Okay, I wish. Actually we'd sat through 40 minutes of bad traffic and Jack howling to get there. Hubby was grumpy by then and dropped me 10 minutes away so I had to wend through traffic to get to the convention hall (he was cheery after when the security guard opened up the car park for him).

OMG... the crowd. I had a headache just fighting my way through slow-moving people. Jack had fallen asleep in the Ergo and I had my hands out protecting him from being scratched by swinging cardboard boxes.

When I finally reached the fourth floor, I was going to faint at the sight of the crowd. I decided no trawling each aisle, as I would have usually done (even at 7 months I trawled and later got on my hands and knees and gleefully installed my and hubby's brand new DVD Writers).

This time I checked the map and evaded the crowd by walking outside before heading straight for the Lenovo exhibition. After all, I just wanted to "touch test" the Lenovo 3000 V100 which I had already decided to bite the bullet and buy if it passed the test.

This nice guy called Gary helped me out and noted how brave I was to bring my son along. I mumbled something about no babysitter before I began gleefully molesting the keyboard of the V100.

It was wonderfully light and the keyboard was heaven to touch. I did a cursory lookaround, drooled at the $2999 Thinkpad X (something) which was 1.65kg and oh, such a beauty. But it was way over my budget and... *okay stop thinking about it*.

Anyway, hubby caught up with us with my Mushroom Swiss burger and I told Gary okay after a little haggling. We went up to the special Lenovo area where they put together our package and freebies and paid $2148.

When we finally got home, I realised how much I've "lost it" when I remembered I forgot to ask Gary to throw in a mini Lenovo mouse. Ah well... my Mommy bear paw would probably be too big for it anyway *console self*.

Still, opening the freebies was sheer nirvana and the V100 runs like a dream. It's so beautiful I can't stop looking at it. Sigh...

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