BookList...

Since Lana had listed her preggie bibles... Here are some of my wishlist for coming summer read :D

I enjoyed his last book The Kite Runner. "A thousand splendid suns" covers three decades of anti-Soviet jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny through the lives of two women. Kh@led Hosseini quoted it's about love, self-sacrifice and friendship. I think this will be a good read :)

I have read all the shopaholic series.. except for this one... I am waiting for the paperback version that hasn't come out yet. And I'm a cheapskate who is not willing to pay rm69.90 for a book ( especially when i can get it for rm35).

I loved half.com where you can get good books for usd1-2. I bought a lot of books from there and i found that most of the books are in good conditions. Some of them even looked brand new! Too bad.. malaysia doesnt have it...

I'm one of the people who like to finish a book in one or two sittings. Cozy couch, dim light, some candles, with slow music at the backgroud, smell of coffee... and a good book.. My definition of relaxation...

Here are some of my collections that is in my to-read-list...
1. harvesting the heart - jody picoult ( loved her "my sister's keeper" book)
2. the blind assasin - margaret atwood
3. everyone worth knowing - Lauren Weisberger (author of the devil wears prada)
4. secret life of bees - sue monk kidd
5. middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides

Thank God it's friday!!!

your hard disk... your life....

On laptop....

No signs of damage, no blue-screen-of-death, no error messages, my laptop went dead few months ago. Black screen saying system files couldn't be found, and i couldn't even get pass windows. It was a nightmare!!! After trying to self-diagnose my laptop, going to local shop, and even going to MDR Data Recovery center. I got the final result..... My hard disk... the hard disk that contains all my pictures, songs, old emails, old journal entries are gone!!!! The hard disk is beyond repair. Apparently there is a big scratch on the surface of the hard disk. MDR tech guy said there are two reasons for this to happen. First, it could be a manufacturer defect, which he said couldnt be the problem since I've been using the laptop for years now. Second is because of shock ( i'm not sure whether physical shock or electrostatic shock or could be others)...... So the data couldn't be read, or maybe even if they could, the data would be meaningless since the hard disk sector itself it's corrupted.

So I'm stuck to the only option, get a new hard disk, and saying goodbye to my old data... Too bad ibm doesn't give the recovery cd, ibm machines store recovery files in the hard disk itself. So once your hard disk is corrupted, the option is either to get a new recovery cd from ibm which costs rm226 or go to ibm office to borrow the recovery cd(foc!). But going there is such a hassle for me because i would have to travel all the way to kl to get that one done.

Luckily, being a paranoid tht i am, I have an external hard disk, so most of my pictures are safely backed up in it. In addition to that, I started burning my pictures on DVD since it's a passive data storage. Hard disk itself is a mechanical machine: Accessing, deleting data, or dropping could lead to loss of data.

So for those who have valuable,precious, important data in your hard disk. Please start backing up.. because you don't know what could happen. You can schedule a data synchronization between your laptop/pc and your external hard disk weekly(or daily if you're paranoid!) so that you don't lose anything important.

What are you waiting for... go back up your files!!!

ready to ramble.....

A colleague of mine just got lucky and won a nikon digital camera by joining a contest on nikon malaysia. Then i thought, maybe all of us should just join and take the risk of joining all these free contests. Who knows, the next name they pick might be your name(or my name!). At least when you try, you know you have a 0.0000000000001 probability, right? That's better than nothing :D

Allright.. i'm heading home...

Later.....