Good News is that I got myself a cool new thing to play with. Maxis Broadband! I went to PC Fair braving the crowds and fellow geeks from across the valley to get myself nothing! I had a budget of RM 10 that was bestowed upon me and so I went! What can you do with RM 10?
Anyway it was my duty to shop for things for other people who are not so gadget friendly so that I could help them for free as usual. So I proceeded to go there with a bunch of fellow shoppers who also had tight pockets.
So most of them never being there before, we decided to embark on a great adventure. Just like in RPG games, you have to go from level to level. It is apparent thought that this was a new challenge. Hall to Hall.
Hall 1: The temptation of the Macbook Air!!!! Have you seen it! Ahhhhhh!!! RM 6299-10899. I was tempted, but that certainly didn’t fit my budget thought it would fit perfectly in my bag!
Hall 2: Audio temptation….speakers are so dirt cheap now. But of course comparing them with my studio speakers. Nah! Though some fell into the trap of the headphones category the greater problem is the cute little EEEPC caught the eyes of the travellers of the female species. Drooling all over we walked on.
Hall 3,4,5: We were down two levels now facing the hall of great temptations. Peripherals. Here is where I am supposed to spend and yet not spend. Worse still, all the temptations from Hall 1 and 2 also presented themselves here! We ended up buying an EEEPC, a 8GB SDHC Card, 3 1GB notebook RAM, 2 web cams, 3 Mp3 players, 2 cooler pads, a Dlink DIR-300 router, a USB hub, A Logitech mouse, an external hard disk, and the list goes on…..
That is why PC Fair does so well. Terrible. I personally failed big time. I was walking pass the Maxis Broadband booth when I took the brochure and said, wow that’s cheap but let me think about it. Then a few steps later, a cute gal walks up and says, what says you if I give you 50 % off over the next four months? I was stunned. Their gimmick worked. I declined but when a friend said we’ll split the cost, I immediately fell and got myself my maxis broadband!
In the next post I will describe how I installed it with the router and got myself wireless again!! Bad news is that this caused me a hole in my pocket! Bad news is now I have a humongous hole in my pocket.
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