Saturday, June 02, 2007
pc show
I called Daniel out to go to the PC show today. Bin, Dan and I met up at around 5pm in Suntec City. They arrived first and went window shopping at another exhibition, the annual Book Fair. When I arrived, I noticed that the Book Fair was pretty quiet compared to the last time I visited, which could be due to the competition from the PC show two storeys above, which appeals more to the IT savvy generation.
When we went up to the PC show, there were a group of "angels" blowing soap bubbles and posing for the audience. No wonder no one was at the Book Fair, everyone was up here taking photos of the girls and flirting with them, while they blew bubbles into their faces.
The PC show was extremely crowded and hard to maneuver at some places. As usual, brands like Sony Ericsson, Singtel etc. have decided to brand themselves as PC dealers and appeared at the show shamlessly (and no, handphones are not the new generation PC ^^).
I bought another pair of 512MB RAMs to put into the second dual-channel slot for $110. Hence, my PC has 2GB of RAM now. Currently, I still did not notice any difference yet, hopefully I would when I play games later at night.
Bin and Dan was looking for some handphone memory stick upgrade, but they did not buy anything at the end. When we went out of the exhibition hall, the "angels" were gone and replaced by another group of posing girls. These Sony girls were accompanied by some extremely noisy drummers, who thankfully marched off after a short performance, leaving the girls to pose by themselves to the uncannily similar group of shuttlers. It seems like some people were there to take photos of pretty girls only (not me... I declare innocence with my RAM purchase hehe).
We went out of the Suntec building for dinner at Marina Square. The place was extremely crowded as expected, and I suggested that we go to Makan Sutra Food Street at the Esplanade instead. Somehow, we managed to find a seat at the Food Street easily. I ordered white carrot cake, three barbequed chicken wings, and (you guessed it) F&N Grape.
After dinner, we went to watch a bit of the NDP parade rehearsal. We arrived at the most boring parade segment, as if we needed to watch more parade after being through national service. The parade is moved to the waterfront this year, while they build a new national stadium. It looked like a floating platform, which would be pretty fun to watch if it starts sinking during one of the rehearsals :)
As usual, a trip to the Esplanade on weekends means a free outdoor concert performance. Instead of some rock bands, the management somehow got cranky this week and invited some crappy gothic lollita electronica group. They were horrible! The female lead singer like a 3 years old screeching... the ones you see in horror movies. I should have expected gothic lollita from the way they dressed anyway. Within 2 songs, Bin suggested that we should go, as in we REALLY SHOULD go. It was unbearable so I agreed to leave, but sincerely hoped we did not demoralise the performers with our lack of etiquettes.
Near the MRT station, Bin wanted to get some magazine from MPH. Hence, we took a short detour to Raffles City. At the central stage was some percussion performers. The act was pretty interactive as instruments were handed out to the audience to play along with them. The instruments handed out were obviously producing unimportant fringe sounds, but seeing that the audience (especially the kids) were having such a great time, I must say that they did a good job as entertainers.
It seems like the foreigners were enjoying the events organised as part of the Singapore Arts Festival. I think it is quite cool that there are performance at virtually every corner of Singapore! :)
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