My Blue Heaven

Lappie gone sickie

My laptop decided to get all huffy with me and not boot up. It all started when Kwai was trying to hook my lappie to the tv to play movies. Well he accidently set the nvidia display settings for my laptop screen to pal secam (instead of the tv), and contrast went all funny. So I was trying to fix it back, when nvidia display properties decided to crash, and I couldn’t access it thereafter (nvcpl.dll would crash upon load). So we uninstalled nvidia drivers, and then reinstalled, and Lo and Behold, my laptop wouldn’t boot up windows xp. Not even in Safe mode. Grrr. (It would always crash on the same line – the one with agp440.sys). So I can’t even get into windows to rollback the drivers. Grrr. Well, not all is lost. That night we met up with Kwai’s friend for dinner, who happens to be a systems engineer, who deals with laptops a lot, particularly Toshiba ones. We gave it to him to take into work, where he can back up all data safely and reinstall win xp (can you believe the Toshiba backup CD that came with my laptop has Windows 98 on it and not win xp!!!!) He’s also gonna install a few extra useful programs I didn’t have before (like office 2003, adobe cs2, nero 6 premium, McAfee that doesn’t expire)… Sweeeet! So now I have only to await my precious lappie’s return.

Updates

So, what else is new. Well last weekend I watched Walk The Line. Not bad, I quite enjoyed it. I always liked Reese Witherspoon. And I was impressed that they both actually sang the songs. Its quite similar to Ray, but more country/rock’n’roll.

And on Sunday, KC Actors Studio officially opened for its first class. The turnout wasn’t too bad. Beginners had a few no-shows, with only 7 people in the class. But intermediate had a good number of people. I think about 12/13? Everyone seemed to really enjoy the class. I actually did the beginner class – on Voice Technique with a rather eccentric, but very good, teacher. Reminded me a bit of singing lessons actually, the whole breathing part, but was more in depth. The general feedback seemed quite positive – people liked the laidback, non-stuffy atmosphere of the school. A few of the intermediate students and the school staff (Kwai, his friend Matt, another girl and myself) went out for a drink afterwards at the nearby pub. Was interesting hanging out with actors. One of them was quite experienced and had done quite a bit of work already. He’d even gone to Patrick Stewart’s birthday do. Hehe.

Well. Other than that, been recovering ever so slowly from my cold. Its taken me a full week and a half, but I think I’m finally getting better. I even went to the gym last night! Had a great workout, and even though I was tired, I pushed myself to do 25 mins on the x-trainer (1.85 kms, 265cal) plus loads of weight training, concentrating on my arms (thanks to a personal training session from Kwai – who is actually a personal trainer too). He’s gonna be helping me get back into shape. I think I need someone to push me in weights training. I’m not really used to doing much, I’ve never even used all those machines before!

Tonight we’re going to his friend’s place for dinner. They own two young cats!!! Argh! I can’t wait. I get to play with kittys again. Yay! 🙂 And only 1 month till I come back! Wow. Its so soon! Counting the weeks..

Current listening :: “Crazy” – Britney Spears

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