the mac is back… hooray!
The Mac is Back!
After 1 dreadful week using my office laptop to answer emails, surf blogs and poke people on FB, I’m finally back on familiar soil with the Forbidden Fruit. It’s such a relief to have my Mackie in my hands once again… *rains kisses on the white Apple logo*
Yup, heart transplant is over. Clean slate start. Unfortunately, since it was a total wipe-out, I did lose some applications that came pre-installed (and some, courtesy of Ah Tak’s Uncle Ho service) when I first bought the Mac. But as luck would have it, I found most of the installers backed up on my external hard drive, which took the pain out of downloading them from Uncle Joe again.
Another stroke of luck was that I had signed up for a .Mac trial a few days before the crash, and synced my Address Book and Bookmarks to my account. I didn’t even remember that I’d done that until I was fiddling around with my .Mac account yesterday, and whee! My addresses and bookmarks were back! And yes, all your blog URLs are there… *wink*
The only major thing that was wiped out and sooooooo irreplaceable were my emails. Those had gone to the bin for eternity, forever more. Ordinarily, since they were Gmail accounts, I could’ve retrieved them from Gmail’s server but unfortunately I had set them to ‘delete after download’, thus only the last 30 days were still in my trash can waiting to be disposed of. I fished those out, changed settings to ‘archive after download’, and hopefully I won’t have to cry over spilt milk again. I just miss those old mails — the good, the bad, and the ocipala — all gone… *sigh* What to do? Send me some emails to make my Inbox feel loved again, quick!
I now have a silver kotak like LB, but I’ll spare you its photo since all boxes look like the other, especially since they’re from the same factory. I’ve done my first full backup using Time Machine, and set it to backup every day. Never again shall I lose precious data!
So, what next?
Do some tag homework, of course!
The Age I Wish To Go Back To
Owning up to memes from Giddy Tiger, Doreen and Chen, who tagged me on the Age I Wish To Go Back To. Well, to be honest, I don’t have a particular age I’d like revisit. Maybe it’s because I’m too lazy to think of just one particular age — every year was so interesting in its own way. Can go back to every year ah?
However, since we’re on the subject of time travel, I wouldn’t mind going back to the day before my Mackie had a heart attack — that would be last Friday. If I could relive that day, I would’ve gone to the store, get my 1TB external HDD, and do that backup! Would’ve saved me lots of tears. And regrets. And moolah for that transplant.
And in all grand tradition, I shall tag;
Ah Boy
Liucas
Winn
Pink Cotton
kyh a.k.a. Brad
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Instructions: Title: The Age That I Wish To Go Back To
Requirement: Write about the one age that you wish to go back to and why?
Tag Mode: 5 bloggers
1st - You leave their blog and post link and add to the list below.
2nd - Let the blogger you want to tag know they had been tagged by commenting in their blog.
The Age that they Wish to Go Back to:
Amidrin wish to go back to Lemonjude wish to go back to age 6 to enjoy kid’s life.
Hui Sia wish to go back to age 16 to meet her first lover again.
Giddy Tiger wishes to go back to a childhood life with no worries in the world.
Rinnah wishes she could turn back time to the happiest days of her life.
Ehon doesn’t wanna go anywhere.
Chen wanna go back to age 19 to take a different pathway in life.
Mistipurple wanna go back to primary school but trusts God knows better.
Doreen wants to go back to her wedding day to relive the moment.
May wants to go back to the day before her Mackie’s heart attack.
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Hahaha!!! Well done! Time Machine backs up HOURLY, btw.. Nevermind those lost emails.. I used to cry buckets too, whenever I ‘lost’ all these old emails during those old old days of no backups, but I realised I never ever go back and read any of them anyway!!!
chuppp ahhhhh
BTW, I can upload some ‘installers’ onto my .Mac account, if you need, so you can dl from there..
i keep lots of junk. i’m insecure.
but i don’t do backup. how to huh?
just in time!
No new Macbook ah? Hehehe…
Yeah, we never read those emails anyway… so dun sad, ok?
