Blue Screen and Black Days

I hate my laptop.

Recently it's been crashing so much and refusing to start up. 2 nights ago it refused to start up for 2.5 hours - only the blue error screen and black "Windows has failed to start up" screen kept mocking me. Was such bad timing then too. Thank god for friends and their laptops.

Since then I didn't dare turn off my laptop or even let it sleep, because this is such a crucial time for me to stay in contact - not just for course registration, module mapping, but even floorball back home. But last night I stupidly had a moment of belief in the laptop and turned it off to let it rest. This morning I wake up to another 2.5 hours of futile waiting and fervent prayers for the laptop/Windows to just start up - and nothing. Seems like Waseda doesn't have a computer repair centre unlike NUS so I will have to check up on Fujitsu instead. Doesn't look good though - the Fujitsu Japan website was all in Japanese only, and it didn't seem like they have a physical repair centre; more like they send people to repair it. And I'm not so keen on getting a repair either, since I think my warranty is already over (laptop going on 2.5 to 3 years now) and I don't think I brought my recovery disks and what nots over. Hope it won't be expensive. Such lousy timing. I guess I should just be glad that it's not in the middle of when I was doing a term paper or something.

I hate my laptop now. Ugh.

Back from HK

Arrived back from HK 2 days ago. It was... okay on the whole. Felt like I went there to do grocery shopping lol. List of what I bought in HK - supposed shopping paradise:

- 1 jacket
- 1 long sleeve top
- Body soap
- Shampoo
- Contact Lens Solution
- Pimple cream
- Bourjois silver eyeliner
- Lip Balm

Grocery shopping huh? =P


Well but there are a few highlights of the trip:

1)The Aviary in HK Park



2)The expensive Sunday dimsum lunch at Hoi King Heen, Intercontinental


Hmm but honestly, I don't think the food in HK is anything special. Maybe I didn't get to try the bestest of the best, but I guess I've been having really good Cantonese food, Hakka food in Singapore,Penang,Ipoh since young so this was really nothing mind-blowing.

3)A slight, comfortable familiarity with back home; but yet very much a sense of I'm-glad-I-stay-in-Singapore-slash-Tokyo-and-not-HK

I've always thought Cantonese to be such a pretty dialect - singsong, tonal and refined. HKers obviously showed me how wrong I was. Not just about the language, but the people too. I've never seen a kid 'fight' to race to an empty seat in front of an old woman before. Amazing really...

I'm sure HKers themselves don't think too highly of mainlanders; but for me right now, I don't see much difference between HKers and the stereotypical image of the uncultured, civic-mindedless mainlander. And perhaps even if there might be any subtleties, I don't think I'm interested enough to uncover any further.

A Quick Note

Just a quick Hello to say I'm still here!

Updates for Korea Trip, Paddy Ski/Snowboarding Camp and Ming's visit to Tokyo will be up soon. Highlights include eating still-wriggling octopus tentacles sashimi, falling at least 121 times in 2 days, and visiting the Beatles Cover Pub + John Lennon Museum!

In other news, my laptop's been crashing alot the past 2 days - the blue error screen keeps popping up. So worrying ugh. Wonder what hit it. Been trying to fix it or find the cause but to no avail - evidently me is no techie genius raa. So I've been backing up important data instead oh well.


Good night, world =)