Pssst… Pssst psst pssstttt….

I’m closing this space. Well, not exactly closing. I’m just not going to update anymore. Certain things have happened and it’s resulted in the decision to stop blogging. Thus, no more updates.

Blogging, to me has always been about sharing things that happened in my life. All the good things and the bad ones. All the laughter and joy, the saddness and frustrations too.

For me, the short little chapter here over the past months have been really, really interesting. I’ll still be writing in the house blog. But no more personal blogs.

Thanks to all for reading and sharing your comments with me. I’ve had fun writing the blog and sharing my life with you all.

I was reading Dara’s blog just now. Then for some strange reason, I had this feeling that I haven’t felt in ages. A strange exciting feeling rising up within me. With this adrenaline rush up and down my spine and a strange sense of motivation. It’s the sort of feeling I used to get back when I was in Secondary School and during my Poly days.

Hmm…. I guess it’s a nice feeling to have while I’m here. Makes it feel closer to home. LoLz. Eek! I realise that I have quite a number of readings to do… I better go do something about it…

Oh well… I’ve got some interesting pictures to share… Hee~

Right, the other day (I think it was last Friday), May Ying and I went to Richmond. Then, we also passed through the city too. And guess what we saw near Flinders station? We saw…

This!!! This little bird on top of the man’s head. Okay, I saw it in 2004. Not sure if it was the same bird (HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!) but it certainly was an identical pose. Only thing was, at that time, I wasn’t fast enough in taking out my camera and we already drove past it. LoLz~

And at Victoria Gardens, we saw this in coles! Haha…

Very cool huh. The REAL SARS flavour.

And this one too! BIG SARS indeed. Imagine if they sold it in Singapore! LoLz~

We saw this when we were waiting for a cab… Hahahahahaha… Carbon Monoxide Detector… LoLz

Remember Dee, PZ and I were milking a vending machine for money back? This is the one…

We got our money plus extra from the machine…

Oh yes, last Saturday, Louis got a caning for being really naughty… And while we were caning him… This is what he did to me…

Look at the long scratch

And some short ones…

Just when you think that it’s just all that… Nope… It’s not…

Then there is still this long one…. *bleahz* what a naughty boy!

Random: Duchess

A funny e-mail…

It is a myth that when a son gets married and a new daughter-in-law arrives in the family, everything changes. Some daughter-in-laws are well trained and well mannered. They don’t come to change the family, they are there to be part of the family…

The new wife was being welcomed at the husband’s home in a traditional manner. As expected she gave a speech: “My dear family, I thank you for welcoming me in my new home andfamily”, she said. “Firstly, my being here does not mean that I would want to change your way of life, your routine. No, I will never do that, never in a million years”.

“What do you mean my child?” Asked the father-in-law.

“What I mean dad is (looking at her father-in-law): Those who used to wash dishes must carry on washing them. Those who used to do the laundry must carry on doing it. Those who cooked shouldn’t stop at my account, and those who used to clean should continue cleaning”.

“Then what are you here for?” Asked the mother-in-law.

“As for me, my job is to entertain your son!” She replied.

Damn! I just found out that the video clip that I took the other day of Wage putting Louis into the pillow (as in, using it as a sleeping bag) got deleted without being loaded into my lappie! ARAGHZ. This is so damn bloody irritating. It was such a funny clip. Louis acted like a silly little hamster! *ugh!*

And the thing is, there’s nothing I can do about it. But maybe I can consider a retake. But it just won’t feel the same anymore… *bleahz* The video was damn cute!

*hmpfz*

Pronunciation: ROTT-why-ler

Description: The Rottweiler has a massive, powerful body. Muscular and athletic, it has a broad head and rounded forehead. The muzzle is well-developed with a scissors bite. Its eyes are dark with an expression of goodwill and loyalty. The ears are triangular, carried forward, and its nose is wide and black. The lips are black and inside the mouth it is dark-colored. The tail is customarily docked. Often born with rear dewclaws, these are usually removed when the tail is docked. The coat is short, hard and thick. It is black with brown markings on the cheeks and muzzle, paws and legs. A red color with brown markings also exists. There is a deficiency in the hair gene making the coloring a lighter red. Rottweiler bitches often have large litters; 12 puppies are not uncommon.

