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I’m still waiting for my friends to mail me the pics taken during the school trip. Meanwhile, let me introduce my little darling to everyone.

She is Sushi (or Susie,according to Aki but I don’t like the name Susie much), my puppy since almost a month now. Well,she’s not really only mine. She’s also Desmond’s and Aki’s puppy. We aren’t sure how old she is but according to the vet, she is around 2 months old now. As for her name ,Sushi, it took us a long time to decide on it. She almost became ‘Oreo’. We might change her name again because she seems to respond more when called Oie or Baka (my Jap friends call her like that sometimes because she does stupid things). Erm… we’ll see.
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I thought that my old Canon IXUS 400 would never work again. (ref:R.I.P my dear Canon IXUS 400 ) Not long after I wrote about my camera giving a ‘Memory card error’ and hence no longer working, I came across this blog entry about fixing the ‘Memory card error’ on Canon IXUS 400. Apparently, the problem could solved by opening the camera case and removing the internal battery for a while. According to the Canon website, the ‘Memory card error’ is quite common with the IXUS 400 and they offer free repair service for that kind of problem. The Canon repair shops in Shanghai aren’t near my university. I decided to try fixing the camera myself instead. I didn’t have a screwdriver small enough for the screws on the camera. I couldn’t find any in the supermarkets nearby so I finally bought one online yesterday and received it today.

What I did:
I removed the battery and the memory card from the camera. Then I removed the screws ( I removed 13 screws in all but maybe I removed 2 extra ones because I remember reading somewhere that there are 11 screws to be removed.) , the camera case and the internal battery. After around 30 mins, I put the internal battery back inside and put the camera case and screws back. Unfortunately, I accidentally knocked over one of the screws and it fell on the floor. I still haven’t found it yet but it doesn’t matter much right now because my camera is working again!!!!! I’ll look for the screw another time.

My bf had lent me his camera and I took a few pics when I was ‘working’ on my camera:

The front. The small round object next to it is the internal battery which was found in the bottom right corner of the camera.

The back.

Here’s everything; the screwdriver,camera, case and screws(not all of the same length) which I had arranged like that so that I would be able to remember which screw came from which part of the camera.
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I’m going on a school trip tomorrow in a few hours and I’ll be back on Friday evening. I wasn’t really looking forward to going on the trip because it won’t be fun going without a camera but now that my camera is working again, I’m really looking forward to it. I hope that I’ll manage to wake up in 5 hours. Off to bed now…