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Baking Until I Drop

It’s been 200 years since the Chinese first arrived in Trinidad & Tobago.
So, today we have a holiday.
I think the day may actually be 10th October (Double 10).

Guardian link that won’t stay up.
An Express link…

I’m so frustrated I could sit down and cry.
And I’m just a step away from it yet for wanting to cry over this, after all that’s been happening, is so ridiculous.

Remember my processor woes? The bent pins?
Well day before yesterday I finally got my new processor, a AMD Sempron64 2800+.
I installed it last night and booted up into Debian and proceeded to updating/apt-getting.

I cancelled the apt-get upgrade as it was hogging bandwidth and Chennette had this desire to use the net. I ssh’d in later and updated a few 100kb. 11s to go and it froze. I rebooted and it said it failed crc check.

I booted into Knoppix (it’s installed on the harddrive) and eventually got kernel panic…twice.

And now I can’t boot the machine!
So, how am I even supposed to run memtest or fdisk?
Why can’t I boot the machine? Is something loose? Was it not the processor all along?

*sobs*

So for #linuxchix, I recorded myself saying the word “Caribbean” four times. How many syllables do you hear?

The problem with this of course is that recording one’s voice makes one *very* self-conscious…so…it sounds weird. I’m not sure if that’s how I *normally* say it but oh well.

Here it is in ogg format.

Somebody (carla, the stabber) said they expected a whole sentence, but couldn’t she have said that *before* I recorded, uploaded and posted. Doesn’t she know about internet in the Caribbean?? Anywayz, Caribbean take two

Well, I haven’t updated you on who’s been reciting!
It seems in Trinidad & Tobago that there aren’t 30 good reciters.
Since I’ve been back Musab has recited again, Hisham and Qaari Sultan (who was the nameless guy who did the first one) twice. And who knows what other repeats I might’ve missed.

REPEATS!

I am so disappointed.

Hisham also does a program “Table Spread” to accompany people while they break fast. He talks too. He also does what I can only call a Mariah Carey (favours one side of the face more than the other). But he appears to do this on other programs too and not necessarily just this one. Strangely enough, he wasn’t on for “Table Spread” last night. I’m confused.

Well, we’re having an Iftar tomorrow.
Mom ketch a vaps and decide she want to have Iftar.
Dad wants to know why because it hardly have people coming.
So we catering for 20-25…and when I use the word cater I mean cater…no stress Iftar.
We made a box cake and a box brownies :)
And we will have soft drink and water and juice.

For those who don’t know, Iftar is when you break fast. Something someone said got me confused and now I’m not sure if it’s the time or the meal. I mean the meal.

Also.
My brother’s mother-in-law called to extend an invitation from her husband’s niece-in-law to an Iftar they’re having on Wednesday. So, we’ll go be social.

Yesteday dad went to UWI Islamic Society’s Iftar.
Mom and I ordered pizza for our Iftar! :-)

I’m glad mom is learning (sort of) to (sort of) take it easy as in buying food from somewhere and it LASTS!

I can’t control what she does when I’m asleep and thus take no responsibility for her overextending herself.

Okay…to sleep…I have class after two weeks tomorrow and can’t remember where I reach. Oh well.

Mom and I’ve been back home since Sunday but so very tired.
Lots of notes I’ve thought of sharing but…not much energy.

So far, missed three fasts (two travelling days I took off and one swaying/woozy/almost-collapsing day and it was only 8 am) and 4 Tarawih.

I don’t know if I’ll ever stop being tired with my job.