wake me up when december ends

i had just wasted a whole 2 hours queuing at john little mega sale at singapore expo.

urghh it was the worst way to spend sunday afternoon. i was alone too, so not that i could chat to kill time. the couple in front of me looked playful but i was nowhere in the mood to join in for a threesome, while the indian man behind me kept hitting my legs with his shopping cart so i expect if i had opened my mouth, it would not be all pleasant words anyway.

i don't know what they could have done to improve the situation. the check-out counters were a lot, the cashiers were fast but still the queues extended till the other side of the hall, and you know how enourmous expo halls are. i guess, it was because everybody was shopping like nobody's business. by the rate the ppl put things into their cart, you'd think those items were all free.

but at least, i got the blender that i wanted. it was a good one, mexus brand (i never heard of it to be frank), solid and the blades design seemed like it could do better jobs than common blenders. all those in courts and isetan looked like they would break down after couple of spins.

gosh after reading above paragraph, now it sounds silly to me. 2 hrs for a blender? duh!

anyway, all that's important is that i saved some money buying it on sale. especially after i just bought myself a 26' panasonic lcd hd-ready tv from the nextdoor sitex fair yesterday.

so much for not going ga-ga over end of the year pay. my aim going to the fair was just to buy blank cd-r and maybe checking the latest offers too while strictly avoiding unnecessary stuff. i was doing good actually, resisting all those fliers and pamplets thrown at me from every angle, and you know that's hard to do in a fair like this.

even when this beautiful big-eyed girl showed me a viewsonic 22' inch pc monitor at only $599, and thinking about my 17' bulky ancient monitor that fills half the room at home, i was never seriously tempted. until i saw that panasonic tv.

it was a nice piece of art. slim and everything. plus, it's hd-ready, although i don't even know how to get a hd signal (do we need to apply or something?). the promoter said the 26' is suitable for bedroom because it's not too big. plus, i intended to connect this to my pc as a monitor. imagine how much effort it takes to move the cursor from one end to another with too-big-a screen? (ok that was a joke. i'm not a total technical durr-brain).

moreover, it came with 350 dollars worth of vouchers, so in all, i only paid like $940 for it. for a hd-tv cum pc monitor. it's value for money, right?

so anyway, that's all water under the bridge now. not worth fretting about.

god i wish the sale season is over...


...ed