Penguins aren't shockproof. Darn buggering SD card

Wah piang eh.... some of you may have noticed from my nick yesterday, late last night that well, shit hit the fan for me big time.

See what stuff happened like this.
I was helping out in a photoshoot la, then i had so much fun shooting! =P
I mean like i didn't know there were so many effects u could do with a DSLR, one flashlight, and a coupla gels! and i sorta got to know about this cafe called Pitch Black. its a really cool chill out place. Nice and quiet and the music selections is absolutment parfait.
i took so much photos that my 2Gb card was all filled up.

anyway, we called it a day. Or rather night, and then headed to 7-eleven, where i got a almost-perfect ending to any night. A glass of VITAMILK! Woots!

ho-hum.

So i headed home, and snoozed on the bus, and probably( or most definitely because i was absolutely wasted!) by Most divine intervention, felt my ipod slipping outta my fingers, and woke up, just to catch it by the rubber. (I know how that sounds! nevermind.)

Anyway. it was like 1 stop away from my stop!
i dunno.. its like i sleep all the time on buses. All the time.
Unless there's company la!
And i rarely actually oversleep my stop.
like i always ALWAYS wake up at least 1 stop or at the stop itself exactly.
Unless I'm REALLY THAT TIRED LA.
I dunno. Can anyone else do this....

woooooo maybe its some superhero power....
Not very helpful tho. to others that is.
Im being wishful.

Aaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnniiiiiiiiiwwwwwwaaaaaeeee


So i reached home
Eventually.

and so i wanted to see how the images woud all turn out. Like would they be like WOW! everyone in class wanna do that effect too! like OMG so COOL!

So i jacked in the camera.
and i clicked on the icon.
and i saw a empty space.
Like the folder was empty.
SHIT HAS HIT THE FAN.
ROYALLY.

I seem to dimly remembering swearing like mad.
Cursed like maybe a weeks worth of just one word- fuck. And alotta wood hurting.
My sis had problems sleeping. It seems like everytime she was about to snooze off,
she'll be awakened by another swear. It takes alot to wake my sis.
I mean like i dunno i was stunned.
I see a empty screen( or slot if u will) where the images were supposed to be
at.
And then I stared at it harder.
And then I really really wished then that its a bad dream.
This is one of the few times where i'm all inna fluster-bugger helluva panic.

Because the work on the line here, WASN'T MINE.

So finally i had the courage to call Rebecca.
And tell her i had bad news.

Aside here. Gab and pang tells me that with the one line of something along the lines of " i got bad news", i can really really make people pissed off, or sian-ified. Cool stuff huh? kick-ass-bad-guy calling good guy with that one liner, and then the camera can take him swearing and being a loser.. for that moment la.

I remember dimly swearing a little and hitting wood for a bit.
Then i took a breath and after putting the phone down. And started searching like mad for programs that could probably, and would save my ass on this one.

Free of course.
Pirate till the end.
Arrrrrr!

i went to places here and there. i checked crack and keygen sites like mad. Really.
Then i managed to finally download a trial version that could tell me how many images could be saved. F- recovery was the name of the program i think.

So i set it to work, and work it did, telling me how many images could be salvaged. when the counter hit about 200, i stopped it.
And continued my search for a generous program writer.

And sure enough. (As i always do!) i finally found the program. after doing my pirate research on the forums and chatlogs.

Googling for results like these really aren't pirate friendly i would say.

So yeah.. i found Undelete Plus.

FREEWARE!!!!

and finally i managed to drag out all the image data contained, but lost.
well 100% was searchable.
But only 75% was viewable.

Maybe it was my fault for shooting raw. I kinda thought that if I did get any good pictures, i would then be able to manipulate them in Photoshop.

But then again, apparently this problem sometimes happens without a reason. even when the card isn't damaged. or anything.

Kinda once in a blue moon thing.

Lesson learned today:

Always lock the SD card once its full of images that I wanna keep.


I'm still not happy tho.
There were alot of good images in the card that i can see, but cannot touch. as in when i try to edit. the file corrupts, as there isn't sufficient image information to sufficiently convert it properly.

Sigh. Sorry I messed up. I may not know how, it may be accidental. But shit happened, and i could have prevented it. So yeah. My fault there.

anyway. YAY! deadlines for photoshoot is on this friday.
God loves me. yay,Yay,YAY! =)