I have to admit, I am not a shopping enthusiast! Except around the Christmas and Channukah holidays, I hate the parking problems, I don’t enjoy browsing aisle after aisle looking for something that would be honestly appreciated by Grandma or Uncle Arthur. I certainly do not like standing in line with inpatient people waiting for the lone employee to handle a complicated exchange. During the holidays, I enjoy strolling through stores just people watching, without being weighted down with packages. The experience for whatever reason puts me into a holiday emotional state, but I do my actual shopping and buying almost entirely online. That’s a practice I developed in the very early years of the Web.

Online shopping didn’t save my life all by itself. Just because I started using the Web before any of my friends, I still had to make the decisions. And then, around five years ago, or so, I discovered food.

That wasn’t very honestly phrased, because I discovered food when I was still an infant. But I didn’t discover food as a gift idea until recently. You see, at that time I received a gift basket full of hardly edible sausages, processed cheese spreads (mostly chemicals I think) and crackers that were about as crunchy as a rock. However, the poor quality of what passed as food in that gift turned out to be my inspiration. “What,” I thought, “If I had received genuinely good food?” How different that would have been, and how much I would have enjoyed it.

Since then, I have been busy conducting research (that’s just my word for “sampling”). I have found online vendors who offer genuine quality for about the same price that you can get that synthetic stuff at the mall. (You know the one I mean, but I’m not about to open myself to a libel or slander charge by naming the brand.) Just like the mall kiosks, the online shops handle all the shipping, gift cards, everything. I know that my gifts will be exceptionally pleasant surprises for all of my gift recipients.

The wide selection of quality gift foods available is truly remarkable. It ranges from live lobster dinners to a fruit basket; from cookie bouquets to live lobsters; from wine gift baskets to imported caviar or fine Wisconsin cheeses.

I do keep gift foods around the house, beautifully or cleverly arranged, for my guests who come to my house or for those whom I visit in person during those gift giving times. The Internet provides assistance to me even in these cases, because it is packed full of great ideas for arranging and wrapping gift food.

If you happen to see me strolling a store aisle with a huge smile on my face when everybody else seems frantic, you will now know my secret. But let’s keep it a secret from my Uncle Arthur.

Two weeks from now, my oldest son would leave the house and start staying in a dormitory for his college studies. It’s been his dream to enter into a medical school. After long years of waiting, his dream will come true. He had successfully passed his application for college. He was excited and was ready to enter his new school. As a proud and supportive parent, I do anything for my son to have a good college life.

When we received the good news that my son was able to pass the college application, we already started planning fir his career. We had a thanksgiving celebration wherein we invited some relatives and friends. We bought things that he needed for his studies. We thought we did and gave everything he needed but there’s one we forgot. My son requested us to give him a personal computer that he can use. The moment I heard it, a brilliant idea suddenly came in my mind. Instead of a desktop computer, I told him to buy him a netbook instead plus a printer. He asked me what’s the difference between a desktop computer and a netbook. I explained that he would need a device like a netbook which he cannot only use inside his room but also while in class. And since he’s taking up a medical course, a lot of classes involve a laboratory and off-campus sessions. My son agreed with us and I was glad he was convinced.

He let me pick the best netbook for him. Since childhood, my son always depends on me so he allowed me to select a netbook when he knew I could let him do that.

I looked one on the internet since I had no time to go to the stores. There was a wide variety of choices. I thought purchasing online would be easier. I had no idea how hard it was to choose the best one. As much as possible, I wouldn’t let my son feel disappointed. One long evening, I sat down in front of the computer to be able to find a netbook for him.

After several hours of reviewing specifications from various brands, I was able to discover the Samsung NC10-13B. This handy, revolutionary netbook has astonishing features. This Samsung NC10-13B is very helpful and effective to use because its captivating and high-performance structures were carefully designed. Made with a 10.1-inch widescreen display of a 104 x 600 pixel resolution, wide hard drive storage of 160 GB and an expandable 1 GB DDR2 RAM up to 2 GB, this netbook would be a perfect school mate for my son.

He would incredibly love to carry this 2.8 pounds netbook., equipped with a 6-cell lithium-ion battery, he would probably use it for up to six hours. There’s also a wireless connectivity available for internet access.

I thought this was the ideal netbook for my son so I ordered one the same evening. When the day the netbook arrived, I gave him the Samsung NC10-13B. He knew at that moment that he’s really ready to begin his college life.