mindcandy pennies from the overgenerous lunatic

College, hackers and tang yuen/Christmas

Yes. The title says it all for this weekend. I went online in the midnight on Friday to download the rest of the chapters in Pretty Face in IRC. I queued 3 files for download and saw another guy downloading another manga from the same server, in which he/she was in queue just below mine. Suddenly, the taskbar disappeared. The Internet explorer that I was typing my blog in disappeared when I click blog this. I ignored this and continued to wait for mIRC to download my file, and the PC crashed. The computer reported that the harddisk was inaccessible and I had to use chkdsk to fix it. The problem doesn’t end here. The hacker apparently managed to make explorer.exe to corrupt one of the HIVE files (a file which is essential to Windows XP) and because of this, Windows refused to start, leaving me no choice but to overwrite the corrupt version of windows with a new one (from the XP CD), backed up all my important files and program settings and reformatted the computer and reinstalled only the stuff I need. BTW, my PC was formatted with NTFS before, which I never really trusted so I changed it back to FAT32 with FDISK and FORMAT. All those took me 1 night to fix ~_~

The moral of this story is, whenever downloading with mIRC/BitTorent/Kazaa/EMule and you refuse to use an antivirus (like me because it practically HOGS resources) always use a firewall so that no fusking hacker idiot would trash your PC for really pathetic reasons. Some people ARE pathetic, to the point that they will give you hell over really small reasons like the guy/girl which was behind me in the Fserv queue. I’m pretty sure I was hacked as there is no reason for windows to touch that file.

Okay, for the other two stories. My parents registered me for college last Saturday and the course of my choice was Computer Engineering, like what I have said before. It’s the Informatics College behind the Bank of China, near Ampang Park. Whee!! A new life.

The autumn festival was just yesterday and my cousins came over to have a feast at the herbal chicken and the tang yuen that my parents made. Both were delicious XD. Elise is back and Shafiq is in London. Phooey. Loose some get some. But at least Elise is here and I went to her house to help out with the Christmas tree while she makes Irish Fruitcake (really rich fruitcakes that will give you a headache if not taken with eggnog). Her Japanese cousins are already here and they are taking a self-guide tour round KLCC. Everyone called me Junishi-kun XD. Yeah. Call me just that next time XD.

So now, I need to sleep…