Finally after like 10 years of using my ancient computer my dad agreed for me to buy another one. I don't really know how I managed to keep it surviving and eventually franken-ed it to a crazy storage device. Happily trotted down to Sim Lim Square today with Fuyong with 1k sitting in my back pocket. After telling the guy what I wanted from the list he was kinda bewildered as to why I need so many harddisks. He asked his colleagues around what would be suitable hardware for that number of harddisks and soon the whole shop knew I was going to put so many harddisks. He was really nice and accompanied me up to where they assemble the computers even though the shop was kinda busy because there was a certain way he thought the harddisks should be arranged, later found out he was the boss. The guy fixing computers was really nice too, kinda attended to fixing my computer first despite there being a little queue. Kept on assuring me he knew what he was doing and did my computer in like 15 minutes flat whilst giving me alot of advice. Fuyong came to my place for dinner and after seeing him to the bus stop, attempted to get my PC booted with Vista.
2.5 hours later... still trying to get my PC booted with Vista. Apparantly I think some settings are way off whack but I've no idea what and restarted like 50 times while trying to change the settings. Tried XP and didn't work either. Bummer. Decided that I'd try till midnight and that's it. True enough, didn't work. So I'll bring it to the shop tomorrow. Gonna follow the advice of Toru Okada's uncle in Haruki Murakami's The Wind - Up Bird Chronicle; “You’ve got to spend your money for the things that money can buy, not worry about profit or loss. Save your energy for the things that money can’t buy.” Hope I can find someone to fix it tomorrow!
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