The Field Marshal

My yummy za jiang mian....

I was raring to go once my belly was sufficiently full. The crowd swelled as we approached the escalators leading up to the hallowed, gadget packed, halls. By the time we reached the entrace of the exhibition hall, the place was packed.

Future 'hubbers'. Starhub must be laughing all the way to the bank.

Being the consumate shopper that I am, I dived into the show without a clear idea what I had in mind. Somewhere in the grey matter was the idea that I should get a 1Gb SD card for my palm, or an external hard-drive to serve as data back-up for the pc. I was starting to get a high from looking at all the stuff supposedly on sale. Everything was on sale!!! Snap out of it!!! Thankfully, I did.

Having regained my footing, I directed my focus on seeking out the Seagate or Maxtor booths, since both are the industry standard for hard-disk drive. Alas! Global economics do indeed percolate down to us humble consumers. With the recent merger and aquisition of Maxtor by Seagate, Maxtor is no more. Guess we will have to make do with the market leader. Not a bad proposition at all.

Having finally sighted the Seagate booth, we headed to it, like a shark which had a sniff of fresh blood in the water. Or should I say we were like sheeps going to the corporate slaughter house of profits. Whatever perspective that was taken, we made our way there. At the booth, we inquire about the products that Seagate carried. After some discussion, we finally decided on getting the 200Gb Seagate External Hard Drive, which happens to be sitting pretty beside my monitor as I type now.

This baby costs me $249. To me, every cent is worth it as I have experience the pain of losing all my data when my hard-drive crashed in my old PC. Apart from backing up all my data, the new drive will mark a new era in computing for Fieldmarshal's household. An era marked by digitalisation of every piece of CD ever own by Mydaemon and I, as well as the archival of photos that were ever taken.