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Blogs will come fast and furious now, before I left for Perth for 8 days without my Mac. But one thing I really hope for is to have a nice and enjoyable trip. Things have been going bad in some ways or another.

Setting up of PC took me a week in total. Troubleshooting the hardware problems was time-wasting. I do not wish to push any blame to the Biostar board I bought. I thought it was a great budget board with such capabilities. Many people were complaining about unstable unlocked version of the CPU as well. To me, it seems OK altogether. All in all, the main problem I see is the integrated graphics card driver which is causing all the trouble. More days have passed, and errors are seen less frequent. Good. Keep it that way. If not, then I have to expect the worse scenarios to happen.

In the process of clearing my table and TV cabinet for the HTPC to be installed, the junks accumulated were horrendous. What was more horrifying was my Mum mixed my actual pile of thrash (they seemed useful to her), with my useful stuffs, despite me categorising them (probably in a thrashy manner). I should not have ask her to help out. That fatal move involved the act of acknowledging my student transportation card, Ez-Link, as part of those “my junks”, or her “useful stuffs”. What happened next should be easy to guess. With most of what I deemed as junks being in the bag, I did not bother to look through much and finally, there goes my Ez-Link card.  $18 replacement card fees has to be factored into my next expenditure. If not, then I have to expect the worse scenarios to happen.

3rd July was another important date, registration of my modules for next semester. I spent so much time planning my timetable in order to fully utilise the days to minimise my days. Sounds complicated? In short, my aim is to go to school in as few days as possible by planning as much subject modules as possible within a day. A travelling time of close to 2 hours one way is no joke. Not only is it time consuming, but also unproductive.

Anyway, I did not get the time slots I craved. Totally. All screwed up. I admit I sux in these kind of administrative procedures for academic matters. I did not know the “fastest finger first” (first come first served) policy still applies, after the whole procedure of modules registration was given a facelift. And too, I did not know that the particular date was only registration for Core modules, and not electives. Still,  a thanks to Audrey, my classmate, for reminding me of the registration timing.

So, since the timings were not as planned, instead of having 4 days now, most of which are long days, I shall make it a full week of school with shorter days in most days. That is provided I managed to get the electives slots I want. If not, then I have to expect the worse scenarios to happen.

UPDATE: I found my Ez-Link card! It’s in my jeans pocket! I wronged my mum.