You might be wondering why I have not blogged for the past 3 days. Here is the account. The Trilogy of Ups and Downs.
Monday 21 June 2004
I can't really remember the details what happened then but I did not have enough sleep and I went to the Philharmonic at KLCC to watch the Count Basie Orchestra with my mother. They are a jazz orchestra with a piano, a guitar, a double bass, a hell of a drummer, four saxophones, four trombones and four trumpets. They were really good. There was also a jazz singer who came with the band and sang some songs with the them. His name is Chris Murell. He was quite good. My mom and I met him outside promoting cds during intermission. I'm taller than him haha. My mom got him to autograph a cd we bought from him "To Noel Chang, Chris Murell". He was quite friendly too but I guess that is just part of being in show business.
Went home and Shawn discussed with me about the next day going to do medical check up and upgrading computer.
Tuesday 22 2004
Shawn came about 9am in the morning and we set off to a clinic near my house in Uptown. This clinic that we went was one of the panel doctors that the Australian Hicom appointed. When we went there we realized that we forgot out photographs for the form. I rang my dad and got him to bring it for me as it was so near my place while Shawn had make some at nearby photoshops. When we got to the clinic, the receptionist told us the doctor was on one week leave. What the hell man.
So we went back to my place so I could asked my father where were the other doctors on the list located. Next choice was somewhere in SS2. Playing safe I decided to make appointments first.
We set off for this clinic in SS2 and found it with much ease thanks to my father's knowledge of Klang Valley. There was nobody at the clinic waiting so we just filled our forms and went in to see the doctor. This doctor had a chinese name but he sure did not look chinese to me. All the medical checkup involved was taking blood pressure, checking breathing, the weight and the height. Oh yeah and the nurse decided that we should piss in the cup for good measures. All that for RM60. After that we had to go to Damansara Specialist Hospital to get our x-ray done.
On one of the roads to that hospital we were wondering why the other drivers were looking and behaving at us weird. Some guy suddenly pulled to our left and we had to go around him on the right. Shawn was quite agitated at this time. Upon turning into the hospital I suddenly noticed a 'One Way Street' sign. <_<
When we were looking for parking in the hospital, again we went against the flow. This was just a bad day. I thought taking x-ray would be very hectic and would involve big machinary. The only hectic part was waiting for my turn to get radiated. All it needed was for me to take off my shirt and press my torso against this board as well as my elbows. The board would vibrate for a while and thats it. All done.
We had lunch at Taman Tun for probably one of the last times there at LMS. A coffee shop that sells chap fan; mixed rice. The name of that place never seems to amuse me LMS. I usually find it easier to call it LMF. While Shawn was finding a car park I went to my college to certify my transcript and semester results. Ms. Jamie was not around so I told Yus that I would pick it up after I went for lunch which I never did because I was lazy to go back there not knowing if Ms. Jamie would be available or not.
Next adventure was to Low Yat to upgrade our pcs..
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Along the way we picked up one of Shawn's friend Sharune, alias Koross on mRO. That is where I met him. When I saw him in person he didn't look like what I expected. I thought he would be some skinny tall guy with short curly hair. He turned out to be some okay built guy same height as Shawn, shorter than me, wearing glasses has a moustache and medium length hair gelled backwards. The reason why Shawn brought him along was because he was lazy to drive.
But the way how I saw it was extra hand to carry other things when Shawn and I are busy lugging our pcs around.
I really hate Jalan Tun Perak. That place is always jammed at all time of the day. We spent like what seemed to be a couple of hours stuck in the jam.
We got into Low Yat, went to our regular shop and got a quotation and went down to the car parked at B4 carried our computers all the way to level 3. The dude there said it would be ready in 1 hour or so. So we went off to Sungai Wang to walk around. We spent like a couple of hours there. On the way back to Low Yat we saw that dude and he had the guts to tell us that our computers were not ready yet. He said one hour before and we gave him two hours!!!
So we got into Low Yat and had a drink somewhere.
After that we went back up to collect our computers. I have never carried so much money around in my pocket in my life. A thick wad of fifties. We carried our computers back to B4 and went back up to level 3 to buy cd-rs and me, a keyboard. You should see the condition of my previous keyboard. Letterings gone and all and it was not sensitive anymore. Shawn says due to too much Street Fighter.
We jammed all the way back to PJ again.
Once I got back I could not get working on my computer yet. I had to go to my uncle's place for dinner which again wasn't to my liking. Once I got back I worked on my computer right away.
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First there was a conflict with the harddisk. It took me a while to figure out how to set my new harddisk as the primary one even though physically it was already the master. Once I got that done and installed my operating system, five minutes after I connected to the internet I got hit by some stupid gaobot virus. I deleted the virus but it kept coming back. Spent the whole night thinking how to prevent it from coming back.
Wednesday 23 June 2004
Woke up straight away worked on the computer. Here I was kept deleting the virus and it kept coming back and me not knowing how to prevent that from happening. One time when I got rid of that worm. A different one came alone something called Valla.
At night I finally noticed my windows was not updating itself to protect itself from the worms. So I manually downloaded the patches and then removed the virus. Now I am free! Wuahahaha...
Well it was not as short and simple as I wrote. But I do not really wanna recored the whole ordeal.