为了什么？

忙忙忙…

为了什么？养家糊口？成就感？责任感？

什么都好，感觉就只是累。

生活究竟是为了什么？

也许不应该在忙了一整天后，心疲力尽的时候思考这样的问题。

要简单的生活，果然一点也不简单。

唉～

随兴随想 |系列|

SoulBot-VII

My 7th computer, also known as my gaming machine, has arrived on 26th of May.

I was rather busy so I only have time to power it on and start setting it up today. The operative word is 'start', for after the whole afternoon and evening I am still not done.

Dell XPS 8950

Since I do not have a loaner chip this time round, and the graphics card being so expensive except from OEM prebuilt systems, I went with Dell XPS 8950.

It has 12th Gen Intel Core i7 with 16GB DDR5 4400MHz (2x 8GB), 512GB M.2 class40 SSD and 1TB 7200RPM SATA hard drive. It comes with Windows 11 Home.

 huge tower of heatsink

A huge block of aluminium heatsink is used on the CPU, but it doesn't have a dedicated fan, relying instead on air flow from casing fans. Not how I would do it but hey, what do I know about desktop cooling?

the critical component - the graphics card

Being a gaming machine, naturally the graphics card is important. I opted for nVidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with 8GB GDDR6, initially thinking of 3070 but really the games I play do not need very powerful graphics card, the 3060 is already way overkill.

Here's hoping this system will last me many many years, like 10 years or more.

Other |hyped up heads up| category entries.

杂记

这几天很忙，工作以外没什么时间做自己的事。

有些事要记录下来，没能长篇唯有重点式短短几句。

*****

新买的电脑昨天（二十六日）到了，比预期早了好几天。太忙，所以没有时间装置，等周末吧。

还有很多琐琐碎碎的东西，硬件和软件要处理、购买、安装什么的，想到就烦。

*****

经理要走了。还不知道新的经理会是谁？不知道会不会合得来？有点忧虑。不想要再换工…

*****

久违了的网上桌面游戏，还是四位玩家的哟。一个不小心又赢了四条街，呵呵！

随兴随想 |系列|

*Fingers crossed*

With little to lose and much to gain, I spent the remaining of the weekend after ordering a new desktop computer to replace the one that died on me trying to fix it.

By chance I noticed a red LED stayed on on the motherboard through the transparent side panel during one of the failed boot up attempts. Remembered something from work about such thing, I went to dig out the motherboard manual. Found the relevant section in the manual which says it's memory module related issue.

Luckily I have a spare 2GB DDR3 module from old retired computer that I could use to replace the 8GB on the motherboard. The system booted to Windows after that! Slow as snail but at least it booted to Windows and stayed on without issue.

My first priority is to get to my data and to back them up since my last back up was in January. But I could not log in to my user profile.

After a lot of Google searches and frustration from trying solutions that don't work. I switched my train of thought to look up fixes for corrupted files instead of corrupted user profile. The thing that finally let me get my data back is the combination of the 'System File Checker: Scannow' and the check disk 'CHKDSK' (/f /r fix and recover) commands, which took hours to run that I fell asleep and woke up middle of the night to turn off the computer when it's finally done.

Can't use my old user profile anymore but at least I got my files out from the corrupted profile, if not all the settings. For which I am grateful.

I switched the 8GB RAM back and it works as well, so it should not be the memory module, unless it's temperamental. I have also gradually reconnected the additional drives and the graphics card to the bare minimum system. I am not sure of the exact cause of the issue but I already did a thorough cleaning, unplugged and re-plugged in of all connectors the day before...

My guess is temperature related trigger of power shut down (or a dying power supply unit) leading to corrupted files, data, profile and bad sectors. Oh, and possibly an interrupted Windows update that caused all sort of problems.

So far the computer has been behaving, I am keeping my fingers crossed until my new computer arrives.

Other |hyped up heads up| category entries.

Computer died

My eight years old gaming machine had its share of hiccups and down time over the years.

The original graphics card died and has been changed to a lesser card a few years back.

Managed to revived the machine from the various hiccups and issues over the years. Until now, that is.

