Joyous June

Where should I start? I have been wanting to blog for ages, but because of my silly old HP notebook, I can't. Half of the screen is gone...serious hardware problem. When I say gone, I mean the right half of the screen is black. However, the graphics on the screen are being cramped to the left side of the screen.....so everything is like super tiny (if you get what I mean).

Anyway, this month has been really eventful really. From growing that extra white hair and wrinkle, to becoming a rock chic.....June, has always been my favourite month of all time!

7th June
It was a dark cloudy day to start with, but my friends, my fellow participants and I ran 5k to raise funds for charity. It was the Cancer Research UK Race for Life event. Everyone's spirit was high and thank god it did not pour! Thank you everyone who has sponsored me. I am also proud with myself. hehe. I managed to run 5k without stopping to catch my breath and also, finished it in my own personal best. =) Think my next aim is to run 10k or maybe do the marathon for charity. I will definitely keep training!

13th June
This is when I grew an extra white hair and wrinkle. Yes, I am more than half a century old now....it is not good. Anywho, I actually spent my birthday at a mini gig with a few good friends, followed by pizza, garlic bread and wine. The band who played on that breezy Friday night was called "Orkestra del Sol." They were super fantabulous!! I loved their music. The whole band only consisted of just about 8 people. Each of them played various musical instruments, eg, trumpets, clarinet, double bass, violin, and the accordion. Now, the music had a slight Latin influence...and boy, was I dancing to the groove of the music! Great stuff!! I think you can even google them online if you wanna check them out.

You would imagine that birthdays are celebrated just on that 1 day. However, I was so lucky to have a 3 day birthday celebration! Yea, no kidding. I basically met up with different people for food and I have to admit, it was nice to be pampered by my friends, not to mention, all the lovely pressies I received! =D

15th June
It was Father's Day, and a day where I gained a brand new experience. If you like stand-up comedy, then, The Stand Comedy Club is the place for you!! I decided to watch of the comedy shows held at this club, and I was not disappointed. The show was called "Michael Redmond's Sunday Service." Now, Michael Redmond, is famous actor who starred in the hilarious series "Father Ted." He was one of the priests in the show, hence, the title "Sunday Service." The whole show lasted for about 2 and a half hours. The first few acts were by junior comedians who were not bad actually...then, came the professional ones... They were SO FUNNY that I really felt my facial muscles at the end of the show!

19th June
Screen partially black.
No windows XP loadable for 3 minutes.

I have now certified the death of compaq nx7010 at 8pm on 19th June 2008.

21st June
"Keep on rocking in the free world"
"Shot thru the heart, and you're to blame, you give love a bad name"
"wooahhh, we're halfway there...wooaahhh, livin on a prayer"

Any light bulbs switched on in your mind??

Oh well, these lyrics are taken from Bon Jovi's hit songs. hehe....and yes, I went to his gig at the big football stadium in Glasgow. I was glad that I bought the seating tickets, because it was pissing down quite heavily that day. The gig started off with The Feeling singing away their popular songs for an hour...and then, Bon Jovi, appeared and rocked all night long!! It was superb! He reminded me so much of my younger years...you know, with powerful cheesy love songs like "This romeo is bleeding, you cant see his blood, its nothing but some feelings, that this old dog kicked up. Its been raining since you left me, now I'm drowning in the flood. You see I've always been a fighter, but without you, I give up. Now, I cant sing a love song, like the way its meant to be...well I guess I'm not good anymore, but baby its just meeeee...." (oh dear, I can go on and on!)

27th June
Another great night, with the typical Glasgwegian weather (ie, rain). RADIOHEAD ROCKS! yes yes, I was at their open air concert at Glasgow Green ( a big park) on Friday night. The rain was pouring, but it did not hamper any of us fans...we braved the rain, with our hooded waterproof coats, to watch them LIVE in concert. It was worthed it. I have never been to a major rock concert and this is so different from any concerts I have ever been in Malaysia. The stage was so huge, and there were so many food stalls around selling hotdogs, chinese chow mein, nachos and of course, alcohol. Not to mention that I have finally met the TRUE Glaswegian crowd. Some of them threw beer around.

The stage was beautiful. There were about more than 20 tube like things hanging down from the roof of the stage. Throughout the entire gig, colourful lights were shone onto these tubes. It was so beautiful. Radiohead sang quite a few of their hit songs, such as Justp, Fake Plastic Trees, No Surprises, Paranoid Android and a lot of their new songs. Too bad they didn't perform "Creep." Anyway, it was really good and the rain, in fact, made it even more fun!!! haha.


Rite. So that was a little diary of events for the joyous month of June. =) I am happy that I have managed to remember all these events. But my pockets have now started to develop alot of holes, and my purse, is crying because it is not feed with money. And to make matters worse, I have to get a new notebook. I hope to get it soon though, so that I do not have to suffer like this!! I feel so disconnected from the world.... will blog again soon.

Duffy - Warwick Avenue

oohh....I so love this song....such amazing voice!

Top Class Duffy

Temporary deafness aside, Duffy's gig at the ABC in Glasgow was top class!

I love her beautiful soulful voice, I love her music.

She sang most of the songs from her first album, "Rockferry," which, of course, included the famous "Mercy" and "Warwick Avenue." It has been a long time since I have attended such events...and it was certainly a great way to end a horrible Monday at work.

I am sure there is more to come from this young artist!

Laptop on Sick Leave

My laptop has been officially sick. I can't load my internet browser, can't log onto my MSN or Yahoo messenger, and I can't even load my anti-virus software!

It is not a big deal, but I am just worried that I would lose my digital photos. These photos remind me of where I have travelled so far...I really cannot afford to lose any of them. Fortunately, I can still open my picture folder.

Unfortunately, as I tried to save them by burning these pictures into a CD, my CD burner application would not open for me!!! argghh... so I am at a dead end. I need to reformat my laptop, but I do not want to lose all these important valuable memories.... I have thought of transfering my pictures to my friend's external hard disk...but I was worried that I might transfer infection to his hard disk.

As a result, I have decided to buy a portable hard disk....I just bought a Western Digital portable hard disk from Amazon...it was the cheapest and best deal I could get. 250GB for 60 pounds... pretty reasonable I guess. Within 4-6 working days, I would receive this item.... and hopefully, after some "intravenous antibiotic," ie, formatting, my laptop would heal. Wish me luck.

I really hate it when I have to deal with all these techno stuff myself!!!