Due to the fact that my office is still using the old server, I may need to work overtime until the new server is up and running. Well, the hardware of the old server is not stable and I will have to do backups every now and then especially a final copy at the end of the day to make sure that every data is captured. Anyway, it is my job and hopefully the new server will be ready on Monday.

A new housemate has moved in today. She is Hungarian. She sounded friendly when talking to her friend, who helped her to move, and the landlord. The first time when I met her was the time she came to look at the room. She did not even bother to smile. Well, if that is the case, she better shows some respect while she lives in this rented house.

The landlord has also appointed a cleaner to clean the house every week and he hopes that we will cooperate. Cooperate in the sense that we will keep the place clean and tidy. The problem is that some people in the house does not do any cleaning or even throw the rubbish when the bin is full. We, for instance, clean up the mess that we make and throw our rubbish in our own bins to avoid any conflict.

Today is the last day of November. Everyone is talking about Christmas presents and radio stations are broadcasting Christmas songs. The scene at Festival Place shopping center is just packed with people. The people are waiting for the shop to open and cars are queuing up for parking spaces way before the shopping center’s opening hours. Public transport seems to be a better way to travel.

Mee bought her camera about two years ago and it is a Canon Ixus 65. Before that we had a Nikon but I cannot remember the model already. In fact, the Canon serves us well. It is fast, easy to use, easy to setup and has not given us any problem at all. However, we reckon that the old Nikon’s picture quality was better. The battery life and the flash recharge time were what let us down.

Soon, I believe that we will need something to replace the Canon Ixus 65. It will be either a digital SLR or a digital video camera. I am quite reluctant to get a video camera because we seldom record anything with the Canon Ixus 65. Well, if we were to get another digital camera, I am very happy to get another Nikon digital camera. Right at the moment, Nikon D90 digital SLR camera seems to be quite a good choice. Mee may not like it because it is not pocketable. But for me, I would not mind carrying something around my neck and take pictures whenever I can. Mind you, it can support up to 850 shots per charge.

A weekday without posting. Not very unusual but not very usual too. I was at the IT department yesterday to see what they were doing. When I got home, I played around with my Mac OS X because Mee worked night shift again. As I said before, she is very hardworking now and she will be working almost everyday next week. Right now, my Mac OS X is not working because I did something wrong yesterday. I will reinstall it tomorrow and create an image of it so that I can restore it whenever I want without needing the DVD.

The office server is down for 5 days in a row. It is being backed-up at the moment and hopefully, it will be ready after lunch. Well, it does not matter much because we only left a few hours to work on it after lunch because it is Friday. And we are still using the old server while the new server is being built. And we never know if the old server will cause any problems before the new server is ready.

It is the end of November. I listened to the 2Ten radio station yesterday and the DJ said that a month from now, the Christmas is over. Start from next week, some of my colleagues will be selling raffle tickets and there will be an event before Christmas where draws will take place. As far as I know, none of my colleagues have won anything.

Christmas certainly is a big event here. I am attracted to the sales too. Hence, I have been swiping my credit card whenever I see something cheap and I need to use it. Luckily, I clear my credit card’s balance every month. In fact, just a few months after my credit card application was approved, the bank had increased my credit limit.

The sales are getting even attractive as the price war between major supermarkets is more serious than ever. Most of them are taking the advantage of the VAT cut introduced by the government. Banks are not left behind too. Mee and I have been receiving letters about personal loans as well as credit cards’ application forms. Well, I believe one credit card is more than enough at the moment. After all, we do not know the best overall credit card as long as the credit card we have at the moment does not create problem for us and we clear the balance each month.

The office server was down since last Friday. It is still in ICU at the moment and it might be up and running this afternoon. However, the advice from the IT support here is to use the server internally rather than college wide until they transfer all the data to a new server. I agree to that suggestion because the server may fail again due to instability of server hardware. However, my manager and ex-manager do not agree. They would rather have the old server running college wide and me doing the backup of our software ever hour until the new server is built.

Well, the backup part is alright but what if the old server failed again before the new server is up and running? The reason that the IT team suggested us to use it internally is to let us do our work rather than waiting for the new server. Otherwise, they would just inform us that we have to wait for the new server and they have scrapped the old server.

Mee worked late shift yesterday. She cooked me dinner before she left, hehe, nice. I managed to install Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.5 on my Samsung NC10 and so far, it was running fine. Right now, I have to do some research on Mac command to make things work because I am a Mac-noobie. I have also stopped using Firefox Portable and switched to Google Chromium. Well, I guess I made the right choice.

I have to start wearing jacket nowadays. This morning was icing cold. It gets even colder when the wind blows. Hmm… this is the last week of November. Next month is Christmas time and it is all about spending and spending and spending.

Well, in my mind, I thought of changing my phone again since I repaired my Nokia E61. I thought the Sony Ericsson P990i could replace the Nokia E61 but I was wrong. The WiFi is not up to speed and navigation through the menus is slow. I read on forums that Sony Ericsson P1i improves a lot from Sony Ericsson P990i but the WiFi is still the same B range. Nokia E61 works flawlessly when making VOIP calls but Sony Ericsson lags terribly.

Hmm… I am finding excuses now. Yeah, that is right. I thought of changing the phone but at the same time, I still love Sony Ericsson P990i’s touch screen. What is the mobile phone in my mind then? It will be Sony Ericsson K850i; A simple and small mobile phone with normal functions. Since I already have a netbook and Nokia E61, I think it will be nice for me to get a normal mobile phone.