Temperament: The Rottie is calm, trainable, courageous, and devoted to their owner and family. They have a reliable temperament. Protective, he will defend his family fiercely. These are strong fighters that seem immune to pain. Serious, steady and confident. Firm and careful training is essential for this breed, otherwise you may end up with a very powerful and overly aggressive dog. Yet they can, with proper handling, also be loyal, loving and very rewarding companions. They require owners who can handle their massive size. The Rottie is a natural guard dog with a mellow temperament. They are highly intelligent and have proven their worth beyond question in police, military, and customs work over many centuries. Because of their size, training should begin fairly young - while the dog is still small, and great care should be taken to ensure that the dog is not made vicious. This breed needs a lot of companionship and socialization to be truly happy. They can be aggressive with other dogs and should be kept on leashes in public places. When the Rottweiler is consistently brought up and trained, it will be a good playmate for the children. It will accept cats and other household pets as long as the dog has had a positive experience with them while it was young. Friends and relatives of the family are normally enthusiastically welcomed. Strangers can get no further than the sidewalk. The breed does well in competitive obedience, schutzhund, and tracking.

Height: 24-27 inches (61-69 cm.) Bitches 22-25 inches (56-63 cm.)
Weight: Dogs 95-130 pounds (43-59 kg.) Bitches 85-115 pounds (38-52 kg.)

Health Problems: This breed is susceptible to ACL damage. Prone to hip dysplasia. Tends to snore and overeat. Also prone to entropion (narrowing of the slit between the eyelids).

Living Conditions: The Rottie will do okay in an apartment if it is sufficiently exercised. They are relatively inactive indoors and a small yard will be sufficient.

Exercise: The Rottweiler needs plenty of exercise. You can’t give these robust dogs too much work or exercise; they thrive on it. Running in the woods and in open country makes them very happy and they have no desire to wander from you. Swimming or running beside a bicycle are perfect activities for this dog and it also loves retrieving a ball.

Life Expectancy: About 10-12 years.

Grooming: The smooth, glossy coat is easy to groom. Brush with a firm bristle brush and bathe only when necessary. This breed is an average shedder.

Origin: The Rottweiler is probably descended from the Italian Mastiff. During the Middle Ages, it was used as a herd dog. It was bred in the German town of Rottweil in Wurttemberg. Practically extinct in the 1800’s, the breed population began a comeback in the early twentieth century due to the efforts of enthusiastic breeders centered in Stuttgart. Some of the Rottweilers talents include: tracking, herding, watchdogging, guarding, police work, carting, competitive obedience, and schutzhund.

Group: Mastiff, AKC Working

Recognition: CKC, FCI, AKC, UKC, KCGB, CKC, ANKC, NKC, NZKC, APRI, ACR

(Source: http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/rottweiler.htm)

I want a Rottie. It has all the character traits that I want from a dog. Haha. The best thing is that it’s a Category B dog in Singapore, which means that it is not banned and does not have to be sterilsed. Yay~ Plus point is that it can live in an apartment!!!! That’s good since there are many high rise buildings in Singapore.

But uh, my parents won’t like the idea of it. Oh well, we’ll see how it goes.

But I still want a Rottie.

Oh boy, oh boy, I really do need to complain! *sighs* A lot of things have been happening and I really think LAR really has this damn attitude or mental problem. XW’s got heaps to complain about. I really can understand her plight. Or rather, the situation. I almost died when I had to go through a bit of it during my summer vacation back in Singapore. Liews! XW damn power can! LoLz~

LAR really thinks that her way of thinking and doing things are always the best and the correct one. Well, for one thing, she focus too much on one thing and forgets about the BIG picture. Honestly, maybe she needs a partner or a lover to help her out man. Perhaps she’s too tight in the ass that she cannot even think straight.

Yeah, if anything, I am pretty pissed off at her. Thanks to her, and ET too, a lot of things get delayed like real, real bad. And even made things difficult for XW, KK and YB man. Bah! The two of them = smelly cunts. Poop!

