October 2005

It’s not just a stupid game

Posted on October 30, 2005 at 9:07 pm in

Every time I’m upset, I clutch a framed photo of half-nekkid van Nistelrooy I keep under my pillows and cry my eyes out.

Last night, as I watched beloved Manchester United crash to a humiliating away loss 1-4 to Middlesborough, I stormed straight into my room to pull out the photo… only to find it wasn’t there.

My upset turned into steaming anger in a split second, and I screamed. Never mind that it was 2 in the fucking AM. I picked up the phone.

“MA!! WHERE IS THE PHOTO I KEEP UNDER MY PILLOW?!”

Because she had my sheets changed without my permission. I told her time and again never to let anyone change my sheets, especially when the van Nistelrooy sheet set is used. As for the photo? She threw it away. Oh my gawd, SHE THREW AWAY MY FRAMED PHOTO OF MY DARLING?!

I’m not as shocked as I should be, because of the things she said after, when I frantically retrieved the photo from the pile of newspapers in was placed with, meant for the garbage can.

“I didn’t think you wanted that.”

Dude, I keep it under my pillow. And it’s framed. Of course I want it. Jeebus.

“Why are you so into that stupid game?”

It ain’t stupid to me.

“Girls shouldn’t like football.”

She threw out my van Nistelrooy photo, and decides to take a swipe at a sport I enjoy? Oh, I know in her mind she would love to tear down all my Manchester United posters and pennants; smash the beer mug and coffee cups; burn Ruud Bear, scarf, sublimation flag, bedsheets, books and hero jerseys; but she wouldn’t dare, not since I’ve gotten older, stronger and smarter with collateral.

After talking to Haz, I spent the night clutching the photo, trying to forget the awful things I heard. I’d rather live with the humiliating loss than remember that.

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Getting yelled, getting gifts

Posted on October 27, 2005 at 8:20 pm in

Papa has a tendency to use Ah Beng language when he’s angry. This was the case when my laptop got infected with a virus, and I was frantically trying to fix it.

Aiyaaaaa, why you go and click-click without checking one? Never think issit? Aiyo, next time ah, don’t simply click-click lah!! New laptop somemore!! Aiyaaaa…

More teruk than an Ah Lian, eh?

And, while I was removing the virus from my laptop, feeling very depressed, Jules came in, with a gift.

“I know you’re feeling really bad now, so… here.”

corinthian prostars 2001 series 14
Corinthian ProStars 2001 Series 14 van Nistelrooy Figurine

Um. Okaaaaaay. It’s the thought that counts, right?

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Solution to MSN Virus

Posted on October 26, 2005 at 10:17 pm in

Okay, a lot of shit happened when my laptop got infected with a muthafucka of a virus, and a complete stranger helped with what I read from his instructions on this forum. But I had further problems, of which Jax helped fix via IM.

Now we both have something to add to it, which is fixing the inability to access sites like Symantec, GriSoft and McAfee — your basic antivirus websites.

The virus comes in this form from MSN Messenger:

“Haha, is this really you? http://messengerstats.net…”
OR
“Wow, is this really you? http://….”

Anything suspicious like that. If you’ve clicked it, follow Jax’s instructions here, and then check if you can access Symantec, GriSoft, McAfee and the like. If you can’t, follow these steps:

  1. Download HostReader.
  2. Unzip and run HostReader.
  3. You should see only one file, C:\WINDOWS\System32\…Hosts
  4. When you click on it, you should only see something like this:

    ……
    # 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
    # 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
    127.0.0.1 localhost

  5. Anything below that? Such as links to antivirus sites? Delete those below localhost, and click Save Changes.
  6. Open your browser and check if you can access the sites previously blocked.

Everything should work fine.

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Posted on October 25, 2005 at 4:52 pm in

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New everything

Posted on October 25, 2005 at 1:37 am in

New domain, new host, new everything.

This has a good webhosting service. It’s cheap (i.e. Papa will not kill me when he sees the PayPal transaction on the credit card bill), has a good track record and I’m already getting used to their cPanel and other little ditties. But I installed Wordpress on my own because I wanted the latest version. I’m pathetic that way. :D

Passwords to protected entries remain the same. No biggie.

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