I didn't know buying an Iphone and a bottle of Wine were this difficult!

Yes, its been a good week overall.

The highlight of the week was the weekend , where i had to buy an iphone and a bottle of Wine for two different people.

The iphone request came in earlier in the week from one of my friend , he wanted a 16 GB black Iphone 4 , i promised i'll buy him little did i realize that i would run pillar to post to get it.

On a gloomy saturday morning , i went to the Apple showroom to buy one, only to be said that i had to reserve a phone before i can buy it. The reservation can only be done on a daily basis , so we cannot reserve in advance , hang on doesn't reserve mean booking in advance ? Yes, that's correct , however Apple being Apple , have their own way . You can only reserve a product for purchase later in the same day but not advance book it for subsequent days.

Such a misery. So i checked if i can reserve one for later in the day , alas i couldn't there were no stock left. tried reserving it in other Apple stores but in vain.

I went shop after shop, went into all retail mobile phone shops, searched each and every mobile carrier and all i got was , either it was sold only in contract i.e. you could buy the phone only if you also take a connection for a minimum of twelve months or there was no stock left.

I walked the length and breadth of a major street , after two hours , i just ran out of gas and my mind wasn't thinking.

I went to the ISCKON temple , not to pray but to have a sumptuous vegetarian meal. After the meal , my instincts kicked in and i thought there must be one shop that should sell this product.

My friend was in another country and i was buying for him , so i had to update him as well, in comes Twitter as i posted real time updates . He was aghast that i couldn't buy one for him.

As luck would have it , there was one small shop (of course a store of a major carrier) which had stock of the phone. The lady in the counter said , sir you can only buy he phone with a pre-paid top up , i didn't mind it so long as i was able to buy it.

Hurray , finally i bought the Iphone and was so elated as if i was buying it for me. This was Saturday.

Come Sunday , i had been invited to my colleagues house for Lunch , i had no idea what to buy.

I had seen in lot of TV programmes that giving liquor as a gift is quite common and was thought to be appropriate, i thought to myself buying a liquor should be easy and let me follow that route.

Little did i realize that if i had to buy some thing , i had to know about what am buying. Me being tee-toddler had no idea about wine or champagne.

All i knew was Bordeaux wine , however i stood in dismay looking at shelves of Wine bottles without knowing what meant what. There was Chabalis, Sparkling wines, red wines , the list was endless. Enter the all important skill that defines us Humans , not intelligence but speeech. I asked around on how to select a good wine for the occasion and in came help via a lady who came to my rescue in the shop, she explained the culture and adviced that i buy red wine, also explaining why it was the most appropriate.

She helped me pick up a bottle of wine from the scores that were available , finally i had managed to buy it , i bought a shiraz wine, was a south australian 2009 wine.

The above is what i ended up buying.

What a week!

Take Care.