I really wonder if they have a particular disease for someone who’s paranoid about their computer data and maintaining a lot of disk spaces, other than being anal-retentive, that is. If there’s one thing I do not want to lose is my computer data. I have stuff from at least 2000 that I cherish, so to lose them would be quite a devastating event for me. Because of my paranoia (and because I needed a larger external hard drive — apparently 250gb is not enough for me), I went and bought this awesome thing called Tiny today.

Now with Palindrome (250gb primary HD), DFMA (“Don’t Fail Me Arsehole” 500gb secondary HD), Stooges (500gb external HD), Tiny (500gb external HD), and optional Portie (160gb HD), I think I have plenty of backup sources and data storages. That should last me well for a couple of years! Slanty, my old 250gb external HD has been given to my dad. Yeah! I am one less a fat and heavy external HD. These “My Passport” external HD like Tiny are the best thing ever! Smaller than a regular external HD and bigger with more space capacity than a USB flash drive, I am in love with the “My Passport” format.

Now if I ever have to evacuate South Korea (which is another factor that makes me wanted to get these smaller external HDs), to which I hope it never happens but one can never be too safe, I am now prepared for whatever may come to me.

. . . Unless a missile drops on my apartment. ~_~;;

Whenever I hang out with my friend “Alex”, who can use the family car at times, we seem to run into some interesting car problems. A few months ago, Alex came to hang out in my neighbourhood, so he drove himself over and parked the car. We hung out and when it was time to go back, we walked back to his car . . . only to see his car lights on, which drained his car batteries. We had to wait about thirty minutes for someone to drive by to help jump start the car.

Last night, he picked me up after work, and we were going to go hang out in Itaewon. Well, we parked near there, and we were heading to Itaewon before I realised I didn’t go to the ATM! So we went back to his car and the following scenario happened:

Both: *gets in the car*
Alex: *puts the key in the ignition but is struggling with the turning process* That’s odd, it won’t start.
Me: What? Let me try. *tries and fails utterly* The hell?
Alex: *goes out and tries to unlock the door from his side, but it didn’t work* It’s not working. Can you try your door?
Me: *tries the door but it doesn’t work* It’s not working.
Alex: Hmmm, this is strange.
Me: I don’t understand how the key suddenly not works. Is this the right car?!
Alex: *pauses and looks around* Oh my god! This isn’t my car!
Me: What?!
Both: *quickly gets out*
Me: *nearly laughs herself onto the ground*

Basically, his car model is really common, and we were parked right next to another car of the same model . . . so apparently he mistook that for his. That car happened to be unlocked, so we just went in without a glance until the key problem started happening. ~___~;; What a stupid but hilarious situation. I’m just glad that car didn’t have a car alarm! Otherwise, we’d have some police action hovering over us. OI. At least we learned a valuable lesson from this. Make sure it’s the right car!

On a side note: I decided to close my fanlistings because I kind of messed something up (long story short: I was hacked into something, so a lot of password changing ensured), and it wouldn’t fix. Beside, I’ve been meaning to close them for a while now, so this was just a good excuse to take into consideration. Along with my fanlistings, I decided to close the eFiction version of my HP/RL fanfictions archive. So now my sites list look shorter.

This year marks to be one heck of a “tech gadgety” year. Six months ago, I had a custom computer made for me, called Provo. Last month, I purchased Medea the PSP.

Now I am here to introduce a new love of mine! Formerly known as Nettie, here is Portie (short for “portability”) the Netbook! Here’s the Amazon product’s page.

I got this baby second-hand for $200 bucks, plus a free carrying bag. :D I am very excited! I already checked it out earlier, and whoever complained it was too slow are wrong. I think it runs at the right speed for something like this! Of course trying to run Adobe Photoshop, plus messengers, plus browsers, plus whatever will be out of the question, but for a simple word processing and internet browsing tool, this is perfect!

For the past two weeks or so, it’s been monsoon hell for Korea. Sudden downpours came crashing onto us and having an umbrella is pointless. Might as well just get wet. Sometimes these downpours last hours. Sometimes they go through a ping-pong ball effect, where it stops, resumes, stops, and resumes.

During one of those ping-pong downpours, I happened to be at work, and I was privileged to see a rainbow (my second or third in Korea) and a gorgeous sunset. Unfortunately, I didn’t have my camera, but luckily my friend did! He took the pictures and emailed them to me.

The beautiful sunset. Until that day, I don’t remember ever seeing such an orange/pink sky like that evening!

The rainbow looks rather faint in the pictures, but you can still make it out. :D It really was breathtakingly pretty seeing it in real life!

My friend also took a picture of one of the new “Ladies Only Parking Spaces” in Seoul. Apparently these are painted pink and are only for ladies. I know there are ladies only cars on Japan’s subways, but now a ladies only parking space? *sweatdrops*

Anyway, I have another picture post planned. My trip to Namsan Tower adventure will be posted in a few days! Yes, I am on a picture post stampede of some sort. :D

Last month, in early June, a friend notified me about the 10th Korea Queer Culture Festival event that was to occur on Saturday, June 13, 2009. We decided to go check it out, despite me being a heterosexual. XD We went and checked it out, but we couldn’t attend the actual parade and the partying at the club in Itaewon, but from what we saw, it was quite an interesting experience! As a firm believer of GLBT rights, it pleased me to see such a thing in conservative South Korea! Now let’s have the pictures speak its words! Beware, a couple of the pictures are NOT SAFE FOR WORK (the ones after the truck — two pictures aren’t worksafe). Well, they do depict artistic nudity, so you have been warned! :D
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