Books from Borders!

Yay!

Borders had a 30% promotions on full-priced books over the weekend!? G-A-W-D!

Without much hesitation I cut out my first coupon that appeared on Saturday's Straits Times and almost rushed down to Orchard to grab my book. The promotion's real clever, as they only allow 30% off only one book for each transaction. So to get 3 books at 30% off, one will have to queue 3 times. Although I only had a coupon (and a loooong reading list), I thought I'd better run down and get it before everything gets snatched up (so typically the kiasu Singaporean). However I met KH before going and he was keen to drop by too, so we decided to wait till Tuesday which was the Hari Raya public holiday and we'd grab 'em together.

So he had a coupon and I had one too. However to my surprise Monday came and the coupon appeared in the newspaper Today! Gosh, Today's the free small newspaper so I immediately thought of collecting as many coupons as I could! MDL was so cool and helped me in my quest by asking around the office (after all I am still pretty unsociable) and she got me a whopping 3 coupons. WOW~! I couldn't spot my usual lunch kaki YK around (he told me today he had lunch with his wife that day) so I took the big dive and sacrificed my lunch to grab books! I was really glad I went, 'cos within an hour I managed to queue 3 times (with 3 books, of course), something which I would definitely be unable to pull off if I had waited till yesterday when I bought my fourth book with KH.

So what are the books I've bought? Those I've mentioned earlier, namely:

• The Game
• Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
• Cashflow Quadrant
• How to Win Friends and Influence People

Quite heavy on self-help there. It was pretty embarrassing when I tried to find The Game, 'cos I couldn't find it in the self help section and had to queue up at the information counter. There was this guy standing in front of me asking for the same book as well! With a surprise the information guy ushered us... towards the sex section where the book is. Awfully embarrassing, but since I've eyed for the book for quite some time I took a fresh copy without much hesitation and walked away, leaving the other guy standing around and browsing...

So here we have it - 4 books?! Goodness! A total of around $50 bucks, yikes!