Okay, I think I’ve let out enough steam for now. Hee~

I tried my best to log down all that happened about the crash of diary-x’s. I must say that I didn’t really log down a whole lot of things. But this is what I managed to do. It’s damn hard to say goodbye to all those memories; beautiful or ugly. But I certainly had a wonderful time blogging there. It was really more than a blog or a journal. It was practically my life in my perspective, written in my own words. There won’t be a time which I could say “let me take a look at what happened in the past.” I can never say that for the things that I blogged about since 1st July 2003 till 12th February 2006. I don’t know how to fill in this void, but I guess it’s time for closure, that is, if I can even manage it. I just hope that I’ll be smarter enough this time to keep backups. Right now, I’m not entirely sure if I can continue or if I should continue with those episodes. It seems incomplete. But well, nothing really feels like diary-x no matter where I change my blog address to. I’m sticking it here for now and I hope that nothing of the same nature would happen or that I would somehow lose my blog again.

Monday, February 27th, 2006
12:23 pm
Quick by Dallas Morning News, February 27, 2006
Journal Web Site Wiped Out

Diary-X, an online journaling community, has been shut down because of a drive failure.

“All journals, user information, forum posts, templates, images, and everything else are all irrecoverably lost,” site founder Stephen Deken said in a post.

Diary-X.com was founded in 2000, and by last year hosted an estimated 120,000 journals.

There is a database at the site where former users can list their new blog sites and contact information.

– From ‘Quick’, a publication of the Dallas Morning News. http://quickDFW.com/

(This is officially more press attention than we ever got while actually running. Sigh.)

Sunday, February 26th, 2006
4:28 pm
There’s a page on diary-x.com for you to enter your forwarding information now, as well as a limited amount of information about the ‘reborn’ diary-x.

Thanks!

On diary-x website:

February 26, 2006

There is now a simple database up where you can enter your forwarding information. Unfortunately I can’t keep forwarding your email, because I don’t know whose email is supposed to go where anymore. But this database should let you meet up with people, wherever they went off to.

Tons of people have asked me to keep the site open. I know that it’s a shock to have this gone away so completely and so suddenly. Unfortunately, I am in no position to re-open the site, purely from a time perspective. A group of dedicated Diary-Xers are getting together to revive the site under a different name, starting with what’s left of the code. I will be participating in that project, but I will not be running it.

If you’re interested in helping, watch this space. When things get set up, I’ll post more information here. The team is going to need talented designers, programmers who are familiar with Perl and PHP, and people with good writing skills.

I’ll post more when I know it.

Stephen Deken
stephen.deken@gmail.com

Dear Friends,

There is no easy way for me to say this.

Diary-X has suffered from an unrecoverable drive failure. Due to a combination of issues, the last backup (from December 2004) contained only configuration files and other non-essential files. We do not have any other backups for the site. All journals, user information, forum posts, templates, images, and everything else are all irrecoverably lost.

In the past several hours, I have had to decide whether or not I should put the site back online at all. Only those users who backed up their own journals (either using the journal download tool or otherwise saving each entry) would be able to reconstruct their journals. Everyone else would have to start over. Whatever developed as a result would still be called Diary-X, but it wouldn’t be the same.

I believe it makes the most sense to close Diary-X permanently. Tentatively, the site will go dark on March 31st, 2006.

Thank you for being so generous with your donations during this crisis. Your generosity and kind words were the sole bright spots during this disaster. If you would like a refund, please send an e-mail to mdeken@gmail.com with your name and PayPal e-mail address, and we will process it as soon as we can, hopefully within 24 hours.

If you would like to discuss this matter further, you may contact me at the address below. I will do my best to answer your questions if they were not addressed here.

Regretfully,

Stephen Deken
stephen.deken@gmail.com

Q. What happened with the drive? I thought DriveSavers was the best.
A. I had a long conversation with the engineer that worked on the drive. What happened was that the read heads slipped slightly out of alignment and began what is known as ‘head skip,’ which means that the heads skipped along the platters like a stone across water. Each time they hit the platters, they destroyed a little bit of data (somewhere around 256 bytes). Because they were skipping, they were reading bad data, so the drive attempted to compensate by moving the heads away and back again, which caused the heads to skip into more areas, which the drive then attempted to read from, which moved the head and caused more damage. Given that the drive spins at 7200 RPM, a few hours worth of this type of treatment just completely hosed the drive. DriveSavers was able to get ‘fragments of files,’ but they were not able to recover anything substantial at all. The physical damage was just too extensive.

