Buying drum stick from ... Best Buy!?

I was pretty shocked this morning when I went to BestBuy and find out that they started selling musical instrument at the store. So I had sometime having fun messing with some electronic drum sets, keyboards and synthesizer. I was impressed by the amount of professional gear in the store, and even start to have desire I buy some stuff. Fortunately my self control kicked in, and as the result I only brought a pair of drumset from BestBuy.

I talked to the sales person and he told me that they just start selling musical instrument like 3 weeks ago, the time when I was still in Hong Kong. Amazing.

There were some keyboards that really impressed me, some of specifically designed for DJ in dance club. I found it so much fun to play with them. In fact, I spent always an hour there playing around. After I left the area, I started thinking, why was I so excited since a lot of these features are actually available in my home studio with Sonar 7. Then I realized the reason why it's so much fun to play at the store than at home: the sense of impulsiveness and instantaneous. When I play instruments at home I have to spend some time to set things up. But in the store I can just walk over to the gear, mess with it, and if I don't like it, I can just leave. There's no consequence, responsibility or any work associated with setting things up. You just play and that it. Man, things are always more fun if there's no consequence and responsibility >:-}

Back to my trip to Best Buy. The main reason why I went to Galleria Best Buy was because I saw from BestBuy.com, after a search, that MSI Wind is avaialble for pick up at the store. Imagine my surprise when I talked to the sales person and he told me that "no, the Eee PC is the only Netbook that we have". I told him about the BestBuy web site, and he still insisted that they don't have MSI Wind. I was like, fine. After all, I was just put myself into temptation, and try to see if the gear was avaialble at the store. I would be in much better trouble if the actually HAVE MSI Wind at the store for me to play with.

Next I went to check out speaker and boombox and see if there's any device that allows me to hook up with my other non iPod gear and still portable enough to carry around in single hand. I couldn't find any.

So at the end, I leave the store with only a pair of drum stick. Still, it was a nice visit.