Edison attended a calculator workshop at school today, got this Sharp calculator free.
Fleming had his violin level 2 exam and played 4 songs. He told me he got a chocolate for playing well :)
Friday, November 12, 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Thanks to dearest NRZ – my hero!
Two days ago, there was a power trip at my office and that incident became the cause of my troubles this morning.
For one whole morning, I could not connect to SQL Server 2008 Management Studio because my msdb (which stores SQL Server jobs) was corrupted.
The error message was:
”Database 'msdb' cannot be opened. It has been marked SUSPECT by recovery. See the SQL Server errorlog for more information. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 926)”
I called my expert NRZ straightaway of course and complained to him about my problem.
Of course, NRZ came to my rescue immediately and started Googling for solutions to help me.
At 11:08 am, he sent me his first link, which required working in cmd mode. Tried the instructions, but it just didn’t work!
http://sqlplanet.blogspot.com/2008/07/recreate-corrupt-msdb-database.html
At 11:25 am, he sent me yet another link which was using the SQL Server Configuration Manager in GUI mode. Still didn’t work :(
http://rip747.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/rebulding-msdb-in-sql-server-2005/
At 12:11 pm. problem was still unresolved, so he sent me a third link. Unfortunately, that still didn’t solve the issue.
http://paradisj.blogspot.com/2008/08/sql-server-error-detaching-msdb.html
After these numerous attempts and my urgency to get the SQL Server working so that I could work on my system, I told him I wanted to give up and just reinstall the whole SQL Server.
NRZ told me not to give up yet.
At 12:25 pm, he sent me another email. Attached to the email was a copy of the MSDBData.mdf.
And that proved to be the saviour of the day because when I copied and pasted this file to override my corrupted one, everything started to work well miraculously!
Thank you NRZ for patiently helping me with this problem today, my darling SQL DBA expert! :)
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Our first Apple product
NRZ's colleague, Choon Huat got a free ipod Touch when he bought his Macbook Pro and he was trying to sell it off on EBay. By fate, he did not manage to close a deal with a buyer who bidded his item for $228 because the buyer later backed out and said he wanted to buy it at $218.
NRZ told me about this on Tuesday 04 Aug, and asked me if I was interested to buy it.
Well, sure sounds a tempting offer, but I was debating about it for a night because I didn’t see myself really using it often.
But it was such a tempting offer, finally, I decided to take the plunge and asked NRZ to BUY IT!
Our first Apple Product!
Have been using it for a few days now, and verdict: VERY GOOD.
And this is definitely just our first Apple product, because we are eyeing the Macbook Pro and IPhone 4 next... ;)
NRZ told me about this on Tuesday 04 Aug, and asked me if I was interested to buy it.
Well, sure sounds a tempting offer, but I was debating about it for a night because I didn’t see myself really using it often.
But it was such a tempting offer, finally, I decided to take the plunge and asked NRZ to BUY IT!
Our first Apple Product!
Have been using it for a few days now, and verdict: VERY GOOD.
And this is definitely just our first Apple product, because we are eyeing the Macbook Pro and IPhone 4 next... ;)
Friday, June 4, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
E
Fleming came back with this ridiculously tedious piece of homework today and I really had no choice but to help him with it.
He’s supposed to come up with about 50 words that starts with letter E and write all of them down.
He’s only Primary 1 and does not have that extensive a vocabulary yet, and even I don’t possess such a wealthy store of words either, so I just dug out this little handy Chambers dictionary we bought from the MPH fair last month and typed out the easier ‘E’ words for him.
Phew, I hope he doesn’t come back with letter F tomorrow…
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Make a Spider-Lily flower for your Mom in 5 mins!
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day and I got this lovely ‘bouquet’ of flowers from my 7 year old son.
He ‘taught’ me how to make it, and gosh, its so super easy, takes about 5 mins only and rather fun so I am showing you the steps to do it.
First, get ready these materials: Two pieces of colored paper, stapler, a straw and a
of scissors.
Next, place your hand on a colored paper, draw out the shape of your hand and then cut out the shape of your hand on the paper.
Happy Mother’s Day! :)
He ‘taught’ me how to make it, and gosh, its so super easy, takes about 5 mins only and rather fun so I am showing you the steps to do it.
First, get ready these materials: Two pieces of colored paper, stapler, a straw and a
of scissors.
Next, place your hand on a colored paper, draw out the shape of your hand and then cut out the shape of your hand on the paper.
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Place the straw on the cut out shape. Fold in the paper as shown and wrap the 'hand' shape around the straw. Keep wrapping until the whole hand is wrapped around the straw and then staple it to secure the shape to the straw.
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Now, use a pen or pencil and roll it around the ‘finger’s of your cut-out shape. This will form as the ‘petal’ of the spider lily. Keep rolling all the ‘petals’ until you get curled up petals like this.
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Finally, do up the ‘leaves’. Just draw out two leaves on green colored paper, cut them out and attach to the straw.
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If you want, make several of the same flower and put them together in a ‘vase’ like this!
Happy Mother’s Day! :)
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