Friday, February 24th, 2006
10:42 pm
The Final Update.
The site has been updated.

I’m sorry.

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
8:56 am
Current Status
So here’s the word from DriveSavers: the drive has physical damage, but not anything really scary — no gouges or scratches or broken parts. What they’ve primarily run into so far is areas of the platters which have less magnetic media than they should. This isn’t necessarily bad — hard drives are built to work around those sorts of areas (bad sectors) — but it could be an indication that a read head was rubbing up against the platter.

They should have a better idea of what the prognosis is on Friday. We should be back online by the end of next week. Again, I’ll keep you informed as I learn more.

Sunday, February 19th, 2006
9:34 am
Frequently Asked Questions
There is now a FAQ up, so that everyone can hate me in a fully educated and informed way.

Thanks!

Thursday, February 16th, 2006
5.56pm
Donations still needed
I’m not very good at this whole ‘business’ thing, apparently.

It’s been recently pointed out to me that although we’ve raised the money to do the data recovery, we still need funds to cover the following things:

1. Bandwidth for this month (which will be light, naturally) and the next few months
2. Hardware upgrades (RAID controller, new hard drives)
3. Normal operational costs (co-location) for the next few months

This reason for the ‘next few months’ part is that, with the Plus! subscriptions being given to those who donated, and with this massive extended downtime, the rate of Plus! subscriptions is going to fall for a while.

So, the point is, it was a mistake for me to imply that no more donations were necessary. Your donations will still help Diary-X get back onto its feet.

Update — I just remembered I’ve got mugs and buttons and patches that have been laying around forever that I can get rid of now

$25 or more gets you a set, so if you’d like one, please chip in. If you’ve already donated $25 or more, you’ll still get these if you want them.

Thanks!

Stephen said:
Thursday, February 16th, 7:47 AM CST (GMT - 8:00)

–
Stephen Deken

update:
Its in Oakland

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
10.34pm
Ok Please Stop Donating
We’ve got $1300 in the fund. Anything donated now just goes toward repairing my personal machine and saving up for a rainy Diary-X day. Site’s been updated.

$1300 in 24 hours — that’s definitely a record for Diary-X.

More to follow as it happens.

10.21am
The State Of Things As I Know It™ 2
The following has happened:

1. The order for my new computer has been canceled in lieu light of these events. [ed: I am retarded.]
2. We have raised, apparently, $900 since last night. Thank you all for your help — I was not relishing the thought of having to spring $1200. With the $1500 from the computer donations, we’ve got $2400, which is probably enough to cover the cost of the recovery. I can’t update the site from work, and several people have told me that I should not dare to remove the donation link until Friday, so it will stay up, but I’ll put a note saying that the money has been gathered and no further donations are necessary.
3. The drive is being shipped out to the recovery company today.
4. I have tickets open with our host to get a RAID array installed into the box, preferably RAID 5. I’m also asking them to make sure we have the data drive physically separated from the boot drive.
5. Happy Valentine’s day. Do you like me? Check one [ ] Yes [ ] No

Monday, February 13th, 2006
9.44pm
Repairs Begin Tomorrow
The in-house techs finally got back to me (at 6:00 my time, just in time for me to get home and get dinner started, hooray!) and said, essentially, they’d tried everything they have the capability to try and they were unable to read the drive. So, now we have to ship it off to DriveSavers and see what they have to say about it. They are closed for the day, however, and we don’t have any shipping information or a tracking number, so I’m going to call them and arrange it first thing tomorrow morning.

When I called them earlier today, I told them it was a 40GB IDE drive, but it’s actually an 80GB SATA drive. I don’t know what the exact figures are for that specification — they have a sliding scale based on the amount of data they need to recover and the complexity of the recovery process — so I had to use the information I had.

I’m accepting donations at this time, at the behest of just about everyone. I still intend to cancel the order for the new computer, because it’s pointless for me to have a shiny new computer if there’s nothing for me to work on.

