I love May

I'm going to buy a new bike. I just spent 3 hours replacing brake lines on my bike today, only to have it go kaboom because of an over-inflated tire. I'm tired of fixing it, the wheels frames are unbalanced, the brake pads needs adjustment, the back-wheel needs fastening, it's literally falling apart. My application for Alias' PEY position was accepted. I'm starting my orientation next month, and will officially start to work in July. I'm ecstatic over it. All of a sudden the next 5 years of my life just came into clear focus. I now know exactly what I need to do, and where I will be going. This new sense of direction life is refreshing to say the least. This month is really going my way, today Guo laoshi took me aside and actually began to teach me Bajiquan privately for half an hour after practice. Seems like my effort of building the basics finally paid off. Now onto one more year of deligent Bajiquan basics.

Problems

The storage partition on my second computer gave out. I have no idea what was the cause, it just suddenly became inaccessible. It would've been a simple task of finding a diagnose tool online, but my internet connection somehow dropped as well. The problem was obviously corrupted partition information, but it had heavy impact on the system performance, as the OS tried to read the partition in vain again and again. In my frantic effort to alleviate the performance hit, I deleted the problem partition, and made a new one over it. I didn't format the new partition, since I still want to be able to recover the data. When my internet connection came back the next day, I got Active Partition Recovery, which managed to recover my old partition, but it appeared as RAW to XP. Then I got Partition Table Doctor, which fixed the boot table in a jiffy, but the partition returned to its previous state and became inaccessible again. In the end, I gave up and just created a new partition in its place. I lost my 40GBs of data. All the backup programs I had, all the Japanese dramas, all the K-1 fights etc. I now suspect all would've been well if I didn't delete the faulty partition at the beginning, and instead fix it directly with partition Table Doctor. Let this be a lesson to you, don't delete partitions on a whim.

Whoa, Ominous

We are fearing for the safety of our store tonight. Some dude came in today close to closing time to "check out" our store for sacking, or so my dad said. He was pretty freaked out, and we promptly moved all our tobacco stocks upstairs for safekeeping. Our security system had being malfunctioning for the past week, so we are staying on our toes tonight. While dad was arguing on the phone with the security system support, I decided to string together my shinai, which I had previously taken apart for maintenance. Just in case I needed something to wack with you know. That's when it happened, my shinai handle's support string broke. I suppose it was just obeying the laws of physics, it was pretty old, and had taken ton of abuse. However, you know how in all the stories, when bad things are about to happen, strings break, porcelains crack and all hell breaks loose? That's when my heart sank. By the way, I have my last exam of the year tomorrow. I'm sitting here trying to study for it, and all I can think of is how to react in case bad things start to happen. How am I supposed to study like this? Maybe the omen is really meant for my exam, rather than the fate of our family security? I sure hope so.

Song translation

I can hold your hand baby - Brilliant Green

赤く空を燃える丘で その涙を拭いてあげる

ここにいるわ baby always you love you
そばにいるわ baby always you love you

I can hold your hand baby
I will lead the way oh yeah

夜に触れた唇で 今せつない夢をあげる

二人を引き裂く朝日よ
別れの光など 月の手で
籠へと捕らえて閉ざしてしまうわ
愛してる ここへ来て

I can hold your hand baby

広がったオレンジの闇の中に
創り出す 永遠の夜をここに

On the hill that burns the sky red, I'll wipe those tears for you

I'm here baby, always you, love you
I'm by your side baby, always you, love you

I can hold your hand baby
I will lead the way oh yeah

On the lips I touched at night, I now give you painful dreams

Oh the morning sun that torns us apart
the light of our parting, with the hands of moon
into the cages I'll catch and trap it
I love you, come over here.

I can hold your hand baby

In the spreading orange darkness
here we'll create the eternal night