a big gift to myself

The truth is I’m freaking in love with my new MacBook Pro. It’s probably the most valuable asset that I bought for myself.

Buying myself this new laptop was both a satisfying and symbolic moment.

Satisfying because I’ve earned this myself.

Symbolic because my last laptop was a MacBook Pro mum bought me just before I moved to New Zealand ten years ago. She didn’t have much money then, but she still decided to spend it on a nice laptop for me before I embarked on my university abroad. It was my most valuable thing I brought with me to New Zealand. It held a lot of my life memories in the past ten years. So many memories to the point that it got so slow and took forever to load anything. But I loved it so much. I remember when I used to flat with other people, and my whole world was in my bedroom, my old MacBook was my comfort buddy. I loved lying in bed or sitting at my tiny desk, binge-watching SATC for the hundredth time or browsing Pinterest for all the inspiration. My Notes app was filled with university notes and thoughts jotted down at the middle of the night.

So much has changed in the past ten years. I graduated university, started my first job, got my first promotion, turned my colleagues to life-long friends, left my first workplace, moved out of the city, began to collect plants.

Safe to say it’s been an eventful first decade living abroad. Though it’s not always smooth and easy, I have loved every minute of it.

Ten years also seem like a good milestone. To reflect, reset, and reward myself. For everything that has passed. And for everything that are yet to come.

I hope that this new and beautiful Mac will mark the beginning of another memorable decade ahead.