Printer woes

Erps...i think it's more or less confirmed...

...I've definitely lost my pencil case. Gaahh wtf.

Time to go shopping once again. I'll need to especially make a personal selection for my red pen...this red pen is of particular importance, because of reasons best known to myself and one other. Lol.

Oh, and errr i'm very grateful to my uncle for giving me an inkjet printer last year that i could use in my room, instead of having to drag my laptop out and plug it into the one outside every time i had to print important documents.

I have to say though (and it must be noted that my uncle won this printer in some draw and did not choose this printer model for me) that HP printers are HORRIBLE. Don't ever get one of these. Sorry Hewlett Packard, but my experience so far with this printer of yours is well...quite unsatisfactory. I'm sticking to Canon, next time.

Firstly, the ink for this Hewlett Packard F2235 gets used up VERY quickly, compared to my Canon Pixma iP3000, i.e. the family printer that sits outside my room. The last time, i only printed around 80 odd pages before the ink had to be replaced. I'm pretty sure my Canon Pixma can do better, from my past experiences. I've had to switch to low-quality printing already for my HP printer, or else i'd cringe at the loss of ink for every page i printed.

And the cost of the ink cartridges? Well, my HP ink gets used up faster, but guess what, one black ink cartridge costs me freakin $43 compared to like $16 for my Canon black ink cartridge. Maybe i'm getting my figures wrong, because my mum might have quoted me the colour ink cartridge price, but still, i don't think the value is off by much. My mum WAS sure that the cost of any Canon ink cartridge fell FAR below $43.

And finally, this HP printer is just so counter-intuitive and DUMB, somehow. It's got a scanner, which is cool, but it can't print duplex (meaning automatically on both sides of a page), while my old, old Canon printer can. If i make a mistake and want to cancel a print job, right-clicking on that small icon and cancelling it would take too long, and by the time the signal reaches the printer, another page has been printed.

So, for my Canon printer, i could turn the printer off or disconnect the USB cable, and the print job is automatically cancelled. And once i turned the printer back on, it's ready to be used again. Very convenient. On the other hand, if i do the same thing for my HP printer, the printer jams up. When i then go to the small icon and try to delete the print job, the printer goes into this state where it tries but cannot seem to cancel the print jobs. It remains in the state of "deleting" and turning the printer off and on doesn't work.

I have to restart the HP printer AND my freakin computer before i can get any printing done again. And once my printer starts up...it start PERFORMING THE PRINT JOBS THAT I HAD BEEN TRYING TO CANCEL BEFORE I RESTARTED THE COMPUTER. And there's no icon where i can go and cancel the old print jobs either. I just have to reach over and press this red X button, and by then a page or two have been printed. *cringes*

Ahwell. I'll keep this printer for emergency photocopying jobs. In the meantime, the printer outside my room is out of ink. (My dad keeps stocking up ink for his own printer - he has at least four colour and two black ink cartridges in stock - but the Canon Pixma iP3000 printer seems rather neglected...sigh has the family printer become my responsibility without my knowledge?)

So i'm going to have to leave some print jobs for school. Printing in school is damn cheap. Four cents a page nia...with the goddamn HP printer, it's like FIFTY cents a page even when the printer is my own personal one. What the hell.

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Minor update

Hmm. Haven't blogged in a while.

Anyway, my car's been repaired. Money's gone for good though.

It turns out that my computer's motherboard was fine; it was the RAM that got spoiled. Interesting. I'll have to take the ram chips for repair...some time. Maybe on the monday after tomorrow...i suspect that the next week is going to be busy as hell.

Erm. Dinner on thursday was pretty good. We went to the Robertson Quay branch of Les Bouchons...the serving size was amazing. Well, i'm sure i could get MUCH more beef from say, McDonalds with the amount of money that i spent. But still. Good French steak frites in a nice setting. I wouldn't go there too often though. :| Just not rich enough.

