I was pretty much in Sitex for nearly six hours earlier. This is the 20th year running for this annual electronic fair, and whao, you do get a lot of good bargains there that you can't get elsewhere.

Just take the set of speakers I bought today as an example. It's only an entry level speaker but at around 25 bucks, it is just too good. It's only twice the price of those rubbish speakers but it's definitely wayy better than them in terms of everything(and most importantly, sound quality). That set of computer speakers is sold at almost half price though. If clearing stock is their purpose, they have definitely achieved it because what I bought was one of the last few available sets.

That's not the only good bargain too, there's a lot of vendors selling laptops there with plentiful of free accessories. Heck, almost every item you buy there comes with free accessories.

Many will think that in a severe recession (source) such as now, and with future prospect looking bleak, such electronic fair will not be well received because consumers lose their confidence and fear a loss of buying power in the near future. That is however, not the case. At 11 when the fair has started, the halls were already crowded, but by 2, there were so many people at the fair that everybody is squeezed like sardine and moves together. When I say squeezed like sardine, it is not an exaggeration at all because at some places, it was so crowded that you can't even squeeze through to the opposite side. I will not make any blatant comparisons though because I do not have relevant information pertaining to past Sitex success.

Perhaps it is more appropriate to use another example. Now that people are poorer because of the recession, they no longer buy 16 gig iPod Nano. Instead, iPhone are sold out and 8 gig iPod Nano goes nearly out of stock at one Apple reseller and 8 gig iPod Nano starts selling out in the other. And you have to queue 20 minutes or more to buy an iPod too. Yea, people are "switching to cheaper alternatives" now that the economy is bleak. :). And did I mention there were a lot of people lugging a HD ready TV set each home?

Hmm, maybe people are bringing forward their expenditure for the sake of the discounts and see MP3 players as a necessity in our technologically prolific world.

Anyway, I have nothing against them since I am one of those people. I won't know whether sales of Sitex will drop this year but if it didn't, then that's good news (for the economy), maybe more so if private consumption doesn't make up only a small percentage of our GDP.

Hoho, I bought quite a lot of good bargains today. ~-~. By the way, the AFA post is updated with links to pictures already.

Labels: 2008, Economics, Personal, Sitex

I've just reached home from Suntec, where the AFA is held. (It's open today and tomorrow from 10am to 9pm.) I intended to spend some money there initially but instead came home empty handed because they ran out of stocks. There's still lots of Gunpla around and other random stuffs like the mecha san guo things though. Man, they sure run out fast, maybe I should have been in the thousand man long queue in the morning to grab the goods.

Some of the figurines I could have potentially bought:




Okay, they are all Miku figurines. =/. Some other nice figurines on exhibit (most of them are either not on sale or sold out):










(The cloud figurine above is on sale for a hundred bucks from what I can remember)





Yeps, quite a lot of popular titles there. Haruhi Suzumiya, Shana, Lucky Star, Death Note, FF7, Gundam, etc. Next up is some cosplay spotted at the festival, there should be more cosplayers tomorrow since the cosplay competition is on tomorrow. ^^

Lenalee & Road (D.Grayman):


Tobi & Deidara (Naruto):


Sasuke & ? (I am not a big fan of naruto =x) & Sakura (Naruto):


One spastic Ranka (with the wrong eyes color?) (Macross Frontier):


Gundam Exia:


There should be more of these cosplayers tomorrow. I came home early so I missed the Ichiru Mizuki performance. And there's going to be a May'n concert tomorrow too!


EDIT 30/11:
Here are the promised links!

http://www.splifearts.com/2008/11/afa-cosplay-photos/
http://www.darkmirage.com/2008/11/24/anime-festival-asia-2008/

Labels: 2008, AFA, Personal

While camping in front of the computer study table all day, one needs to have a healthy dose of entertainment and leisure to impede the unhealthy weight gain, if it actually helps.

I seem to be approaching the end of A levels (19th's going to be my liberation day). Biology students end on 20th. Ha. After that I expect myself to lose my motive in life and idle around my house like a parasite 'cos I have nothing to look forward to or work for after that. xD. I don't see that as a bad thing. Looking forward to it!

And oh yes, part of the entertainment and leisure I was talking about.



Click the blue link below for more!

Labels: Comic Strip, Personal

Alright, one subject down, And about half of another two subjects done with today. SOON, I will be free from the ___ of exams. I can't think of a good word to fill in that blank.

And, here are some pictures!





These are done by uploading the photos onto a server. Visit Photofunia.com for more!



I love this. xD.

Labels: Comic Strip, Personal, Pictures