Run Turkey Run!

Time for turkeys to run!

Oh no! It's too late for some :/

For my dear friends in America and Canada, 

Happy Thanksgiving!

History of Thanksgiving

My Son Lost Php500.00 (US$11) at School !

La Salle have arranged for kids and parents to see the film "Happy Feet 2" scheduled yesterday Wednesday 23rd of November. Everyone was excited and looked forward to this event.

A fun bonding and socializing time which turned into an unsolved puzzle for me and my son, EJ.

We were at Robinson Galleria when I found out that more than half of the money I sent for the said movie was missing.

I stapled one (1) Php500.00 and four (4) Php100.00 bills inside an envelope for EJ to hand it over to his teacher for two (2) movie tickets. With the exception of tuition fee, this is what I usually do when I send money for school fees, staple the money with a note or in an envelope so that all my son just needs to do is hand over the payment.

However, yesterday when I opened my son's assignment notebook, I found the money envelope with the teacher's note:

  

What I don't understand is this:

How could the Php500.00 bill be misplaced inside the classroom when all the money bills were stapled inside the envelope?

I just received a phone call from a guy at La Salle who is supposed to be investigating the matter. He said,

We are still looking into the matter. Investigating what happened yesterday.
Your son said the envelope was open and didn't say that money was stapled.

Wasn't as robotic as that sound but I replied,

Yes the envelope was open but I stapled the money bills inside. My son doesn't know that I did staple them. I prepared it the other night. All he knows is to hand over the envelope to his teacher.

Him:

Your son confirmed that the money was not stapled. However, we'll keep looking and hoping that the Php500.00 bill will be at 'Lost and Found'.

Me:

You know, I can show you the staple marks on the envelope. (pause) Well, I don't think you will ever find the money. It was lost inside the classroom. When everyone left the classroom yesterday, money left too.

Sigh.

What's the big deal? Yeah, it's just Php500.00 (US$11) but this means that it's not trustworthy to send money for school activities. My son doesn't have money allowance for school because he is too young to manage money. I just fill up his lunch bag with snacks, lunch food and drinks.

I know other kids have money allowance because I see them when I pick EJ up and meet him at cafeteria or

Lesson learned: I will pay and hand over all school fees by myself.

school's bookstore. Sometimes, I joke to EJ's school mates about borrowing money when I see them queueing up next to me at the cash counter carrying a big note.

But hey! It's just money. Can be replaced, right?

I planned to go to school this morning to ask questions but I changed my mind because I do not think there's any point at all in storming over and stomp my feet over this matter.

Php500.00 may not be returned but the Law of Tithing said "giving away some money will bring more money into your life". Php500.00 is a big amount compared to what I usually give to church on weekends, which is just Php20.00. Yeah, I know it's cheap but hey, I'm not rich and the New Testament says that we can give according to our ability.

On the contrary, I believe a bigger return will come our way. What do you think?

Running Again! for Pasig River 11.20.2011

Sunday, 20th of November 2011 (11.20.2011) at 4:00am, another Run For Pasig will be held. And, yours truly, Geca will be there too.

Hopefully we will beat the Guinness World Record again like last year.

If you are running the 5K race, meet up with other runners (and me) at Roxas Boulevard Corner Pedro Gil.

See you runners!

Windows - Delayed Write Failed: SOLVED!

This message popped on my Acer Aspire1 laptop screen: AVG10 failure.

Now, this (the same heading DWF but different file):

Windows - Delayed Write Failed
Windows was unable to save all the data for the file C:\Program Files\Google\Update. Data has been lost. May be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this elsewhere.

I've turned on and off my laptop a few times now but I can't do anything on it. Cursor can be moved around but can't click on anything at all. I'm looking up for solution now using my mother's laptop, which I helped fixing last week. I just hope now that this one won't crash while I'm searching for my own laptop's solution. Fingers-crossed!

I will update this post when I find a suitable solution and when it works alright.

If some of you are expert on this field, please share your expertise on the comment box. :D

Have a great week!

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UPDATE:

I found the culprit! It was the Uniblue's SpeedUpMyPC which was the last one in the package I installed.

First was  the DriverScanner.   It was fine except for the update for the Sypnatics PS/2 Port Pointing Device driver. Cursor was way too fast and can't point and click on the icons on my laptop screen. It keeps 'missing the spot'! If you know what I mean. It was the same even if I adjusted the setting. So I reconfigured it back to the old setting/driver.

Next was the RegistryBooster. It went well so that's okay.

Last was SpeedUpMyPC. After I installed it, everything seemed to be alright. I turned off my laptop at bed time. When I turned it back on in the morning, that's when the error messages popped up. I turned my laptop on and off a lot of times. But it remained the same. I can't do anything.

Good thing there's another laptop within reach (as mentioned above) so I was able to search and read possible causes. I found these decent sites that presented different possible reasons for the DWF (Delayed Write Failed):

Gibni

Social.Technet

Solutions offered are overwhelming but I read them thoroughly. I even thought it was a virus as suggested by Social.Technet So I posted comment on the topic to get help:

I did restart windows, pressed F8 then chose 'Start Windows in Safe Mode'. However, my laptop didn't respond, nothing can be clicked nor pressed. So I turned it off again and restarted. But got the same result.

In the end, what made more sense was the Gibni's 8 Common Reasons for a Delayed-Write Failure

Then, I remembered that I installed that SpeedUpMyPC before all these happened, so that's probably the reason. So I restarted Windows again, pressed F8 then scrolled up and chose the:

Last Known Good Configuration (your most recent settings that worked)

And it worked! The first thing I did as soon as Windows opened and that I can click on anything and press any keys, I uninstalled the SpeedUpMyPC. Finished the process, restarted and whala!

Everything went back to normal. 

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