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*

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.