I wrote how I busted my camera in the last post, and while hopefully it'll be fixed when I'm back home in December, I still need something to document my time here. So, on Saturday I went off to the Electronics Market in Beijing. I've written about the other markets in Beijing - how you are expected to bargain - but the EM was something else. I don't know pricing of electronics here, so I was pretty much flying blind. It was INTENSE!
Apparently not a lot of Foreigners (read: white people) go here, so as soon as I walked in I was being pulled in multiple directions. Physically. Not like, "Oh! Look at that hot pink camera!" but "OW! Take your damn hands off of me!" physical. And while this goes without saying, I'll say it anyway: No one spoke English. Obvi.
So I started to bargain, and the moral of the story is that I got a new Canon A470 for 900 kuai, which is pretty good, 'cause that's the same price that the Chinese people were paying for it. Woo-hoo. The one bad thing: everything is in Chinese on the camera. Like...all of the menu options. Crap.
The next thing I set off to buy was a portable DVD player. Why a portable DVD player, you ask? Well...despite my computer being a
relatively new model, it doesn't have a DVD player. (Thanks, Dad...). So I purchased this:
Yes, that is the Devil Wears Prada on the screen, btw. (The DVD sellers are back, now that the Olympics are over. Woo-hoooo!!!) It's about the size of a CD player, with a screen in the center. It's pretty ballin'.
The down side to this item: it's not really portable. It needs to be plugged into a power source all the time. Crap x's 2.
The other photo is that of the market...I don't know what floor. They all started to blur together after the first hour and a half.
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