I went to town today, had a nice long walk for about an hour while searching for the bank. And during this walk, I walked past 2 camera stores and I went in, to ask directions to the bank but ended up spending about 35 minutes in each. Nothing special in the first one, checked out the new Sony A700 and general new goods. The second one was more special. I spent quite some time drooling over the Canon 70-200 f/2.8, Canon 50mm f/1.4, the Sigma 50 - 500 and loads of more spectacular lenses. They weren’t too expensive but I wasn’t willing to spend more on my camera, atleast for a month or two. And then just as I was about to ask the directions to the bank, I spotted a woman buying a tripod and as expected I was slowly drawn towards it. It started off as an innocent enquiry of price, but then went on to a fully fledged discussing about tripods, heads and a lot more. The salesman was more than happy to bring out another of the tripod which the woman was buying, it was £60 and was good but not very sturdy. Noticing my look of concern, he showed me this amazing tripod which seemed like it would last my life and infact, it came with a lifetime guarantee. However, I didn’t like the pan-tilt head on it and was still leaning towards the other tripod for that reason. And then, the salesman brought out the god of tripod heads, it was just so amazing and perfect. The price, however, wasn’t perfect. The tripod and head together, came to a slightly expensive £180. I was about to take out my debit card but had to hold myself back and force myself to inform the salesman that it was a bit expensive for me but that I would definitely be back in the future to buy it.

I finally did find the bank and I spent hardly 20 minutes over there. I came back to the flat feeling slightly disappointed that I couldn’t buy the tripod but I had something to cheer me up. My new MP3 player had finally arrived and I was quite happy to see it.

Its nothing too fancy, manufactured by a company called Wharfedale, who specialize speakers and audio systems. Its tiny, one of the main reasons I bought it. I wanted something portable and simple and this fit the requirements perfectly. Its only 2GB, it cant store my entire music collection but is fine for everyday use. The headphones that came with were pretty much unusable. Luckily, I have a pair of excellent Sony Headphones.

University life is going on well, I handed in my first essay of the year today. Looking forward to the weekend.

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