Friday, January 6, 2006
Buy, Buy and Buy
Christmas was a memory to me, New Year just a week back and now Lunar New Year coming in just 22 days. The best thing is...I'm almost broke...Okay, I understand people will start to think I'm going to land myself in debts again but rest assured, it will not happen.
But then let's go through the stuffs I bought lately. A Prodikey DM, Warcraft Battle Chest, a pair of shoes and a Ipod Shuffle for my sister, my Lunar New Year clothes and shoes, a new bag and a full set of Dragonball Z comic books. The good thing about working in a bookstore is that not only I have free access to materials but I get cheap prices out of them. Although the books cost me $200, it's a worthy buy. Well, Dragonball rocks! My friends have been psycho-ing me to get Warcraft for a pretty long time due to the game DOTA. Well, I'm not good at deployment...hope I don't get
"Noob!" spams all over...lol. I've been noticing this new chain called IP Zone for a while. Although it's a Hong Kong franchise like Baleno but the trend it's promoting is pretty much similar to Topman.
Except super low prices. Imagine a normal canvas shoe like Converse going at $19. A funky printed T-shirt at $8.40!? Ok, I will go more in depth.
My new bag = $24.50
A printed tank-top = $8.40
A jacket = $25
A printed shirt = $24.50
A pair of pants with waist belt = $29.40
2 pairs of shoes = $38
Total = $149.80
Which also happens to be almost the same amount I spent on 2004 for just a shirt and a pair of jeans. Dirt cheap right? As for Prodikey DM, this is a long story. I actually wanted to get the original Prodikey when it first launched but due to the fact I don't have a good sound card at that time, I put it on hold. Later the DM version came and I had completely forgotten about it eventually. Then one fine day, I just walked past a PC hardware shop and I saw this Prodikey PC-MIDI retailing at $69. Then I remembered about getting the keyboard and also Ken. Ken happens to be a staff in Creative and Creative used to have a pretty good staff purchase scheme. He offered me a good price and I got it. In fact, this entry was typed using it.
There's a funny story to tell about getting the shoes and a Ipod Shuffle for my sister. Well...before watching The Chronicles of Narnia
(2nd time...) with her that night, we went into a local arcade. Then she asked me to play this mole-hammering game
(yup...-_-"). Prizes will be awarded if you manage to hit a certain critera. And this is what was written on my prize slip.
"1 PC NOTEBOOK...."You can imagine how excited we felt when we went to the counter to get our notebook. Then the lady smiled at us, went to a storeroom and got us a small manga notebook.
Yup,
1 Pie
Ce of
NOTEBOOK. I was so shocked that I reconfirmed with the staff again and again. The top prize was a Ipod shuffle so there's no way there could be a laptop. My sister and I were laughing away at our mishap and she hinted to me that how she hoped we won the mp3 player....Oh well, a early birthday gift. As for the shoes....which girl don't like shoes. LOL.
Tommorrow's a busy day for me. Gonna get hair cut and dyed, send the freaking router for repairs and hope I can thrash everyone in DOA4. Till then, KAI OUT!
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