Was at the PC Show this afternoon during lunchtime together with Gary and Jon. The jam started way back along AYE near the upcoming IR!! With the initial plan to park at the Suntec (STC) Loading/Un-loading bay area disrupted by the massive jam into the STC area, Jon drove on to Esplanade and park there instead.
Cutting across Marina Sq and onto the linkbridge to STC, you can see that many others had the same idea as us; to visit on the first day during lunchtime, hoping to beat the crowd. But alas we were soooooo wrong... the aisles, corridors and escalators were all packed!! Seemed to me a quarter of the population were on leave today and all decided to visit STC at the same time!
The PC Show this time seemed to be the biggest around. It took up the entire Level 2 (and its ballrooms), 3, 4 and 6 with the following floor plan allocation :
Level 2 : 'SinkTel' & M1...
Level 3 : Starhub, Apple & Sony...
Level 4 : Desktops, Laptops, TVs & the likes...
Level 6 : Other Peripherals...
Going around the booths, one can see the retailers pulling out all stops in their bids to fight for the dollar in the consumer's pocket so as to keep their accounts in the black. If the sale registers had a 'tink' sound whenever a sale was made, you'd never be able to hear your buddy next to you talking because the only sound you'd keep hearing is "tink tink tink tink tink tink tink tink....", well, you get the drift....Everywhere you turn, you'd see many happy faces lugging along either a TV or printer, maybe even laptops home. Such is the intensity of the transactions made within the first 1hr!
We, of course, played our part and contributed to the sales as well. Jon bought a laptop, Gary's gotten himself an earphone while I bought my long-awaited External HDD, a Maxtor 1 Touch 4, 640GB for $109.
Cutting across Marina Sq and onto the linkbridge to STC, you can see that many others had the same idea as us; to visit on the first day during lunchtime, hoping to beat the crowd. But alas we were soooooo wrong... the aisles, corridors and escalators were all packed!! Seemed to me a quarter of the population were on leave today and all decided to visit STC at the same time!
The PC Show this time seemed to be the biggest around. It took up the entire Level 2 (and its ballrooms), 3, 4 and 6 with the following floor plan allocation :
Level 2 : 'SinkTel' & M1...
Level 3 : Starhub, Apple & Sony...
Level 4 : Desktops, Laptops, TVs & the likes...
Level 6 : Other Peripherals...
Going around the booths, one can see the retailers pulling out all stops in their bids to fight for the dollar in the consumer's pocket so as to keep their accounts in the black. If the sale registers had a 'tink' sound whenever a sale was made, you'd never be able to hear your buddy next to you talking because the only sound you'd keep hearing is "tink tink tink tink tink tink tink tink....", well, you get the drift....Everywhere you turn, you'd see many happy faces lugging along either a TV or printer, maybe even laptops home. Such is the intensity of the transactions made within the first 1hr!
We, of course, played our part and contributed to the sales as well. Jon bought a laptop, Gary's gotten himself an earphone while I bought my long-awaited External HDD, a Maxtor 1 Touch 4, 640GB for $109.
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