Pencil Shavings

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Shoot, where are my shoes?

I have new shoes, but dang it! I miss my old pair. Where are they? Ppppth.

Anyway, I bought a new pair of Asics yesterday evening from Queensway. It looks like this (I am too depressed to take a real picture of the shoes):



The shoes are great though -- I hardly felt them in my run yesterday evening. The store I usually patronise (with the lousy service and good price) actually sold out of the Asics GT-2110, so I tried on the Asics 1110 instead, but it just wasn't as good. Am glad that at least one of the stores had the Asics GT-2110 in stock.

Did you know that Queensway is now fixed-price? I paid about $20 more for my pair of shoes than I did last year, because apparently a new agent has taken over and has decreed that shoes can only be given a maximum of 25% discount. Pppth. Considering that I paid $20 more for the last pair than for the previous pair, and $20 more now for this pair than the lost pair, I would have to conclude that PRICES ARE SKYROCKETING!

Good thing I don't have a gym membership.

I was tempted to get the Mizuno Wave Inspire instead because of the 30% discount for Mizuno Wave Run participants, but it worked out to be only a $20 difference between something I love and trust, and something I'm not too sure about. The Mizuno was okay, but it wasn't the kind of shoe that made you exclaim, "Sweet! You are mine! It's a deal!" the moment you put them on.

I think I will go broke by twenty dollar bills.

5 comments:

colinrt said...

darn... that's no good... fixing prices, i mean...

where do you normally go for your track shoe needs? am in the market to buy a pair... not for running, mind you... just for walking...

any suggestions?

colinrt said...

meanwhile, here's a poster i made for your missing shoes...

you may use it in a reward poster if you want... ;-)

colinrt said...

http://static.flickr.com/45/177423256_fcecc3ee3f_o.gif

oops... too fast with the trigger finger...

mis_nomer said...

You are good, you know? :) What do you use? Photoshop?

Queensway has the best prices (and worst service) still I think. Not as cheap as before, but you'll still enjoy a savings of $40 or so.

colinrt said...

*blush* thanks... yeah, i exclusively use Photoshop... i think layers are the best invention since fire... and Alt-Ctrl Z is simply unbelievable...

the rest of the photoshoppers at Fark.com are incredible... so fast... i take quite some time to come up with my ideas... if you like, you can drop by my flicker account where i keep my contributions to Fark.com:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11193724@N00/

Be warned tho... some stuff are pretty irreverent - in keeping with the tone of the Fark community... apols in advance if i inadvertantly hurt your sensibilities...

re: shoes... hmmm.. may swing by Queensway this weekend then...