Yesterday, I woke up at 0630 and there was no heating. Sadly, the heating only starts at 0700. However, I still bravely took my shower and it was freezing when I came out of the shower room. But I must admit, it was a good way to start the day.

When Mee and I moved in to this place, the heating did not function properly. The toilet did not have a radiator and the whole house was icy cold during the winter. After the heating was fitted, the landlord controls the time. There is virtually no heating in the afternoon which is fine in the summer but it is winter at the moment. Shouldn’t he be adjusting the time to suit our needs?

Still, I must say that the landlord has been good to us. He installed the water softener and I believe that the house is utilizing a tankless water heater. In addition, he hires a cleaner to clean the open area once a week. What can I say? Maybe he is fed up with tenants moving in and out all the time before he made the house a better place to live.

It is a norm for Mee and I to take supplements; vitamin B, vitamin C and vitamin E. Almost everyday, we will make our own juice drinks; combinations of carrots, green apples, cucumber, grape fruits or celery. Sometimes, I just think that drink fresh juices and eating five a day food will be good enough and maybe better off than taking supplements.

Indeed, eating healthy is important. However, supplements are quite necessary too. Previously, Mee was taking 500mg of vitamin C. On the other hand, I take 1000mg of vitamin C all the while. Lately, Mee followed and she takes 1000mg of vitamin C. I find out that she seldom sneezes in the morning compared to the time when she only took 500mg of vitamin C.

Sometimes, when I see the advertisements about diet pills such as Decaslim which they boast of having a combination of superfood, I just wonder if they should be called as diet pills. If the claims were true, then taking those ‘diet pills’ will be a very good supplement for our body. Don’t you agree?

As planned, my manager and I managed to upgrade the system. The upgrade was successful but somehow, a number of computers were unable to run the system reports. We had no idea how that happened and it took me the whole morning to figure out the solution and implement it. Well, I did not solve the whole thing myself, I contacted the software support as well as liaise with our IT support personnel because I needed to make sure that my solution would not cause more problems. In addition, the IT support would have to help me to deploy necessary files onto users machine. Thankfully, the problem was resolved at 1300.

Back at home, I have been helping a friend in repairing his laptop. It is a HP Pavilion DV9000. The recovery failed to work and it seems to always happen on HP machines. I reinstalled Windows Vista and created a recovery partition for him using Acronis True Image 2009. The secure zone partition created by Acronis has quite the same function as the HP’s recovery solution. Just press F11 when prompted during boot and it will restore the backup-ed data without logging in Vista.

Netbook and Laptop

Comparing my netbook to the laptop, the size is obvious. The weight of the HP is enormous too.