The Silent Room

I’m not feeling so well today. It’s been a pretty tiring day, being Hari Raya and all. But that’s only part of the ordeal. I woke up this morning only to discover that Sarah got screwed.

BOOT DISK FAILURE. PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE

Oh shit. Her harddisk got something shoved up its behind or something. So I tried to restart in Safe mode. Strangely, Windows couldn’t finish loading and keep restarting. Something’s not right. Here comes the good part. Mom is running around the house yelling out orders for spring cleaning. It appears that a few relatives are coming over, and she wants the house in tip-top condition. So, in between restarts, I cleaned the table fan, swept the floor, and you know, some chores that needed to get done.

After about 20++ restarts or so, I was feeling exasperated, so I called Albert up for some enlightenment.

“If that’s the case, then your harddisk is fine because Windows is loading. Just boot from the CD repair Windows lah.”

Oh, that makes sense. So I did. Since this isn’t the first time Sarah got repaired, formatted etc. I was kind of expecting the usual thing. You know, if you have Windows installed but it’s fucked up, the wizard scans your harddisks for any OS installed. If you want, you can repair or re-install the already installed OS. Okay, here comes the license, hit F8. Eh, that’s weird why isn’t there an option to repair or reinstall? . I realized that something is really, really wrong.

Partition 0 [C:] capacity:20002MB free space:20002MB.

WTF? C: drive is EMPTY!? WTF is going on here? I can understand if a virus hit Sarah and delted the ‘WINDOWS’ folder, but CLEANING OUT AN ENTIRE PARTITION!? Albert, too, was surprised when he heard this. O. M. G. Amidst the yells and chaos around the house, I felt really really frustrated. Thankfully, it didn’t hit my SATA HDD. If it did I’d be crying tears of blood. Damn.

So I had re-make Sarah all over again. Reinstalled Windows, reconfigured settings, reinstalled drivers and plugins. The shittiest part is to re-tweak everything. Sigh, that’s really really tiring. Well, at least I managed to get it done before the relatives arrived.

And at about 3pm, my head starts to hurt like hell. My brain felt like it’s 2 sizes too big for my skull. Its pulsing, as if eager to break my cranium open. And then, my throat starts to itch. It’s gotten real sore and I can barely speak properly. So, I laid down, tried to get some sleep, but the pain just won’t go away. And after I woke up, my thigh muscles felt like they’re being strecthed out thin. Guh, every step I take hurts like shit.

Grr.. bad bad day.