This time the issue is beyond my rudimentary debug and troubleshooting skill, and searches on Google had not turned up anything that helps.

So after two days of trying I am giving up. Sorry SoulBot-V, it's time for me to let you go.

Just ordered a 12th Gen Intel Core processor desktop, it will arrive in early June. I have to suffer till then.

Other |hyped up heads up| category entries.

'Shiteaven'

Made a new cardboard building for hamster Cocoa a few weekends ago.

It's primarily a staircase linking both containers with ample space at the top landing area. A mean for Cocoa to go from one container to another.

Also has a two storey house and a triangular-shaped structure on the top landing space. Our hamster is living in luxury, hehe.

Because of the shape, we called the triangular-shaped building the chapel. Dark and cosy, it's one of Cocoa's current favourite places to sleep in.

Elder son pronounces it as "sha-pell", just because he likes to. Think it's fancy pronunciation or something.

Hamster owner will know how much poop a hamster can produce, and given that hamsters don't have much control over when they poop, so it's basically poop everywhere especially where they sleep.

I was commenting on the amount of poop around the chapel today and when I asked the children if it's difficult to clean the chapel (a hint to tell them they are not cleaning up the hamster containers which they feigned ignorance, of course), the elder son said it's "sha-pell".

And that's when wifey said no, it's 'shiteaven' (shit-heaven), reminding us to pronounce it properly, with the silent 'h' so it sounds high class. Said if we pronounce it shit-heaven, then it will be low.

Yes, we all laughed. =D

Other |nutty nuts| category entries.

瞬眼四天

拿假凑的四天长周末，一瞬间过去了。

放假第一天加时工作了不到半小时，感觉很成功。

但第二天和第三天各自做了两小时，唉…

还举棋不定今天晚餐后是不是要做下工，到时再看吧。

和家人去看了场电影，和在外吃了两餐。其中一餐是公司部门请的，慰劳在公司工作了十五年。

这部门还可以，以前的部门没有这样的福利。

明天又要上班了，虽然其实这几天每天都有加时工作，但想到明天要开工了还是很显。

假期不要完嘛…

随兴随想 |系列|

贱人

下星期一是卫塞节的补假，反正我年假已经要到可以集留的极限了，所以明天星期五拿了假，凑个四天长周末。

照理说傍晚六点下班时间过后我就开始放假了，但现实是我刚刚晚上十一点才下班…

拿假有什么用？我已经加时做了半天的工作时间了，而且接下来几天还是需要加时工作的。

可悲的劳碌命。

命贱又常常犯贱，我真的是个贱人！

随兴随想 |系列|

...to what?

Fairly sure I am not in depression.

The thing is, lately I have been thinking about how to make sure wifey has enough to live comfortably when I passed away.

And that I do not think I have many years left, which, doesn't bother me. I am indifferent to that.

Which led me to wonder why it's so?

After some thoughts I think it's because I no longer have dreams to pursue.

I have given up on those unfulfilled dreams that matter to me. I won't say they don't matter anymore, but either the timing had passed, or they are not something I could achieve by myself.

Guess I should not have dreams that invovled other. Oh well.

Life is just a repeat of yesterday, last week, last month...

I drew a blank when I asked myself I can look forward to... what?

Other |sane side| category entries.

Migraine

Had splitting headache these two days in the late afternoon, nearing the end of normal work hour.

I don't know if it's migraine of tension headache or something else, but it's bad, it's disabling.

Rendered me unable to continue work and had to lie in the bed hoping it would get better.

But it didn't, not until I had slept the night. So the rest of the day was in discomfort and being unproductive.

And yes, I am nursing the headache while writing this.

It sucks.

Other |temperamental thoughts| category entries.

A piece of bliss

Eldest brother back for a break.

Bought books for the kids as well as some crisps and chocolates for all.

Just had a bite of Cadbury Dairy Milk from England, so rich, so... chocolaty.

Such a shame cannot get this heavenly taste here, the Dairy Milk here is just... lacking.

A little piece of bliss, that Dairy Milk from England.

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