Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Recapping the holidays

Since the 6th of June, I've been living at home, away from the dreaded boarding school environment, to enjoy what few holidays the Singaporean Ministry of Education had given me. Like the previous visit home, I've spent most of my time locked up in the house, slacking.

Of course, slacking of this kind is different from the one I do in Singapore; at home, I actually get productive work done. For example, as of today, I've refilled my iPod with exactly 1001 songs (of which includes the entire discographies of Robbie Williams, Nickelback, Matchbox Twenty, and some Frank Sinatra and Weird Al Yankovic), mostly thanks to Bittorrent. I've also downloaded and watched the entire first season of Monty Python's Flying Circus (they're so good I'll rewatch it again tonight), which seems to me to be one of the highlights of my holiday.

And then there's Operation "Let's Get Fat"; a mission to (hopefully) gain an additional 5kg of mass to repair the damage hostel food had done to my body in the past couple of months. An American-grill dinner, a high tea buffet and Kentucky's were part of the program.

But anyway, tonight's probably the last time I'll be in Malaysia until after the A's, and thus, probably the last time I'll have proper internet access as well. So don't expect constant updates on this humble little blog in the coming months.

For now, I just hope I have enough time to study in preparation for Block Test 2. By the look of things, it seems that a screw-up is highly possible...

Wish me luck, and until then, have fun and eat your spirulina.

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Tuesday, June 07, 2005

What have I done?!

This morning, I left Singapore for home. All the way, I had my iPod to accompany me and keep me from getting too preoccupied with a terrible phenomena known as bus-ride boredom.

Now that I'm home, I wanted to download some songs that were omitted from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack CD (thanks, Joyce!) to complete the collection, so I plugged my iPod into my computer and popped the CD in.

"Would you like to configure your iPod?"

Sure, why the hell not?

IT FRIGGIN RESETTED MY IPOD TO FACTORY SETTINGS.

I lost everything! Frank Sinatra, choir songs, Disney stuff, and even Aretha Franklin which I don't listen to often, all got deleted! Along with the Naruto movie and 5 complete manga series I took from a friend's laptop to occupy my holiday at home! Plus the scans I had of a certain birthday gift to a certain choirmate as well!

Almost 8GB worth of files, lost at the click of a button.

Apple should [insert present continuous tense beginning with the letter 'F' that rhymes with 'plucking' here] put a warning before people like me do something we regret.

Now I just hope Alex hasn't deleted all those files I downloaded onto his laptop...

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