Muahahaha...
Finally installed Windows 7 on the iMac - all without an external or internal optical drive. The CDs you see there were my futile attempts at plugging in an external optical disk reader - All but useless because Apple likes to flip off anyone who doesn't get proprietary add-ons. Don't ask me why we pay more for less. In Apple's case, we literally pay more for a whole optical disk drive less.

2 days ago when I was at Plaza Sing, I saw Poh Kim having a closing down sale. Poh Kim was such an iconic stall. Tucked in a corner beside Carl's Jr we'll always catch snippets of some newly released DVD trailer playing on the screen at the storefront as we ride up the escalator. Not anymore. And how would they survive when the very medium of physical disks are going the way of the VCR? Were there any fanatical VCR fans then who vigorously resisted the change to the CD medium? Apple's move to CD drive-less macs would be the nail in the coffin. Not that I have any special affection for CDs, but but but.... sigh, I don't know. You'd better have some indestructible internet connection when dealing with Cloud storage. Especially if you have 10TB of free storage. Slow internet will be the bane of us all.

Well, I guess it's time to reinstall all my games again. Hello FF of my childhood.

Mr. Howard perches jovially on the top of my workstation and is never tired of raising his left stump of wood arm in cheery greeting every morning. And throughout the day. And possibly all throughout the night. He has a slightly quizzical look on his face, like he's unsure of how many times he has bid me hello today and how many more times should he be doing it.

Sometimes, I take pity on him and change arms so they both hang by his side. This makes him look like a gorilla holding pails on both arms, except without the pails. Sometimes I raise both his arms way up so Mr Howard can imagine that he's doing a Superman takeoff, except that his butt is firmly blue-tacked to the mac.

 

It's for his own safety so he won't fall head first into my tea.

This is the view from the window of my room. Back in those days I still had time to take a noon day shot from my room in my pyjamas. And take breakfast at 1pm like a boss.