But!!!

At the moment I have about 100 piggies (credits in US$) in Lomography’s website and just when I was hoping they’ll launch a new Diana F+ clone so I can happily use the piggies to pay for my purchase … out comes a brand new Diana F+ clone called ‘Aviator’!!!! But … BUT!!! BUT!!!! … it ain’t sold in Lomography’s website!!! Damn!!! It’s another exclusive edition made just for Urban Outfitters (the earlier one being the ‘Dreamer’)!!! Argh!!! I so want this Aviator (I’m sure you ain’t surprised) and … arghhhh!!!! Luckily a friend is planning to order some cool headphone from Urban Outfitters and maybe I can share shipping with him … but!! but!!! but he is trying to make me buy a cool headphone too!!! I’m dead meat!!!

I want this!

but I love this too!

The postman arrived at my office with a pretty big box today and when I saw it .. I went ‘Whoa! Who sent me goodies?!!’. From far, I saw there is a DSLR printed on top of the box and heartbeat accelerated … ‘Is that a camera??!!!’. Nah! Not! I held the box and it was very light. So what on earth is in it? Opening it up … I almost fainted.

In it is actually the ‘goodie bag’ that I was supposed to received then I signed up for the Olympus eClub thingie recently. When I bought my E-P1, I was told that I can redeem an extra battery from Olympus but on one condition … I had to sign up with their eClub thingie that promises some privileges etc for S$45. Huh? I wasn’t really interested. I had to pay S$45 to join the club but after doing some math … a brand new battery will cost around S$80 to S$90 … and if I go for this ‘offer’, I’ll just end up paying around half the price of it. Hmm … so I drove all the way to their Olympus Studio and signed up … collected the battery and forgot all about it (the eClub thingie).

What’s in the ‘goodie bag’? See this …

Amazing ain’t it? No … not the content. It’s the box! The size of the box! Why would they use such a big box to package these stuffs? I’m sure a box of half (or even small) the size can fit these stuffs well. Why waste? Guess someone in their office must not be too environment friendly or cost effective eh?

11 Comments

  1. @Jer : Of course you can buy too. I read the terms & conditions in UO and they didn’t say you can’t buy. 😀

  2. that clone is looking a bit lazy on LSI’s part. no new colors, it just looks like they stuck the edelwise and the normal together and said “hey, we could sell that 65 bucks”.

  3. @Wilfrid : Maybe that’s true. Hahaha!

    @Diesel : I don’t think the body is white. It is maybe a little similar to the Dreamer version’s color … just a bit lighter. As for the top … yeah … from the photo it does look like the normal version’s color.

  4. @tesa : You can order it from UrbanOutfitters.com … If you are from Singapore, you can try check with ThirtySix (at Sunshine Plaza). They have some of the headphones but not sure about this orange one. Let them know and they might be able to bring it in for you. Too bad you mentioned too late because I gave mine away to a good buddy’s daughter because the headphones were a little too small for my (darn) big head.

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