And then the new sequence begins..
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
I'm officially already inside the second sequence of my exchange here. Another half to go. In this sequence, I'll be taking Analog Electronics and Projet de Synthese which I map to EE2001. I've completed 1 week of this sequence and from what I gather, the pace at which they teach Analog Electronics is damn fast. I just hope I can cope, whereas for the project, I really dislike it. But what to do, I couldn't choose it since I'm only joining an existing group. It's about optimisation. Sometimes I really wonder if I'm in the correct stream since I often feel so lost abt all these. Haiz.... Well... at least the readings are in English and one of my groupmate is quite cute and most importantly, friendly :P LOL. Mind u, finding a friendly French here is super rare. Almost extinct, I think.Last Tue was a disaster day. My laptop gave me trouble all of a sudden. I was chatting when suddenly it restarted and a blue screen appeared. Tried to repair it, but to no avail. In the end I asked the Spore frens for help. It strangely was OK again by the time I reached their place. But when I was back in my room the prob reappeared. Haiz... Since it was past midnite alr, I left it at that. The next morning I asked my neighbour's help. He said he'll intro me to his fren who's good at IT but coz I had a fren coming from Norway that day whom I had to guide ard Paris, I only met him at nite. He's my neighbour also apparently. He tried a lot of stuff and in the end it seemed OK, except for its slowness. But coz it was already 1 am, we left it there first. The next morning, it was worse, I couldnt do a single thing. So I called the IT neighbour for help again. He worked at it almost the whole day but to no avail. I felt so bad at taking so much of his time. So at nite I brought my laptop to another fren for second opinion also. He intro me to yet another IT genius, even better than my neighbour. We worked at it the whole nite til he confirmed it was a HDD failure. Asked my bro and sum other frens' opinion, they all said it seemed to b HDD failure also. Haiz.... But he's another nice person, he stayed up til 3 trying to save my files and thanx to him I managed to save the most impt files. For the time being, he taught me how to use linux to work with my comp. Whoa.... it felt so weird man. I don't like it. But it's better than nothing, of course.
On Sat I asked for Jianghao's help to look for a new hard drive. It's a good thing I got him to help me. We went to this place called Montgallet which is the French equivalent of Spore's Sim Lim. Hehehe... Got my new hard drive at a pretty good price! So happy!!! :D
Since the day was still young, we decided to go to Provins again coz Jianghao left his bicycle there and want to take it back also. So we went there again, saw watever we didn't get to see at the first visit and even saw a show there. It was interesting! A tiring but fun day!! As usual, I missed the last bus again, so had to walk up the slope again. Only this time Jianghao was so kind to take me home. Once I reached home, I asked my neighbour again to help me with my comp for the last time. And finally, it worked!! Though again, I had to trouble him til 1 am plus again. But it worked!!! I was damn happy, super happy!!! U guys dunno how stressed I was with the prospect of not having comp and internet even for a few days. I can die, can't do anything, can't communicate...
But u noe something?? Through all this comp trouble, one thing amazes me. How far those people go to help me. Some of them are not even my frens at first. To them, I'm just a stranger. Yet, they helped me seriously and let me trouble them late into the nite. I seriously am soooooo thankful to God for sending me all these kind hearted people. I was seriously very very touched. It just shows that kind people are not that rare to find after all. Here I am, in such a foreign country, with limited no of frens at first, but somehow managed to find so many helpful and nice people. I feel so 'xinfu' :D :D
Gotta b that kind of person also!!! :D
