Good evening guys!
The past few days have been really crazy man.
What you are seeing right now is the first post after I had finally recovered my PC, but still unsure whether it is stable.
As you have saw from my last post the problems that I had, it actually resurfaced!
This time, much worse in fact.
In the beginning it was just another blue screen that came up when I booted the PC. However, the frequency of it popping up increases to the point where I cannot remain in the desktop for more than 1 minute before the blue screen came up again and auto restart my PC.
So having my data on another partition (I actually have 6 partition including the hard disk that I disconnect in my previous post, they are C,D,E,F and J), I pop in the Windows XP CD to reformat my drive and reinstall my OS.
To my surprise, there was a very strange problem that arises.
My other partition, the J partition, actually became UNPARTITIONED!
I was….huh?
Thinking it was nothing; I delete my C, formatted and installed my OS on it, thinking that it was some miscellaneous error that my J ended up like that and it would be solved once I got my OS up and running.
To my extreme horror, not only did it still remain un-partition, it was corrupted and unreadable once I tried to access it!
OH MY GOD!
My video project that I showed you guys a few posts ago was on that freaking partition!
In desperation, I tried everything I could to be able to access it, except formatting, but I still couldn’t access it!
DAMN!
Plus the blue screen still was hanging around, causing my PC to be extremely unstable.
I was like….what the hell……….this new graphics card sure cause some considerable damaged to my system man.
So with a heavy heart (because I just bought a new game, Neverwinter Nights Diamond which was an ass-kicking game) that I am unable to do my work or even play my new game, I went out with Eric Li for he invited me to a concert that his church, New Creation, has organized, that was, yesterday yeah.
I was late for I was doing one last format to solve the problem so we ended up missing the first part of the concert.
New Creation had invited Planet Shakers (some Christian rock band from
After the praises and worship, New Creation’s pastor Joseph Price came to share the Word.
My heart was empowered and comforted by the Lord right there again after the earlier desperation.
THANK YOU LORD! I can do all things through Christ who is in me!
So having a feeling that everything is solvable because God created everything and indeed He created everything, Eric Li and I left after the whole session ended. Well almost, LOL.
We decided to walk to my school, ITE College East for the concert was held at Expo’s The Max Pavilion.
We chatted and shared many things and catch up on each other’s life since the last time we met back in school.
Eric Li, I hope you will succeed one day man!
Was walking and thinking whether to enter the school and wondering whether the security guard will stop me because it was like….9.30pm when I saw a familiar face in front of my school’s bus stop.
It was PREETHI! My class advisor…eh should I say my colleague now lol.
3 of us chatted for awhile before I realized that I should really get going because it’s getting real late man.
I boarded the bus shortly after 11pm and thank God I manage to catch a bus home despite the time!
I met my junior from ITE, Boon Leng, who happened to be boarding the same bus with me as well.
During the journey home, God prompted me to ask him about my PC situation and I thank Him for putting me in this situation to ask an expert on hardware.
THANK YOU LORD!!!!
Boon Leng shared a lot of information with me and with those understanding, I woke up today and eagerly tried to solve my PC problems.
So well what do you know, after some tests today, my PC seems to have stopped popping up blue screens after I had followed what Boon Leng has suggested.
I do not know whether my PC is stable or when the blue screen will pop up again.
I can only take precautionary measures and pray to Him.
So Christians please pray for me too yeah.
I’m going to sleep now because I need to wake up early tomorrow for service, will post something again perhaps tomorrow.
Thanks for reading and God bless!
Good evening guys!
Man, you wouldn’t believe what happened this past 3 days.
When I got back from work on Tuesday night, my PC monitor wasn’t responding even though my CPU is running fine. As I was too tired after work, I thank God for the early rest and tuck myself into bed.
After work on Wednesday, I eagerly rush back to solve the mysterious problem that had befall on my computer.
After some assumptions, I think my graphics card is spoiled. Bingo. I’ve hit the jackpot after I borrowed another graphics card from Timothy to test my assumptions.
Thank God I manage to negotiate some cash from my mum to buy a new graphics card and also possibly a new power supply for my new power-hungry card.
This is the first time I manage to get such a huge amount from my mother, praise the Lord, possibly could be due to it being a loan therefore she gave it to me, LOL!
