Techno Mart

I had my first Techno Mart experience today and must say it was a bit mind boggling.

First, it's 9 floors of electronics. Anything and everything you could ever hope for. I had a camera and phone on my list of things to get. One of my co-workers offered to come along to help me out. I said that I might just go to see what they have first and compare prices and then go back when I made a choice, but he informed me that that's not how it works. This place is 9 floors of individual counters run by different people and each one selling anything you want within a certain genre. You go in knowing what you want and what it should cost and then you check around at a few of the counters to see who has the best price. Nothing is set either. Plenty of bargaining can also be done. I do not understand how everyone in this place can be making any money...but I guess it works.

I ended up with a Nikon D40 (anyone who knows cameras knows that this is an old model, but it's cheaper and perfect for a beginner SLR photographer like me) and cell phone. It's like Christmas!!!

One hilarious anecdote...(at least I find it hilarious)...while we were setting up our cell phones (Maranda and I did it at the same time) the sales man was talking with Chris. For some reason he asked how old we were. He then processed to turn to Chris and say something while gesturing at what I thought were his eyebrows. He kept talking while squinting his entire face in an extremely exaggerated way and then patted his forehead. He pointed at me and then did it again. Then he stated that Korean girls do not have this. Now at the time I took this to mean he was saying that I had deep wrinkles in my forehead and that Korean woman my age do not. It is possible that he just meant that white women speak with more expression in our faces. No matter what, it was a very entertaining trying to figure out what he was trying to tell us.