Little Miss Butterfingers?

Sila gelakkan saya. I did the unthinkable and deleted my Recycle Bin last night. "Mana boleh delete recycle bin", you say? Cuba try test right-click on that Recycle Bin icon (for PC users) and select "Delete". There you go, you've just deleted your Recycle Bin. Congratulations for screwing up, and let's all join my club!

Some would argue that you can never "delete" your Recycle Bin per say (Thank God for that), but you know, when that familiar icon is gone, and you get that racing heartbeat like all the times you know you fumbled, you call the cards for what it is: your recycle bin has disappeared! Oh no-s!

But Google lives for dunce people like moi. In fact, I should think Google was invented for people who thrives at fumbling like ol' bumbling me! Mr. Goo linked me to Mr. Pedia, who had all the answers when Yahoo!Answers and other random forum sites where inaccessible (Read: Server Not Found and Page Cannot Be Loaded).

The scoop is right about Recycle Bins being un-delete-able. It just gets hidden. Silly people like me who use Windows Vista (not that we're silly for using Vista, but rather, we are silly AND we use Vista as our OS), heed these beautiful words:

If the Recycle Bin icon has been deleted from the desktop screen, the following actions can restore it (in Windows Vista ) - clicking: Right click->Personalization->and then click "change desktop icons" from the left-hand column at the top. From there just check Recycle Bin and click OK. If it doesn't appear on the desktop, restart computer.--Wikipedia

Problem is solved, and you are one step closer to becoming a full-fledged IT geek. Awesome possum, innit?

Computer Nerds Make it Big in Life

Dazzled. Amazed. Stupefied. Kagum. Tergamam.

In the last 5 minutes or so (obviously wasting my time on this blog when in reality there's so much reading for me to do) I have been googling for free widgets I could add to my blog. Maklumlah the over-aspiring IT illiterate wants to snazz up her blog. So I got on this blog, Mashables: All That's New on the Web, where they've listed 50 Great Widgets For Your Blog.

If you're patient enough to scroll all the way down, you'll find the recommendations for AnswerTips and Answerboxes. I figured that since I've been using so many Manglish terms and English campur like lah-s, kiasu-s, senget and such, something must be done for non-Malaysian readers (if there's any, haha, which is highly unlikely). I mean, I get kinda annoyed when I read sites which have some Chinese characters or Spanish words because it feels like I'm missing out on the good stuff. And now that I'm writing likewise, I understand the satisfaction they get, because some things are better said in one's mother tongue.

That's only half the point. So I got the html codes and applied it, and boy, am I pleased! Just click on any, any word in my blog and you'll get a definition/explanation about it. They even have "kiasu" in their database! Impressive! Only they linked bebel to Augustus Bebel, some guy I don't care two hoots about. But, haih, the wonders these programmers/IT people can create! And to think all the big bucks they'll get out of writing those codes or running a website, and getting high traffic and being hunted down by companies who want to advertise with them. Jangan main-main. Those big guys with thick glasses, funny habits and idiosyncracies may seem like losers and wimps back in school, but in the real world, they rule! Football jocks may have picked on them and punched their noses and dumb blondes may have relentlessly rejected them, but in the end we see a marvellous display of karma. The stupid athletes get beer bellies, permanent knee injuries and drink beer all day long, and those biatches run after the nerdy-guys-turned-superheroes-with-big-bucks.

Interesting, this life.

But seriously, double-click on the words in my blog. Try the Malay words, might be funny what English word they try to link that word to if they don't have it in their database.

Just trying to be

Alang-alang Update Blog

This is me. Once I start to write/bebel, I can't stop. Well, if you must know, it's been so long since I wanted to update my old blog. Kept a list of blog posts that I wanted to make in my organizer, tau! Sigh, and now that I'm starting on a fresh new sheet, the kiasu in me kicks in. I must ensure there're at least 10 posts by the end of this week. (We'll see, we'll see). Hehe, so competitive. Really dislike that now the world must think I'm a newbie to the blogosphere. Tidak sama sekali. Only technical difficulties and my laziness have brought this predicament upon me, sadly.

Okay. So, back to the whole point of this entry. Again, the kiasu part of me needs to show the world the poster she designed. Yes, I made one, from scratch, using Photoshop. I know, I know, yes, I do deserve that gasp. Such an IT illiterate like me creating a poster--which looks awesome all over campus, if I may add=P--using all those layers and vector masks and whatever not? Big shock to myself, in fact.