Valentine's Day was also quite the success. Lol i made spaghetti alle vongole (minus clams plus prawns because Coco doesn't like clams)...among other things. Like errr canned cream of chicken soup which tasted like ten times better because of the introduction of english parsley. And chocolate fudge...which kinda sucked. Fudge is not really meant to be eaten alone. Sigh. And i spent more time on that one than the other dishes too. Next time, i'm sticking to brownies. In a ready-mix formula. I'll just add in the raspberry sauce to make it more presentable and more professional-looking ahahaha.

Oh and in between that, i attended Law Ball! Coco managed to get 2nd place for the pageant queen position...power lah. The Ball was quite the success, although there were a few empty tables thanks to errr certain people not willing to pay the ticket price to come down and support their beloved friends.

Er hem. And i really have to wonder about the seating arrangements...like why i ended up sitting with well...the sponsors, instead of with people i knew errr a little bit better. Ahwell. It made for a rather quiet dinner, i suppose.

Well, anyway, that's all from me.

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I've had a bad bad bad bad bad x ∞ day.

You people know that i really love to moan about unfortunate incidents happening to me on this blog. Well, i can safely say that today, my luck has been the worst i've ever had my entire life.

In the morning, before my modeling photo-shoot, i cut my pimple with my razor. Thank goodness for concealer.

After the photo-shoot, it was raining very, very heavily. The exit thingee couldn't seem to record my cashcard IU unit, and a truck prevented me from reversing, so i had to get out in the rain to press the help button, etc.

After getting back in the car, i drove off, looking forward to my late lunch and thinking of what to eat. It was about 1:30pm. But then, while i was driving below speed limits in the rain, the car in front of me suddenly swerved out and changed lanes. Turns out there was a stationary car at the side of the road on my lane. I jammed on my brakes the instant i saw the car, but my car skidded and slammed into his rear bumper.

I then spent the next four hours stoning and handling the whole affair. Taking down the other driver's particulars, waiting for my parents to arrive (i got into the accident at around Paya Lebar, so there was quite a lot of traffic), getting the tow truck down, going to the repair centre and going back home after all that.

During that period of time, i slipped and fell on my back on the wet road while taking my wallet to pass the other driver my driver's license. I dropped some of my clean clothes onto the road while moving the stuff to my mum's car. And when getting into my mum's car on the way back home, i somehow managed to step onto some cow dung fertiliser without knowing it.

This stained my brand new white sneakers and ensured that the ride home would be extremely pleasant. My mum has had to clean her car thoroughly. I was also cleaning the mat with some wet tissue while in the car, and now, i can't seem to get the smell off my fingers, even though i've already washed my hands four times. And using the hand-cleaning method that was taught during the SARS outbreak too.

Oh and the costs of repairing my car? $2650 INCLUDING insurance coverage. The $2650 is just the "excess fee" to be paid because i'm under 26 years old. And now, because of this accident, my insurance premium won't be discounted anymore. Sigh...what's the point of insurance liddat. My condenser is ruined though, and my left headlight is cracked. And my entire front cover is bent beyond recognition. The damage is quite significant, so even if i just got it repaired without claiming insurance, it would still cost me around $2500 to $3000+. Haiz.

Well, and i just got home about 15 minutes ago. Just ate two pineapple tarts. That's lunch. Sigh...i'm such a loser.

Now...what's next? Oh yes, i'll probably get a stomachache because of the dung or gastric or the pineapple tarts or both. And i'm probably going to screw up the LAWR presentation tomorrow and bring my entire team down with me.

Bleah. Okay, i'm going to try to prevent that last incident from happening. I've still got some time left; time to go for a shower and then do some reading up.

Oh, and time to go buy some 4D. My car-plate number, specifically. Lottery luck, here i come! $10,000,000 Toto, anyone?

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14th February.

Valentine's Day is approaching.

Anyone got any dinner places to recommend?

Budget...well...i'll think about that one later lol.

Gotta go book soon!

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