Just another manic monday
"It's just another manic Monday, wish it were Sunday..." courtesy of the Bangles. Somehow the DJ on Light and Easy (the channel that I tune my radio alarm clock to) likes to put this song on Mondays at around 7.30-8am, the time when I usually rise and shine. Isn't it just a GREAT song to start your day off? Manic Monday!!! &%#@!!!!Well my Monday was just that- MANIC in capital letters! First of all, had an appointment with a physiotherapist who made me wait 1 and the half hours for her, reading out-dated issues of CLEO in the Physiotherapy Unit of the hospital. I finally gave up waiting and wrangled my way into the rehab unit itself to see the person in charged of the pulmonary rehabilitation program I was supposed to talk to her about. Managed to get some work done at least and snapped some good photos. But what took me less than 15 minutes had cost me the whole morning!
Made it back to the office for a quick lunch of mixed rice and then everyone was asking me about my Langkawi trip. I decided to put the pictures onto the temp server so that my colleagues could access it freely. I screened out photos that contained my face and clicked OK to the Windows prompt of "Are you sure you want to delete these items?" Then, after sending a work e-mail or two, a thought suddenly struck me, SHIT, did I back up those photos that I just deleted?!!? Frantically checked 'My Pictures' folder on my PC...N.O.!! No pictures there, my God, heartache man, the pictures were really nice ones, and I seldom have many good pictures of myself. *sigh*
I panicked and tried everything I could to retrieve them...asking my office "IT" guy (he isn't really IT trained), clicked Undo which would only go back so far (and I deleted the pictures on the office server which dosen't have any backup so Undo wouldn't do any good), even emailed a IT manager only knew from reading his blogs. Sigh, no success so far.
Then it was time to go with my boss to meet someone who would be going to give us an editorial workshop. So I went and had to give her useful input and suggestions and take notes even when I was aching over the loss of my photos. Uggh..we took a cab together and didn't have much to say to each other except work which was fine with me as it gave me time to brood over and think what options there were to retrieve my photos.
Got back to the office about 4.30pm after my afternoon appointment and immediately started tinkling with my PC's Undo functions again and thinking of how to retrieve the lost photos. An online friend suggested that I do an online search. Discovered a program called 'Davary' short for Data Recovery. And ran it on my Hard Disk. Went through thousands of photos that were retrieved...none of them mine. What I need to figure out is how to connect the camera's memory card for the program to try to retrieve the lost photos. I know this is clutching at straws and I'm not an IT smartie but at least I tried my best to recover them right??
What with all the appointments, questions over my Langkawi trip and time spent trying to recover my lost photos, needless to say, I got little work done! Leaving me with an extra-large load for the rest of the week! G.R.E.A.T!!
posted by N.J.A.P.F. @ 1:13 AM
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