Weekend

Okay! I am finally blogging. Sorry people again, I have been tied up. Joshua lent me his Need for Speed Most wanted CDs for me to burn. Because failing few times at the start, I spent quite a lot of time. Note of caution: For those who are IT-knowledge-challenged(like Yihua), I suggest that you skip the below two paragraphs as it might blow your neurons off.

Firstly, I am going to explain to you how the game works. there are a total of 4 CDs in the box. 1st CD, you insert and install. After that the installation will prompt you for 2nd, 3rd and so on. The installation will run till 100% and ask for CD 1 again. Then it would play the CD to run the game. Without this CD 1, the game would not play, showing you an alert: Please insert the correct CD-ROM, select OK and restart the application.

So I begun working on burning CD 1. At first, I dragged all the files from the CD to burn an ISO image of the CD, which I normally do for burning CDs. After copying and burning, I mounted the image onto a virtual drive and tried to play the game. It shocked me by showing the error message. EDIT: In the end I suceeded in burning. *I have deleted the part showing the burning process as Junneng kindly told me that it would equip people with knowledge of burning NFS MW. So if anyone wants to burn one, please go and search on the web. And if Junneng himself wants to refer to my page to burn NFS MW, well he can only blame his big mouth for telling me to delete. ha.

Then yesterday I was dragged to my mother friend's house. It was at Hougang! We(me and my sisters) took the MRT from Gombak to Hougang and it was like more han 1 hr. Siao. but I listened my iPod Nano the whole way, so it was at least tolerable. It was a condo, and she lived at the top storey(17) with a penthouse balcony(the house had two storeys). But the best thing is taht I was able to eat like siao there. She orderd 4 pizzas and cooked a dish called 'Baked Rice' I think. It was fried rice with crust ontop, similar to that of a lasagna's. And the fried rice even had mushrooms and a campbell Mushroom soup taste in it. It was so damn nice. And their house have a big plasma TV! I guessed it was 25 inch. Plus Starhub cable tv! Wah siao lo! But i pity their sound system. Two little Bose speakers accompanied by a DVD player. That is pathetic. But its not too bad. And their desktop is a HP Pavilion with 3.2 ghZ processor and 512mb RAM, 256mb VRAM video card!!!! Wargh, if I got that, I could play NFS MW at the highest graphics setting! My VRAM is a pathetic pathetic 64mb. Sigh. The view was nice, and we saw parachuters jumping off a plane and floating down to earth from there. I think they were in a training of some sort. The landscape was also not bad, many trees and all that. Much better than The Madeira's. We watched Cartoon Network for some time. Later on, we went down because some people wanted to swim(not only i came. My mom's other friend also came). The swimming pool was so much better than mine! Kids Pool was like so big already, with some things you can seat on and shoot people with water. The adult pool is olympic sized. Wow! The people(me and my sisters) who did not swim went and bought some snacks and drinks from a Minimart. So damn nice la! We went back up and watched Kungfu Soccer. Then we packed up and went home. My mom's friend gave us a lift to Bishan Junction 8. The car is a blue Picnic. Okay la. Even though not powerful, but useful for driving loads of passengers. The Bishan MRT sucks. It was underground and there isn't any aircon! So it was very stuffy. We took the train back to Gombak and my mom went off at Woodlands to go Causeway Point. It was about 8.30 at that time. We reached home at 8.50. We watched Wu Chu Cai Hong while eating dinner. My mom came home at about 10.30. I chatted with my ex-classmates(Trina and Huijun) to about 11.45 and I slept at 12 after reading a chapter of Protecting your Digital Privacy(10. The Least You Should Do to Guard your Privacy when Online). I find that 650 paged book wasted too much paper. I flipped through most of the stuff without reading because eitehr I already knew that, or it was about law. And what is the use of reading about Law of Privacy when you want to find out how to protect it. That is so damn stupid. Only chapter 10 and 18(Can you really be Anonymous?) are interesting. And that is like about 50 pages out of the whole book. After mulling over its message, I still did not know how to encrypt my disc to prevent hackers from ruining my privacy as the book did not state how. Wow very informative.

Anyway, that is about all my life on Wednesday and Friday. Not bad for morning's work.