16th Feb
Daniel called me up around 1330 and asked if I'm free to go out. So we agreed to meet at 1500 hrs, Raffles Place MRT.
I reached Raffles Place MRT shortly before 1500 hrs, but he was still on the train, so I went to the postal office at Change Alley and bought a bank draft of CAD$297.46 to be sent to Bank of Nova Scotia for Walton / Westmount's final 2 payments.
Met up with Daniel, and walked to the Han's Restaurant at Great Eastern. I treated Daniel to coffee, while I had a pepper steak, the total of which costs $8.50.
Shortly after, I saw my uncle (Soi Gu), auntie (Soi Kim), their mother (z-eh mm) and someone else whom I don't know. I went to greet them. Their mother thought I was working at Hans. (lol)
After finishing our coffee, around 1630, we left for Sim Lim Square. As I crossed the street, I recognized the opposite as Fook Hai Building, where I once worked.
So, we took bus 851 opposite Fook Hai building, and reached Sim Lim Square around 1700. Waited a while before my brother turned up. His Toyota car was involved in an accident, in which a careless taxi driver accidentally bumped into him and he had to take the MRT to SLS.
We walked around there, shopped, and I bought a Seagate Barracuda 120GB 7200rpm, 8MB harddisk for $159 from Bliss Computers, and a Sony CRX-300E (CDRW+DVD ROM) drive for $99 to replace my faulty Acer CDRW.
Had dinner at the basement of Sim Lim Square, and after chatting a while, my brother left to collect his car around 1900 hrs. I chatted further with Daniel, and we left Sim Lim shortly. Reached home around 2115 hrs.
Chatted a while on IRC, before starting to write a web site maintenance program. The program is supposed to say that all my web sites are under maintenance.
I then placed the program on another system, and redirected all web requests there. Didn't transfer the mail server over though, since mails destined for a mail server will be retried for delivery for between 8 to 12 hrs if it failed.
I got the Sony CDRW recognized, but not the Seagate Barrucuda. Turned out that was because in my BIOS, I had previously set the IDE channel setting to 32 bit transfer: NO, which was causing the hard disk not to be recognized.
After nearly 10 years, my Sony 1.44MB floppy disk drive finally failed, so I took the opportunity to take it out.
I had a lousy sleep this morning. I woke up around 2am and went to bed around 4am. Then, I woke up around