July 1, Canada day, I went out and scrolled around.
First, I went to Calgary Tower. It was so high!! – not as high as Eiffel though. There was a layer of glass where you can actually stand on! The ground is 190m away from you, and the sight was superb! If you do not have acrophobia, I strongly recommend you standing onto the glass layer and then take a photo! Well, I confess that I did fear a bit at the very beginning, but after I stood "in the sky," I changed my mind. I enjoyed the "sky standing" a lot!
↑ Bird's-eye view from Calgary Tower
At the gift shop in the tower, there were lots of pretty and cute gifts. I bought a beaver for myself. It was too cute to say no to buy one~
Because it was Canada day, there were more people than usual in the street. The flowers were also very beautiful. However, I didn't find more flags as what I expected.
↑ It was so hard to find a Canada flag in the street. ^^;
Later, I scrolled around a few other places in downtown, and suddenly, I heard the melody of violin! There was a violinist was playing on the street. He played so nice, but when I got my camera ready to take a picture, he ended playing! I had such a bad luck! Yet, I still took a quick snap of him, just for my own memory. ^^;
↑ My belated snap of the violinist. ^^;
This was my first Canada day, and due to lack of pre-research, I missed some celebration viewing in a park. I will not miss it in the next year definitely!
In that morning, before I went out, I was browsing for a new netbook on Future Shop's website. I had located a few brands and netbooks including HP, Acer, Gateway, and msi. However, when I opened Best Buy's website and wanted to compare if they have the same machine for different prices, I suddenly noticed a netbook from Toshiba. Oh, god! That was exactly what I want! The battery was as good as the Sony Vaio W series, and the price is very affordable, which was 150 dollars cheaper than the Sony – the reason for me to browsing for a netbook but just go to the shop and buy a sony was the price. Good spec, good price, as a netbook, that Toshiba NB250 was perfect for me. Also, it is a Japanese brand (I have a strong fetish for Japanese computers, you see)!!
So I went to the store and touched it and felt it was really good for me. I finally decided to buy it. I didn't buy it on that day because I had already bought a lot of things. Maybe you would think things were just going normally: I go to the store in the next day and buy the netbook I like. But, what you would never known, in the evening, when I re-opened the web page for the Toshiba, they got it on sale and it was 30 dollars cheaper than what I saw in the morning!!! God! I was so lucky that I didn't buy it in the after noon!!
So, the fact was: I bought the Toshiba, which was on sale. I saved 30 dollars, and the money I paid includes tax equalled the amount I was supposed to pay without tax before it got on-sale. Good deal, indeed.
I know a netbook usually has poorer performance than real laptops and desktops, but so far, I am very satisfied by the performance of my Toshiba. As a netbook, it works so well! I gave the name "Glaston", which means "sound of glass" in German to my new little girl. I have configured most of things, and after that, I began to enjoy seeing its brand. "It would be very interesting if I call my future Shiba Inu (I want to keep a Shiba as a pet in future if I can) 'Toshiba'!" – I didn't know how come this thought popped up in my mind though.
It is Saturday night right now, after setting everything up, I'll be back to my student life tomorrow. I have to write my reading report for the Academic writing seminar first. ^^