Bike wash on Sunday

Cheap bike wash service in such a busy street

Exam waiting

Next weekends there will be a vey important exam wating for me.

Burning music DVD

It's so happy that my wife and I both love listening music. I often listen from my computer or online. My wife likes watching music videos at home. I find that Youtube is a large source of videos that I can enjoy. I get an idea of bring clips from Youtube to DVD so that my wife can enjoy them from player with sound enhanced by amplifier.

Trying to search on the Internet, I find a nice software that helps burning DVD from various types of music files. From now on I can collect my favourite songs and store them in the disk. My wife and I can enjoy together on weekend.

Facebook

I knew Facebook about 3 years ago while Yahoo 360 was very popular in Vietnam. At that time Yahoo announced that it would shut down the blog in a few months. Most bloggers in Vietnam tried to find a new home to move their posts to. Yahoo introduced its new blog engine just for Vietnamese bloggers called Yahoo Plus but most users were tired of using such a slow and complicated website. They turned to use a new social network Facebook which was spreading all over the world.

Unfortunately Facebook was banned for a long time because of political reasons. Despite the difficulty, Vietnamese users got more eager to use the social network. So many guidelines for bypassing firewall were posted on the Internet. I am so surprised that most of my friends use Facebook to share  their photos and activities. Some of them use it regularly. I feel so happy that Facebook helps me connect with many friends who I haven't met for a long time.    

Login-Logoff virus

Today I was asked to recover a computer which couldn't log-in to Windows XP. It always logged off automatically right after logging in. This is the third time I've encountered this virus. I am so sick of this symptom. In the last two times, I had to re-install the OS. This time I felt it was so hard and time-consuming to do this. Trying to search on the Internet, I found some articles guiding how to resolve this issue.

The cause is that the computer registry is changed in the path of the file userinit.exe. So the solution is changing the path of the file in the registry back to the correct location. However the problem is how to access computer registry while I cannot log in to Windows. I looked for any software in Hiren CD but it didn't help. Fortunately I remembered a CD named WinPE something. I tried the CD and the result was so perfect. I edited the registry by running OS on the CD. The computer worked again and I could run anti virus software to clean the the system. From now on I no longer worry of this virus.

Some nice photos

Tonight when surfing Flickr I found some nice photos and tried to download.

My short trip to Long Hai

Last Sunday I had a short trip to Long Hai with my colleagues. We started at 7:30 AM in 2 two buses. Long Hai is a suburban district of the coastal provine of Ba Ria - Vung Tau not very far from HCMC. We arrived there at 12 PM after visiting veteran clinic. It was so sunny and hot. The beach was crowed with tourists and street vendors.

We hired camp beds which are shaded by big umbrellas to sit and enjoy the smell of sea. We had lunch on the beach with bread, sea-food and beer. Some people went swimming in the sea but I didn't for I was so lazy to change clothes. I just went along the beach and took pictures. There was a temple near the beach called Dinh Co. To visit it, I had to go up many steps of a small mountain. Standing on the top of the temple I could have a great view of the whole beach. What a nice day!

It rained this evening

It rained heavily this evening. I used to hate rain when living in the countryside because it made the road muddy and I got difficult going to school. However now my thinking has changed. I want it rain at night especially at weekends when I stay home where there is no air conditioner.

It's so hot in the last few months that I can't sleep. When rain comes, I feel cool. It is said that there is a storm coming which creates rain those days. Although storm may cause disaster for costal residents, it's the only factor that can bring rain to this hot Southern region.

My aunts and cousin in the city park

Today my aunt went to the city to have health check. My cousin was diagnosed to be short-sighted. My aunt also had her eyes checked for cataract. Fortunately all of them are OK. After finishing we went to an entertainment park in the city to have some fun. We had sight seeing, played some games and took many photos.

New dress for my PC

Getting home from work, I turned on my computer and there was an idea in my mind - changing regular XP theme into new Windows 7. It took just some minutes to search and find the theme on Internet.

Having the new theme applied, my PC interface looks so great. The task bar gets mysterious black. Minimize, maximize and close button on the top right corner of each window are changed to a nicer style. Browsing folder with 'My Computer' is provided with a left pane where many functions are available.

In general, the new theme is quite impressive. I have used computer for years and get so familiar with normal XP style. Sometimes I get bored with it. Giving my PC a new dress makes it look better and so my feeling.