IT Show: 10 - 13 March 2011
another money bombing event. just immediate two week after NATAS Fair, i got my pocket burnt again during this IT Show. a straight 4 days roadshow, i attended the last 3 days. i did not go for the first day as i assumed that it should be packed with lots of kiasu people who wanted to be the first few to grab good offers.
anyway, to sum up for the whole 3 days.
the total damage done to my pocket:
$705.80 (heartpain)
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11th March 2011 - Friday
IT Show Day 2
yes, its a working Friday, so we can only meet up after work, and it happened to be Subordinate Court JRC party which will be held at 6pm. shats, i have to attend it as my boss registered my name in, so i have to attend it till 7pm, and then made my way to Raffles Place to meet the rest myself.
anyway, it's kinda a big group gathering with Audrey, Daphne, Fiona, Ginnette, Joshua, Lisa, Moo, Shalee and me. and it's pretty hard to all go together as a group especially when it's so crowded inside, and we are all looking for different electronic gadgets. so, we decided to split into smaller group and meet up together afterward.
for me, i just followed Ginnette an Joshua to see netbook/laptop as i don't intend to buy anything today. i just go around collecting brochure and then slowly decide what to get the next day xD
it was near to 10pm where all of us slowly gathered back at the staircase area.


group photo
oh well, looked like my friends all managed to get what they want. Daphne bought alot misc stuffs, Audrey and Shalee got themselves harddisk (wow), Moo bought Sony Nex 3 camera @ $999 (double wow), and lastly Lisa bought MacBook @ $1,600 (triple WOW).
and we bumped into Ricky there as well. he was working under Sony booth, wah. if i knew earlier he switched to work under Sony (previously was under Nikon), if i knew earlier that Moo is buying the Sony camera, i would have recommend Moo to buy it from Ricky. seriously, earning of commission let your friends earned is better than let outsider earned.. aww, nevermind!!~ lol
IT Show Day 2 damage:
$0
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12th March 2011 - Saturday
IT Show Day 3
went to IT show again. this time round with Eugene and Kay Wah. anyway, this was planned long ago to go on a Saturday and get ourselves squashed! the crowd was seriously horrible, we started from level 4 and slowly made our way up to level 6, and that actually wasted us 3 hours.
and we still have not get anything yet. too many things, too crowded, hard to decide on the spot. so we grabbed all brochure and flyers they gave, out of the whole convention hall, away from the crowd. found a lesser crowd place to have our lunch first, before going back to the convention hall to start our war.
and i finally get what i wanted.. haha.
Samsung 1TB Harddisk: $129.90
WD 500GB Harddisk: $69.90
Canon IXUS 115 HS Camera: $299
SanDisk 8GB Memory Stick Pro Duo: $31

my loots
although for the Canon camera, the price they sold was the same as outside, but they got far more free gifts than outside. i was given free screen protector, 2 free 8GB SDHC memory card, 1 4GB thumbdrive and hard cover camera pouch. pretty good offer eh?!
anyway, Eugene went off to meet his friends for dinner. and so i went makan with Kay Wah at Serangoon NEX. haha. i think that was my second time going there only. too far for me, but one good thing is it's purple straight home back to Harbourfront for me, and straight home back to Seng Kang for him. not bad ah? i love shopping mall with purple line xD
IT Show Day 3 damage:
$529.80
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13th March 2011 - Sunday
IT Show Day 4
seriously, for the last day of IT Show, it was a very last minute decision. it's only the night before that Terence, Othman and me decided to go for it. last day to grab good offer :D
it was also a very blur day that i did not bring my handphone out. aishhhh, how forgetful. i have to borrow my brother's phone, call home to ask my mother checked my phone for their number. and to make things worse, i do not have any pen or paper with me. so i have no choice, but to remember BOTH their number by heart. lol.
and when my brother left, i have to start looking for a public phone to contact with Terence. i was thinking in this kind of century, where still got public phone sia? luckily, there still is public phone at City Hall MRT station. called Terence and managed to meet him.
to avoid the crowd at Suntec City, we decided to have our lunch at Marina Square. haha. anyway, we ended up eating Burger King again. he was joking that everytime go makan with me sure end up at Burger King one. lol. and with my ultra powerful memory, i memorise out Othman number to him, and finally we managed to meet Othman too. yay!! off we go to get squashed at the Convention =D
bought more things again:
essential PLAYON! HD Player: $159
11.4" Screen Protector: $17
my loots
it's the last day of IT Show, everywhere is having some promotion and sales. Sony was having this 30 minutes promotion spree for the W-series sports mp3. the price for one was actually $129.90, and you have to buy 2 at one go to get it for $110 each.
for once, they allowed us to buy it at just $110, don't need to buy 2 in order to get that price, but it's only from 5pm to 5.30pm. Terence was tempted to buy, but in the end he gave up and so we decided to call it a day. Othman took bus from the bus stop right outside Suntec, whereas Terence and me have to walk back to the MRT station.
and ya, when we finally managed to squeeze our way out to the exit already. Terence suddenly said HE WANTED TO BUY IT, lol. it was 5.20pm at that time, and we zoomed all the way like mad to the lift to take shortcut. but it was worse, flooded! and so, we have to squeeze into the crowd, to the escalator back up to level 3. we used 5 minutes to squeeze in, and when we were about to up the escalator, the crowd-controller-officer stopped the escalator to control human traffic at level 2. like damn!! we were only left with 5 minutes.
when the escalator finally resumed, we were the first few to fly all the way up, and Terence ran like mad to get his Sony W-Series Sports mp3, and lucky enough, he managed to get it before 5.30pm, still at the promotion price. haha. good for him to get his new toy =D
IT Show Day 4 damage:
$176

all the flyers that was found inside my bag for the entire 3 days.
whee!~ completed my journey during the 3 days of IT Show. bought lots of things that i had been eyeing for long, like camera, HD Player and harddisk. my old 320GB harddisk going burst soon. i need 1TB one. hahaha.
both Natas Fair and IT Show really drained my money away. pocket hole was seriously more huge than i expected it to be. i am so going slowly sew it back xD
Natas Fair: $1,230
IT Show: $705.80
total damage this month: $1,935.80
I AM SERIOUSLY BROKE THIS MARCH!!!!
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