What a day! My computer showed a system error message after a reboot. If I clicked OK, it would reboot itself. The IT personnel could not find a way to get around it. Thus, they decided to rebuild a new computer for me instead of my original computer because the new computers are meant to replace the MIS team’s computers. This new computer that I have is a Core 2 Duo machine even though in Windows XP system properties, it is showing Intel Pentium III Xeon processor. It is a known problem even in Windows XP Service Pack 3. The RAM has doubled and it is utilising SATA hard drive connection. Undoubtedly, it is fast but I have to install all the programs myself, as the default system image does not contain the programs that we, as in MIS, use.

Mee is not feeling well these few days maybe because of over-exercising. She skipped yesterday’s body attack class and she will skip today’s spinning class as well. I attended the body attack class and I must say that the heat was unbearable as the air conditioning in the room was not in working condition. Thus, it will not be a good idea for Mee to attend the spinning class today lest the air conditioning has yet to be fixed.

Long weekend has gone. Surprisingly, I did not check my email accounts for two days. I did not even update my blog for four days though it was normal for me not to update my blog during weekends. Maybe I was just lazy. Today, my manager is not coming into the office because he is not feeling well. Well, I am already used to it now and I will be able to handle things calmly in his absence.

Last Friday, Mee got her mobile phone back from Three. I am not surprised that they replaced the mobile phone, as they were not able to fix the ‘old’ one. I have tried to re-flash the ‘old’ unit but it just would not charge or boot up properly. Anyway, Mee and I were glad that Three replaced the phone.

On Sunday, Mee and I went to Colindale. Mee had her facial treatment for the first time in months since she came back from Malaysia. Mee was offered a machine-acupuncture-treatment which left a few red and circle marks on her arms and neck. I called them pepperoni. It has been days and the marks are still quite visible. The lady who treated Mee called them ‘stress’ marks. Before Mee had her facial treatment, we went to Wing Yip Colindale to run some errands; buying stuffs where we could not get them from local supermarkets.

On Tuesday, our car was sent into the workshop for the long awaited cambelt kit change. The car was in the workshop for 5 hours but I doubted that the work took 5 hours. Anyway, it was all done and I have one less thing to worry about. I was told about the spark plugs are old and they did not want to change it as they have quoted me with the standard price for only the cambelt kit change. Well, is that how they do their business? I mean they have my mobile phone number and they could have called me up and asked if I would like to change the spark plugs. On the other hand, if they did call me, my answer would be ‘no’ since I will have our car booked in for a full service soon. The funny thing was that our car is dark red and they typed in blue in the invoice. How wrong could they get?

My long weekend started off with the same old Saturday’s routine. Spinning and weighing in the morning and I felt a bit different today. I was not that tired compared to the last few weeks when Mee and I first started going to the gym. My appetite was better too. It is a good thing anyway and I hope that I will feel the same in the future. In addition, my right foot was aching in the last few session of spinning. I discussed with the instructor and she reckoned that it was my trainer that caused the issue. She recommended me to buy cycling shoes but I was hoping to try out my other pair of trainer before shopping for a pair of cycling shoe. All went well with the other trainer today and I believe that I will not need a pair of cycling shoe at the moment.