Saturday afternoon.

[CuRRent MooD:] A lil tired, woke up early on a saturday...

[CuRRent Song:] Brothers - The Moon (Club Mix)

I stopped at Thursday. Oh, Thursday.

Went to Chinatown wif Sunshine after work to look at phones, realised Nokia 7270 now dropped price to nearly $650. Den accompanied her down to Orchard Paragon's Metro to buy something, then we walked to City Hall and chat n rest lor. Yea jus abt dat lor...

Friday...yesterday. Ehm...actually brought down Mad's tentatively spoilt parts down to Sim Lim to test (and to get my videos) but my computer parts dealer said no time, ask me go down on Sunday. Was going thru the list for Mr Kwok's son's gaming PC when Miss Tang called me and asked regarding her system's RAM. Den I heard her mention she's in Sim Lim. Ehm??? Such a coincidence, so I went to find her. Help her saved a few bucks (and grabbed Costronic's customer under their noses) by bringing her to my preferred dealer and purchased a Kingston DDR266 512mb RAM. Went dinner wif them over at Geylang's No Sign Seafood Restaurant, den went to Miss Tang's place to install her RAM. It seems that RAM is not the complete solution to her situation as I installed the RAM only to note that system loads faster because of the various startup programs; however opening MS Word still seemed to be a chore, and IE at times lagged a lil, although it could be connection-based or loading, or both. I looked online for solutions, only to notice some pple have the M925 loaded at 100MHz. It seems the Mobo's "auto-detect" for RAM spd isn't that good - I had to manually set it to 133Mhz before it actually runs at 133Mhz (DDR is double, thus 266MHz), and I boosted the video RAM to 32MB (previously she has too little RAM to do that) so her system runs at 480 + 32 = 512MB RAM. It moved a little faster, since graphics are assigned a little more space to expand its capabilities - the speed however isn't what I expected to have improved, since Mad's PC simply ran a ted faster. While going thru SiSoftware Sandra Lite Benchmark Software, I looked at the Harddisk settings and something struck me.

PC age = ard 3 yrs.
HDD = 30gb.

HMMM.

How could I have forgotten that. Her HDD is causing a bit of problems probably. Went online to check her model.

Samsung XXX model - 30GB, 5400RPM.

NO WONDER!!! It slipped my mind actually cos nowadays pple use 7200RPM, and the recent days even comes wif cache. That should be the only problem left. Well, there was once which a harddisk of mine crashed in 3 mths of usage, another was under warranty servicing so I had to use my long-lasting Seagate 20GB HDD 5400RPM which really deterioted in speed though I was running with a superior GeForce4 MX440 128MB of its time (computer experts, do not argue with me since I am only making a low-end comparison). I saw the speed increase after the warranty HDD (a 30GB Maxtor running at 7200RPM) came back.

Learnt another thing again =) and reported my findings.

Came back, and today is Saturday. Morning went back HP for a TA meeting, it was refreshing jus seeing my fellow TAs who were the same batch as me; however my hands are a lil red after all the excessive clapping.

Yea, abt it then. It's about time to help my mom wif a lil stuff.

It seems that nowadays I'm better at handling new situations, but older situations will get to me tougher and on. Jus thinking abt Sunshine's issue will get me confused at times, but I guess I'm still pretty much myself and STILL stable.

People grow. I realised I've grown a lot for the past year.

.LuKe.