The week that was...

Oct 1st.

It happened again! What happened? Flood waters entered our house compound again! After less than an hour of heavy rain. Water overflowed from the drain and came into the porch area. Fortunately it wasn't worse than before.

This time the flood waters came in only up to abt 3 tile-lengths from our main door. Phew...

Wonder how it would be the next time around...

Note : Yours truly here has made a phone call to our local council office to request for action to be taken to hopefully prevent a repeat or a worsening situation. Now we wait & see how efficient these ppl are...

HbA1c. Now, that looks like some kind of chemical formula. Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't. Also known as "Glycosylated Haemoglobin", it's a lab test to find out the "weighted 3-month average of what the blood glucose has been...ie how much glucose has been sticking to our red blood cells."

Yup. That's the latest blood test me took. Suffered a little inconvenience tho. A teeny weeny discomfort. A failed "vampirical effort"...hehe...

And yup, the final draw of blood came from my other arm. Should know the results soon. In theory, a value of less than 7% is supposedly a sign of good glucose management. What will mine be? Your guess is as good as anyone's...haha!

A piece of "good" news...Pension payments are very early this month! Was announced to be on Oct 4...officially listed as Oct 5. But was already credited on Oct 3 evening! Real great efficiency!

Why was my "good" news in quotes? Cos it can be interpreted as "good" or "bad". Depends. To have cash handy is "good" but, on the other hand, it would be a long way before Nov 21 comes along. Yup, that's how far away is the next payment...this is the "bad" part.

Finally it appears some ppl have already started encoding video files in a new format. Divocodec. This new codec installation has "strings" attached. So, do be wary should you want to use it. As an example, installing the codec involves making lots of changes to your browser...to your operating system...eg as many as 70 modifications to host files! Not to mention other registry changes. Moreover, to play the video clip with that codec, you'd need a special player...not our WMP! Dunno what's coupled with that player...me didn't dare try to find out!

Without hesitation, I uninstalled the codec...used my Internet Security S/ware to remove/undo all the changes I could detect. Not worth all the risks exposing my PC to all those vulnerabilities.

That last incident was kinda heart-stopping. Thought that was the end of my PC...again. Frankly, I really hope that most, if not all, of those mods have been undone/removed.

No news from me abt that would be certainly Good News!