daylight robbery on orchard road..

the price u pay for being flustered and unprepared....

*sigh* i resent buying textbooks that i koe i will hardly make use of.. and then comes the time when online material proves to be unhelpful and the paper is jus 24 hours away. *darn* so i retreat into the bright lit basement shop at lucky plaza.. the undaunting lights clipping my common sense. i am informed of the unearthly price, 20 cents per page, and still i agree.. not knowing that i was to pay $10 for 3 chapters of notes.. *sigh* penny wise pound foolish.. you tell me... 8 chapters of my work wld have cost me a mere 4 bucks if not less.. had it been bought in sch.. and had i headed down to middle road.. it wld have cost me jus $0.03 a page..

the shop assistant embarks on her long story in attempt to pacify my bewildered look.. ' the shop rent is high mah.. here in orchard so velly expensive lor.. ' well *curse*oh.. u dun have chain shops for nothing yah?!?! wad ever happen to consumers rights and attracting, retaining and cultivating closer customer relationships?.. at this day and age.. Accessibility and convience shld outplay cost effects! and here i was paying 7 times more just because i was located in town.. outrightly, one of the more expensive plots of land in singapore..and heaven forbid at that very moment, i needed a copy of notes. Had i physically been at ang mo kio or toa payoh.. i bet my last bottom dollar, it wld have been a mere $1.50. even a mrt trip down to one of the neighbouring neighbourhoods and back to do the deed wld have created less of a hole in my pocket. the way i look at it now.. I can fit my whole right hand in. *sigh* and the irony of it all?.... i photocopied notes on ecommerce, chap 6 dealing with business to customer work ethics... how to appeal to customers by reducing product lines to deliver products and services at lower rates.. *WTF*

*sigh* $10... daylight robbery in town.. or jus plain stupidity?... you decide... and do me a favour.. dun tell me.. *sob*

so.. armed wid my costly notes.. i begin my studying for tml's paper.. alrite u, quit laughing.. and return off your laptop.. i bet your day will come.. and when it does.. haha.. bet u will remember your laughing at me.