Training in the morning was as usual - people running their guts out while I sit sedentary in the shade of the building studying the properties of various molecules wishing that I could be out there running my guts out as well. I am growing fat, and I need exercise.

After training though, we went off for lunch and then to the highly-anticipated (to me, anyway) IT fair, which turned out to be a letdown after all. So this is an outline of how the very disappointing fair went:

- Leeqi and I go round the hall collecting various brochures for laptops, declining every offer to explain the details to us. Having worked there myself, I know they only smoke you into buying things, and I refused to be conned.

- I scour the place looking for an attractive laptop case, only to realize that -- there are NONE.

- I stop to look at earphones, only to realize that they were phony (ooh phony earphones, I am punny) and the salesperson was trying to smoke me into buying them. NOT YOUR LUCKY DAY DUDE, this is how the conversation went:

Salesperson: These are original larh, they took the original and go and make, so is original like apple one.

(I look at the price. 1 for $6, 2 for $10. I wasn't born yesterday.)

Me: No, they're not.

Salesperson: Really original.

(At this point I examine the earphones and conclude that they are indeed different from the original.)

Me: (scoffs) No, they're not!

- I walk around the fair and subsequently Funan Centre for more than 6 hours, and all I purchased was one USB Card Reader.

And this is what I conclude: I am fickle.