Stuff Dying

As the saying goes, bad things don't come to you alone.

First, it was my phone starting to show it's telltale time by giving me the 'Insert SIM card' message and kept barring me from using it. Gonna replace the phone this coming March.

Then, it was my PC telling me that my HDD (containing my song collections, PAIN) had corrupted files and directories. And running the CHKDSK had me unable to use the PC for a full 16 hours. Lost a few songs and files in the process, but fortunately I could get them back easily.

Next, the plastic placeholder for the motherboard's cooling fan broke again. Again as in, one of the clamping parts broke the last time and I had it held together with super glue. And now make that two clamping parts. Damn oxidising.

When it comes to electronical stuff, they seem to breakdown together in the same time on me. Blehh. Hopefully nothing else breaks this week.

Ennui at it's best

Life is at it's best when you don't feel like doing anything at all.

Well, at least I felt it that way for now. I had nothing better to do for the past 3 days except to help around the house a bit while some of my family went for a short trip, and lazing as usual. And as a bonus the house was more quiet that usual for the past 3 days. Mental peace.

Which led me to being uninspired and unmotivated, and can't think up of something to scribble, including today as well. Only scooped this up because I want to coax myself to sleep but have to get rid of the pre-slumber ennui clogging up within me.

So yeah.

And to think of it, Year of the Ox is coming over in a week's time, by which starting that time I'm gonna be out of this country for a week to meet my sister in Singapore.

......

Which also means a week without my PC, and my songs and Foobar2k 9.6.1 player with a new layout I configured myself to be more streamlined than the previous one I had. Rats. At the end of the Rat year.

On the bright side I get to see S'pore again, but being a hermit for one week on the not-so-bright side. Ah well, can't have everything in life.

What I find lacking and disturbing...

... maybe isn't that much to be significant, but it sure could've made my life less difficult if I don't lack of these little things.

Like, for instance :-

- the lack of HDD space in my PC (music and not porn, I will say it's porn when I say so)
- the lack of RAM in my PC (geez it's related to my PC again)
- the lack of stuff to do during the 3-week break (honestly there's almost nothing for me to do except spring-cleaning, bleh)
- the lack of material to scribble (which is the sole reason why I haven't been updating the blog for the past couple of days)
- and the lack of many more, that would've made my life less difficult (like money, money can be anything)

Though the lack of a love partner doesn't bug me much, to my chagrin it's just the people around me nagging about 'When you getting a GF' that adds up to a sum of annoyance. But this time that's not going to bother me as well, as I always have the best shield for all types of arrows - DIVINE GUIDANCE.



Pretty much what I got from the joss stick prediction I took from the Thien Hou temple, in the relationship section. Originally I had the intent to ask about my progress in my dropping-back studies (which was quite a decent reply - don't look back and keep moving forward, heh), but I scored an extra bonus for an extension in my single life on the same sheet of pink paper. Hurrah for the deities !!!

Of course, it doesn't work that way in this mostly-scientific-oriented world. But since there are people who even had blind faith in certain aspects (notably religious), so why not make use of it?

So at least I get to do more stuff that only a single can do a little more longer. Stuff like more gaming time, more freedom to look at the people around without having to suffer a glare of potential jealousy from my side, and - albeit requiring a thick face to do so due to my age but - at least I still can go around and receive some 'ang pau' (red packets for blessing in case you never heard of) around the place.

It isn't really that bad with what I'm lacking, except now that I'm a little hungry (early dining hours at 7pm causes me to kinda have the urge for supper), and maybe that now due to late sleeping hours I'm going to find myself having a lack of sleep for the next day. Guess that's really enough for me here.