The Big Wait

1,600 queue up outside Funan IT mall in the bid to collect their free lap-tops ….freebies for signing up with our local Internet Service Providers . With only 1,100 laptops available, 500 made a wasted trip and had to settle for going down to collect 3 weeks later or have it delivered to their homes for free……

With the new Comex Fair coming end of August, and with local internet service Providers giving away great freebies…will it be another case of a long fruitless wait. Mind you, the crowds at the fairs are not short. You have to wait in line for hours just to register …… and you have to wait for a couple more days or even weeks before you can collect them…… it makes even more unbearable if you have to jostle with another thousand people to collect your free laptop…… I realised that just across the causeway…there are no such freebies for signing up internet plans….. you even have to RENT the modem from the Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), and let’s not even talk about the Broadband speeds.

I guess maybe we are too pampered as a nation. We need to be enticed like little kids with Candies before we do something…. a reward some will say. Why should I Sign up with this ISP and not another? The competition for new subscribers continue while they fight to retain existing ones…….. Personally, I was hoping to get a “freebie” laptop at the Comex….. call me cheapo or whatever you want but if you do your maths,  subtract away the cost of the laptop and you basically only pay around 20 bucks a month. Than again there is the whole fighting thru the crowd to claim your “prize” menatlity going on,so in a dilemma I am. Guess I would have to go to the fair early on day 1 to get in and out ASAP .

Than again,all this would not have been an issue if the ISP would just give out these freebies on a more regular basis instead of waiting for the PC shows itself.

Shall remember to get some body armour and kneepads for the perilous journey to claim my ultimate prize….. a free laptop…lolx