Thursday, August 24, 2006 @4:52 PM
i don't know to count myself unlucky or what.
brother took
myhis calculator and i was left without one for an entire day. rather reluctant to borrow from classmate but didn't have a choice. i can't do maths(stats) without one. was extremely excited when he told me he needed one permanently so the calculator returns to him and i get to buy a new one! happily went to sch bookshop and was told the same model costs $20 instead of the usual $16. wa. i didn't know calculator prices also can have inflation. it's an old model but how come it's more expensive? demand is greater than supply? so price increases? tsk. it's an old model. old old model.
dragged myself to tamp instead to get one, hopefully at a reasonable price of $16 or lower. went to this shop at cs called jade gift shop. now you must be thinking, "why did i enter a shop that sells jade to look for a calculator?" foolish you. the shop sells everything(electronic goods) except jade. hahaha. alright. found the casio and sharp ones, and i decided to get the casio model. the newest, if not the second newest model! it costs a mere $20 instead of $27. 401 functions! wow. of course i get that right, and not some others with only 300 functions...so pleased with my good buy. till i took out the user guide(extra booklet). wow. this calculator can be used to compute integration, complex numbers, statistics.
UH OH!went home immediately to check cambridge's list of approved calculators. unfortunately, i can't find that calculator model after checking not once, but at least thrice. FAINTS. it's not there. it's fated that i'm not destined to own a new calculator. i am so sad.
another happy-turned-sad shopping experience today. bought dove shampoo and conditioner cos the second item is on 50% discount. wow. little did i realise the second item only applies to treatment products. conned, again. argh.
as an avid radio1003 listener cum supporter, i personally went down to besta counter at tm popular bookstore to sign and show my support for radio shows. it's called "wo yao guang bo ju - wan ren lian shu". i wonder how many actually know and listen to the successful 100 episodes of "2530". but it is expensive to produce one entire series because it's hard to get sponsors. right now they need 10000 signatures so that there will be more of such shows coming up in the future. maybe it might not benefit you that much if you don't listen to chinese radio stations. even so, if you happen to be near these places, just go to the besta counter and sign ok? very quick and easy task! OK? it ends on 8th sept. i'm like doing free advertising here...>.<
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time to pom pom. then off to do chem prelim 05 paper, bio exercise and maths a'lvl 05 paper =(