Our box has arrived!!

On the 26th of June we left one of our boxes at Insead with a company that ships the boxes between France and Singapore. We thought that this was a very good plan because this way we could take more with us to Singapore. So we stuffed the box with clothing and off course, books. And we put a little cable in it, that we had never used before. It was a cable with which the Macbook can be connected to a TV, to use the laptop as a DVD player.

July came and we returned to Singapore. Our box had not yet arrived because instead of by air, all the boxes were sent by ship. Several weeks went by and we forgot what we had put in the box. Then we moved into our new studio, and we had a big flatscreen tv. Omar was happy that he could watch all his series (Unit, Alias) on Tv instead of on his laptop. And suddenly it dawned upon us, that little cable. Never had we needed it and now we could use it. But the box was somewhere at sea.

Omar, positive as ever, started to brainstorm and came up with a solution. He built himself a small cinema with all the dining table chairs. This way he could sit on the couch, watch the DVDs on the Macbook and get the sound from the two hifi speakers that our landlord, a high end stereophile, had installed for us. It was still on his Macbook, but it was better than having to sit with a warm laptop on his lap and sound from the inbuilt speakers.


And finally, September 3, our box was here. Omar carried it to and from the taxi and started unwrapping it as soon as we were in our apartment. On the bottom of the box was the, still in plastic, little cable. And we are going to use it tonight for the first time!