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In the Blink of an Eye

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This morning, Ruthie commented that it will take forever for her to grow up. Like most kids her age, she wishes to be older already. But I told her to just enjoy being a kid — the moment she blinks, she’ll be all grown up already, and will be wishing that she was 6 again.

Then suddenly it hit me. Our lives pass in the blink of an eye.

My dad always talks about eternity. About how life is just the beginning dot of an infinite line, and that infinite line is eternity. But I never really understood it then. The concept of infinity is just too large for the human brain to comprehend that it is perceived to be smaller than it actually is. Just like how 1,000,000,000,000 bytes is reduced to 1TB, infinity is reduced to ∞.

Looking back to the past 25 years, it really does feel like it passed in the blink of an eye. All the more reason to live life to the fullest.

Water Damaged Laptop

I recently decided to drink more water to help me lose some weight. I’ve only been drinking iced tea for the longest time, that plain water just didn’t taste right to me, and I have to force myself to drink it.

Last night, I was trying to finish a glass of water while playing some games on my laptop, when the inevitable happened. I spilled my water on my laptop. I immediately powered it off, unplugged it, and wiped off all the visible water from the surface. I then used compressed air to try to get as much of the water out – although I didn’t really see or feel any more water. Now, it’s sitting quietly on my desk.

There isn’t really any important data in it, except for pictures from the last couple of months. I’ve been telling myself to archive it already, but was always too lazy to do so. If it successfully turns on tonight, the first thing I’m doing is archiving those pictures.

Crossing my fingers that none of the circuitry got damaged. But if it’s dead – it’s my birthday next month, so time to buy myself a new computer.

UPDATE: It survived, yeah! I guess I’m lucky this time. My husband’s brother had water spill on his laptop just recently, and he wasn’t as lucky. I guess because of that incident, I’ve read a bit on what to do, so I was prepared when it happened to me. Well, I’m keeping my drinks away from my desk from now on. You just can’t tell when another accident might happen.

Did you mean facebook?

While browsing my cousin’s Facebook photos, I came across this:

No, you don’t really get this when you Google friendster, but being one of those people who used Friendster before, I still find it a little bit funny.

Oh, Friendster has a Facebook page, I wonder if Facebook has a Friendster page.