I cannot blog much nowadays because my home computer is down. I see a blank screen everytime I boot it up. It's not the monitor so it could be the graphic card or in the worse case the entire motherboard. The modern day equipment breakdown is getting to me. Anyway I self assembled this machine almost 6 years ago with mixture of quality parts and not so quality ones and its almost time that it does these things on me.

This machine has gone through so much with me. Did lots of work and church multimedia projects and lots and lots of music project including my personal songs, charity musicals like Jacob the Musical, Love Songs, Love Stories, children projects like last year's Christmas Star and many children camps. I have spend many special late nights with it and it seldom gives me problem.. until now and its inevitable.

One equipment that have been with me for years is my Maton ES-335 electric guitar, which I had since I'm 18 years old. It's been travelling with me when I emigrated to Australia, back to Malaysia and then now here in Singapore. Recently I ripped out its pickups and it doesn't have a sound anymore but its replacable with new ones and still it in great condition.

I like old things because they have proven durability. I used to have a vintage Fender Pro-reverb Silverfac amp. All tube guitar amplifier dated back to 1977 which I sold and regretted selling because these are things will never come back to you. I have an old Sansui AU-555a amp and a pair of Celestion 5 speakers which I have reluctantly put up for sale. I cannot justify a place for them at home so they have to go. It is hard although a practical thing to do.

These old stuff will last almost a lifetime. New computers will last you at most 5 years. Swatch watches only 2 (I cannot count how many i've owned which has stopped). Electronic devices like palms and handphones go out of fashion within one. The bible lasted hundreds of years and will continue to do so. God is even older and will last til the end of the age and even beyond.

I don't mind new things but I really love the old ones a lot.