Series of.. Unfortunate Events

*Notice : Might not be blogging much this year. I'll blog when I want to, but definitely not these few days specifically. I can't blog away from my OWN keyboard, XD.*

I wonder whether whether I have bad karma for this year or something - things just fail to work out for me every time.

I'm not sure about the first few days of 2009, but I'm sure of the date that I've been the unluckiest this year.

7 January 2009.

It all started in school when I was asked to stay back after my duty session as a librarian - to clean and tidy up the old (1980s) school magazines and books stored in our library store room. So, what my duty-end time (3pm) was extended to 5pm, while the extra two hours were devoted to dust and cockroach droppings that probably existed since the 80s.

After our duty session ended, the only ones left were Jiawei, Wong and me. Switched off all the lights and fans, while Wong departed the library through the staircase leading to the teacher's study. Later, Jiawei and me exited through the main library door, while I locked the door behind me before closing it.

Walked down the stairs..

.. Just to face a closed and locked grilled door.

Sheesh, I suppose that the doors were locked so as no student could go upstairs.

But it seems to be preventing us from going downstairs now.

So what could we do - as we couldn't go back to the library as I just locked it?

By trying to capture the attention of the teachers downstairs, of course.

After waving our hands like madmen.. (Okay, we didn't.), we finally got noticed by a teacher (Lim Kee Boon), and he hand-signed to us that he'll inform the office assistants to unlock the staircase grills.

..

.. While that yielded no results - as the guard was the only one having the keys to the staircase (as the assistant told us) ..

.. So, we had no choice but to wait for the library clerk to re-unlock the library, re-unlock the main door, so that we could pass through the library > teacher's study > back outside.

The waiting's one thing, and the misunderstandings by the teachers were another. Glad it wasn't too serious.

Arrived home at 5.30, and had my long-thirsted nap till around 6, before going out for dinner at around 8.

*Fast-forwards*

Arrived home at 10, and entered my computer room, imagining my computer greeting me after a long long time gap since I last used it (Which was only one day ago, XD.)

Opened my usual routine-programs - Opera and Miranda..

.. 5 minutes later ..

"Miranda - Database failure. Miranda will now shutdown."

"Opera - Could not save to D:\Program Files\Opera\profiles.dat. Please check your directory etc etc."

Nice..

Suspecting that my D drive probably got weird for a while or something, I went to My Computer to check out my D partition.

"Local Drive (D:\) - 0 bytes total, 0 bytes free, 0 bytes remaining".

Oh my god?

*Tries to open by various ways - address bar, double click etc.*

Result - "Drive D:\ is either corrupted or unreadable."

Damned perfect.

Turned off my computer, and tightened the power cords + data cables connected to my HDD + motherboard - before turning on my computer again.

Everything worked normal (Uhh well, NOT - my D drive was still detected-but-unreadable) - with me relying on my 80GB HDD - which has only 8GB free space left. Reinstalled Miranda on this drive and phoned my brother for a through-the-phone diagnosis of my computer.

arc : "Reconnect the power cords for the HDD and try again see."

me : "I did that already just now."

arc : "Oh.. So, umm I'll have a look at your HDD probably this coming CNY when I come back or something."

Nice, that just leaves like only 3 weeks left, right?

3 weeks of doom in my prediction.

Oh well, gotta try to survive.

Continued my chatting on MSN, till my mom called my name from downstairs in a emergency-like, high-pitched voice, which lead me thinking that something serious had happened. So I took off my headphone, lay it on my computer table, and started to rush downstairs - till I tripped over my headphone wire, and a resounding crash was heard.

The crash..
.. came from ..
.. my LCD monitor which slammed headfirst onto my microphone ..

I lifted up the screen again, and noticed a few "dent spots" on the center-right part of the screen.

Greeeat. And it turns out that my mom's "emergency-call" was nothing much but a reminder for me to wish my cousin sister a Happy Birthday. How I wish to scream at the top of my lungs.

200GB HDD lost signal, LCD damaged, whats next?

Today's events, of course.

Turned on my computer as usual of course - started the few routine-programs again.. And bingo, my computer just hanged at where it was.

Waited for a whole 5 minutes before I decided to restart my computer.

And what I got during the boot was this.

"\WINDOWS\system32\Config\System could not be accessed. Please insert the Windows XP installation disk into your CD-ROM and press "r" in the first page to repair."

..

Am I dreaming..?

Tightened the cords of my drives to my motherboard again..

.. But the result was still the same. Some system error. Seems that my C drive (80GB) lost signal too.

So I put my Windows XP installation disc into my CD-ROM so as to try to repair the drive.. Just to receive another surprise once again.

"Windows XP Installation Disk Error - INF file txtsetup.sif is corrupt or unreadable. Setup cannot continue at this time."

I guess it isn't the problem of my drives - but my motherboard (I guess) which I suspect is dying.

Arc said that it might be because of insufficient power from the PSU too, and advised me to replace it. I might do so when I'm free tomorrow I guess.

These are only the things that happened to my computer - I didn't touch much on what happened to ME in real life. I guess I won't do so..

Who on earth cursed me? Lol.

Attending the "school-team-qualification" for my school volleyball team tomorrow. I guess I'll have to wear my contact lenses + knee pads for extra precaution - I predict that I might get hit in the face by a full-speed ball or something, just my bad luck these few days.

Wish everything would be better.

Signing off, IceGlacial.