February 4, 2005
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…adventures galore…
It’s 3am here and I’m still awake. I’m soooo gonna be dead tomorrow, but I just had to write an entry in before I leave for Bangkok tomorrow…
I had my first nervous breakdown last night. The day had been going wonderfully for me, but like all things in my life, it had to come to an end. I started the day off doing a full body workout with Don at 8am. I did a 5 minute mile to warm up, and then a 2 hour full body workout in which my muscles cried out from the pain, but it’s ok, no pain, no gain.
Anyhow, after that, Don, Nikie, Katrina, Zach, and I all headed out to Tsim Sha Tsui for some dim sum that Katrina was raving about. It was really chichi, but it was also incredibly good! 
After that, Don and I went to Wan Chai to meet up with Shirley so we could pick up the tickets for our tour to Bangkok. We got all our stuff, then I headed over to the post office in Shatin to pick up my long-awaited external hard drive. I was sooooo excited because it’s a 500 gig hard drive, and I totally got a great deal on it 
, but I’ll continue. So I get home and I start to put it together and what not. I decide to move my music library, 20 gigs, to my new hard drive. Everything goes well, and it says that the transfer was successful. I noticed that only like 5 gigs had been used up, but I guess I wasn’t paying attention. Anyhow, I delete my whole music library from my local hard drive, and try to import the songs from the external drive only to find that only 500 songs show up. I was confused. I go back to the external hard drive and I find that only a couple of files actually transferred over, so it wasn’t complete, but I had already deleted my whole library. 
I WAS GOING FUCKIN’ NUTZ! I was freaking out BIG TIME! I was smart enough to have detached my iPod before that got wiped out, but then I was an even bigger idiot because I plugged it back into the computer thinking that iTunes would just sync with my iPod and retrieve all the songs from the iPod. I was soooooo wrong! My one chance to restore ALL of my songs–GONE just like my chances of ever being straight again! ARRRRGH! I was soooooo UPSET! 
I frantically read through all of the discussion forums on Apple’s website and discovered a data recovery program that could potentially recover most of my songs, so I gave it a try. It’s amazing how quickly you can learn technical stuff when you’ve something valuable on the line. Anyhow, long story short, I was only able to recover 8 out of the 20 gigs worth of music. Out of those 8 gigs though, only about 5 of them still had their information still in tact. I currently have 400 songs that I have to rename and retag with the correct information MANUALLY! 
Oh yeah, and about 150 of these songs have to be deleted because there are portions missing still. UGH! Sooooooo FRUSTRATING! 
Despite the disappointing results of my efforts, I was quite proud of myself in regards to how I dealt with the situation. Throughout the whole darn ordeal, I was trying to stay positive because I was the idiot, and there was no one to blame but myself. I think it was about the calmest and most positive I had ever been in a situation such as this. I think I’m making real progress with my temper. Yay for positivity! I was so dead tired from all that late night techie stuff that I wound up skipping Cantonese class so I could sleep in instead…I didn’t sleep in all that much longer though. I was supposed to meet up with Zach for lunch at around 1pm, so I had to get up at noon anyway. He made us tuna sandwiches and then we watched The Aviator. I was actually quite impressed with the movie and Leonardo diCaprio’s acting. I wonder if Howard Hughes was really that eccentric though, what a horrible affliction to have in your life! Regardless, it was a good movie and I’d recommend it to anyone. Now onto the big stuff…
BANGKOK!!! IN 12 HOURS, 19 MINUTES, AND COUNTING!!! Yes, I will be hitting the swelteringly hott city of shopping and sin that is Bangkok in just a little more than half a day! I’m totally jazzed and have already prepared myself with the sufficient phrases necessary to survive in Thailand: mai peht–NO SPICY! Haha, yeah, I love Thai food, but I can’t stand the spicy flavor at all! Sorry, but I like my taste buds, and unfortunately, they just don’t like the flavor of fire, hehe. Ok, sleepy time! I’ll try to update this if I get a chance in Thailand, assuming that some hott Thai guy doesn’t keep me preoccupied that is, hehe, WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
