Being Singaporean

I took a day-trip from Nice and thought I had, but it turns out I’ve never actually been to Italy! I was only ever at San Marino, the smallest Republic in the world.

Well, colour me disappointed.

I’ve lost everything.

Melodrama aside, I’ve actually lost my blog, my previous work, portfolio and everything that I had hosted with Dreamhost. I fell back on my payments, and Dreamhsot saw fit to kill my virtual machine and lose all my files over $20.

US$20.

The service personnel told me curtly that ooops, they don’t keep backups and they have to keep space for new people, so if you don’t pay then you lose everything. So too bad.

She did offer me a free year.

I’d be pissed, but I realize with some embarrassment that I haven’t been making any backups myself for quite a long while, and the ones that I do remember making are on a portable hard disk that has long since stopped working.

I’d be more pissed, but in all honesty the weight of my previous posts had been keeping me from writing anyway. I could probably find a dump of my wordpress days, but lethargy, apathy, and a longing to be free from the throughts from my twenties keeps me from doing so.

So perhaps it is better to start afresh. Tabula Rasa, and all that.