Today’s activity was to accompany my husband to go to the Computer Fair Market at Old Bus Depot in Kingston. When I say “accompany” , it means more like “passively getting involved”.

When we went out, there were big dark clouds over our heads, but I was sure my hubby couldn’t care less about the weather.He was so excited., which was shown in not such an obvious way that you can see from the surface. I can tell he was so looking forward to it and he seemed so calm but with a deep satisfaction underneath him when he entered the marquee.

He checked the stalls one by one carefully, taking his time looking at every little items displayed on the counters as if looking at the most fascinating things in the world. To me, most of the items looked ugly and serve no atheistic purpose at all, but hey, the look he had on his face looked familiar….That’s exactly How I spent my time at Spotlights I would never feel bored in there and I could stay there for a whole day.

But to be honest, comparing to Beijing Zhongguancun’s computer markets, both my husband and I knew that it was not even close to it . Last year when we were back for a holiday, he used to go to Zhongguancun everyday from 9 to 5 and took his lunch on the top floor in a food court, just as what those market stall owners do. He laughed at himself saying that he goes to work everyday. However, thinking of my poor husband has been living in a computer parts desert land for nearly two years, this market probably would keep him happy at least for a while.

Most of the stall owners are Chinese. You can see the extension of the Zhongguancun, but it was much smaller and shabbier, and the product range was less wider. My husband looked and looked, as if looking at his lovers, so did other people. Most of them were male, according to my observation, over 35 yo, bald or with very short hair, having excess fat on their tummies, dressed very casually and having the same kind of silly looking when they were looking at the items, just like my husband’s. My God, it was a marquee full of weird computer geeks and the proofs of very unhealthy lifestyle of having a life with computers.

I looked around. There were very few ladies that I can see in this place. But I found one, a girl in a pretty blue knit top, standing aside to a stall quietly holding her umbrella waiting, like a lost girl in a big forest. Aha, I was not alone…:-)