I've been handed a clean slate but WHY ME???

Are you one of those people who doesn't back up their hard disk? That trusts their one little computer with all their wordly information and hopes it'll still be there in the morning? That leaves it up to luck or chance that nothing bad will happen?

Well, I used to be. Until now. Wanna know why? Well you have no choice cause I'm telling you anyway.

Last night, for no apparent reason, my laptop hard disk suddenly corrupted... and I lost everything. EVERYTHING. Everything I've worked on or ever done on a computer, any computer, for the past 3 years, gone in the blink of an eye.

As though all of it never even existed. And I have no choice but to accept it and move on because there's no other way. I cried the whole night.

This isn't the first time it's happened to me either. Yes, this is the second time I've been fucked over. Back in 2007 my dad accidentally deleted my entire My Documents folder on my desktop computer, and after that I swore to start making back ups.

I did, for a while, till I got lazy and started trusting my computers again. A few weeks ago, my sister's laptop crashed and she lost everything too, funny omen right? But she had a back up and I swore I'd make a back up of my stuff right then and there.

Call me stupid, but I just never found the time. And this is probably how you feel sometimes too. But at the end of the day, there is no argument, you need to do it. You need to back up. Unless you want to get yourself in some very deep shit.

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. I guess maybe in a way I deserved it. From now on I'm backing up monthly, no matter what.

3 years ago I had to come back from scratch, say goodbye to most of my things and be glad I could at least recover some photos off the internet. And I realized I had to start over again from the beginning.

But this time I'm luckier. Because I remembered that I have a copy of all my files on my old laptop, which I paranoid-ly never deleted after moving everything onto my new laptop 5 months ago.

At least I still have something, a sliver of hope that comes from... well, an accidental backup. Rebuilding 5 months is a lot easier than 3 years.

Now I'm thanking God for that. But I'm still happiest when I don't think about it. Do you want to wait till it's too late too?


P/S: I'll start blogging like usual again once I can get back up on my feet. I'm working on my desktop computer without any of my documents because my old laptop is in Brunei. My laptop is going to the shop to get fixed. The only consolation is my desktop has the RAM of a bufallo.
So just... give me some time, okay? :)