Vaios are overrunning the office. We must resist the efforts of the Macbook clan to overtake us! I have fortified the ranks with my Vaio Z.

Anyway pictures of my birthday presents!

Crumpler bag from colleagues, Perlini necklace from boss and wife (I think – she only wrote “from all of us” on the card), wine from Mei Ling and Eva, and Sham, Munchkin from the boyfriend, Munchkin Cthulhu from Eric and Gabriel, and Sony Vaio from my bank account. The day after this was taken, another colleague gifted me a top from Esprit.

New baby with its friends the Chirpee laptop sleeve and my Razer ProClick 1.6 mouse. *looks at mouse* Hmm, to Mamba or not to Mamba? Or better yet, a mouse that tracks on glass? Ah, that will be on next year’s wishlist, I have spent too much already.

“I’m so pretty, can you see the sparkles on my carbon fibre lid?” Sparkly for extra strength, just like a certain vampire…

“And my brushed aluminium layer!” New answer for Chemistry O Level question: Name a use for aluminium – to make expensive laptops.

My pet betta fish. It requires zero maintenance. Not standard with the retail Windows 7, I got it off the Internet as it only shipped with the Beta version. They ought to have made it standard, it’s so pretty. A moment of computer Zen.

It’s not called a Macbook keyboard if other computers have it too. I call it chiclet, some people call it isolated, some people call it “oooh!”

The requisite full-body shot.

And finally:

Yay!