He did tell me that he'd be picking up a desktop to replace the old laptop I was using. Sitting at a measly 256 ram, it takes several minutes to start up/shut down and 30-60 seconds to load any Office applications. I did advise him against getting a desktop, though, since it would eat up even more space on my small work desk. A desk top was generally more stable, though so he went ahead and bought one.
I spent the morning setting it up, only to have Windows Vista lock up when I tried to connect to wireless. I hard-reset it and came back after lunch to continue. I was told to download OpenOffice, which I realized was a pretty cool open-source (free) alternative to MS Office. This was the first time I was using Vista and I realized that it looked really modern and cool (for some reason, its colours and style reminded me of the Xbox 360's OS. haha). Oh well, I couldn't install the drivers of the office printer/scanner because Vista wasn't supported. I'll have to work on it on Monday. Meh.
With thoughts of the IT Show in the brain, I went to check it out myself on Saturday with Yonghao. I was expecting a terrible crowd and , boy, was it terrible. I just bought a 2GB Sony thumb drive (spent 30 minutes squeezing & queueing for it), grabbed some Asus brochures (to plan my next future laptop purchase) and checked out the Xbox games sale (which sucked cos' the prices at good video game shops were still lower).
After that, I dropped by at FunZ Centre for dinner at Fish & Co's with Brainy, Kyo, Akira and Mango. I picked up two new games: Lost Odyssey and Patapon before going home. Patapon is a game that received quite a lot of hype. Its tune is catchy but too much of it can probably drive people nuts. haha
All in all, it was quite a fun day.
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