Ari's life journey

Dear life,
These last two days have been very stressful for me. Yesterday my internet sharing server downed because of harddisk crash, and when I tried to replace the harddisk, the cdrom couldn't read smoothly the installation disk. I had to use my assistant's cdrom. The installation went allright, and the internet was up again. But, this morning, when he tried to turn on his computer, it failed. I found out that there was a short circuit in the motherboard. Well, I have to call my friend to fix it. I just hope the damage isn' too serious.

Yesterday, I tried to setup the router using Cisco's installation wizard. Seemed easy at first, because the wizard was really clear and step-by-step. The testing was passed, but when I tried to browse the internet, it failed. Also, it failed when I tried to ping the ISP. I was determined to successfully setup the router so that it would be ready this morning, but, at last I gave up. After making several calls to the ISP and leased line provider, I decided to ask for help from the ISP or LLP. But, I was told that the ISP would charge us for that, so, I called the LLP and they sent a technician. The technician seemed very skillful and he did! In doing his job, he tried to call the ISP for more details of the setting, but, the contact person weren't there. So, he called his head office and luckily, he had a friend that had 'inner' ally in the ISP. So, he start listening to his friend on the phone for direction and after a couple of hours they managed to setup the router successfully. Wow, I was grateful. I asked him to have dinner with me, but he politely reject the offer. He's really a professional.

A challenge has passed, another one emerges. We have just found out that our company will be audited by the JSX watch dog. It's nothing special really, it's done annually. But, they are requesting data from November, which I'm affraid isn't available anymore. You see, when the former IT still worked here, she always backed up the data weekly into the backup tapes and then deleted the files from the harddisk. And, I was told that if a tape run out of space, we could just erase it and put the new data on it. So I did! Actually, we also have mirror data from the manual process, but, just in case the auditor asks for the data from the computer........ All I can do now is hoping for God's mercy and I believe in Him.

An hour and a half! Imagine that..... we talked for an hour and a half. From 7:30 to 9:00 we exchanged news and thoughts. Hehehe... I talked about when we were in high school. She smiled when I told her a time when she was visiting her friend in my class, and whe she saw me entering the classroom, she rushed out of the room and bumped into a table. Hehehe.. "Bad memory", she said.

I made a promise to her tonight that I would take her to dinner in Singapore someday. That's a promise.

posted by Fajar @ 7:49 AM