IT show was great

I went for the IT show on Saturday and Sunday looking for a graphic tablet to doodle on my computer and I found a couple of them. Unfortunately, I did not take any pictures there so I shall substitute with manga instead. New ones of course.

Cactuar’s new hairstyle, not much of a difference to me

Well, the IT show seems to be getting more and more crowded by the year and the number of people walking around buying nothing are also on the rise. Example : me, but that was on Saturday as I had to go to Kinokuniya to get my manga before my 666 streak gets any longer.

Had to tilt it to minimize my reflection

Anyway, most people would just split up IT show into two days, or maybe cautious people would. The first day would be dedicated to squeezing around collecting brochures and bringing them back home to analyze. The second day would be to head on down to the booth to make the purchase and get the hell out of there.

They finally gave up on pasting the “Not suitable for youths” Sticker

Well, there might be people who just head straight to the IT show knowing what they want to buy and just get it at the first booth they see. I hate huge crowds but I hate wasting money too. Thus its a matter of opportunity cost. In this case: money > squeezing with people.

I doubt it would have any M18 content by I’m still at the second book so I could be wrong

Before I go on to the graphic tablets, Irake (I wonder if he still uses this nickname) pointed out the huge queue in front of the external hard disk booths. As a former computing student and *ahem* data collector *ahem* having an external hard drive or two would be normal. But it sure was amazing to see people, young and old, buying 1TeraByte(TB) hard disks.

No comments, I’m still very far behind

For the average user I think that amount (1TB) would last them 3 lifetimes. Especially since I know people who aren’t able to fill up a 512MB thumbdrive even though they use it everyday. Fun fact : 1TB = (1024×1024 or 1,048,576MB)

Air Gear. Still At book 20 though

Back to graphic tablets. Well, I saw a couple which seemed, well, nice. However, I am not an art student and have no need for a good one. I just need it to draw random stuff and save paper, money wise. (Saving the Earth? I don’t think so. Trees vs Natural Gases/Fossil Fuels. One is renewable and the other is running out. Both affects us directly. So it would probably be better to waste paper instead.)

I have no idea what’s happening thus I have to pick up Tsukihime manga

Anyway, after listening to the explanation for the graphic tablets, I was really interested in getting one. I stopped myself in time just to compare the prices between the tablets.

“Welcome”

Eventually, I could not decide and headed down to Funan IT mall, where there is a Challenger shop which Irake told me to check out the prices first. I was rather skeptical but since my priority was to go to Kinokuniya to check out manga and Funan was along the way I might as well follow that plan.

Genderbender~

Surprisingly, almost all the prices which I had seen at the IT show (for graphic tablets) were more expensive than those at Challenger (Taking the member’s price). Hence I decided to return to the IT show the next day to check out the displays and see which is better.

I ran out of ideas for random comments

I did return on the second day but due to the crowd, I did not linger for too long and decided on a Penpower handwriter instead. Many might not consider it to be a graphic tablet, being a writing tool, but its good enough for me.

I wonder if Bleach is ending soon

Thus, I headed down to Challenger at Funan again to get the.. the… hmm… what should I call it? My product is called the FREEDOM so lets just stick with freedom. By the way, the price at IT show was $129 or $139 and it was $139 at Challenger, before the member’s price kicks in.

The short clips for this series were cute

Anyway, I got the freedom for $99. Less than a hundred bucks. How cool is that? I have the cover of the box below, just in case anyone is interested.

Summer Rumble

In any case, this incident has changed my perspective towards exhibitions and conventions. Checking out the prices first might be time consuming but can definitely help save a few dollars especially for poor people like myself. I can continue ranting on about the opportunity cost between money and time but I shall spare the detail as it is rather late and I still have work tomorrow.

BlackBeard is gay (No spoilers =))

Well, that was not really related to the IT show which holds and exhibits way more goodies than just graphic tablets. From laptops to plasma TVs and even banks (?!) it would have been better if there were fewer people at the event. Being a densely populated country, I think that dream would never happen.

C-C-C-C-Combo breaker!

Random comment? No, I assure you. For those who did not bother to count, excluding the manga directly above, there are 13 other manga shown. That was the exact number which I bought yesterday to get rid of my 666 streak. (There goes 666 and here comes 13) Thats why I bought this today to reset the number to 1 and make my manga count : 680.

This light novel is really nice but I’m missing book 1

Well, I shall continue with random stuff now. The light novel above is quite interesting and the manga has been serialised (I think) and it probably wont be long before the anime appears, which I would prefer not to happen. Personal reasons.

Have always wanted this for convenience sake

I absolutely hate plugging my phone into the USB port and getting the message: “connection error” all the time. This little device would save me from raging and I have tested it out. The price is reasonable too (Or at least it’s the cheapest memory card reader on the shelf).

And… here’s FREEDOM

Looks like a UFO/frisbee. The part about it not being a graphic tablet, I take it back. Inside, there’s a CD which installs a program which allows for photo editing and although I have not fully tried it out yet, I would say that its probably on par with GIMP/Photoshop, though it might be inferior. But its basic function is actually for people to write in Chinese and learn the Chinese language, given its translational functions.

Cactuar’s new pose

Two strands of hair representing V for victory. Well, those readers who read my posts from time to time might have noticed that the past few posts or so were rather unsatisfactory. I have read through them just a while ago and decided that I probably have lost my touch somewhere. With some luck, I might be able to do better in this post or in the next few posts but there are no guarantees.

Well, I shall be off looking for content and stuff again and hopefully come up with something better.

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