The site has been updated with a note explaining what the current status is and a link to donate via PayPal. Once we have a solid estimate from DriveSavers I’ll update the site with the final figure and/or stop donations if we’ve already got enough.

Everyone’s been so great. We’ll get through this one way or another.

9.36am
Current Status
I’m waiting for my contact at the data center to get back to me; I don’t know at this point whether they got the drive working or not.

I spoke to DriveSavers this morning and got a quote for the services which might be required. It will cost between $500 and $2700 for them to recover the data, depending on the scope of the damage. They won’t be able to give a more specific estimate until they recieve the drive and can inspect it, but the charges will not exceed the $2700 figure. I also spoke to Apple and confirmed that I can cancel the order for the machine at any time until it ships, which is estimated to be on the 22nd.

So at this point it’s a waiting game. The drive can almost certainly be recovered, it’s just a question of how long it will take and how much it will cost.

As always, I’ll keep you updated.

–sjd;

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

9.54pm
Status Update
To prevent the same questions from being asked multiple times, here is the Current State Of Things As I Know It™:

1. The hard drive that held all of Diary-X has failed. This means that all journal entries, templates, images, forum posts, user information, and everything else is on a hard drive that is no longer functional. This does not mean that the data is no longer THERE — just that it’s trapped on a hard drive which does not work.

2. We cannot restore from a backup because the last backup performed was in December 2004. (Of course, we could restore from that backup, but merging any changes made since then with changes made after then would get too confusing too quickly.) The fact that backups were not performed is entirely my fault; I disabled them.

3. It is possible that the data can be recovered. The drive is physically in good condition (not burned, broken in two, or otherwise obviously damaged), so it may be possible to have it repaired. Currently, technicians are working on recovery in-house in the data center. If they cannot recover the data in-house, the drive will be sent to DriveSavers, a dedicated recovery facility. It could be tied up there for two weeks or more, depending on what the problem is.

4. You must prepare yourself for the possibility that the drive is damaged beyond repair and that all of the journals which were once hosted on Diary-X are gone. Like you, I hope that this is not the case. I have nine years of data stored on that hard drive, and Diary-X is only a part of it. I promise you that I’m going to do everything in my power to recover it completely.

5. I just ordered a new development machine using money that was contributed by the users. If we need to have the drive recovered using DriveSavers, I intend to cancel this order. The greater need right now is to get Diary-X back online, and I don’t think it’s appropriate to ask for more money after having taken advantage of your kindness to buy myself a new computer.

I think that’s all; I’ll update this with answers to other questions if necessary.

–sjd;

3.45pm
Diary-X is DOWN (but not out)
A drive (on the actual real server, NOT on my personal development box) failed utterly without warning about four hours ago. Definition of irony: my personal drive, while still making sick noises, seems to be generally working fine. Go figure.

I have been informed that the boot drive is “completely hosed” and that they’re swapping it out for a new one. Please note that the journal data and all of the other mission-critical data is all stored on a different physical drive, and I’ve not heard any indication that there’s a problem with that drive. As far as I know right now, it won’t even be necessary to restore from backup.

If we do have to restore from backup, this could take several more hours to repair. I’ll keep you all informed.

The journal data was stored on the same physical drive as the boot partition. This means that everything is stored on the failed drive. See the next post for more details.

By the way, enough money was raised via begging to buy a new machine, which has already been ordered. It should be here by the end of the month.

I’ll keep you guys updated as to what’s going on.

–sjd;

Diary-x isn’t going to recover. I guess I’m going to have to make this space my home. *sighs* This is what happened.

February 26, 2006

There is now a simple database up where you can enter your forwarding information. Unfortunately I can’t keep forwarding your email, because I don’t know whose email is supposed to go where anymore. But this database should let you meet up with people, wherever they went off to.

Tons of people have asked me to keep the site open. I know that it’s a shock to have this gone away so completely and so suddenly. Unfortunately, I am in no position to re-open the site, purely from a time perspective. A group of dedicated Diary-Xers are getting together to revive the site under a different name, starting with what’s left of the code. I will be participating in that project, but I will not be running it.

If you’re interested in helping, watch this space. When things get set up, I’ll post more information here. The team is going to need talented designers, programmers who are familiar with Perl and PHP, and people with good writing skills.