But I believe otherwise that God is good at opening up ways for us, yeah.
So happily to Sim Lim Square I went on early Thursday afternoon, after deciding on what card I wanted to buy the previous night.
After selecting the card, I asked whether a 300W is enough to power the new card but the technician said no and directed me to a wide range of power supply unit (PSU) at the other part of the shop. Oh yes in case you want some shops for recommendation at Sim Lim Square (SLS), go to the ones called Fuwell and
However…….I wasn’t sure whether the PSU is able to fit into my HP casing so I opted to buy just the card first and test whether it works on my 300W PSU.
Once I reached home….a weird problem came up.
After placing the new card into my CPU, everything is running but still no display on the monitor. So I thought maybe there wasn’t enough power so I call it a day and plan what PSU to buy today.
Man…it is so unbearable not to have a computer man. Especially for an IT guy like me…I feel a little….uneasy.
When I wanted to learn something, it’s on the computer.
When I wanted to watch some anime or shows…it’s on the computer.
When I wanted to chat with somebody…………………………it’s on the computer.
When I just want to read something……………………………………..IT’S ON THE COMPUTER!
DAMN!
I am so crippled without it!
Finally I turned to written materials.
The Bible and my church’s magazine gave my heart some peace and serenity at my dire situation, thank God for His Word man.
Thank God thank God thank God!
This few days without computer has re-instilled in me patience man. Patience and waiting upon Him.
Also my hand that has been seriously overworked for the past 1 and a half year finally has some decent rest, thank God it did not developed into Repetitive Strain Injury, a common problem among us armchair warriors LOL.
So finally came early Friday afternoon, which is today.
I went down to purchase my 480W power supply and came back quickly, wanting so much to use the PC again.
To my horror, the display didn’t show up again.
WHHHHHHHHHHHHY?!?
I called Timothy and he told me to bring the graphics card over to test on his computer which I did and we both found out, Fuwell gave me a faulty card!!!!
MANNNNN I have to go down SLS again!!!!
After much traveling and waiting, I got my card changed.
This time, I went back EXTREMLY quickly and pop the card in.
Voila it works!
However….it was stuck on the boot screen….and I was like….huh?
After much test again, I found out the problem lies with my old hard disk.
Some of the gold pin connectors were bended and went into the hard disk itself….mannnnnnn!
I reluctantly disconnect the hard disk, unable to access the data that was inside. One day, I’ll get some professional to extract the data from the plates that made up the hard disk and I’ll get it back!
Here is a picture of the hard disk that was disconnected =(
Sigh, anyway I power up the PC and got into Windows, updated everything and finally came online.
Feeling a little excited at the power of my new graphics card, I took out one of the latest game that I had, Need for Speed: Carbon, which was a graphically intense game that my old graphics card choked when there was too much activity on the screen.
Loading was EXTREMLY fast with the old very tone down settings that I set for my old graphics card. I immediately set EVERYTHING to the max and oh my God it ran so smoothly and beautifully!
Truly it was worth the money!
Here, this is my new graphics card:
Thank God for teaching my patience man, otherwise I think I would have gone bonkers a long time ago.
I took care of Sleepy today….man it was so tiring.
My dog is such a hyperactive one. But thank God she’s asleep now LOL.
Alright I got to go sleep now…got to wake up early tomorrow.
Good night and God bless!
Good evening!
It’s been some time since I last updated.
Well here I am telling you what has happened since my last post.
My younger sister 2 weeks ago brought back a black cross breed dog! CUTE SIAAAAA!
I think it’s a Jack Russell cross breed but when I ask the veterinarian, she told me it is impossible to determine it because in
Well anyway my sister called the dog ‘Sleepy’ cause the initial first few days in the house, she is always sleeping. Oh yeah it’s a ‘she’ and she’s a stray, but she’s very cute therefore my sister brought her home.
My mom and I took Sleepy to the vet today to get her vaccination shots. My sister bought a bag to contain her but she outgrown it so we decided to hail the taxi and see whether any kind driver willingly allow Sleepy to go into the car like this.
Sad to say…none of the taxi drivers are kind at all.
I had to borrow the dog cage from my neighbor, who also had a very cute dog called ‘Jingle’, to contain Sleepy and to bring her onto the taxi.
