3.01 Freeday!

Today was free and easy as we don't have any lessons during PM. Currently, we're under the assignment period and my teamate ah bing and myself wrapped up most of it during the morning until 11am. After then, some of us went out 鲁巷的大洋百货 (Lu Xiang) for shopping. Based on what yj told me, it's the downtown of 武昌。

fashion/electronics departments {overall it looks like plaza singapura}



Upon reaching there, we ate quite alot as we didn't really had breakfast. Every main dish, we ordered an extra side dish to accompany it.

wanton,doupi,chicken sticks (like satay), main dishes



We spent almost 6 hours at there. The prices of the products sold there are rather the same with those in Singapore, thus I didn't buy much. Best buy of the day would be a pair Giordano berms which cost about 20 SGD.

Interestingly, they have starbucks too! Prices are cheaper by a little.

Reflections of the day:
Today when we're hogged at one of the electronics shop, selling memory sticks, my friends and I was quite shocked about the prices they sold the Sony Memory Stick PRO duo (4GB) about $150. Thus, I tried to bargain for a 3 times cheaper rate ($60), as at the other shop it cost about only $90. In the end, I got ticked off by the shopkeeper! She said I asked for too much! In the end, my friend went back to the other shop and got the $90 one which differs from the $150 one, as the cheaper one is a low speed memory stick while the other is a fast speed one! Thinking back, I think I embarassed myself with the shopkeeper. That was something stupid I did today, I supposed.

Another thing I noticed about the shops is that they are rather open for customers, really open, in terms of the counter is rather free to pass through. It's very different from those in Singapore where counter area are mostly prohibited from customers. As in, it's not really that customer could go and press the cashier or play around the counter area, just that they have products which is in the inner part of the counter, and they don't mind customers walked in to view their products.


jac