Stuff written, pictures taken
My laptop, which has faithfully served me during my entire undergraduate days, gave up in the 5th year. It was overwhelmed with too many adware and undescribable junk which slowed it down tremendously. It was time to reformat my hard disk, remove the linux partition I haven't need for and start all over. And of course, for once, I had to do something called "back up". It was a painstaking process made worse by the fact that I don't have a CD burner. I transfered everything to SPS and used the burner there. That took months. For less than 2G of data. Surprisingly, that a few years of my life is nicely summed up under 2G.
After the reformatting was done, the installation, the patching up (Damn it!) i started transferring my data to my laptop. It tore at my heart really, to discover that so many of my saved data was corrupted. It was a "Cyclic redundancy error". I was devastated that ALL my Yosemite pictures were gone. SOme of my favourite New York pictures too. It doesn't just
stop there. A few months ago, I was looking through the compiled Sabah pictures when I realised that not all of my pictures were in there. That devastated me too.
Things we write. I was just looking through all the papers I have ever written in my 4 years in NUS. I think its quite a bit. But as i looked at those I had saved, it dawned on me that i somehow didn't save my final piece, but rather the draft. How annoying. BUt still it beats "cyclic redundancy error"
Is it so important that we keep all of these? They felt like so a part of me.
Really.
posted by eline @ 6:29 PM
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