New Stuff.. that I bought..

2 weeks ago, went with Kuan to Shibuya and Akihabara to get my laptop, my hand-phone and a kettle.


We went around looking for this model of laptop from Fujitsu, FMV-BIBLO MG75U. In the internet, it was priced at \185,500 which is about SGD$2.5K. But most of the shops we went to in Shibuya are selling it at at least \220,00 and above. After going to an Internet cafe in Shibuya and went online to check for the shops selling at the lowest price, we went to Akihabara. In one of the smaller shop, we managed to get it at the lowest price..



Next on the list is my mobile phone.. I don't really care about the kind or brand of phone , cos seriously I'm not a hand-phone person, in fact, I can do without hand-phone!! But being in Japan, where they have all the sophisticated phone, it will be a pity for me to not have one.. But considering the bill, I opted for a simple phone which has dual language capability. It doesn't have the multimedia function, which will adds up to the bill (remember? I'm a poor student now.. need to budget..). There are 3 telecom companies in Japan, namely Softbank, NTT Docomo and au by KDDI.



As Kuan is an au subscriber so I became an au subscriber too, as it will be cheaper for us to communicate. I had always wanted a clam-shell phone, so I chose a black one, Toshiba A5523T, which is very slick, but in fact has the least functions.. The phone would have cost me nothing if not for the charger which cost me \986. The phones here have no sim cards and is proprietary to each telecom company. That explains the reason why lost phones are always returned, as they cannot be sold without the telecom companies' knowledge...



The last thing that I bought at Akihabara was a kettle.. The common kitchen does not have any kettle or water cooler. If I want hot water, I would have to have a kettle to boil my own water.. If I were to get a kettle that can reboil, I would need to keep it plug on all day. But considering the electricity bills that it might incur, I opted for a small and simple kettle. It cost me \2,990.

This month, me very poor... but at least from now on, I would be able to get connected to the Internet, be contactable and get hot drinks...