Wednesday, April 27, 2005
It's not Impossible, Inevitable,,
My title quoted from Agent Smith of Matrix Revolutions when Neo found out he took over Bane's body, one of the ship's crew, and the battle of Neo n Smith in the "real world" ended wif a dead Bane, and a blinded Neo..
Dat aside, in all meaning of the title above, 2 things occured at the same time which required me to part wif my hard-earned tuition money meant for my marital savings.
It was love at first sight, and more of love at first try. My close friend, Saidi bought it first when he had to change his sleek rubbers due to an unpatchable hole... since dat fateful purchase on the first day of my City Nurhonda, life as a driver had been kinda speed demon, coz of the confidence I have over my Advan Neova AD07. They had travelled wif me to as far as KL and Melacca, and endured the run of 160km/h at one point in my life, though I won't be doing such a stunt anymore, abeit the adrenaline rush I had!
Now they have worn out and hard; noise making is their specialty, but grip is still not compromised much... so it was time to shop for a new beloved.. n wat more can I talk about but of my 4 precious tyres! As greatly emphasised by Saidi, they are the only 4 small contact points between u and the road, and ensuring that they are promptly replaced when worn is of utmost importance. I was more concerned when he told me dat tyre burst is highly possible if I let them wear to its limit. At the moment I was getting it replaced, the inner groove's worn-out marker has already surfaced. In other words, I have less than 1.8mm groove left, which, if my car were to be sent for inspection, I'd fail with flying colours! ;)
I shopped at my usual YHI warehouse, the distributor of Yokohama tyres, and the reknown Enkei, OZ and their house-brand, Avanti. I decided to get my preferred Aspec dB A500, Yokohama's breakthrough in clinching the quietest tyres in the competitive market. I met up wif Raymond, the usual salesman I've been served by since the first time me n Saidi went in 2002. As usual, a wide smile was beaming from him, and I smiled more when he gave me a good deal for a set of 4 newly released rubbers, yet to be unleashed to the market. According to Raymond, I'm the first person to have a car fitted wif one. I promised him a review, and all I can say from a first day drive is, the tyres r MAGNIFICENT Alhamdulillah. It stays true to its claim of being silent. The only thing that broke the silence was my engine's roar and the occasional road noise. Alhamdulillah I finally got wat I wanted, at very unbelievable prices.
Those who are interested in checking out which tyres I meant, at the moment, u can only find the details from catalogs found at YHI at Pandan Road. Like wat Raymond said, it has not been officially launched yet, and I can't find it in the net. Anyway, it's called "DNA dB ES501".
The second instalment of my inevitability, my home PC's 11th month, 15 day-old hard disk just crashed on me last Sunday evening. Mom's face went pale when I told her, coz her Syarahan audio files were all in there! Initially I tot I was attacked by virus, but it turned out dat the HD I was using as quite prone to a "Disk Boot Failure" problem. I even had a problem getting the HD detected by the BIOS. I was in for a state of shock becoz there wasn't any warning to its failure, unlike my previous HD which gave me much ample time of its demise. Reluctantly, I went to get a new HD, NOT the same brand of dis demised one, but the one dat gave me ample warning before its "departure"; coz at least if it were to break down, I'd have time to do my necessary backing ups!!
It turned out, when I connected the new one as the Master, and the crashed one as the Slave, both got detected, and I soon found out dat I could access the data when I got XP installed in my new HD. Alhamdulillah, Allah gave me some hope in retrieving all the important data such as my mom's syarahan audio files, my videos and MP3, and other impt data relevant to my work! Phew.... But I still need to repartition my new HD, it still needs tweaking, and I guess it won't be dat early to finalise my backup, and send the old one to the distributor since it's still under warranty. Probably I'd get a replacement, coz my best guess, n almost everyone's guess is dat the sector of the disc platter containing the impt boot records have been damaged, due to its own needle scratching the surface I guess?
Now Im thirsty... n I have to get ready for class soon... ever wonder why I have so much time in hand? It's "ORD" mood, man; n I've got 2 more working days in dis sch! Though more responsibilities n duties to come once I'm inducted into the system, Heck! enjoy watever time I have!!!
See ya all... ;)
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