IT fair madness

Say hello to my new toy people! After years of mere talk, I have finally finally gotten a dslr of my own! So today I was telling daddy I felt like getting a dslr, probably at the IT fair or something, without realising that the IT fair is going on this weekend. Daddy said well then let's go and so we went (I have such a cool dad yes? \(^-^)/ ) and we nearly wanted to take the mrt 'cause we were worried about parking and all, but in the end daddy chickened out (he does not take the mrt) and we drove. Which turned out to be a good choice, because this was what I got at the fair: 

Yes, all these, out of which only one small box in the bag I was toting is the actual dslr. The rest are freebies. The big cardboard box right there is a dry cabinet for storing the dslr. I also got a tripod, a lens filter, a cleaning kit, a 8gb memory card, a 16gb memory card, a camera bag, a camera backpack, a camel-colored camera strap (seen above), a card reader and a remote control. Which is a lot. But it'd have been good if he could have given me an additional battery...*greedy* and all these for $1199. Which, imo is quite worth it, given that that's the usual price for just the camera.

We also bought two new laptops, for mummy and sis. Acer laptops in pretty shades of blue and purple. $799 each, with 500gb of hard disk and 8gb ram. It sounds pretty good to me, but I'm no techie. And we got two laptop bags, two wireless mice (do you call it mice if it's plural? Hmm) and two sets of speakers thrown in.

Seriously, it was like a warzone in there. It was sooo crowded if there was a fire no one would have been able to move an inch and we'd all have roasted alive together. There was a snaking queue just to get up the escalator. You bump into someone everywhere you turn. My kind of nightmare. Claustrophobic plus embarrassing 'cause it's very hard to maneuver around when you're dragging a trolley and carrying two bags (daddy was queuing for the laptops and mummy was queuing for the freebies) so you end up bumping into people with every step you take and wheeling your trolley over people's feet. But when you act like a damsel in distress, people will help you (^-^)V

My loot. And in case you were wondering, no I did not bring the trolley there. The dry cabinets were already strapped onto trolleys, ready for people to collect and tow away. I think all the other big electronic items, like teevee and such were like that too. ...now I can work part-time as a garang guni man with that trolley.

Another picture of my camera! :D Nothing would have been able to compel me go to such crowded fairs usually, but this was worth the trip!