School starts at 10 in the morning today, but I was there 15 minutes earlier. Why? To grab a copy of a book called iGenetics which the school bookshop only has 30 of them in stock. This book cost S$49.50, and I consider it to be quite a bargain. The price has been inflated to a staggering S$130. I saw the exact same copy at Kinokuniya(1) priced at S$143 about 2 weeks ago with Benedict! The distributor sends in 30 books as an introductory offer I think. There are more than 50 students interested in this book.
I did get the book. Pei Shan got hers too, before 10 in the morning too. Ben got his too, but after 3 in the afternoon! I shouldn’t be so kiasu(2) after all. I am glad that I’ve got that book (and a good bargain). I hope it’ll spur much interest in the field of Genetics for me. I am having trouble being interested in genetics stuff. I hope this book can be a motivation factor.
I am quite hesitant buying a text book on Web Design though. It cost S$45. No discounts. Quite expensive actually. Considering that the web is ever-changing, such a purchase seems to be not that worth it. At least science doesn’t change that ridiculously. The web is change instantly (although with backward compatibility) when those W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) guys have their annual meeting. I think their favourite word in the dictionary is “deprecate”. Duh..
1) Kinokuniya is a Japanese bookstore. I think it is currently the largest book store in Singapore, overtaking Borders in terms of size.
2) Kiasu is literally means afraid to lose in the Hokkien dialect. It is used as an adjective in local (Singapore) English, better known as “Singlish”, which is a local variant for English. “Kiasu” is used to refer to a person who is afraid to lose out to others.
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