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Lately, I’ve been sleeping in the afternoon and then I wake up at night to start writing until it’s time to get ready to go to class. It’s too noisy during the day. Right now, it’s almost 4 a.m and even if I’m tired, it feels good working when it’s so quiet. There’s one week left until thesis submission deadline (which can be extended a couple more days apparently but I’m not counting on it) and I’m wondering if I’ll be able to make it. People who know me keep telling me that I can do it but lately, I’ve been losing faith in myself. Argh.
Back to my thesis now…and my book. I have an exam in a couple of hours.

Right now, the most important thing to me is probably my thesis. The deadline for the submission of the first draft is on the 20th. I’ll be barely sleeping this week. Argh
I almost freaked out yesterday (or was it the day before? The lack of sleep is getting to me. ) when I tried to switch on my computer (I have a desktop.) only to see a black screen. I tried again to no avail. I put off the power supply, remove the cables, plug them back and tried to switch on my computer again. This time the screen was black with a couple of weird colorful circles and words. According to the message on the screen, my computer hard disk wasn’t being detected. I panicked. It’s been almost 4 years since I have this computer and I didn’t have any major problems with it.
I was like.. Please don’t die on me now. Come on. A couple more months. Let me finish my thesis. I don’t have a backup. Please.
In my panicked state, I phoned Desmond and told him to come over. Meanwhile, I opened the casing and the amount of dust inside made me sneeze. Atchoum. Let’s see. The last time I opened the casing was 2 years ago when I connected a friend’s hard disk to mine.
hmm . Maybe it’s the dust which is causing this problem, I told myself.
I started cleaning but it took me a long time because I couldn’t find my computer brush. By the time Desmond came over, I was only 1/3 done. He helped me with the rest by.. using my hairdryer ! (using the cold air option of course) I didn’t think of doing that.
It seems that the problem was really because of all the dust because after cleaning, my computer was running normally once again. The first thing I did after that was to backup my works on my external hard disk. I told Desmond that I’ll probably kill myself if I lost the content of my hard disk. I exaggerated of course. I won’t kill myself over such a matter but I’ll get really depressed. Among the material things important to me, my computer (or rather, the hard disk and its content) is in the top 5. hehe.
As soon as I have some free time, I’ll start doing a backup of my current hard disk. Hmm maybe I should do 2 backups.
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Now, someone please enlighten me. Hard disk or Hardisk?
I’m asking because I’ve seen people write it both ways. Google. You’ll see.
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I’ve been thinking this since last year; I should get a new camera!
I have been using my Canon IXUS 400 since a few years now. Since last year, I’ve had a few problems but mostly card problems so I just got a new card.
Lately, my camera has been very slow. Is it because of the cold? It’s been so cold and rainy lately. After I press the power button, it takes around 30 seconds for anything to happen.
Today, I wanted to transfer the pics taken during the last few days and I realize that all pics taken during the last two months have disappeared from my camera card.

The title is self-explanatory.

Why?
Because..
My wisdom teeth are growing(finally!) and I’m in pain. Somehow, my ears also hurt.
I have to clear my external hardrive of all the things in it. I’ll probably need around 25 dvds for that and it will take me a few days to finish burning the dvds.
I have to start planning my summer holidays. To go to SG & Malaysia or not? I don’t like the idea of having to travel from Shanghai to Singapore all alone.
And many other things which seem unimportant to other people but which are giving me a headache right now… I’m particularly moody at this time of the month.

Note: I originally wrote ‘No updates for two weeks’ yesterday but I changed the title this morning. 2 weeks sounds like too much. Still, life has seemed pretty boring recently and I don’t have much to write about.