I played truant and didn’t bother going to our office today. Well, it’s another long weekend (Labor Day) and people in SG seldom go to offices on Fridays these days post-Covid. I got out of bed only at 12 noon and only bothered to go out of my hotel because I was already starving.
I still brought my Samsung tablet + keyboard case in case I needed to edit or write a super important breaking news. I could edit while I eat or have coffee outside.
And good thing I brought my tablet, I had to edit one story from S. Korea while finishing my tea.
After finishing the edit, I sauntered to the nearby arts college to see what’s cooking in there. Also I needed to use their toilet.
I don’t know if I’m a Neanderthal that’s why I lack sophistication and didn’t like her work. I wonder why…🤔 It didn’t resonate with me. I didn’t like the colors probably?
It felt weird. This didn’t look like an art school. Or maybe my idea of an art school is always messy and bohemian.
Anyway, I walked a bit towards Sim Lim Center and finally, after years of attempting to go here, I finally was able to check out this place. This is SG’s version of Greenhills back home, albeit more spacious. They have repair shops for electronics and gadgets but are few and far between.
I was checking out some gaming laptops that I could buy if I decide to retire the one I am using now. Its processor is so old (Core i5, 6th Gen) that I simply couldn’t upgrade the OS to Win 11 (Microsoft prevents me from doing so, saying it does not meet the minimum specs for Win 11. The guy at ACE was offering me a good model of Gigabyte with Core i5 (H) 500GB SSD, 16GB RAM, forgot what kind of NVDIA that was but I no longer care, plus freebies like gaming headset and bag. For only 1,399 minus GST of SGD 70 = SGD 1,329 or PHP 54,500. Not bad…
Errr…still overpriced. Hahahaha! Look at what I found on Lazada Philippines! It’s the same banana! Oh well.
Still PHP 5k cheaper in Manila. 🤣 Oh well. I should always, always, always check on Lazada before buying anything here. That happened to me last month when I bought that Fossil bag. The one I bought from Tangs was only PHP 500 cheaper (with GST + 40% discount) compared to LazMall and it was without the signature Fossil key charm. It was such a waste of effort.
But then again, I couldn’t help myself. I bought shoes this time 🥴
