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finally... managed to fix jason's diy pc and get it ready to log on nus net... yesh~! this is the 6th diy pc dat i assembled since 2002... my goodness, this is also my 1st time fixing a mainboard with raid... since last monday, where i see all the parts lying inside their respective boxes. to now, all of them are working as a whole on top of jason's pgp desk... this baby has given me the most trouble so far, out of the 6 babies dat i assembled... however, my experience gained for this baby is the best out of all...

last monday: spent 6hrs... firstly, i spent quite some time getting familiar with all the parts dat jason bought; LCD monitor, casing, MSI mainboard, kingston ram, Pent3GHz cpu, black keyboard & mouse set, 128mB video card, 80Gb maxtor harddisk, tv tuner card, LG dvd burner and LG dvd drive. i guess i din follow him to sim lim to buy the parts, dat's y i spent rather long going thru them. next, jason said dat he wanna learn how to fix a diy pc too, hence the fixing process extended greatly(maybe i explain too much... lol...)... finally, it's time to launch the cpu for the 1st time *took a deep breathe*... everything seems fine except dat the bios is unable to detect the hard disk... oh no~!! i wonder why too & after all, it's my 1st time i'm fixing a SATA hard disk... then we spent 1-2hrs calling frenz & my mentor. sadly, no one could help us... also, i got our final CSC camp 2005 OC dinner at funan... so we gave up in pgp at the time when the buffet starts... we took a cab and i dropped jason at harbourfront... right away, i headed towards funan... out of my expectation, i encountered a traffic jam... sian, the cab driver has no choice but to take a detour and at last, reached funan... it was $16 on the meter!! from sch to funan only... i met up with the rest of the OCs at 7:30pm, many of them are already full. from the way, some of them looked at me, tells me dat they are thinking "wahz! PD is late for 2hrs!!" (as usual)... sianz... i also dun want it to happen too... :( juz too sway liao... still, i made use of the reminding time we have to talk to everyone who were presented... when we parted, some of them jokingly said... see u all at next foc camp... this statement was meant to be a joke, but somehow scratched my heart alittle... CSC camp brought all of us together for 6 months and 2 of them (2 APD of coz...) even worked with me for 9months, suddenly everything has to come to an end... oh well, hope dat the next camp OC would be as bonded as us... :) the end of this OC, marks the starting of new sch term... :)

last wed: went back to sch for a swim alone, but the weather was bad... real bad... so i camped in cs clubrm with Jiakai and Chee Kian... after dat, supposed to meet Jason to finish up the setup... and guess wat, he 4got to bring his transponder(the key to his rm)... in the end, both of us din get to meet... oh well, another bad day of my life, i guess... keke... laughing at how sway my luck was... nuting seem to go right for dat day...

last thurs: went back to jason's rm this time to finish up all the software part. finally, found out dat we need to acitvate the raid connectors from bios, in order to detect the hard disk... yup yup, problem no 1 solved~! next, we got to install all the softwares in too... same as the last time, explained most of what i feel Jason should know to him. some parts were rather tough, coz he didnt get much chances to use any computers during his army days... suddenly, headache no 2 appeared~!! his dvd burner was auto-disabled by winXP and we were unable to enable it. again, we ended the day with another problem left unresolved... coz he got a paper on the next day morning... my luck was still quite bad on today too, my heart been cut into 2 over an incident... oh well, life still goes on... :)

last sat: i was supposed to meet Jason again... but the sleepy head of mine worked too well dat day... think i gathered up too much sleep debts over the past week... at day, either fixing jason's pc problems or going out with csc camp grp2 folks... at night, chatting over msn or playing maple story... think i really got to quit or limit my playing hours for sure now...

sunday nite: we came to a conclusion over the fone dat we need to reformat his pc, so i gave him step by step instructions and he followed wisely... thru the nite, i received abt 10+ calls from him within 4hrs, on how to install all the softwares etc etc... without fail, we ended the day with 1 more problem... he was unable to set up both vpn and domain in his pc. in other words, he is unable to log on the net inside his rm... he was worrying dat we may need to reformat his pc for the 3rd time... lol... i took it easy, coz i know it wun happen... :)

monday: after having fun at settlers and dinner at queensway with some csc camp grp2 folks, jason and i reached his rm at 10pm... lol... within 15mins, i managed to get both vpn and domain fixed... at dat time, i see how super duper sian jason's face was... he seems to be guilty to make me go to his place for something dat he could do himself... well, it's ok to me... overall, this pc of his is 1 of my precious babies... keke... it's does not pinch me at all... :)

once done, we headed toward harbourfront to catch his last train back home... as for me, i will walk home as soon as i can... along the way, i was approached by a PRC (their accents is so easily recognised)... well, she reminded me of Lijie (keke... hope she dun give me the "orh orh" face over this when sch starts... :P) and she seems quite a nice person to me... hanging on her neck, i see a transponder (a key dat is commonly used in nus)... also, from the bus no. she mentioned, i can figure out dat she is likely to be going back to nus. it's 11:35pm and i felt dat it's not safe for a foreigner like her to be left alone at harbourfront and not to forget, she is a female too... so i followed her to the bus interchange to catch the bus dat she wanted to take... to our disappointment, the last bus has left... next, i proposed an alternative bus stop nearby where she can get on other buses to reach somewhere near her hostel too... guess our timing were juz nice, when we reached the bus stop, the right bus came and we parted... my most satisfying reward was a genuine smile from her (ahem...guys, no funny ideas here hor...). all i know is... she is under a student exchange program currently in nus... 3rd yr biz major...staying in PGP blk12... well, dat's all i know abt her, not even her name... hope dat this will leave a gd impression of her to our students ba... :) woah~! wat a long post, i made today... keke... well, it's summary of the week lehz...

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