Been having issues with my desktop lately. I think it happens when I added in a SATA controller card to cope with number of SATA HDD/DVD writer that I have. My DVD writer was giving me issues, and I went out to buy a new one, but then I found that I have no more SATA slots for it! So, went out to get the controller. Since then, the desktop has been behaving very badly, everytime I switch it on, I had to redo the BIOS setting again! Anyone know why this is so!?!?! I had changed the CMOS battery, but still facing the issue...
Since this is a 3 year old desktop, I thought maybe it's time to start getting another desktop with more CPU speed and RAM!!! So, now I am trying to settle the component that I wanted, and then getting prices for it. Now that Intel has announced i7 core processor, I am wondering if I should get that, but the prices has been rather high at the moment. For the entry level, 920 with only 2.66GHz of processor speed, together with the motherboard, it's already $900plus. It's also a good time to get this new comp to be installed with Vista (which I had with me for the last 1 year!!!) as well as the latest MS office (I think it's still the latest, got this for 1 year and have not installed as yet!!!) Based on that, I would need at least 4GB of RAM, but I am thinking maybe I could go for 6GB instead! I don't need the minor accessories, monitor is still doing fine (which is unbelievable as it's more than 10 years!)
Oh well, time to trawl the hardware forums to get this settled. I hope to get this by 31 Dec, to take advantage of the current X'mas promotion on some of the component...
Saturday, December 27, 2008
The house looks more live-in
After soon many years, the house finally had this "live-in" look... I know my room is messy one, but now it spill over to living room (had to move stuff out of her room after it was used like a storage area), and because mother has moved in, more things needed to be thrown.. and more things added. I have no idea how many times I had to carry heavy stuff up to the flat (now are the times where you missed having the lift lobby right outside your door!!!), we had bought countless of large storage boxes, I think we had bought like 5 book shelves as well! (The cheap Giant sale ones, too expensive if we were to get from Ikea or some other places)... The fridge seems to be filling up as well - the new one. The old one now contains mostly wines, and a few spill overs like fruits - pear and oranges...
The plates, pots and pans are now regularly used, unlike the past years. Heck, I even started cooking again... :p Yes, I do cook, not often, but I do. Just that I have not done that for a while so it will take a little time to get the rhythm back... Of course the bee hoon with every ingredient in the soup is one of the easiest to cook, but today we tried to steam cod fillet with essence of chicken. We got some cod fillet from one of the places near Jurong Port, and happen to have some essence of chicken bottles (Brands' version if someone wanted to ask) around. I got this dish from one of my previous trips (long time ago) to Malacca, but never did get to try to cook it. The taste was ok, mother say the fish was too cooked, but I thought it was just nice. Not too fishy, but the taste, well, something is still missing from it... Still need some tweaking I know (Frankly it's not too bad for a first try!)
All I could say is it's not too bad for a grill/bbq/fry person, who does not really cook fish at all!!! Well, more to come I am certain, and I am certain I will perfect this cod fish with essence of chicken dish...
The plates, pots and pans are now regularly used, unlike the past years. Heck, I even started cooking again... :p Yes, I do cook, not often, but I do. Just that I have not done that for a while so it will take a little time to get the rhythm back... Of course the bee hoon with every ingredient in the soup is one of the easiest to cook, but today we tried to steam cod fillet with essence of chicken. We got some cod fillet from one of the places near Jurong Port, and happen to have some essence of chicken bottles (Brands' version if someone wanted to ask) around. I got this dish from one of my previous trips (long time ago) to Malacca, but never did get to try to cook it. The taste was ok, mother say the fish was too cooked, but I thought it was just nice. Not too fishy, but the taste, well, something is still missing from it... Still need some tweaking I know (Frankly it's not too bad for a first try!)
All I could say is it's not too bad for a grill/bbq/fry person, who does not really cook fish at all!!! Well, more to come I am certain, and I am certain I will perfect this cod fish with essence of chicken dish...
Monday, December 15, 2008
OUCH!
If I thought what happen when I see chiropractor was already painful.... Imagine when you see the Chinese version of chiropractor... I literally cry out with the way this guy twist and turn my left hand and pushes at certain points on my shoulder... According to him, some bone (connected to my arm) shifted down by about 1 inch; thus pressing on the nerve and thus causing the issue which goes all the way down to the fingers. According to him, if he does not do it, I will soon have numbness, and because of the pain it cause when I use my fingers, I will stop using my arm/fingers, and cause the muscle tissues to deteriorate and then wasted, etc, etc, etc... Heck, if I had not gone to the chiropractor before this, I think I would have fainted from the pain he induced just to reset the bone structure correctly... Actually, that's one of the reasons why I don't see Chinese version of chiropractor as the method used by them, tends to be more "rough, crude". Yes it works, and it cost less (yes, it does cost a lot less than a chiropractor!), but imagine the amount of pain that comes with it... Even after two days, I am still feeling sore on my left side because of the method he uses - yes, of course the other pain no longer around, although I think I might have hurt my bone around the thumb area as I still cannot use too much pressure there. It's much better than before, just not fully recover I think...
On the other hand... $$ was also spent on an Oppo DVD player (DV-980H) as the first step to change the system I have at home... Have been using HiTB (Pioneer), but now was thinking to change into a Receiver / Speakers system. But to start, I have to separate out the system and DVD/CD player. Since there was a MO which have this at a discounted rate (and reading a lot of reviews on Oppo players), decided to go for it... While it's not their flagship version (DV-983H) which contains the best video and audio quality, the price between the 2 makes it such that I decided to go for this, because it's better than the 981 in audio performance.
