My life almost ended a few days ago. My internet connection died out on me and caused me to live in agony for three days. Three freaking days. Do you know how it felt like?

Terrible! It was as if I had lost a cause to live!

But at least it gave me a reason to pay a nearby wet market a visit. I brought my camera with me too.



The first is my first visit in more than almost five years. Fun. It wasn't too smelly as I had imagined it before. Well, I'm not being truthful about the fun part. I mean, it's fun seeing economics at work.

In one case, there were two traders and each was selling the same good - noodle packs. However, price was dissimilar and I saw most people went for the cheaper ones. It's cool seeing competition at work and knowing that rudimentary economics work. It's weird however that the undercut trader never really reduced her price.

And somehow, price ceilings enforced by the government were never observed because the market prices seemed lower. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

Anyway, in the picture, the guy is selling coconut milk. Behind him a huge stock of coconuts.

And alright. I lied. The photo was taken a few days earlier before my connection went kaput. Instead, I spent the whole three days trying to figure out what was wrong. I disabled the network card, re-enabled it, uninstalled it, re-installed it, power cycled it, hammer'd it, unscrewed and re-unscrewed it and then finally calling for tech support. And damn, tech support was damn stubborn. At least, he was polite.

I told him the possible source and he wouldn't listen! He kept suggesting steps that I should take that I had taken! Bah!