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I’ve been thinking about having my hair cut since last month but never did anything about it. When i was at Chenyi’s place the other day, i let her cut and dye my hair.

Back view:

I told her to cut only 2 cms but she cut about 10 cms. :faint: My hair is now reddish brown. Chenyi did only a few streaks here and there (she wanted to do highlights) but since my hair was brown, the red color blended well with it. My hair looks dark brown when i’m indoors. You can only see the red color well when i’m outdoors.
I need to go look for my old photos. I used to have red highlights (and extremely short hair!) back when i was 16 years old. I love red. :flowers: I’ll probably not have my hair cut again this soon. I’m gonna keep it long but not too long . The longest my hair has ever been was back when i was 12. My hair was down to my butt. I don’t plan to keep it that long again.
When i returned home yesterday, my mum asked me who cut & dyed my hair. When i told her that it was a 16 years old gal who did it, she was like ‘ you’re kidding!’ .

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I removed the other pic because I found people hotlinking to it.
I’ve been playing around on this website and made a few avatars just for fun. :laughing:
Here’s one I made:

I just returned home. I haven’t gone clubbing since last year and yesterday I went clubbing with some friends in Grand Baie. When i woke up at 9am, I heard about the explosion which had happened in Grand Baie at 01:45 . The building where the explosion happened is Grand Baie Store ( a two-storey building housing restaurants, bars and shops) .

My friends and I were in front of a night club at 01:30 and went inside minutes later. We didn’t hear the explosion because of the loud music.

According to the local news,two people died and 15 were injured. Those two persons who died are Jean-Francois Lew and Emmy Ng. They are 25 & 24 years old respectively and were engaged. So young… !
The buildings found near Grand Baie Store were also damaged.
There are a lot of rumours going around about the explosion. Some people are even saying that it was a bomb which caused the explosion. It seems quite unlikely. We’ve never had terrorists attacks in Mauritius.
Other people suspect that the blast has been caused by the explosion of gas cylinders. In fact, the government are hoping that it is something like that and not a deliberate explosion.
We will know the outcome of the investigation in a few days.

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我们高兴地通知您，经审核您的申请材料,我校决定录取您作为本科生到我校 国际文化交流 学院学习汉语言专
业，自2004年09月01日 起至2008年07月15日止。授课语言为汉语。
根据国家留学 基金管理委员会的通知， 您在中国学习期间的经费方法为金额奖学金(学费，住宿费,医疗费,教材费,生活费）…….

Yesterday, I got my final documents for university. I’ll be attending Tongji University in Shanghai.
I wasn’t too happy when i read my letter of acceptance. I was hoping that I’d get Beijing Language and Culture University because I’d rather attend a small university where there are loads of foreigners and where I’m likely to adapt quickly. TongJi University is a much bigger university where they offer many other courses. I hope that I’ll like it there. I need to ask the other scholarship students where they’ll be going. They will be studying other subjects, Medicine,Fine Arts etc and all i know is that they have been admitted to other universities.
In case you don’t understand the chinese characters above, I’ll explain. I’ve been admitted to Tongji University in Shanghai as an undergraduate and I’ll be studying there for a period of 4 years (from September 2004 up to July 2008) . My chosen course of study is the Chinese language and my classes will be in Mandarin.(In some universities, they teach in both English and Mandarin. )
I got a full scholarship (study expenses,accommodation,medical expenses,teaching materials,living expenses) for the duration of my study there.
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My friend Sky said that I’d make his dream come true if I agreed to meet his friend today and have my pic taken with her. :confusion:
Sky thinks that his friend, Daphne and I have many things in common and that’s why he wanted us to meet. Anyway to please Sky, the pic was taken.

Daphne and me.

Someone told me that when he looks at this pic, he wants to pinch my cheeks. Hands off. Do not touch my cheeks. :laugh:
I’m going through ‘My Pictures’ folder. I get the feeling that I look different in all my photos. :confusion: Strange. ah well..

Btw, I’ve fixed the coding for this layout. It should now look the same in the different browsers. I won’t be keeping this layout for long anyway. It’s just a simple one I threw together. The domain had just propagated to the host servers and I wanted to blog . For me, blog entries are more important than the layout. -shrugs-

The sorting hat says that I belong in Gryffindor!

Said Gryffindor, "We’ll teach all those with brave deeds to their name."
Students of Gryffindor are typically brave, daring, and chivalrous.
Famous members include Harry, Ron, Hermione, Albus Dumbledore (head of Hogwarts), and Minerva McGonagall (head of Gryffindor).

Take the most scientific Harry Potter
Quiz ever created.
Get Sorted Now!

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I got this from Wendy’s blog. I just read in Weekend scope, a local magazine that Harry Potter and The POA will finally be out in Mauritius. Should be in a few days. Well, it’s about time. We always get movies about one month after they are out.
I have alreay read some feedback concerning this movie but I want to see it myself.

I’m really tired. Sitting in front of the computer screen all day at work really is tiring. I can’t even go online. They called me from the office yesterday and asked me if I’d like to come again next week for a slightly different kind of job but I said No. I’m really too tired and next week, maybe I will hear from Mrs Zhu concerning university. I may have stuffs to do, more documents to send,more documents to sign. I may not have time to work next week.
I have asked the other Scholarship students. They too haven’t heard from Mrs Zhu yet. I’m getting impatient. I really want to leave Mauritius. I’m sick of being stuck here.

