Swordie Bloggie

It’s 1am and my site is having trouble showing pictures or puling some other files… I’m going to sleep now. If the problem still there when I wake up later, then I have to open a ticket with my hots… 🙁

I’ve been MAXIS post-paid customer for more than 5 years. Suddenly MAXIS become so generous to me… or izzit they want to rip-off my money? Yesterday and today, I received 2 SIM cards delivered through courier.

According to MAXIS who called me, both SIMs carries VIP number… 012-XXXX773. My existing number is a ‘special’ number with the 773 at the back. Both are actually ‘supplementary line’. The monthly rental is $10 without contract… meaning I can terminate it anytime I likes.

Well, I’m thinking of getting the one with the best numbers…

Last week I burned $10,000.00, not for buying stuff for myself but paying someone else trouble! You see, a family member started a business a couple of years back. I or we were not aware or really don’t know how he manages to get a few personal loans from the banks. On top of that, he also borrows money from ‘along’, the unlicensed money lenders. So, all together his loans come to around $200,000.00, minus the interest.

Recently, his business was not doing well. His repayments are getting late… and the ‘along’ don’t like it… and they are very rough too. He has no way but to ask help from us. So, the moral of the stories is, if you plan to get a loan, be it secured homeowner loan or any other loans, get it from a reputable financial entity.

I’ve been waiting for sponsorship of $1,500.00… It is for Charity Dinner by KESITER, sports club of Jabatan Perkhidmatan Komputer Negeri Sabah. Ben and Kupi have blogged about it in their blog few months back. Kupi has asked me to promote it in my blog, so now I’m doing my bits

Today, I received the $1,500.00… it is a sponsorship for one table. The table of 10 will be given to my colleagues… and if they are working hard for me, I will allow them to bring their spouse or partner… ha ha ha…

The proceeds of the charity is to buy some wheelchairs… frankly, I’m not sure what is the target number of wheelchairs… but if you plan to come or sponsor… please check it out at Ben’s blog.

The highlights of the dinner will be the performance by Velvet AF the Malatup! KESITER have to ‘agree’ on certain ‘condition’ by her ‘manager’… one of it is ‘BODYGUARD’… and two of the event organizer told me that…. I can be the BODYGUARD… ha ha ha… no way lah… but if they really serious and they can’t find any… emm… I will think about it… but for now… no way lah…

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My plan C fail… there were still “toing toing”. Since there was no one interacting with the notebook last night in the office, the process was halted till I reach the office today.

So, this time I made another plan… Plan D. I installed the SyncToy into the new notebook. This will cut 1 process compared to Plan C. I mapped the shared folder in the old notebook into the new notebook. Then I fired SyncToy, created the profile and run it. It went smoothly… until the “toing” appears again. I fixed the “long file name” on the old notebook and re-run the SyncToy… until everything transfered… clap clap clap… wasted almost the whole day checking the notebooks from time to time  to see if it got “toing”…

How much do you believe with what published on the newspaper?.. Here is one example…

On Wednesday, there was a trailer carrying container fell on it right side at Donggongon… specifically at the Montis roundabout. I saw the trailer already lying on its right side on my way to work around 8.30am. At the office, I told my colleague about it. They said, they seen it too… I asked them what time they saw it, they said it was there since 6.30am… so it must be earlier… maybe early in the morning like 5am… Looking at where the trailer heading, it looks like heading to Tambunan or Keningau.

OK, I believe you already get the story by now… right from the people who actually saw it with their own eyes. But imagine if you don’t have any other source… read what published on the newspaper the next day… unless it was a typo error… 3pm instead of 3am… and unless the trailer actually did a 360 degrees spin before it fell!

Internet has become part of our life. Today, we are accessing internet not only through personal computer but through our mobile phone. Those who are using internet for their daily life or work, without the internet, you will feel empty… some might go berserk!

Internet is not only used to do research or for entertainment but for making real money. Like me, in the beginning, internet is part of my work for doing research and at the same time for entertainment like online games. But ever since my friend introduced me to blogging for money, blogging has changed my life completely.

My friend introduced me with a blog marketing called Pay Per Post or PPP a few months ago. He is already making money with PPP… and when he showed me his Pay Pal account statement, I never think twice but jump straight into the blogging fun. After that, everything just changed. I started reading more about stuff on the internet which I never want to read before. I started sleeping late till 3am or 4am. But everthing is just fun and exciting with PPP. I’ve made few hundreds dollars in less then 3 months with PPP… that is so cool! If you are not into blogging for money yet, you should try it… and go for Pay Per Post first, you will surely make money!

Today someone asked me to backup or transfer his data from his old notebook to his new notebook. I did not expect some unexpected crop up…

Plan A… I setup both notebook on a network so it can talk to each other. Shared the whole D drive of the old notebook. Old notebook running on XP and the new notebook running on Vista. Explore the old notebook from the new notebook and “drag & drop” all the shared contents into Backup folder in new notebook. It took more than 3 hours to complete the transfer of the 40GB data. The network is running at 100mbps… if I used the WiFi, I think the process will take 8 hours… unfortunately some 90 files were not transfered because their file name are too long… and the worst part, the Vista only tell me there are 90 files not tranfered… damm… there are thousands of files and folder, how am I going to compare the contents in the shortest time.

Plan B… I said, forget about that… I’m going to transfer the file into Network Attached Storage (NAS). Luckily, my 1TB Maxtor NAS arrived yesterday. So, from the old notebook, I just “drag & drop” the contents into the network drive…. unfortunately, the same problem occur… double damm…

Plan C… I remember I have SyncToy in my notebook. From my notebook, I mapped the shared folder from both notebook as drive P: and drive O: on my notebook. Then I fired SyncToy and create a profile to make a mirror image of drive P: to drive O:. Run the profile… cool it’s running very fast… then “toing”… the windows error message appears telling me file x has too long name… so I went to the old notebook and rename it. Then re-run the SyncToy. The “toing” repeated a few more times and I fix the files name everytime it “toing”. I left it running… since it’s already 6.30pm and I need to rush to buy 4D… I just left it running in the office… We’ll see tomorrow if it works….

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