Cleaning Up, One Cubic Centimetre at a Time

CNY is supposed to be the time where everyone cleans their room to make things look nice & tidy. Somehow, I decided only to start cleaning up weeks after. I think the spring cleaning I have done at work kinda rubbed off on me. I now make it a point to spend ten minutes per day throwing out junk.

I dumped my Acer Aspire (hard drive died for the 2nd time) and my ancient Epson printer (which I last powered on two years ago). Next would be my archaic scanner whose drivers are on a freakin' 3.5" diskette.

Then there are those the old books from NUS which I am hesitant to toss out cos' they are all $$$. I'd imagine there will come a time when I am faced with a life-threatening situation that can only be solved by reading Practical Object-Oriented Design with UML [/sarcasm]. I guess out they go.

Maybe I need to start by making a list of stuff that I actually want to keep and stick to it. I have imagined that when everything is over, all I'll be left with are...
- Video game stuff (Xbox 360, PSP, DS, with the PS2 locked up somewhere)
- Comics & Manga (need to start throwing away some of my collection)
- Books (just novels and a few interesting NUS books I guess)
- Trading cards (one box/album for the card games I played)
- Other stuff (my penguins and action figures!)

I really hope I can actually clear my room before the end of this year even though it is something that I strive to do every year in vain. I really need a whole new set of furniture to replace the same old stuff that I have been seeing since Junior College.


My room = store room