…coz my freakin PC crashed. And what am I to do without my internet?!

My PC started acting funny. My local settings were missing. I keep getting a message that Windows recovered from a serious error and it kept rebooting. I saw the blue screen of death. So first I tried to do a system restore, then I did a scan disk and there were a lot of bad sectors found until finally I just decided to reformat and reinstall the OS to make life simple. Nada. I cut my finger trying to bring it to the store I bought it from in Sim Lim only for them to tell me that there’s nothing wrong with my hard drive. But I could’ve sworn I tried everything. Taxi cab to and from Sim Lim – about S$15. Cost for them to tell me there’s nothing wrong with my hard drive – S$10. That’s S$25 (~P750) plus a cut on my finger for nothing!

What annoys me pa (I’ve been there twice for this PC) is that the technicians in that store talks to you like you’re a complete pc ignoramus. Well I’m not! … well not completely. Sometimes I’m tempted to just slap him with my Computer Engineering diploma but I know I shouldn’t coz that would just totally come back to bite me. I’m probably one of the few (I know there are Comp Engs out there like me… i know! i know!) Computer Engineers who has to go to a technician to have his pc fixed. But somehow, after 5 years of college something must have stuck.

So I went back home with a newly formatted hard drive. That should make it easy for me to install the OS, right? Like how hard is it to install the OS? I bet monkeys can do it. Hehe so I found out I’m not a monkey coz my PC’s still dead. Something like cannot copy whatever file…

Good thing Jorey left his laptop with me. A computer with no personal files… nothing for me to do but surf. A laptop that at first could’t connect to the internet even if it’s connected to the wireless network. I had to figure out how to make it work. Then when I started surfing, the computer got infected with this spyware keylogger thingy… ughh! I tried AVG, housecall, lavasoft and they all could detect it but they couldn’t remove it. So I tried Spyware doctor but it would only repair it if you buy a full version. I spent the whole day tinkering with the registry to kick that nasty spyware out. I think I got it cleaned. So far, all the anti-spyware software are giving me a clean bill of computer health.

Despite all that action… I think I’m getting bored. I’m tempted to put all our stuff on auction at ebay. Jor should come home soon or he might be coming home to an empty house.