It took me half an hour to actually get the hang of the layers, and about 3 hours later to come up with 3 different posters. They're simple, lacking the graphic details like different pictures blending in and having "gradients" or "feathers" and god-knows-what, but I'm still really proud of this baby. I think the colors work really well, and it certainly beats the usual, dreary oh-I-don't-wanna-read-flyers the MSA usually creates.

Oops, no offense there. But this certainly isn't very alim-looking, you must agree with me. My first draft got rejected because the VP hated the pink I used in the now-turquoise section. He/She probably thinks it's too striking, feminine and too inviting. We have to uphold the MSA ideologies now, don't we? *snicker snicker* Ceh, it's pretty obvious I'm still pissed about that person telling me to use a different background, use a different girl, use different fonts and change the layout of the text.

Excuse me, that would mean making an entire new poster kan? Tak perlu lah cover by saying "I like this one the best.. BUT CAN YOU (insert the above stated sentence)". And did I mention that the person only asked me to make the changes 1 day before they wanted me to mass-print them? When I gave her file a week before, and way ahead of time? That hamba Allah could have emailed me right away and notified me of all the things she didn't like, instead of printing the posters, bringing them to the Shura meeting, pretending to ask the others for opinions before finally actually dictating how he/she wants it to be?
I'm not bitter about the changes I had to make (the fonts were boring, I agree, and the title could be bigger), though changing everything is truly unreasonable given such short notice, I was just pissed by the way the person tried to kononnye beralas. But nonetheless, I stood up for what I believed in--that the background design worked--and played around with the colors.

Hm, and through all that, I'm really satisfied with the final version. I don't know what the VP actually thought about it (she said " Thanks Nurjannah, I loved it", perhaps because I told her I spent 3 hours just modifying the colors to suit his/her taste) and I seriously didn't care. All I know is now, the posters are all over campus boards, on lamp-posts and dining hall tables and the stripes are certainly grabbing attention!

Little Miss Angry,

You Know That Little Miss?

This is great, just great. After maintaining my blog of 2 years under this same URL (though rather badly, haha), I DELETED it. I effing deleted it. Why you ask? Ntahlaa buu, I couldn't create new posts! Which is weird. And annoying. Downright frustrating because I tried for one bloody hour before I realize I've been had.

This same, chatbox kept popping out, it was a widget I wanted to add once upon a time ago. Weird how that showed up. Haha. And ooh, everytime I wanted an apostrophe, a "Quick Search box" pops out at the bottom of my firefox toolbar. Of course lah, being the OCD girl that I am, how can I live with that? No proper apostrophes for my "can't-s" and "don't-s"? Mana boleh! Dah senget agaknya my old blog.

Hehe, I was a bad blogger anyways--4 whole months and no single entry. Ooh, and if you followed (though I doubt it 'cuz I prolly had very very limited readership, say Kimbu sorang je kot, hahah) this blog, you might have noticed the 1 year gap. Blog posted in 2006, then jumped to 2008. Hehe. My apologies.

Well, I'm not gonna lie like I did way back in 2006. We both know that I know that you know that this blog isn't going to be very well-updated. Give me three weeks then I'll leave you hanging. But come back in two month's time, I might pen something new!

Anyhow, let me tell you about this cute new concept I'm gonna be using for this new little blog. Of course lah, it's still not as canggih as I want it to be, and still not laid out the way I want it to be (eee, can I pay someone to find me a nice, simple template without those really ugly tight border boxes?). But I'm gonna be giving myself one little miss "sticker" for each entry. It's like if my post is something about my losing my phone (hehe, highly likely, right, for those who knows me?) for the 97th time, or about my dropping my wallet somewhere, I'll give myself a Little Miss Scatterbrain "sticker". Haha.

And when I'm on cloud nine, a Little Miss Happy'll be there in my post. Ooh, but seeing that I have an aversion for Little Miss Sunshine ('cuz I think it's just fit for immortal, too-good-to-be-true, little miss perfects of the world, which I'm not), you'd never catch me using that one. Haha. As the malay biatches in tv dramas say while rolling their eyes, "Jangan harrrap"! Hehe. Should be cute. Look out for them little misses. And you know that no matter what, I'm THAT Little Miss Chatterbox.