So, one part is settled... Still going round listening, etc... Have not really settle at anything - Because I thought I was almost set with Yamaha receiver... Now it's shifted to Denon receiver... Thought almost set for the Def Tech speakers, now... not sure what.... Anyway, now is not the time to get it...
Oh well... Will see... Too many choices... Need to set budget... Etc, etc, etc...
On the other hand... $$ was also spent on an Oppo DVD player (DV-980H) as the first step to change the system I have at home... Have been using HiTB (Pioneer), but now was thinking to change into a Receiver / Speakers system. But to start, I have to separate out the system and DVD/CD player. Since there was a MO which have this at a discounted rate (and reading a lot of reviews on Oppo players), decided to go for it... While it's not their flagship version (DV-983H) which contains the best video and audio quality, the price between the 2 makes it such that I decided to go for this, because it's better than the 981 in audio performance.
So, one part is settled... Still going round listening, etc... Have not really settle at anything - Because I thought I was almost set with Yamaha receiver... Now it's shifted to Denon receiver... Thought almost set for the Def Tech speakers, now... not sure what.... Anyway, now is not the time to get it...
Oh well... Will see... Too many choices... Need to set budget... Etc, etc, etc...
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Ouch... Ouch...
It has hurt that bad that I had no choice but to see the chiropractor. It started with some pain the wrist, although I am not certain how or why it happened - Could be due to the amount of weight and stuff that I have been shifting around. The pain was tolerable, so I thought it would just pass after 1 or 2 days... Well, it didn't, in fact, it became worse as time goes on that it affected the entire arm. Started to feel a little sore at certain points of the arm, and numbness actually seeps into the arm after a few days... I guess that trigger off the alarm, to make an appt, not that I did not want to, but the work has been such that once I get into it, I totally forgot about making the appt, so that also drag the days... Finally, the pain was that bad that cannot be ignored, and thus call up and ask when is the next available date/time - thank goodness that the appt was just a day away...
Had about 1 and half hour session of pain as apparently the tissues in the body were so tensed. It was much better after the session, but the event was not over as the body literally aching when I woke up this morning... However, the wrist was much better than before, just that certain points of the arm and shoulder still feeling sore as i can still feel some pain when I press on them. I think she gave me a lecture on this, about not having the right posture, not carry/holding the stuff correctly, etc... She was also telling me about using certain part of the body tissue to hold rather than just the shoulder, etc which I am having issues to understand. Hey, I have not study the body before, so I don't really know the actual terms for certain part of the tissue you have around your back and shoulder ok?!?! More importantly, how to use them when carrying stuff, especially heavy stuff... It all sounded so foreign to me...
Anyway, the body still ache, even when sitting, not done properly, I would find the soreness flagging saying "hello" like an old friend... Sigh... Need more Vitamin B complex to help with the muscle and tissue, along with metabolism. SMS to mother about it, and asking if I should get it in SG or Penang, she immediate got a bottle of them there...
Yes, she is in Penang, and I am flying there tomorrow night to join her and my aunt, for the weekend, since it's a long weekend due to Hari Raya Haji on Monday... Will be back on Monday, while they enjoy another week there...
Meantime, got work to do, and I have to do it remotely. Darn, just as I thought I could make a trip to somewhere (which I have never been before)... The travel freeze has bite off the travel plans... By I supposed in this current economically challenged environment, I should be happy that I still got a job...
Whatever it is... Weekend is coming... Yeah! Assam Laksa, Chendol, Rojak... *Slurp* Food... Here I come!!!! :P Which also means I might be gaining some weight, despite it being a very short trip... I am certain that I would be having lots of food at anytime of the day...
Had about 1 and half hour session of pain as apparently the tissues in the body were so tensed. It was much better after the session, but the event was not over as the body literally aching when I woke up this morning... However, the wrist was much better than before, just that certain points of the arm and shoulder still feeling sore as i can still feel some pain when I press on them. I think she gave me a lecture on this, about not having the right posture, not carry/holding the stuff correctly, etc... She was also telling me about using certain part of the body tissue to hold rather than just the shoulder, etc which I am having issues to understand. Hey, I have not study the body before, so I don't really know the actual terms for certain part of the tissue you have around your back and shoulder ok?!?! More importantly, how to use them when carrying stuff, especially heavy stuff... It all sounded so foreign to me...
Anyway, the body still ache, even when sitting, not done properly, I would find the soreness flagging saying "hello" like an old friend... Sigh... Need more Vitamin B complex to help with the muscle and tissue, along with metabolism. SMS to mother about it, and asking if I should get it in SG or Penang, she immediate got a bottle of them there...
Yes, she is in Penang, and I am flying there tomorrow night to join her and my aunt, for the weekend, since it's a long weekend due to Hari Raya Haji on Monday... Will be back on Monday, while they enjoy another week there...
Meantime, got work to do, and I have to do it remotely. Darn, just as I thought I could make a trip to somewhere (which I have never been before)... The travel freeze has bite off the travel plans... By I supposed in this current economically challenged environment, I should be happy that I still got a job...
Whatever it is... Weekend is coming... Yeah! Assam Laksa, Chendol, Rojak... *Slurp* Food... Here I come!!!! :P Which also means I might be gaining some weight, despite it being a very short trip... I am certain that I would be having lots of food at anytime of the day...
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