to vaio or not to vaio, that is the question!

Van Bangkok-April2009

To vaio? What does that mean? hehe! It means that my Sony Vaio (having problems from the early beginning) finally got a repair here in the Sony Repair Center in Bangkok! It wasn't easy though: we went there at 10 a.m., and we came back at 4 p.m. .... that's 6 hours of going there and coming back, and waiting inbetween, and testing the repair of that moment, and sending it back to further repair. But it was quite interesting. Not only we saw (and chatted with) so many people who had problems with their vaio computer (fortunately all solved on the spot, though not necessarily cheap! e.g. the guy who had the screen replaced for 29.000 bath ....) but we also had a stroll in the nearby area, visiting the very cheap neighbourhoods in wooden houses on the slopes of the river, built on standing still water, a perfect place to breed mosquitos and other unpleasant environmental aspects, with narrow streets and remarquably clean and not smelly at all!
The Sony Center is next to the ItaloBuilding on the New Petchbury Road, all the taxidrivers know that landmark.

In the Sony Center, a cute caucasian guy approached me, asking if I were a tourist or a resident there ... because he's tired of teaching English, and he's searching for someone who can hire him at a very cheap rate ... it's crisis indeed, when even the caucasians start to sell themselves cheap ...

On the Sony building, there is quite a huge pond with extremely huge fishes ... so everybody who's waiting for a repair and who wants to have a smoke, pops outside and sits there ... excellent stuff to make pictures :-)

But I'm still not convinced if Sony is such a good brand for computers, given the endless stream of problems and defaults, rolling in there ... then again, what brand is problemfree?

While sitting in the lounge here, enjoying our evening snacks & drinks, A.P. popped in at yahoo. We agreed upon a parcel of land to be bought in the Phils, but suddenly all the preparations go about something totally different, where it is clear that the seller is trying to mislead him (and me) and tries to sell the less valuable land at the given price. That is so unfair, I hate those kinds of so called misunderstandings. We agree upon a given solution, and at the end something totally different pops up, clearly in our financial disadvantage. Why do some people keep on thinking that we're tourists, and thus stupid? My confidence is this seller is completely gone, and I was quite disappointed in A.P. ... how can he defend his rights when even beforehand he admits to be the looser?

Anyway, in a couple of days we're out of Asia, and back in the harsh jungle of good old Europe, where liars and thieves are daily meals :-)

And now, let's jump into the single malt :-)

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