I’ll post more when I know it.

Stephen Deken
stephen.deken@gmail.com

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February 24, 2006

Dear Friends,

There is no easy way for me to say this.

Diary-X has suffered from an unrecoverable drive failure. Due to a combination of issues, the last backup (from December 2004) contained only configuration files and other non-essential files. We do not have any other backups for the site. All journals, user information, forum posts, templates, images, and everything else are all irrecoverably lost.

In the past several hours, I have had to decide whether or not I should put the site back online at all. Only those users who backed up their own journals (either using the journal download tool or otherwise saving each entry) would be able to reconstruct their journals. Everyone else would have to start over. Whatever developed as a result would still be called Diary-X, but it wouldn’t be the same.

I believe it makes the most sense to close Diary-X permanently. Tentatively, the site will go dark on March 31st, 2006.

Thank you for being so generous with your donations during this crisis. Your generosity and kind words were the sole bright spots during this disaster. If you would like a refund, please send an e-mail to mdeken@gmail.com with your name and PayPal e-mail address, and we will process it as soon as we can, hopefully within 24 hours.

If you would like to discuss this matter further, you may contact me at the address below. I will do my best to answer your questions if they were not addressed here.

Regretfully,

Stephen Deken
stephen.deken@gmail.com

Q. What happened with the drive? I thought DriveSavers was the best.
A. I had a long conversation with the engineer that worked on the drive. What happened was that the read heads slipped slightly out of alignment and began what is known as ‘head skip,’ which means that the heads skipped along the platters like a stone across water. Each time they hit the platters, they destroyed a little bit of data (somewhere around 256 bytes). Because they were skipping, they were reading bad data, so the drive attempted to compensate by moving the heads away and back again, which caused the heads to skip into more areas, which the drive then attempted to read from, which moved the head and caused more damage. Given that the drive spins at 7200 RPM, a few hours worth of this type of treatment just completely hosed the drive. DriveSavers was able to get ‘fragments of files,’ but they were not able to recover anything substantial at all. The physical damage was just too extensive.

It’s just so sudden. And so sad. =(( Memories since 1st July 2003… till Feb 2006… The most painful thing I felt was that I lost all my blog stuff and my memories that were in the private blog on diary-x. Yeap, I double blogged. And that made me feel that somehow, I lost a huge part of my heart when the news came about diary-x not being able to be recovered.

Through the LiveJournal forum for DXers, I managed to google out one of the archive page of my blog and view it as a cached page. This was what I saw.

December 2005
30 Dec 2005 - How to ask your Boss for a salary increase..?
29 Dec 2005 - The chain letter that puts all others to shame!
29 Dec 2005 - One-Liners
29 Dec 2005 - Cat or Dog?
29 Dec 2005 - Let’s ponder ….
29 Dec 2005 - Updates
29 Dec 2005 - Jokes to share…
12 Dec 2005 - Damn it!
11 Dec 2005 - Wheee~
11 Dec 2005 - Cats Fact
07 Dec 2005 - Secret Lives of Dogs
07 Dec 2005 - The Case
07 Dec 2005 - What were the debts?
07 Dec 2005 - Some letters from the forum…
07 Dec 2005 - Satan’s Meeting
06 Dec 2005 - Cats!
02 Dec 2005 - Updates! =)
02 Dec 2005 - The Death Penalty Part Three
02 Dec 2005 - The Death Penalty Part Two
02 Dec 2005 - The Death Penalty

November 2005
18 Nov 2005 - Episode 11
16 Nov 2005 - Updates & a Stupid Wedding
10 Nov 2005 - =)
09 Nov 2005 - And then…
09 Nov 2005 - Back in Singapore…
09 Nov 2005 - On the way back to Singapore…
03 Nov 2005 - Cooler day
03 Nov 2005 - Good Use of Notes…
02 Nov 2005 - Hot!
01 Nov 2005 - PZ got hit by a can of mushrooms!

