I have been spending most of my weekends staying at home getting my Gentoo Linux running. What I didn’t expect is that compiling software is a painfully long process T_____T.

Up until now, I only set up part of my system, which can barely fullfil my computing needs. There’s still tons of packages that I need to compile before it’s becomes complete.

But anyway, it gave me a lot of time to gain some real Linux experience (that’s a very sugar-coated way to say that I’m having a nightmare when I faced some major stumbling blocks :p). That gave me enough reason only to recommend Gentoo only to intermediate Linux users and everyone else should be much more appreciative with the easier install route provided by most distros.

Technical stuff …

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Before:

Here’s my desk in the old office:

After:

Here’s my own partition in the new office:

It’s pretty organized at the moment, but I don’t think that will last for long :p. But I have more space to hoard stuff, I suppose :p.

And yay for having the network fixed :).

Not much dust gets flown around during our office relocation, but tons of frustration that gets piled up. Nothing more frustrating than having myself unable to access the company network = I can’t do my job >_<.

To some, it might be a blessing; but with a tight deadline around the corner, it’s an absolute nightmare.

Almost the whole afternoon has seen me silently cursing with any four lettered profanity that I can possibly think of, grumbling with I get some other PC installed as a make-shift solution.

Not to mention the IT support people which takes oh-so-long to come, as much as I know they have a long waiting queue, I’m like “GOD WHAT TOOK THEM SO LONG! I WANT IT SETTLED NOW“.

Gah!!!

Frustrated, frustrated, frustrated!

grumbles like no end

…

Anyway …

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Just got the IDE cable for my new harddrive, am now checking for any bad sectors in the drive before I unleash my grand masterplan (to plan for my own personal p0rn kingdom? MWAHAHAHA~ >:p)

Anyway, rewinding back: Not feeling very energetic today, that’s enough proof that I need to head to bed early plus some happiness to go with it :). Good mood is always a energy booster :).

Later on, today’s my boss’ birthday and we had yummy rich chocolate cake (of course, at our own expense ^-^||)~

Dust will be flying tomorrow as we’ll see our own boxes gets four floors down, hoping nothing more than a smooth transition (although in reality, this hope is always less than certain). Will be exposing ourselves to different set of people. Anxious? Of course (after …

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Bought myself a 250GB hard disk today, only to find out that I still need to get myself an extra IDE cable and four more screws for it when I wanted to install it into my machine (sees excitement level plunges down). But anyway, will get that soon enough :), and I think it’ll be a great weekend project.

Downloading stuff that I wanted to install while the hard disk sits on my desk. (more specifically Linux installation CDs)

In other news, cleared up my desk today. Now it’s completely clean with minimal stuff on the table :).

Spent half a day shifting most of the files downstairs, the boss is clocking in at 19th floor from tomorrow while we will start to shift down on Friday.

… Still waiting for the dust to settle down, I suppose :).

Finally~ Whole day spent and I finally get most of the work done, if not all.

It’s such a dusty, dusty day that I sneezed occasionally and felt some skin irritation, but there’s nothing more rewarding than a comfortable space :).

Here’s my progress report :).

Computer table, now with enough space for me to actually work on stuff

Finally…

Before

After

Look ma! No books scattered on the floor now. (But notice that the books on the bottom shelf is arranged horizontally. I really need a new shelf sooner or later ^-^||)

The other table which used to be my junkyard was finally cleared off. Notice the bags of trash on the floor.

This is the result of 3 years of constant hoarding, luckily the are recyclable.

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Phew! Just gone through another round of spring cleaning. This time round the changes are really drastic as I kinda go into extremes on chucking stuff out. The criterion: Any perceivable “useful junk” that I have haven’t used for at least a year. And literally i kinda shocked myself almost half of the items lying around in my room, bathroom and computer table was cleared away… thinking how much junk I can accumulate after three years of living under the same roof with my aunt. These junk pretty much range from leftover toiletries that I don’t like, to printed materials that I’d never bother to read, to bootlegged game soundtrack CDs (read: Ever Anime stuff)… and to some extent, some mementos that I had carried with me but doesn’t have any …

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ARGH! I’m going to need these sometime in the future:

1. A new CD shelf
2. Another bookshelf (Actually I need it now as half of my book collection is taking up floor space)
3. A new MP3 player… of a larger capacity

OK, longer story.

Just grabbed four new albums: Favorite Blue’s Missing place, Folder’s 7 SOUL and Suzuki Ami’s SA and Infinity Eighteen Vol.2. I grabbed them off from the budget section, which cost me only around RM30 for four albums. Talk about cheap :), I really don’t know whether this is a blessing or a misfortune, because the tendency of having these Japanese CD ending up in the budget corner means that records stores are much reluctant to import any Japanese CDs ^-^||.

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Starting to move some furniture downstairs. Moving heavy furniture isn’t easy, but it’s really fun as we cooperate in getting one of the metal DIY shelf disassembled and moved it downstairs :).

Organized my table a bit, probably thinking of shifting down ASAP as I really don’t want to have have one to-do item linger in my brain for too long XD.

Other than that… it’s pretty much about myself of thinking how much longer I can keep this feeling towards someone to myself… we’ll see how things goes on. 😊