One of the things I was most struck with in the US was that compared to Singapore, the bureaucratic maze which one needed to traverse before one receives a boon of some sort is far, far less onerous.

But this is merely a stopgap measure. I have managed to obtain a somewhat reliable means of accessing The Internets, but it is on an old laptop I have not used in a few years, and the haunting familiarity of the little sensations, such as the mere size of the keys on the keyboard (smaller than the usual desktop keyboard, obviously), leaves an odd feeling of unease that I would not be unhappy to see removed. To that end, I will either be using my desktop when it reaches its way to my doorstep via ocean freight, or buying a new and more powerful one. At this rate, what with Moore's Law, by the time I finally manage to settle down in one place for more than a few years at a time, I will probably be in possession of my very own Chobits.

The upshot of this is that while I may be in Singapore and technically able to resume my blogging schedule in a more rigid interpretation of ability, I would much rather be blogging on a computer I know that I will not be abandoning in a mere few weeks. And so I live in a sort of limbo, a digital purgatory where I can almost be able to blog to the full extent of my picture collection, but will still have the spectre of the looming move towards another computer, with only a CD-RW drive (no DVD burning capabilities, sadly) and a 128MB flash drive to mitigate the trauma.

Yes, I know I need to upgrade. That's why I got the new computer in the first place.

In any case, now that I'm back home in Singapore, I need to figure out what to do with this blog. (Well, I also need to figure out what to do with myself, but that's another matter, dreadfully lacking in anime concerns.) As previously mentioned, the large majority of my DVDs will be coming via ocean freight, and I am left with my CCS and Haruhi DVDs, which I did not want to leave to the vagaries of moving companies. Yes, they got severely banged about in luggage, but they're here and they're still quite intact.

After that, though, I am at a loss.

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