July 9, 2010

A pack indeed

I made a phone delivery order from the cafe below my condominium. And since they have a mini-mart attached to the cafe, I spoke to the lady that I would want a pack of Maggi mee. How naive was I where I thought you when you buy off the shelves of superstore, you usually have 5-in-1 pack.

But upon they delivering the food to me, I was quite puzzled why the plastic bag was so small. And when I opened it up, the one pack of Maggi mee indeed is JUST ONE PACK. I rest my case.

July 3, 2010

The best is yet to come

Based on the Chinese calendar, this year will be a fruitful and a good year for me. In fact I do believe that this will be the best year ever in terms of lifestyle improvements and money-making.

But after half of the Year of Tiger passed with mostly unpleasant lives and empty days, I am beginning to see some light at the end of the tunnel. Yes, I kept saying this to myself that 'the best is yet to come'. Only better, never worse. Call me an optimistic or over confident, but the former verse will drive me to a much better life. Like Frank Sinatra sang: The best is yet to come, come a day you're mine!

Listen to the lovely song while reading and singing the lyrics below:
Out of the tree of life, I just picked me a plum
You came along and everything started to hum
Still its a real good bet, the best is yet to come

The best is yet to come, and baby wont it be fine
You think you've seen the sun, but you aint seen it shine

Wait till the warm-up's underway
Wait till our lips have met
Wait till you see that sunshine day
You aint seen nothin yet

The best is yet to come, and baby wont it be fine
The best is yet to come, come the day your mine

The best is yet to come
Come the day your mine
Oh come the day your mine
I'm gonna teach you to fly
We've only tasted the wine
We're gonna drain that cup dry

Wait till your charms are right, for the arms to surround
You think you've flown before, but you aint left the ground

Wait till you're locked in my embrace
Wait till I hold you near
Wait till you see that sunshine place
There ain't nothin like it here

The best is yet to come, and baby wont it be fine
The best is yet to come, come the day your mine
Come the day your mine
I've got plans for you baby
And baby you're gonna fly

July 1, 2010

A pat on my back

Finally, after hours of cramping my eyes and fingers muscles googling, I managed to restore all my previous SMSes to my restored iPhone. The internet connection gave up on me again last night. And after another round of complete restoration, the phone is as snappy as new ones. Just that all my SMSes are not loaded even though I've backed up on iTunes.

Standard backups on iTunes are only for Calendars, Contacts, Mail and data settings. So I have to manually search for the files on my Macbook. The process did not go as smoothly as I thought. But after further searches, trials and errors restarting my phone numerous times... all previous SMSes magically appeared!

The files that have to be copied to the 'new backup' folder:
1. 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d2.mddata/mdinfo
2. Info.plist
3. Manifest.mbdb
4. Manifest.mbdx
5. Manifest.plist
6. Status.plist

Do not question me on the list above. I have no idea what are those files. What I only care is that the SMSes appear on my iPhone, and that matters most.