| | Pissy-Fair
be wary, the inner geek emerges....
Malaysia's PC Fairs have ALWAYS been known for:
1. crazy lelong, fairly low prices
2. pretty promoters hired just to attract customers
3. pocket-burning, wallet-ripping hardware that make geeks cheer and groan at the same time
4. salespeople shouting that they have the final, really really last 2 units left, when they have about 20 more right behind them.
5. the very latest tech (mountains of 8800GTX!)
but the most obvious and well-known part about the PC Fair has always been
THE CROWD.
THE maddening, shoulder-to-shoulder, wat-the-hell-don't-suddenly-stop-in-front-of-me, whoa-check-out-that-samsung-girl, oh-my-god-i-can't-breathe CROWD.
a stretch of pathway in Johor Bahru City Square that would've normally taken 2 minutes to walk across now cost me 15 minutes to 1/2 an hour..!
But i didn't mind.
the PC Fair was friggin AWESOME.
The geek in me wanted to just twirl around the center and fling my arms around like Maria in the Sound of Music.
i didn't.
There were shops selling all the latest electronics and computer hardware.. headphones, speakers, widescreen monitors, computer peripherals; there was sound and color everywhere, and people were just going mad bargaining and squeezing past each other.
I went there with my parents (duh.. i'm smart..) on the evening of the last day (..not that smart.)
I think everyone was really caught up in the hype, what with all the yelling and scribbled fluorescent A4 price sheets that looked like this:
RM
120 90 70 55
HURRY! LAST 2 UNITS!
AND By the end of the day....my parent's wallets and my mom's feet were groaning.
The kills of the day and the spoils of war.
| Treasure | Cost |
|---|
LinkSys Wireless Broadband Router (don't ask)
| RM195
| Creative Zen™ Stone 2GB [black] mp3 player
| RM260
| | Creative Zen™ Stone 2GB [white] mp3 player | RM260
| Imation 2GB Hi-Speed FlashDrive
| RM63 | Western Digital 80GB Notebook HDD SATA
| RM200 | Altec Lansing ATP3 2.1 Speakers
| RM188
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Samsung LN-T3253H 32'' 8000:1 LCD TV
| RM3,699
| upgrade to 1Mbps Streamyx (originally was 512kbps)
| RM 0
|
| TOTAL | RM4,865
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photos will arrive when i can.
but the speakers have been awesome so farrr.
=)
next on tech shopping list: Nokia 5700 (black); Everglide Titan MousePad - DKT Edition; Canon IXUS-75; Sennheiser CX-300B/just regular cans; any Creative Sound Card; Samsung 18x DVDRW+/-;
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| | Posted 8/13/2007 11:07 AM - 123 Views - 6 eProps - 5 comments
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