Only 4 more days and then I can move my files to my other website. I know that my website has been down several times but there’s nothing i can do about it. Crappy host. 4 more days and then I’ll move.

I have just checked my Rastimer logs .80hrs internet in 20 days. :faint: I wasn’t even at home everyday so it’s about 80 hours in 16 days. That’s an average of 5 hours per day. I really need to avoid going online everyday. I’m on dial up for the time being. It’s funny how time flies when I’m online. I guess I’ll just try to busy myself until I leave Mauritius.
If i go online, it will be only for about 10 minutes per day ,at least until the 21st of this month.
Compared to other countries ADSL is still a bit expensive here. I heard that internet connection is very cheap in China.

I’ll be watching 粉红女郎 (Fen hong nu lang) and 还珠格格3 (Huan Zhu Ge Ge 3). About 50 episodes in all. They ought to keep me busy for a while.
I also need to work on a new website layout. I was too lazy to do a ‘proper’ one for sunnylynn.com . I keep telling myself that i will do it when i have time. Enough procrastinating. I will work on one soon,very soon.

My other domain www.a-l-i-n-e.com has already propagated to the new servers. Thanks to James for hosting me.
I will move my blog to www.a-l-i-n-e.com when i have time and use www.sunnylynn.com as a parked domain. This way people can access my website by going to any of those two domains.
www.sunnylynn.com will not work for one day when i modify the nameservers information in my sunnylynn.com domain management page. I still don’t know when I’ll be doing all this. I’ll keep everyone updated about this.

The other day, Chen yi was playing with a hula hoop at Deejay and Laura’s place. I was busy looking at the music videos on Fen’s hard disk so I just watched her for a few minutes and took a few pics. Looks like fun. :laugh:

After having removed the scardstp.dll file from my system 32 folder and doing a full scan of my drives yesterday, I was relieved but still a bit worried. I’m aware that i have to edit my registry and delete the values added by Backdoor.Coreflood. I didn’t do it yesterday. I was too tired. I finally got around to doing it today.
Before doing anything to my registry I decided to check the Backdoor.Coreflood information page at Symantec Security Response again. I have checked that page so many times in the past few days but i checked the page again nevertheless just to see if i had somehow missed something. To my surprise,i saw that the technical information and removal instructions had been updated on the 8th, i.e yesterday. It was not updated yesterday when I had checked that info page. :confusion: Then again, it is the Symantec United States website. Mauritius is about 8 hrs or more ahead. ( time zone differences)

I notice that they modified step 4:
4. Run a full system scan.
If any files are detected as infected with Backdoor.Coreflood, write down the full path to and the file name of the infected file or files.
Important: Do not skip this step. You will need the file names later in the removal.
Click Delete.

If your Symantec antivirus product reports that it cannot delete an infected file, proceed to section 5 (modifying the registry), then restart the computer and manually delete the file.

< -- This part has been added.

I did step 5 today, Reversing the Changes Made to the Registry.
5. Click Start > Run. Type regedit ,then click OK.

Navigate to the key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run
In the right pane, delete any value that refers to any files that were detected as Backdoor.Coreflood.

< -- This was in the original Backdoor.Coreflood page. In fact, it was the only thing they said to delete in the registry. Since i did not have any registry entries which was pointing to the dll file, I was quite a loss of what to do the other day.

The updated part:

Note: All the variants do not add an entry to this key.
Navigate to and select the key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Classes/CLSID
Click Edit > Find.
In the “Find what” box, type the file name of the .dll file that was detected as Backdoor.Coreflood in section 4.
If you find an entry of the form:
“(Default)”=”%System%/< detected file name >.dll in the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Classes/CLSID/{< random clsid >}/InProcServer32 then write down the < random clsid > value >
Then, in the left pane, delete the subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Classes/CLSID/{< random clsid >}
Next, click Edit > Find to repeat the search, as there may be more than one such key. Delete any that are found.

I found 05DCA568-15BF-76C1-DED2-FC2A429F800D on my first search
and
52F82601-784E-5F74-268B-21BF713CF7AA1BF713CF7AA on my second search.
I deleted them promptly.

I did the Search again and in ComDlg32/OpenSave/MRU/*, I found the value i with path referring to that scardstp.dll file. I deleted that registry entry i and did another search. This time in ComDlg32/OpenSave/MRU/dll, i saw another registry entry with path to scardstp.dll I deleted this one too. There was nothing mentioned about these two in the information page but I’m confident i did the right thing. -crossed fingers-

Navigate to and delete the key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/
Explorer/Browser Helper Objects/{< random clsid >}
where {< random clsid >} matches one of the values found and deleted in the previous searches.

In my case, it was
52F82601-784E-5F74-268B-21BF713CF7AA1BF713CF7AA
.

Navigate to and delete the key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/
Explorer/ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers/< detected file name >
Note: < detected file name > should match the name of the infected dll file.

Mine was scardstp.dll so i deleted
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/
Explorer/ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers/scardstp

Exit the Registry Editor.
Restart the computer.

If you could not delete any files in section 4, use Windows Explorer to locate and delete them.

< -Since I had already deleted the dll file in system 32, I did not have to do this again.

Now the next thing I’m gonna do is download ZoneAlarm. In the free version i get the option of trying ZoneAlarm Pro for 15 days and then switching to the free version after those 15 days trial. Maybe I’ll keep on using ZoneAlarm Pro. I really need a good firewall. My brother David and my friend James recommended ZoneAlarm.

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