The taxi driver did not like the smell and therefore open the windows to ventilate the car….man at least Sleepy smells better than those damn cigarettes that taxi drivers like to smoke. -.-||
When we reach the vet, all eyes were upon Sleepy and us and I fell reaaaaaaaaaaal embarrassed cause those eyes that were staring at us belongs to pretty girls that also rear dogs. They were commenting on how cute Sleepy was and I did not dare to look at them because they were too pretty!
I weigh Sleepy and finally our turn came. We went in and had quite a long conversation with the vet, who educates us on some stuff concerning rearing dogs.
Once the consultation was over, I brought Sleepy outside to pee and shit.
After she did her business, I brought her back to the pavement for she did it on the grass and would you believe it, I saw a HUGE pile of dog shit which I did not realized when I stood on the grass patch and I ALMOST step onto it!
HALLELUYAH PRAISE THE LORD!
He is always watching out for us Amen!
Once my mom was done paying the consultation and medicine fees, I proceed to hail a taxi back home, but my mum stopped me and told me to go to the nearby pet shop to purchase some items for Sleepy.
And would you believe it, the pet shop’s sales assistant was another pretty girl!
My Goddddddddddddddddddddddd! Are all pet lovers so pretty and elegant looking?!?!
My mom seems to know her and discuss with the sales assistant on what items to purchase while I observe the lady. It seems that all pet lovers had a special trait, which is that they are extremely patient people.
Even the vet was very very patient in educating us, who never had a dog before, on how to take care of Sleepy.
Truly amazing.
Once my mum decides on the items to purchase, the sales assistant even gave her a discount man. She also gave my mum a free booklet about pets too.
Soooo nice!
Leaving the shop, we hail a taxi and got back home, where I place Sleepy at her spot while I changed.
After this morning, I noticed one thing. Pet lovers treat their pets like their very precious, giving full care and attention to them. Also they purchase good items for them too man.
Wow.
I pray that I can develop that kind of attitude and applied it to humans too, of course treating them with the utmost respect and importance that the Lord would expect of me.
Here are some pictures of Sleepy, so enjoy:
By the way, last Wednesday, on the 30th of May, I accompanied my mum to the opening night of the
SURPRISED that I, a Christian, visit such places?
Well it’s just a visit to a grand temple that’s all. Paul in the Bible mixes around with the people of his days and they were non-believers. So I see no harm in visiting.
It was JAM PACKED with local people and foreigners. I cannot see the performance that was held to celebrate the opening therefore my mum and I went to the back to watch everything projected onto a slide.
Even president Nathan came to commemorate the opening.
Oh wow.
The actual opening for the public was at 11pm, but I had to go for Emerge the next morning, so my mum and I left slightly after 9.30pm.
Here are some pictures that I took during the opening night:
http://s71.photobucket.com/albums/i134/squall2006/30-05-07/
Oh yes on last Thursday to Sunday, my church had this fabulous and great conference called Emerge.
It is an annual conference for the youths and the purpose of it is to strengthen and inspire the youths in our church.
Well I can say that during the Emerge, I had so much game ideas pouring into me every second man. My hands are not even fast enough to take down the humongous pouring of inspiration from the Holy Spirit man!
Finally, yesterday, 3rd June 2007, was my 21st birthday!
Praise the Lord I am finally a full fledge adult right now!
R21 movies, here I come LOL!
Kidding aside, it is a miracle that I am already 21.
It had been a real long time coming but God is good Amen.
These past few years have been from glory to glory and what the Lord had promised He had always been faithful.
So what is my wish?
Well…there is quite a few but the most urgent wish that I have is that I wish and pray to the Lord that I can make a game that is worthy of His Name.
Man you don’t understand how much I love games and want to make them.
Had a pizza fest courtesy of my parents, which spent quite a lot on the 6 pizzas that I ordered LOL.
Also, late yesterday night, Gabriel, my long time buddy presented to me Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne, as a birthday gift from him and my church friends!
OH MY GOD!!!! And I sooooooooooo wanted to get that game!
Thank you Lord once again for your blessings!
Alright guys, I got to go read my Bible now.
Thanks for reading and till the next post, God bless!