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2009.07.02 - San Francisco (part 4)

June 26, 2009 Fri

Watching some interesting TV programs on KCSM, or American Public Television, around 6am. American TV programs are generally better produced than the Japanese ones. Even the silliest of them are kind of informative, and the best ones are pretty educational. This program I saw on KCSM covered stories of kids in Afghanistan, Brazil, Japan and other countries who face difficulties in receiving education in various reasons - political, economical, etc. I don't watch TV in Japan, the reason being it's kind of time-wasting. But I wouldn't mind watching TV in America.

Went to Best Buy at 2675 Geary Boulevard around 10:30. There are two Best Buys in SF, and I was told the other one is kind of "tricky to get to". Saw an eMachine laptop (2.6GB AMD Athlon CPU, 1GB RAM, 14inch display with 1200x800 resolution) for $319, which is a pretty good deal in Japanese standard, but it turned out that it was the one that had been on the shelf and the California law would add $15 for purchase of electronic devices, and the total cost after the 9.5% tax would be $383.84. I didn't buy it.

Went to Gap around 12:00. Bought $119 worth of cloths, including original khakis($48.73 after tax, which is a $32 saving versus the Japan price). There were denim pants on sale, for $19.99 each, which I bet would be sold for more than $50 in Tokyo.

I needed to buy a computer keyboard. Because I never like the ones sold in Japan - the ones with those Hiragana-characters on. So I went to Office Depot near Market/3rd and found the exact keyboard I wanted (Logitech Classic 200). Best Buy didn't have it. This is probably the only thing which cost more in the U.S. than in Japan of all I bought during the trip. The Japanese version of Classic 200 are a couple dollars less, but again, they have two characters on one key - an English alphabet and a Japanese Hiragana letter - and I don't like that busy look.

Had Vietnamese food with Audri and Angela around 13:30. Audri is a friend of mine I met while she was staying in her host family's house in Japan. Her host mother was my Ukulele student. And Angela is her sister. I had awesome seafood noodle-soup, and we all had good food. It was a Vietnamese restaurant near Howard/6th, on the south side of the Howard. (Next)

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