October 2005
31 Oct 2005 - It’s HALLOWEEN!
30 Oct 2005 - heeelllllooooooooooo!
29 Oct 2005 - Updates!
25 Oct 2005 - hmm… death penalty?
23 Oct 2005 - Tenjewberrymuds
23 Oct 2005 - Degraded?
22 Oct 2005 - I haven’t blogged at all in days…
20 Oct 2005 - Good read!
19 Oct 2005 - Lao Lian…
17 Oct 2005 - Eh…
16 Oct 2005 - Memories…
16 Oct 2005 - Hehe
16 Oct 2005 - Shopping Day…
15 Oct 2005 - Doing things alone…
15 Oct 2005 - Yesterday…
13 Oct 2005 - Lunching Alone…
13 Oct 2005 - Take Hold of Every Moment
13 Oct 2005 - Abraham Lincoln & John F Kennedy - Matter of 100 years difference..!
13 Oct 2005 - Far Away From Home
13 Oct 2005 - [Joke] At the Pearly Gates…
12 Oct 2005 - Yay!
11 Oct 2005 - Just popped in…
10 Oct 2005 - To Be With You
10 Oct 2005 - My Re-Enrolment
09 Oct 2005 - It’s time…
06 Oct 2005 - Calamari Rings and Chicken & Chip Salt and the Darling Boy!
05 Oct 2005 - More Birthday Shoutouts
04 Oct 2005 - t.o.d.a.y
04 Oct 2005 - Gross…
03 Oct 2005 - Food from the Heart’s ‘Crumbs of Kindness’ Charity Lunchbox Sale
03 Oct 2005 - Hols are ending… or rather, have ended…
02 Oct 2005 - Episode 10

September 2005
30 Sep 2005 - Last day of the month…
29 Sep 2005 - Many Thank Yous…
29 Sep 2005 - More Birthday Shoutouts
28 Sep 2005 - Quick one…
25 Sep 2005 - Episode 9
25 Sep 2005 - Marie
25 Sep 2005 - Marie Biscuit
25 Sep 2005 - All About Me…
24 Sep 2005 - Episode 8
24 Sep 2005 - Shoutouts!
23 Sep 2005 - Episode 7
23 Sep 2005 - finally!
21 Sep 2005 - What has been happening…
20 Sep 2005 - Quizzes
16 Sep 2005 - Episode 6
15 Sep 2005 - Updates
12 Sep 2005 - Episode 5
12 Sep 2005 - Joke - Amazingly simple home remedies
11 Sep 2005 - Joke - Gay Worker
11 Sep 2005 - Right…
11 Sep 2005 - Episode 4
08 Sep 2005 - Just blogging~
08 Sep 2005 - 9 Months Later…
08 Sep 2005 - Joke…
08 Sep 2005 - Episode 3
07 Sep 2005 - Life in the 1500s
07 Sep 2005 - =)
05 Sep 2005 - Episode 2
03 Sep 2005 - Monk’s Hill Guides
03 Sep 2005 - blabber…
02 Sep 2005 - Episode 1
01 Sep 2005 - updates!!!!

August 2005
21 Aug 2005 - ahhh…
14 Aug 2005 - haiyayayaya…
14 Aug 2005 - more ghastly pics!
09 Aug 2005 - ghastly photos!!!
09 Aug 2005 - it’s national day…
08 Aug 2005 - pix pixs pixxys!
08 Aug 2005 - Since U Been Gone
07 Aug 2005 - oh drats!
07 Aug 2005 - something interesting…
05 Aug 2005 - he’s back!
04 Aug 2005 - oh no!
03 Aug 2005 - good week @ school

July 2005
30 Jul 2005 - What age do you act?
28 Jul 2005 - Another interesting lesson
27 Jul 2005 - great day at school!
22 Jul 2005 - well well well…
21 Jul 2005 - SARDARJI IN MEDICAL SCHOOL…
20 Jul 2005 - latest updates

June 2005
29 Jun 2005 - Long Time…
19 Jun 2005 - Wonderful BS
17 Jun 2005 - OMG!
17 Jun 2005 - BS…
10 Jun 2005 - Deadly Housemates
05 Jun 2005 - what do you think?
05 Jun 2005 - why i hate monash green drive
01 Jun 2005 - Love & Marriage - Men Never Learn

May 2005
30 May 2005 - school term
26 May 2005 - okay…
06 May 2005 - pics of Oreo
02 May 2005 - how to get online
01 May 2005 - the need to blog

