[ Me ]
Nickname: Ursula
Birthday: 7th January 1985
Zodiac: Capricorn
Where From: Singapore
Laidback, sensitive, fickle, easily-tickled, fiercely loyal
Manga and anime lover, enthusist, collector and critic/ Coffee lover, addict and expert maker/ Aspiring future wife of famous culinary chef/ Aspiring future wife of a 1.8m tall hunk
My Friendster link:
http://www.friendster.com/vivis
[ Likes ]
Sleeping, dancing, books, manga, anime, chocolates, coffee, Jap food, Italian food, Ayumi Hamasaki, people, my sister
[ Fave Books ]
Harry Potter series, Artemis Fowl series, The Inheritence Trilogy series, The Da Vinci Code, Memoir of a Geisha, I Don't Know How She Does It... and all my comics n manga!!!
[ Currently Reading ]
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
Inkheart
by Cornelia Funke
The Well Of Loneliness
by Radclyffe Hall
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Seduced The West
by Lesley Downer
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
by Milan Kundera
The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
[ The Wishlist ]
My Amazon.com Wishlist:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/ref=yourlists_pop_1/103-2401787-9502236
Phillips MC235 Thin Stereo Microsystem
Kathy Van Zeeland bag
(saw on amazon.com going for bout US$65... Why dun Singapore stock her goods??! >.< I wan it in Topaz colour~!!!)
The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Inu-Yasha Theme Song Collection
12 Kingdoms/ Juuni Kokuki anime VCD sets
GUESS bag (darn, i dun have the $120 required to buy it now and i noe it'll be gone soon, Guess always changing their apparels every month or so u_u)
DKNY gold and crystal-studded watch (very ornamental, more a dress watch then an every-funtion watch. still, pretty~)
Mphosis pale gold SLIPPERS (i run through my shoes and slippers like they cost nth X/)
The BodyShop BLUSHER in Golden Pink
The BodyShop blusher BRUSH
Shiseido eyelash CURLER
Full-length wall MIRROR(s) for my room
A new big every-purpose BAG
Pretty SHOES
A Digital CAMERA
A bloody new PC or laptop with the speed of light and a gazillion GB of memory!! =[
The Sims 2 (PC game edition)
[ The Memories ]
Monday, May 23, 2005
Spies and Foxes
I have, like practically did an overhaul of my compt these last two nites... (or at least, to someone as compt un-savvy as me, its a big change already).
All started from when one of my irc mates mentioned how slow my irc download was. n inconsistent. Esp when compared to my normal on-web http downloads... i was averaging a speed of 5kb/sec on Mirc compared to 280kb/sec fot http dls.... -.-
Tot it was the norm for irc dls to be alot slower than http dls actually... apparently it shdn't be the case.
n we checked wif an online test of my cable speed n it was perfectly fine... so we noe the prob doesn't lie wif my cable connection.
Anyway, to cut the story short... i downloaded Spybot-Search n Destroy and discovered...230 'spies' on my computer!! -.-
didn't even noe was tt considered alot anot initially, but that mate said she had at most 20 'spies' ever. ok...
Anyway, got rid of all of them wif Spybot, then downloaded Sysreset in place of Mirc (about the same actually, except it facilitates easier choosing n downloading or files), and switched my Internet Explorer browser to Mozilla's Firefox. Whew~
n there's still the prob wif my Norton anti-virus i'm trying to fix now (oops. shd i say it here? pls dun send me any viruses!).
but oh... Firefox is so cool!
its so much easier to use, faster, n a darn lot prettier than Internet Explorer (they have many choice of skins u can dl from) =)
Anyway, after destroying all the 'spies' we checked out my irc dl speed again... onli a slight improvement, no significant changes still - 5kb/sec to averaging 7-8kb/sec (though on average my whole compt system is working faster already).. Sigh... still dunno wat the problem is. Even she is perplexed =/ possibly viruses?
stupid Norton... haven checked how it was holding up since tt repair-guy helped me install it bout half a yr ago. it seems fine then, so i dunno was it an unsuccessful installation on his part. or prob one of my 'spies' done smth to it...
Truth be told, i was more irritated by the fact that the spies have slowed down my compt by this much than them spying on my stuff. Sure, i have stuff i wan to keep confidential, but nth on that are so scandalous they haven seen on anyone elses com. Any boy wif a cache of porn in his pc wud surely beat me.
Stupid spies... to think i lived wif 230 of them throughout the past 6mths (or longer, since i dunno bout their existence too before i repaired my com).
+ Ursula r e m e m b e r s again + 8:20 PM
