Computer one day, internet the next

yea. thats right. first it was my computer who decided to be a bitch with me, the next day it was the entire internet that was down since about 6ish when i got home and was out until about 1:30 in the morning. thats more than 6 hours that the internet was down. i finally figured out what it was that was going wrong with my PC. i think it had something to do with the digital audio cable being connected the wrong way around or something. but anyways, thats all fixed now. But honestly, something is seriously wrong here. it is Computer one day, and when i finally fix it and look forward to finally getting everything up and running, the internet crashes out. BLODDY GREAT!!! when will everything sort itself out and stop going wrong?? see thats the problem in this world today. when humans started off, it was called the stone age. then there was the iron age and so on and so forth. well, i reckon today's age should be called the disposable age. everything is always breaking down. everything is always changing at such a rapid speed that what you do have at the moment will become obsolete is a few years. if you were to go out and buy a very expensive piece of equipment, a few years down the line, that same piece of equipment will be the middle of the range stuff.... everything is always depreciating. what has happened to this world of ours??

Computer Problems

today was a great day for me. i went out with my mates and played Counter Strike for about 3 hours straight without even realising it. Man that game is addictive. anyways, i had a lot of fun toDAY as my girl also came back to auckland. however since i got home, everything has been going horribly wrong for me. i thought it would be peaceful and i can finally relax. But no. no rest for me... NEVER!! i got home and it was straight to helping out with the chores. didnt even have time to take my shoes off. finally, relaxed a bit and made a mistake of wanting to do some more work on my computer. BAD IDEA!!! i wanted to attach a Slave drive to my PC and get 2 CD drives working. i had to fix a cable for that. ok, so i turned my computer off and made the necessary attachements after hours of fiddling with the CD drive IDE cable. turn the switch on GUESS WHAT??? the darn thing decides to play up. nothing works. the monitor wouldnt come on. the drive wouldnt boot and it kept beeping. oh great. i stuffed this up. and all this was happening while i was talking to my girl on the phone. she has also come down with the flu. i think i might have caught it from her the last time i saw her. Dont ask how. anyways, she was really sick and was hardly in the mood to talk and my computer not working wasnt exactly helping. so after about an hour of trying to multitask, i gave up on my PC and properly started to talk to her. but i think the combination of her beeing peeved at me and being sick meant that it didnt last as long as i had hoped she would. she hung up after another hour or so leaving me holding the phone hoping she would say what it was that i wanted to hear. but that didnt happen. so, i tried to sleep after that. but i was so angry at my pc. coz it was all the stupid PCs fault, if it had worked when i commanded it to work, me and her would still have been talking. so i got out of my bed in a bit of anger and took it out on my PC. disconnected EVERYTHING inside and outside and started freash. i even unscrewed the motherboard and pulled it out. i didnt go as far as removing the processor though. i was very tempted to do that but i had to keep some control. so i started to put the whole thing back together piece by piece and testing it after each new piece was added. right now i got only 1 hard drive and 1 CDRW working along with the floppy drive. good thing is i got holidays at the moment. not the best time for my PC to mess around with me. coz i got all the time in the world to show it whos the boss around here. Moral of the story: if something gets so complicated that nothing seems to work or make sense. stop, pull every little piece of it apart and start again from scratch. i meanwhile have gotta now think up of how i am gonna make it up to my gal. adios. till next time.

End of the free txting weekend era

It seems like free txting weekends from Vodafone has always been there. Back when it started in june of 2005 in a little country of ours called new zealand, it was great. i remember waking up on the first saturday of it thinking wow, this is so great. i can txt all i want to my mates for FREE!!!! i took a look at my phone, (this is back when i used to have my old nokia 3310) and what do i see?? my inbox is full.... it was a message that said forward this to 50 people and recieve $10. i thought wow.... 10 bucks.... cool. so i forwarded it much to my stupidity and found that i didnt get 10 bucks... lol. that was such a pain in the ass spam that it even made it onto the 6pm news. lol. over time, free txting has been a major part of any vodafone customer's life. it was that extra reason you could look forward to the weekend. when it started, everyone was suddenly busy with their mobiles all weekend. it was just too popular. so rather than the scheduled finish of it at the end of 2005, they extended it until june this year. but like all good things, free txting weekend must also come to an end. this is the last day of free txt weekend. its less than 1 hour left and counting down. its a bit of a sad day for me today. firstly, my girl has gone away for 3 days. somewhere where there is no internet and cellphone reception. 3 DAYS!!! i have talked to her everyday since we met. secondly, a good friend of mine left for US today. she is gonna be gone for 3 weeks. shes gonna come back when uni starts. over and on top of that, i have been stuck indoors all weekend. i caught the flu. i missed auto salon thanks to the stupid flu. that pic below best describes how i felt over the weekend.

