With 2 more days for the unveil of the new iPad 2, there's lots of speculation of what's the next iPad gonna be, trust me, i've read it all, trying to cope with waiting, waiting hurts, and what hurts more than waiting? waiting more, cause even when they unveil the new iPad at San Francisco, it's not like you're gonna get it right away, you have to wait more? how much longer? i don't know how much, but the last iPad takes 2 months to arrive on our shore.
*This Event Occured 2 Days Ago.
After failing to get an iPad on the Authorized Reseller store, we went to search for some more, so we went to Centre Point where my dad says he saw em' selling, well for the first moment, there was none, well there was but they don't have stock, same story as the so called Authorized Reseller, how can you be an Authorized Reseller when you don't even have the stuff? you should be called Authorized Liar, wow, i sound mad.. haha..
There were no stock in store, okay maybe there is, but it's a 3G model which is friggin expensive to begin with, we we're actually only looking for the starter model, but they all sold out, can you believe that? with all the pads,slate,tablet,netbook, the iPad sold out, i'm not trying to brag here, but what the hell?
Looking around while i lost track of my mother, my dad's always complaining about her cellphone not having batteries to call, so yeah at that misfortunate event, we lost track of her, it's not really her problem, but my dad walks so friggin fast it's like he's being chased by a ghost or maybe someone running in a marathon. Jokes aside, we went on the ground floor, surprisingly, even Cellphones shop sells iPad, but the first shop we went to only sells iPad 3G, and he made this joke about when people were searching for the 3G model it sold out and only left the wi-fi model, and when we search for it, the wi-fi model was sold out and only the 3G model was left for selling, hmm ironic.. NOT.
Then we went to the other store which kinda struck my eye for a little bit and also the sales woman was pretty i guess, but she doesn't really know anything, can't blame her, she's selling mobiles, not iPads, but she has a pretty face, i can still remember it, so white, kinda powdery, i guess she wears make up, and her hair, push back so long, and she wears this dress that over coats her white shirt, wow i just describe a woman, anyway, we asked her lots of question about the iPad but she doesn't seem to get it and only says yeah, yeah, yeah, the thing about strucking my eyes were the model and the price of the iPad, it was a 64GB model which originally cost like RM 2149, yeah i remembered the price, it's actually easy to remember the price okay bare with me here.
the iPad 16GB wi-fi model cost for RM 1549, to know the 32GB price, you have to add exactly RM 300
so it's RM 1549
+RM 300
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RM 1849 = iPad 32GB
so it makes sense that the 64GB price would be RM 2149, but it sells for RM1999, then finally, kinda like the store manager came in and finally, someone who actually knows something about the stuff, but kinda prefer the girl, cause i like looking at her, EHEMmm... okay enough about girls, so talking bout the iPad, my dad was trying to get discounts, so the final price was RM1950 which is still pretty cheap compare to the original price, but a lil bit expensive compared to the smallest capacity available, but still at RM1950 my dad was still asking for discount, okay let's do math more.
RM2149
-RM1950
_______
RM 199 = total my dad save from buying the iPad
yeah, but even that cheap, i was still raising questions, is it fake?, is it faulty?, is it used? i don't know, but so far i tried it, and it connects to iTunes, it's working perfectly, Used? i'm not sure if you can restore to how it first operates, cause when you turned on the iPad in the beginning, it can't really work cause you have to connect to iTunes to activate it, which is what i saw when he turned on the iPad, in all words, it's perfect, but i don't know why they're selling it that cheap and it's killing me, for the longest time that i have lived, this is what i learned from Apple stuff, their stuff is friggin expensive, maybe good, annually they will release a new model of the product and the old product would cost less than before.
Everything was okay and my dad was ready to pay for the iPad, gladly handing the guy his credit card, then just a few moments later the guy said, "I'm sorry Sir, but your card has been declined, do you have any other cards?, okay i'm not trying to embarrassed my dad or anything, then the guy called the bank to ask bout the card and have a really long conversation to my dad about his card, at first i thought he was using a HTC phone, cause the back was all black and there's no Apple logo, but then, i looked at the bottom of the phone which was actually the iPhone 4, cause i can recognize the troubled surrounding antenna. And my dad knew that his card was insufficient to make the purchase, but not to worry, i was actually worried, are we not gonna buy the iPad now?, are we gonna get our ass kicked? cause he already put on the screen protector which cost for 30 bucks which he gives us free, then my dad out of nowhere whip out a load of cash from his lower pocket.
This is actually the second time i saw my dad whip out that much cash in his hands, the first time was when he was buying a Canon projector, i remembered it like it was yesterday, my dad brings me to this place, i seriously didn't know that he was gonna buy a projector, but he bought a laptop and a CD, then he talked to the guy, i can't really remember what he said to the guy, but then the guy bought in a projector and set it up in a desk, then he plugged in my dad's laptop as he put in the CD, the CD was a movie entitled The Matrix:Reloaded, yeah, but then my dad liked it and he bought it, whipping 5 grand to the guy, what the hell? how you get that much money? you're jobless, again not trying to embarrassed my dad, but he was actually recently departed from his job, he tooked the VSS cause the place he worked in was trying to cut people off, so there were two choices, either he took the VSS or continue working but unknown to where he would be put, like it could be all the was in the west, so i guess he was just trying to enjoy his life a little bit, he worked for 20 years and stop for 7 years, and his trying to find a job now, hope he gets it, with his problem with uncontrollable buying, hey i stopped buying, kinda like a sacrifice but i don't really mind.
Then we bought the iPad, holding it in a Nokia Bag, told ya' it was a cellphone shop, then we went back, but just outside, my dad called my uncle to tell him bout the recent purchase, but ironically, he told us that my mother was waiting at the car, you know, bout we losing track of her.
And we went back, oh wait we went to Mint restaurant, which is Peppermint which i used to remembered it, it's a Vietnamese Chicken Rice Restaurant, yeah, but i was actually full that day so i only drank Iced Milo.
That was a lot of things, and a lot of sub stories, so i'm gonna stop now, so tune in next post for "Before You Get An iPad", i learned the hard way that owning an iPad is a pain, so i'm gonna talk bout that next time.
Thanks for reading!
