Oh my, were you expecting I say something else? :o
At this moment, I am currently experiencing my first headache ever! You know, as opposed to my first headache since last week or something. But despite my head aching and all that jazz, I've - quite heroically - crawled towards my laptop and posted yet another entry (as promised). I don't know why but I honestly don't think I could live with myself until I waste another 5 or so minutes of your life reading this. :)
So what was it that took my headache virginity?
The Easter Show ride and show bag guide in the Sunday Telegraph today.
Yes, I lost my headache-virginity to an Easter show guide. '_' *poker face* And yes, it was very painful.
Okay, so I've only been to the Easter show once before, when I was a baby, but I don't count that as actually going because I have no memories of it. I, however, do have photographic evidence of me with my chubby cheeks and wide open eyes proving that I was actually there once upon a time. And that my parents were actually once cool.
As a result, ever since I could remember, I'd read and re-read (to the point of obsession) the guide every year that it was released and dreamt of going again one day: riding all the rides and buying all the show bags. This year was a little different (evident by the headache). I came upon a revelation, which I admit that people have been repeatedly telling me for years but I've chosen to ignore till now.
Show bags are a rip off.
<= Look how happy these kids are, if you ever want happiness in your life, you must buy these show bags or you'll end up a sad, old person with only cats to keep you company. Yay for consumerism! :D
They suck you in with "It's worth $1234 but you only have to pay $20!". If it's too good to be true, it is. I mean, I was tempted to buy the Batman themed ones but restrained myself. Let me tell you what show bags really contain:
- Chocolates and candy that cost about $1 to mass-produce and are sold for $10. Ironically, they all have the "not for individual sale" label on them, despite the fact that they are often sold individually.
- Bags/backpacks/messenger bags/totes that are not only poor-quality, but you will probably never use them in your life. I'm guilty of owning some of these bags. :(
- Toys which are not only amusing for about 2 minutes at most but will break easily, if not instantly, and can be bought for 50c-$2 at Cabbramatta (yes, we Asians make that crap and you buy it - so who's more stupid now huh?).
- Packaging. Lots of it.
- Coupons which you can either get from the actual website instead of buying the show bags, or require you to first buy something. Remember, nothing is free. Except me, I'm free this Easter, wanna hang? ;D
- Product advertising on EVERYTHING you receive. I mean seriously, it's not really a good deal to get a laptop case if it has the brand name ALL OVER IT - especially if the brand is something boring.
- Passing fads. However, there doesn't seem to be any twilight or vampire/werewolf show bags (which is a shame because there will be about a billion tweens/ single-middle-aged-women-with-very-loud-biological-clocks there who will gladly pay $40 for a pencil case with Jacobs nipple on it). On another note, anyone want to help out in my twilight merchandise stall? We'll be billionaires by the time Easter is over. All thanks to Jacob's nipples.
I'm laughing right now because some people probably paid $30 to see any of the twilight movies in 3D (instead of pirating it) and all they probably could think of while watching the shirtless scenes was "his nipple is the size of my head on this screen O_o". Some other show bags that even I would consider buying, that I think they should consider introducing into the arena include:
- The Big Bang Theory themed bags
- Chuck themed bags
- Star Wars themed bags
- Naruto/popular Japanese anime/Pokemon themed bags
- Geeky/cute/cute-geeky themed bags
These would sell so quickly, it's ridiculous.
All joking aside though, I'm sure Twilight and the Easter show have their pluses and minuses and I'm not saying anything is bad or that you shouldn't go/watch it/etc. Unless you're an impulse buyer like me, in which case I'd like to suggest you avoid it like the plague. D:
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