When everything is down the drain, you're down the drain!!! ^_^V

guess what happened again?????????

ok... this started from the very beginning...

In the beginning of time... (ie. When we just got back from Oz/S'pore)
1. my astro, still can't view anything, even the basic channels... even though i have been paying when we're away... (cos, i've been paying the minimum while we're able to view some 'extra' channels, so, i thought i shouldn't 'touch' the subscription... see!!! there's never free lunch huh!!! now i got backfired.. which i hope not!!!)... in fact, we couldn't view any of them since this august... but i was not around... (he came back alone) so, only now, i called astro to try to solve...
2. and guess what??? i called astro, since last week... immediately after we got back, their system was down... then, i waited for a few days, called again, system still down, i couldn't stop myself from asking them, “your system has been down for many many days, doesn't your boss question any of you or scold any of you???” of course i won't be given any 'satisfying' answer... to date (2006-12-05) the system is still not up yet... i called them yesterday, they told me, TODAY!!!!! after 2pm... ya, hope you're right!!!
3. then, mid of last week, we went to IKEA and Harvey Norman, bought some new furniture, and a fridge, a washing machine, and a dryer... (washing machine and dryer came in a bundle, just couldn't resist!!! i know i know, i'm bad shopper!! ^_^)
4. so, later in the week, ikea sent the items that we ordered to our place, and we 'ordered' them to be assembled... however... half way through their assembling process... i noticed a scratch on the front panel... i voiced it out, they (surprisingly without any 'resistance') said they'd exchange it for me...
5. first, there's scratched door, second, there's one screw lack in the packing, so, they couldn't fix one of the 'legs'... ie. My cabinet couldn't stand!!!
6. then, we ordered that, our cabinet door could be fixed with extra key... it's called EFEKTIF A, then, we (including the ikea assembly men) discovered that, the EFEKTIF A, should come together with EFEKTIF B, ie. One is key hole, one is key~~~ goodness!!! now then we know that, ANY EFEKTIF B key will be able to open ANY EFEKTIF A keyhole!!!! SMART!!!
7. 3 unsolved outstanding 'issues' from ikea... however, the assembly men couldn't do anything, the procedure would be... i call the customer services (to launch a complain, i believe), then, the customer services will check with the delivery/assembly men again, then, they'll pass it on to the home delivery DEPARTMENT... THEN home delivery will call me to fix another time and date to come fix the 'issues'
8. however, let me tell you, IT'S EXTREMELY EXTREMELY difficult to get through the IKEA customer services line, and the customer services' staff was not really very helpful... or i'll put it this way... the first person that i spoke to, was not really THAT willing to help (huh!! i wonder why she want to be in customer services department... @#%@#^@^) mind you, her name is SHEENA... then, after zillions of time of trying, i managed to speak to another person again, called Addy... i complained to him about Sheena... this time, finally, he's willing to help and came back to me with something... ya, finally, to fix the second 'delivery' (the screw, the door replacement, and the key)
9. second time, ikea people came... after fixing the keyhole and replacing the door, one of them told us this... the screw that they're given, was WRONG again... so, they need to go back to change, and get the RIGHT ONE!!! oh, before they can proceed.. i've to go through the painful process of getting through their customer services phone line... ok.. this time, it's slightly easier...
10. finally, ikea people came, for the third time.. and finally, our cabinet is FIXED!!!
11. parallelly... our washing machine!!!! hm!!! see... when they delivered the washing machine, dryer and fridge the other day... i was basically over-joyed... at the fact that, i finally can do my laundrette easily (initially, we're using the super ancient twin-tub machine, ie. You gotta fill up the water... and stop the water inlet when it's full, then, start the machine, then, after a few round of washing, you gotta transfer the wet laundrette to the other tub to spin... ie. You can't sleep, you can't go out, and you've to be there to keep an eye when you're doing your laundrette... ^_^ ya, we've been using THAT for err... nearly 8 years!!) so... i was too thrilled to use the machine... i washed the pile of mountain-high laundrette... then, the next day... still thinking of continuing... however... i found out that, the machine refused to drain automatically, and even i forced it to drain.. it refused to spin... so, i called the harvey norman sales... as it was a weekend, he told me, he'll help me to get the electrolux guy on monday (the following day)... fine!!!
12. therefore, yesterday (monday) i called the same sales guy to make sure that he helped me to contact electrolux... (which i think, i can do it myself, however, since it's newly purchased goods, i guess, it'll be better if i go through the same dealer) ... in the afternoon, while i was taking my afternoon nap, electrolux lady called me up, to tell me the time when their engineer will come... mm... at least, she sounded much more helpful than the IKEA customer services... (huh!! i wondered... if if happened that we bought the item and decided to assemble ourselves... and halfway through, or upon near completion, then only we found out that, there's one screw less... what would we have to do?? arrgh... don't tell me, i've to dissemble the whole thing and bring it back to ikea???...)
13. anyway... at the moment, my washing machine is still 'hanging there', as the engineer is not here yet... but guess what?? last night, i boot up my PC (after the PREVIOUS REFORMATTING) ... it failed to launch the explorer.exe process... ie. After booting into the supposed OS.. i can't see anything but blank... can't see any icon, nothing!!!!! then i tried to see what's happening, by doing the ctrl-alt-del... another message popped up and told me that, the task manager was failed to launch (as well!!!) FINE!!!!!
14. the last thing i DIDN'T do, was to bash the keyboard, as well as the notebook... however.. maybe after all the 'events' since the past week, and a very recent reformatting of my PC... or maybe after a long night of watching TV/DVD... my brain functioned a little bit slow, as to feel anything about this... so, i relaxingly took out my rescue disk... (since the last reformat was not THAT far away... therefore, those CDs were still around my side)...

and there i am... happily typing away over here... ^_^
as this time, it's different from the last 'need-to-reformat' event, (my PC was hacked) i didn't know what really happened... as i mentioned, not far from the last reformat and re-arrange and re-configuration... somehow, quite immediately after 1.5 day of rest (for my PC) then suddenly the whole OS failed to launch the vital basic explorer.exe process........

but fine!! fine!! fine!!!!!!....