April 2005
21 Apr 2005 - Joke: Ah Pek & Ah Ma
16 Apr 2005 - it’s the weekend again
09 Apr 2005 - rants
01 Apr 2005 - Dogs

March 2005
30 Mar 2005 - Positive Side of Life
30 Mar 2005 - amused…
29 Mar 2005 - Ladies and Gentlemen…
27 Mar 2005 - What To Say When You’re Caught Sleeping At Your Desk
27 Mar 2005 - Life of a Singaporean
24 Mar 2005 - alrites.
14 Mar 2005 - long time…
05 Mar 2005 - Joke: Ten Commandments in Marriage

February 2005
10 Feb 2005 - Dreams
09 Feb 2005 - cny…
07 Feb 2005 - departure date…

January 2005
31 Jan 2005 - my programme for later…
18 Jan 2005 - alrites.
14 Jan 2005 - quit…
12 Jan 2005 - meaning of names~
11 Jan 2005 - Boredification
09 Jan 2005 - update..?
06 Jan 2005 - 29…
05 Jan 2005 - work…

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This is just what I had on my public blog. But I had heaps more on my private blog. Damn! I feel so sucky about this whole thing. =(

I’m almost done with my packing… I’m just left with my trusted laptop. Hee~ But the thing is, I cannot find my key chain! Araghz!

I’m so glad that people donated to save d-x! They raised $1300 or was it $1200 in 24 hours. Not bad eh? Hee~ I hope that all the journals will be saved!

Here’s what the latest post said:

Tuesday, February 14th, 10:22 PM CST (GMT - 8:00)

Ok woah! We’ve reached the required $1200 that we needed. Combined with the $1500 from the previous drive, we have enough to cover the cost of the repair. We’ve sent the drive out to the recovery facility and we should hear back in a few days (hopefully by end of day on Thursday) what the status is.

Several people have told me that I should under no circumstances remove the donation button, so it’s still present down below. However, donations are no longer necessary. You’re still welcome to donate, of course! If nothing else, the money will go toward the general server fund.

If you are a Diary-X user, save your PayPal receipt — I will be giving pro-rated Plus! subscriptions to everyone who donated. This means some folks are going to wind up with several year’s worth of Plus!. If you’re not a Diary-X user and you donated, God bless you for helping us out.
Once again, many folks (including me) are talking about this over in the Diary-X Community at LiveJournal. Thanks again for your support!

—
Stephen Deken
stephen.deken@gmail.com

My key chain is a nici flibbie. It’s even got the Singapore Flag embroided on it! *sighs* I asked PZ if she could help me find it when she goes out shopping. Hee~ I hope there still is stock left.

Uh, lemme see… I lost a lot of stuff things stuff (for the lack of a better word) this holiday… Hmm… I think I ought to list them down.

I lost…
1. My Grandmother (she passed away due to weak health during the last days)
2. My Flibbie Key Chain with Singapore Flag
3. My ProjectShopBloodBrothers card holder
4. My Happy House Pig Mouse Pad
5. Money (It dropped from my bag)
6. My Card Print
7. My old blog (that is, if the data cannot be recovered from the hard disk)

Now, isn’t that a lot of stuff that I’ve lost? Talk about being unlucky man. But I’m sure as hell glad that the maid has gone back (of her own free will).

Alright. I better go do all my other stuffs. I’ll see when I can blog again.

I’ve been packing almost the whole day. Okay, not exactly the whole day. Xue Ting, Shumin and Carolina came over for a while. We had heaps of fun playing UNO Stacko! Hahaha. Okay, we also had a bit of gossiping also. Haha.

Kinda feel out of touch with them though. Seems like they’re all growing up all so fast. Hee~ I mean, some of them already graduated from secondary school and are already going on to post secondary education already!!! Hee~

Oh yes, I’m rather worried that the luggage with be overweight. I sure hope that it will not! :S Hmm… I hope there won’t be any hiccups at the airport.

And I miss Diary-x! It’s fun to blog there!!! Okay, I’m just used to blogging there. But it’s also nice to blog here too!

*sighs* Gonna fly 6027km away from him. Gonna miss him like crazy. And Hugo too! *big sigh*