Of Recto Book struggle

It was actually my first time to go to Recto by myself and buy the books I need and I realized a lot of things already. One, I thought it was Saturday or Sunday and wondered why there are so many students from U-belt. Hahaha~! Shopping books at Recto on weekdays is like entering a battlefield. You have the entire U-belt as your enemy. Nevertheless, I tried getting these books and I know this will surely sound geeky and nerdy for some of you but here they are:

1. Electronic Devices and Circuit Analysis and Design (I don’t have the book right now, it’s on my shelf and I don’t know if I got the title right but still, it’s the book required on our ELC 107 subject)

2. Digital Design

3. Mechanical Engineering : Thermodynamics

4.Elements of Engineering : Electromagnetics

The first book was somewhere in the middle of “Easy to find” and “Rare”. There’s one at the very first bookstore I visit everytime I go to Recto but a batchmate of mine bought the last in stock. I saw one in another store which I would probably not visit them because of their very demanding prices….and I hate their fat faces too. The second one was easy to find though the stock is few, got one in the first bookstore I visit. The third book, it had its publisher’s store nearby, told by that batchmate of mine and bought one there instead in National Bookstore which had at least ten to twenty peso price difference. Then the fourth one… hahahah, this is the most difficult book to find. Few of my batchmates went there before and they didn’t see the book, even a second hand one. Those batchmates of mine searching with me that day was also having a difficult time searching the book and ended up searching for Philo books. I went on with searching and had the “underground” or “hidden” bookshops as my last resort. Happily, one guy brought out the book and gave me a discount for it. I asked him if there’s any hope of finding one or few more units but unfortunately, the copy I’m holding was the only one he had in his stash. If only there are more units available, I would have chased the people I’m searching with to tell them they can get the book from this particular store.

It was a tough day. Tiring, really… It left me having a headache the whole afternoon. I was suppose to visit Trinoma afterwards but because I’m sooooo tired (and there’s the fact that it was actually SALE in Trinoma meaning it’s crowded), I decided not to go instead. I decided to rest for the remaining hours of afternoon.