DREAMS AND MEMORIES

Been super duper happy for the past two days despite all the datelines and lack of sleep.. All because my lappie has finally arrived ^_^  Finally, my very own new, light laptop. Super duper happy..

Everything is good so far and living up to expectations. I especially love the tomato red cover. Something different from the conventional black. For a home computer, it’s definitely a worthwhile package which is value for money and light in weight.

Although it saddens me to let my faithful Inspiron 6000 ‘retire’, I’m still glad that finally I got a new laptop that’s much more lighter. [Approximately 1.92kg] Definitely makes carrying it around easier and lesser chances of sporting a backache. Although the smooth finishes make it more finger print prone, I still love it all the same..

My pink LG clamshell phone [the temp phone before the Nokia C5] decided to go on a PMS strike for the past one week or so. It just refused to let me make or receive calls, and send or receive sms. However, the SIM card seems to be working fine on any other phone. – Must be jealous of the other phone getting all the attention now.

So as a desperate measure, I opted to a full reset of the phone’s setting as a last resort. Much to my relief, it is now in perfect working order. But to my despair, everything is in Mandarin – as this phone was a free gift from a relative in Hong Kong therefore causing the default preset language to be Mandarin. Aaahhhh!!!! On top of that, my written Mandarin is totally HOPELESS!!!!!  - the downsides of being a banana-breed Chinese..

T_______T

Time to do some trial and error in changing back the language to English.. wish me luck.

My slim and sleek replacement for the pick-pocketed Sony Ericsson W810i.

Definitely not built to go against the widely favoured I-phone and Blackberry phones. But good enough to fulfil my needs and that’s all that matters when selecting a phone. So far, I’ve got no complaints about this phone except that it’s really living up to expectations. ^_^

Oh yes, there are currently two such phones in my house so I’m gonna have to be more careful when grabbing phones from now on.

You can read all about it’s features by clicking here so I shall spare you the technical details.

Been trying out several new themes for my blog for the past few days. There were so many that I couldn’t decide which one to go with. So there was a lot of searching, downloading and not to forget, lots of codes to tweak here and there. [Unpleasant reminder of why I don’t enjoy doing programming]. And there was seemingly endless lines of codes for each and every theme I was considering. Nearly got crossed eyed from all those codes.

Finally made my decision last night and started to do my own customization to the template. Hope that it’s not too wordy at the sidebars. Would appreciate any comments, feedback or suggestions to further improve. (^_^)

Every time my car batteries are disconnected, there are several settings in the car which have to be reset once the batteries are reconnected.

First and foremost would most definitely be the dashboard clock and this is followed by the radio display clock. Well, I just realised a few weeks back there is one other thing that I needed to reset once the batteries are back online which the sound system settings of the car. [not sure if that is the correct term for it, so please correct me if I’m wrong here]

For those of you who are fanatics about getting the sounds emitted from the speakers just the way you like it, I suppose you definitely know what I’m talking about it. See I didn’t really bother much about these things until one fine day Ivan got in my car and started fidgeting about with the settings. That’s the turning point of when I finally ‘heard’ the difference.

So in line with the car trouble I’ve been having lately, of course the settings were lost and I just couldn’t get used to listening to the muffled base sounds and voices when listening to songs. Finally took out the manual and started fidgeting around on my own. Am now proud to say that I know how to tune the settings for the Base, Treble, Balance and Fading effects. YEAAAAYYYYY!!!

Even managed to adjust the settings for my mom’s car because she got addicted to ‘hearing’ the difference in my car as well. So guess that’s one of the achievements I have to add to the list for this semester break. ^_^

The very same day after completing the marathon, my car battery decided to give up on me. I was very fortunate that I still managed to make it back home before it really gave up on me for good.

So since the car battery decided to officially KO on a Sunday, had no choice but to wait till my Monday whereby my dad would pick up a new battery for my car.

Obviously, there wouldn’t be a mechanic around to help replace the battery. Therefore, time to get our hands dirty with the car. So I worked side by side my dad who taught me how to change the batteries and in less than half hour, all was done. got my engine up and roaring again. Yeay!!! Rejoice!!!

Moral of the story is

1. Be alert of the car battery condition especially if it’s been more than a year since the last battery change – normally there are certain warning signs which hint that it’s ‘almost time to go ’. It’s the second time this has happened to me and I STILL didn’t notice the signs.

2. Learn how to jumpstart a car and keep a pair of jumpstart cables in the car. [definitely cannot jumpstart a car without the cables]

3. Learn to change the car batteries coz it just might boil down to getting your hands dirty..