Semester Break

FINALLY!!!!! its about time. I have been waiting for this for about 6 months now and its finally here. The semester break has finally started. I had my last exam yesterday. Computer programming. It didnt go as good as i hoped that it would. Damm Slava changed the layout of the first part. Now when it came to studies for the exam, like any other normal person the only place i looked to see what the exam was gonna be like was the previous years' papers. And what does Slava go do?? He changes the layout of the first part. Oh well.... sh*t happens. Nothing i can do about it. But now that exams have finished, i do not want to think about them at all. So whats the first thing i go do when i finish my exam? I go meet my girl for a couple of hours and then when she left, it was back to vesbar and have a few drinks. good thing was, before i left, i told my mate dion (who was also gonna be at vesbar) to buy me one of those drink cards. there was a special on yesterday, 5 drinks for $10. So anyways, i come back and he gives me the card. its been bloody freezing in Auckland lately and last night was no exception. So anyways, i had a few Bourbon and Colas. I learned an important lesson last night. I do not have any sort of a strong alcohol tolerence. i could not have the five that i had paid for. i had 3 and by that time, it was time for me to go home. But mind you, 3 ina matter of about 1 hour 30 mins was a bit too much for me. my head was swimming and yea.... i still managed to get home in one piece and still convince my parents that i was not drunk. but now i am really starting to feel the effects of it. i have a feeling that i am gonna come down with a cold by the end of today. Got heaps of plans for the holidays. firstly there is the Auto Salon. its happening this weekend at Auckland Showgrounds in greenlane. I really wanna go and i even asked my mates to come along. but mysteriously, they forgot and conviniently planned a soccer game on that day. Oh well, thats their problem. but i am definately gonna see to it that i go to Auto Salon. On another note, Russell Peters is coming to New Zealand. his one show only at auckland town hall has already sold out. i got my ticket so i am DEFINATELY going to that. for those of you who dont know who russell peters is, he is a brilliant comedian. check out his website: www.russellpeters.com you will find more information about him there.

Friends

Friends. We all have them. They are always with us. They are someone we can always count on to be there when we need them. We often socialize with them. Share secrets with them and in general, have a great time with them. Over the years, you tend to make a lot of Friends. The longer you stay in a place, the more people you get to know, the more friends you have. Then when you change to a new place, you start all over again. You find a new group of people and make a new set of friends.

When I was in 7th form at high school, I had a lot of people that I socialized with. I did go to the same high school for 5 years after all. So I knew a lot of people. Quite a lot of them, I considered as my friends. I would socialize with them all the time. Then school ended. Everybody separated and went their own ways. Just before going, there was this atmosphere at school. Everyone signing everyone else's school shirt and the yearbook. Some of the stuff written in it were things like gonna miss you heaps and keep in touch. Suddenly, a lot of people became your best mates.

But once uni started, its all over. No one knows anyone else anymore. Everyone is busy with their own thing to even bother to talk to you. You take a couple of mates with you. Still bother to keep in touch with these "chosen few". But the rest fade out real quick. Even if you run into them in the street, you have a quick look followed by the raise the eyebrows thing. You acknowledge that they are there and move on and they vanish. Vanish to be seen again another day..... or not.

The more I think about it, the more it seems worthless. But then again, I guess high school is like that. You take about 2500 teenagers and stick them together for a long time in a confined space, you have no choice but to be friendly with them. Its because everybody is always around everybody else. Personal space is out the window. But once you are freed from that space, these formalities or illusions of friendship is no longer necessary. Thats why people tend to fade away real quick. Its because there is no point maintaining an illusion for longer than the necessary period of time. you move on to uni and make a whole new bunch of friends. And the cycle starts all over again.