While most people are excited when thanksgiving comes, I dreaded it. I just dislike waking up before the sunrises, decking out in the cold to queue up and trying to “snatch” stuffs that I don’t really need but just because it’s cheap!
This year, there isn’t anything on my mind that I am set to buy so we decided to “earn” money instead of spending it. Ever year, the Base Exchange (BX) here will give out a $20 gift card to the first 100 customers for consecutive 4 days (23rd to 26th).
For the first night, we started to queue at 3.30am as the BX is opened at 7.00am. As it’s the day before Thanksgiving, so there isn’t many people as the ang mohs are busy preparing for their Thanksgiving dinner. We managed to be the first 30 people. After that, we went home to sleep and later that night had our Thanksgiving dinner at Black Angus (a restaurant famous for their steaks) with some of our friends. After that, we decided to go home and rest before queuing at BX again. We had different people queuing at different stores so as to maximize our chances of getting some computer/electronic stuffs that Jason wants. Before we can really go to sleep, we got a call from Aaron asking us to come down soon as the queue at BX is getting longer. So instead of queuing at 1.00am, we went there at 12.00am. We are still within the first 50 people but we queue for almost 5 hours before BX was opened.
On the third day, we started to queue even earlier – at 11.30pm. Our sleep became so disrupted where we slept in the days and stay awake in the nights. This time, the time seems to past very slowly. Maybe it’s really cold and we are all shivering. We queue for 5 ½ hours, after that as usual we went back to sleep. 
For the last day, we anticipate that there were be more people than the last 3 days. So we start to queue at 11.00pm. We waited for 9 hours in the cold before BX opened at 8.00am. Arrgh…it’s the longest hours of my life (not even this long when queuing for Hello Kitty)! Since I didn’t buy anything for the past 3 days, we shopped a bit. Jason bought an Oakley sunglass and I bought a game cube game. We didn’t use up our gift card but we can save them for a later date. After breakfast, we hit the sacks straight away to replenish all the sleepless nights.
Although we didn’t have a fantastic time this Thanksgiving, we are $160 richer….kaching! Thanks god that this is our last Thanksgiving this time round.
The queue for the last day
The gang that stay awake for 4 consecutive nights
See....how cold we are
Sign of victory...we finally braced through it!
p/s: As my computer crashes during Thanksgiving, all the photos for the first 3 days are gone! So what you see here is just the photos for the last day.
