), and you can imagine...i was totally confused, and in shock. even more so, when they hauled out this chocolate cake. turns out they decided to celebrate my birthday (very very belatedly!) even though it was over because they didn't get the chance to do it on the actual day. don't ask...i'm still puzzled as to what inspired it, but it was truly touching. there were so many people in my room eating cake it was funny. think my floormates must have been thoroughly confused and thinking, "how many birthdays a year does this girl have?"...but yeah, thank God for small blessings.
well, off to study now, hope i can get my comp fixed soon...pls pls pray! would really appreciate all the divine help i can get.
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