NTU and NIE

Yesterday me and Azlina went to NTU to purchase a laptop. NTU had this laptop fare where sales people from various brands like IBM, Fujitsu, Toshiba, etc.. Hehe first thing which caught my eye when I entered the bazaar is the Apple Macintosh's booth. The Mac Book Pro 15"... yummy ... heheh... Too bad that they don't have the 17" model on display.

Anyway Azlina purchased an Acer Travelmate 3010... for portability reasons. Never mind that the optical drive is an external device... It's very light (as compared with my old iBook or my office HP laptop) ... Love the wide-screen-display of most modern laptops nowadays. But the waiting time for the purchase to complete, urgh.... extremely horrendous!!!

We went there in the morning. Had to get a queue slot to collect it. No available queue in the morning so had to come back in the afternoon at 3:30... I went back home (yes... to Pasir Ris!) and came back again at 4pm to join the queue. Thought that since the queue was short, but I was deceived... It took me one hour in the queue for me to reached my turn!!! There were like 3 people manning at the counter but what were they doing??? Not efficient I would say. But hey, I had my Sony DVD Walkman to occupy my time on the queue.. heheh. Watched the second disc of Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam 2 at that time...

Azlina gave me a short tour of NTU and NIE in the afternoon. Noticed that in NTU there's not many power points for laptop usage (unlike NUS where students made use of their laptops for online LAN games among their peers... hehe). And hey, there's a bridge linking NTU to NIE (similar to the Engine bridge at NUS .. *wink wink*) . It's been a long time since I stepped into a university campus ... feels nice that I'm out of the uni system now... yay!!