wu liao

Sunday, March 09, 2008

New toy...



http://www.panasonic.hk/av/english/dc/product_page.asp?f_product_category=3&f_sub_category=0&f_product_record_id=256

a new camera since my last (& also first) one Canon IXUS 400 back in 2003...

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Friday, June 01, 2007

考試症候群

Let me blame on the coming exams: I have been buying nice things these two days to de-pressurize myself after a full day of studies...
sound convincing, huh? ;)

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Monday, April 23, 2007

從未試過咁白

多謝 a!!!
Source: http://shallwetalk.blogspot.com/2007/04/mass-customization.html

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Thursday, April 05, 2007

my kid size adidas

I didn't plan to buy them at all, but then I came across the children's shoe shop Shoebox which was on sale... they carried these @ HK$245, and had my size... so...

Another pair of work shoes, it's a bargain-price performance indeed!!!




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my mikli x starck glasses...









notice something is missing from the glasses?

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Thursday, March 29, 2007

pricing strategy

the company sent me a magazine renewal letter. The offer is as follows:

- 2 years + 1 year FREE (75 issues in total), only HK$1,382.00
- 1 year + 1 year FREE (49 issues in total), only HK$780.00

at first glance, 1 + 1 seems a better bargain than 2 + 1...
per year, 2 + 1 costs $460 while 1 + 1 costs $390
per issue, 2 + 1 costs $18.4 while 1+1 costs $15.9

who in the world will pay more to commit to a longer period at a higher per unit and per year price?

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Friday, March 09, 2007

business trip to HQ (12)

boss took me downtown in between meetings yesterday... came across a shop that carries the brand of watch that i'm wearing... but since he was with me, i didn't go in and check prices...
then went to stationery shops and found the writing instruments that i use... this time i bought a few and my boss followed me and bought one for his older kid and one i guess for his wife...

it's really those quiet towns that you feel comfy wandering around, but living there? all shops close at 18:00 and all day sunday... i don't see cinemas (not that i go to the ones in hk often), theatres (ditto), karaoke (again, i haven't been there for ages, but at least i can go if i want to), shopping malls, ... but they have forests, they have rivers, they have lakes, they have rabbits, they have deer, they have fresh air...

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Thursday, March 08, 2007

business trip to HQ (9)

with the very tight schedule, finally found a time to shop at the a factory outlet last night. The difficulties for me are:
1. the factory outlet is not within walking distance
2. there is no bus, metro, mtr, minibus
3. i can call taxi, but they only speak german
4. thus i need someone to drive me there and drive me back
5. every day my meetings/workshop ends at 17:00 or 18:00, while the outlet closes at 19:00
6. i need a staff discount card from german counterparts to get staff discount, and i don't have a german counterpart

finally, with all these difficulties overcome, i had ~ an hour to shop there, and the things there are SOOOOOOOOOO expensive. The black lifestyle shoes and the yoga pants that I bought in HK could be found at the staff discount floor and they were more expensive that what i had paid... i originally planned to buy Y3 at the outlet since we don't have discount in HK even as staff, but the Y3 style there were just 'mai ng lok sou'... so were the a-porsche cross-over... or stella

and then i went to the public floor, where i could get 30% off the marked price... the outlet is so huge that i didn't have time to go through the whole floor, secondly, the price only goes to a more 'normal' level in my opinion with the staff discount, without the staff discount, they are just unacceptably expensive... even with the staff discount, i still find a lot of them expensive... :o

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Sunday, February 18, 2007

年三十晚

went to a-shop to shop with k and w... i was looking for a pair of sports shoes than i can wear to work, a pair of yoga pants for my yoga class next week, and to have fitting for the customized shoes... k and w were looking for tracksuits, and came to watch my fitting as well...

turned out, k got a white track jacket with matching black pants, w got a black track jacket with red stripes woven with golden thread, and i got the customized shoes fitted and to be made, a stella bag (50% off), a pair of black sports shoes for work and a pair of yoga pants for yoga... mission-to-be-accomplished is to find the matching black pants for w...

this shopping event is 好意頭: 買 "富" 過年嘛 ... on the other hand, buy shoes before the CNY so that no need to buy during CNY month... what a good excuse!!!

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