a whole week of no FM!
Friday, March 04, 2005
the school said they will be conducting a spotcheck last friday and checks include socks, hair, fingernails, shoes, uniform and even bags as they said only mobile phones are allowed but not any other form of electronics (what an irony) and I did not bring my MP3 player for one whole week.
having been listening to FM on journies to and from school ever since the start of year, it does make the journies more boring without it even though it has been only one week. this shows that having music around you wherever you go does get addictive. while it is not as bad as being a drug addict, you would somewhat find time passes slower without that source of sound around you. with the current drop in prices of MP3 players, especially Creative (bleh) ones where a 128MB with FM goes for 129 ($20 drop in price), 149 for 256MB with FM ($40 drop) and 219 and 309 for 512MB with FM and 1GB with FM models ($60 drop in price!)
as you can see, Creative products depreciate very quickly. the Zen Micro 5GB that used to be 520 is now 438, with the soon to be release of the 4GB and 6GB versions and in response to the iPod Mini price cut. you dont see an iPod 4G (4th Generation) dropping its price that much do you (it has been in the 550 regions ever since release)? not to forget the warehouse sale that comes quarterly, you can practically get their products at 100-200 dollars cheaper in a quarter to half a year, something very rare in the electronics industry.
I seemed to have drifted off from my topic, it has now become a Creative rants post but who cares. I added more content to the blog didnt I =P
having been listening to FM on journies to and from school ever since the start of year, it does make the journies more boring without it even though it has been only one week. this shows that having music around you wherever you go does get addictive. while it is not as bad as being a drug addict, you would somewhat find time passes slower without that source of sound around you. with the current drop in prices of MP3 players, especially Creative (bleh) ones where a 128MB with FM goes for 129 ($20 drop in price), 149 for 256MB with FM ($40 drop) and 219 and 309 for 512MB with FM and 1GB with FM models ($60 drop in price!)
as you can see, Creative products depreciate very quickly. the Zen Micro 5GB that used to be 520 is now 438, with the soon to be release of the 4GB and 6GB versions and in response to the iPod Mini price cut. you dont see an iPod 4G (4th Generation) dropping its price that much do you (it has been in the 550 regions ever since release)? not to forget the warehouse sale that comes quarterly, you can practically get their products at 100-200 dollars cheaper in a quarter to half a year, something very rare in the electronics industry.
I seemed to have drifted off from my topic, it has now become a Creative rants post but who cares. I added more content to the blog didnt I =P