*kisskisshughug*
aiya too slow!! gip angie a chance to chup…
ok tag! so lama din reciv tag liao. and all those piled up ones, errr… pretends to forget it liao la hor. new beginning liao ma. KKKKKKK
and welcome back mackie! eat well, sleep well. dun fall sick again! *pat pat mac*
Good to know that your mac is back again
how come I was thinking your laptop got a nickname… mac as mackie, LOL
Yippeee.. Mackie is back in action again
so cute geh your icon? I saw kokokai, panda & doggy up there
i only back up my photos woh and some important documents..
and i also tagged u on the same tag too earlier on..
Ah Boy hiding himself liao underneath the table after knowing u tagged him.
yay…hurray for May and your back-in-action Mackie!
*hugs*
LB - 5 HUGS - I thought it just backed up daily! must leave my HD on all the time ka? so energy-consuming ler. I think I can settle for once-a-day instead.
all the emails from you habis wiped out ler, how sad! yeah, I don’t actually go back and read them, but some of the emails are kinda sentimental mah. but it’s kinda good — fresh start, no looking back!
misti - 3 HUGS - chippy chippy!
LB - ooooh, that’s an idea! initially I wanted iPhoto but I have that one saved when you copied it over. the rest of iLife is gone — GarageBand, iDVD, iMovie, iWeb — but then again, I don’t really use those, so won’t bother for now. what other applications are useful ah? hmmmm…
misti - you’re not the only one. I could spend hours looking through my old files and deleting what I don’t need, which is probably half of what I have!
what you need is an external hard disk drive — 250GB is more than enough to start you off with, if you don’t have tons to save. then just copy it over to that drive like how you would copy things to a thumb drive. remember to do it regularly. simple as!
princess appearl - 1 HUG - very ngam-ngam hou!
can’t afford a new MackBook Pro just yet. besides, I heard that they’re launching yet another new release next year, so I’ll wait and see. new jantung already costs me quite a bit!
no sad, no sad. I shall not think about all those liuliu emails wer all exchanged… liuliuliu…
*ciumciumpelukpeluk*
Brad - waaaaaa!! meng seng choot yeen lor! kakaka!
yaaaa, new beginning. like Star Wars. and Mackie. must start doing all those tags again, no lazy ok? I come spot check in a few days.
can pat Mackie’s cute tush, too?
Selby - uh-huh, so glad that it’s well again. you’re quite spot-on — Mackie is my MacBook’s nickname! I would like to think it’s a ‘he’, though maybe I should’ve christened it a ’she’ instead. oh well… doesn’t matter, it’s just Mackie.
Chen - yay hooray! those are icons I downloaded from the Internet. there are heaps more out there, all cute and fuzzy. want some? you can download from Pixelgirl or InterfaceLIFT. endless possibilities. faster download and make your files look cute! and get going with that Time Machine backup too, while you’re at it… before it’s too late!
errr… you did ah? I thought you tagged me with Looking Back Five Times? *checks back archive*… oooooh, ya hor! kakaka! ok, updated post!
here, Ah Boy… faster come out! I got nice juicy siew paikuat for you! *dangles bone in front of Ah Boy’s nose*
consuela - very hip-hip hooray! and Happy Week ahead for you, ya? *huggies*
*sings to the tune of Elton John’s Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”
Don’t go breaking Mackie’s heart
I know you wouldn’t even try
Honey if you get restless
Just give Mackie’s heart a rub..
i neber load to thumb drive before. i onli suck.
I really, really, really should go buy myself that external hard drive before anything happens… *touch wood*
Glad to know all’s well for yopu. Sucks to redo somuch after a crash. And forget about deleting gmails lah. They’re getting bigger by the day.
Yeah..never underestimate the power of backup. Glad your Mackie’s back in action again, dearie! Missed ya loads!
I’m back too…hooray!
Psssttttt… a home work for you coz’ you are tagged, A
Should Ah Boy went back to December last year whereby Ah Boy met May jiejie?
or should Ah Boy went back to the night whereby Ah Boy has a feast?
*think hard*
Quickly click on the Pixelgirl and InterfaceLIFT website.
So many icons. See till I blur-blur liao.
Wah, I saw a Sotong icon at the Creatures Category & Tungku at the Funny Forest. LOL
woweeee !!! welcome home mackie !! so, did may feed you some lormakai to help speed your recovery ?
something, someone swallowed my comment!
anyway, welcome back mackiee!! 
now u recover liao, must make sure u stay healthy!
