Tax? What Tax?

Apr 302009

It is the time of the year again, when people swarmed the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) to pay their due to the nation.

One is considered a full-fledge member of the society when one can do the following: smoke legally, drive a car, vote in election, pay taxes (it’s really the case here in our homeland for the first, despite the current war against smoking).

My appointment to the current position that I hold comes with the privilege of having an auto tax deduction from my paycheque. Hence it is natural to assume that I am another step forward to become an outstanding member of the society.

But the funny thing is, I don’t have a clue as to what I should to. E-filling? E-daftar? That baffles me. And it’s already 30 April today. *gasp*

Clean and Clear

Apr 292009

One hobby of mine was to clean-up my computer, to make it faster and better.

It was done literally and on the software level. As such, for my own personal computer, it started with the ritual computer formatting, before I upgraded to disk ghosting method. Disk defragmentation was the alternative to extreme clean-up, while registry flushing were done when critical problems were ‘felt’ that does not warrant having to format or de-ghost the disk.

The same thing that I wanted to do with the office laptop, but I know best not to attempt it as what I have done to my personal property. It was in a bad shape because I tinker too much with the operation (was trying my best to disable some pre-installed services). Luckily, my request for operation system reset and data backup was approved and entertained.

Here I am with a working laptop – clean and clear, and a fast one at that.

Now I need to control myself from tinkering it again. :P

Project Rejuvenation

Apr 262009

There used to be a project section on this website on mine.

It hosted all the computer projects that I have worked on. I have previously listed, among others, Delphi programming projects (AS and A-Level Computing projects), Java programming projects (University projects), Oracle SQL codes (University projects), and many others. It was lost after the great website crash.

My grand plan now is to use this WordPress system as a base for the upcoming Project section rejuvenation. After a deep search, I guess I shall try with the solution provided by wp-subdomains plugin to enable the base integration.

Another geek moment in my humble electronic life.

Unrequited Love

Apr 252009

I loved her. I loved her so dearly. However this feeling was not mutual.

On Tuesday when I came back from my hometown short vacation, she was there waiting; she was sulking at me. On Wednesday, I tried to passionately look at her, but she refused to cooperate; she gave me the cold shoulder instead. Thursday came by and we still did not do things like we normally did; I wanted to complain but my confidante was not around. Come Friday and I was desperate for the love that I was entitled to – after all she is destined to be my wife – but it never came by.

I was left high and dry, more then an abandoned kitten by the roadside.

Why oh why I could not understand her? It was not that hard to do. We have been doing great since September ’08. She was my first love in this beautiful twin towers. She is a good teacher – of life, of my personal self, of everything that I stood for – and I am grateful for that. I promised that I’ll marry her, and be serious in our relationship. And yet, she is very hard to please.

I wonder how things are going to be when I trully married to work as promised.

Itchy Hands and a Heavy Paperweight

Apr 212009

Do you know about the story of a pair of itchy hands and a heavy paperweight?

This was years ago when a boy was excited with the invention called “the computer”. You see that it was not always a big electronic device is accessible to him; on one fine day, the floppy disk drive did not work properly, and as any boys with big toys, there he goes with a screwdriver and a curiosity much danger then a cat.

It took him minutes to bring out the drive, but hours went by without him figuring out what went wrong with it. Pressured, he finally snapped and out flew the screwdriver off his hand, landed exactly on the device’s electronic surface. A small spark, some smoke followed by a burnt smell was the perfect receipe for the conversion of the device to a heavy paperweight.

Fast forward to the present time, and that boy is now working in a big company, with a laptop given to him. Nature dictates that boys will always be boys, and just as recently as today, that boy almost converted that laptop into another expensive paperweight. All because he toyed around with the command “msconfig” without much thinking.

Thanks to the heavens above however, he did not ran out of patience and successfully fixed the problem. Boys will always be boys.

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