Hooray! The Mac lives
Jemima - are you an Elton fan? heheh! that’s a pretty cool song at the start, but once they go into repeating that “don’t go breaking my heart” line over and over again, I kinda go bezerk! LOL!
ahhh, Mackie loves that heart rub… *purrrrrr*
misti - you can suck it first, then put the thumb into the computer’s LuBang. try? liuliuliu…
rinnah - yes, you should! don’t procrastinate until it’s too late, like me. I never thought Mackie would go bust like that, but you know what they say — you always never think it’ll happen to you, till… it happens… eek!
Samm - ya lor, that time I so “sor”, and set it to delete! now I “zheng” a bit, put to “archive”.
Giddy Tigress - *mmeeowwwrrrrllll* love that new Tigress nickname!
I missed being in the thick of blog-hopping and a wee bit of blogging too. it just felt strange with a black laptop at home istead of my White Knight.
king’s wife - WAAAAAAA!!! finally got Streamyx at your new home ah? WELCOME BACK. I so miss your liuliu posts. faster update!
Selby - LOL! as soon as I got rid of a tag, another one comes my way, eh? I don’t mind, that one looks like a fun tag to do. I’ll get to it after another 2 I owe, long long time ago. thanks!
Ah Boy - you should go back to the time where you had the most fun, hor? ARF!
Chen - a lot to choose from, ya? at first I downloaded so many, but then I realised I wasn’t going to use all of them. saje download ‘cos they’re cute! I like the animal ones the best, and the creatures set. the rest ok lah. mana Sotong? long time no action wan?
moz - if I fed Mackie some Lormaikai, I think he would’ve got another heart attack in an instant! kwakwakwaaaaaaaaa…
ehon - mana? I checked my Spam bin, you weren’t there wor.
he’s staying healthy for as long as he can, especially now that I’ve got him a new ‘toy’ kotak to play with! if he runs out of steam again, grrrrr… buy new MacBook Pro liao.
Pinkelle - that sounded almost like a line out of the Frankenstein movie… “HE LIVES!!!”
glad to hear your mackie’s back! hip hip hurrahh!!~~
ahh now that tag looks easy…i kuai kuai do ur tag okie?
Yay! Mackie is back! Got receive my flowers & fruit basket? Hehehe
Thanks for doing the tag. You’re very practical! Hehehe
Wheeeee….. finally Mackie is back to its owner! I bought you a newly born baby Mickey!! Wait ah. I check Mickey or Minnie, I simply grabbed! hehehe…. paiseh.
Ahhhhh…. it’s a Mickey!!
Come Mackie, Mackie! Makan time……super power!
losing a bunch of old emails (that comes with some memories) hurts!! but how often do you look at it again?? dun worry, look forward to all the new memories to come okie!!! *smoochies*
i love your desktop icons.. especially the panda~ I want I want~
after what happened to ur mackie..i fast fast went to buy a hard disk to back up my stuff too! sked lor…
welcome back la..
*hugz*
welllllllllllcome bek!!! glad to hear that everything is ok…
oh dear… would be nice if we have the ‘undo’ command in our life sometimes eh? but glad your Mackie is all good now
So glad your Mackie’s heart is back in place. Phew!
Wish Hiro could YATA!!! you back to that fateful Friday.
You have a 1TB hard drive too? Fuyoh!!
Really got so many things to store?
Congrats. Life is never the same without your Mac/PC hor? I understand…
ah boy good boy and did homework liao.
Woof
Happily surfing again …. I hope? hehehe…..
err … hi?
i lup liu… i honestly lup liu..
I wish for the days where I still received snail mail… at least they can’t be accidentally deleted!
Welcome back, mackie!
>> So, what next?
>> Do some tag homework, of course!
chey … i thought it will be a New Mac Pro LOLz
glad all are well now
i tot is McD…
Mac can kaput also ah? I was told it’s a very reliable puter and OS? I switched to Vista since early this year and it has been disastrous!
got food to eat or not? still hungweee
Ah Jit is back too … woo hoo …
Mac - Love/Hate relationship
me just backed up mine yesterday .. takuttttt heheh
happy weekend!!!
Good that your mac is back and backup successfully