Gigabyte, Patriot, Zalman, Holiday Contests!

[usfs]

1978 - At time glorious soviet union was pride of all nations. I wanted a toy tank so I could pretend to be Russian commander squashing imperialist pig dogs. I asked my father for toy tank he told me "TOYS ARE FOR CAPITALS" then he signed me up for military. Such is life in soviet Russia.

 

[firebird]

Bah Humbug to Facebook! Shame on Tom's (again).

 

[aby geek]

though i am from india but we did celebrate christmas two three times just for fun and party. i dont remember my age but i tried to bake pastries on the first christmas i ever decided to celebrate,though they turned out to be goo balls lol but but everybody had a great laugh seeing me covered all over in the batter.

since then we just order pizza and eat muffins whenever whole family is present in the holidays.

 

[accolite]

Sorry I don't care to make a Facebook account, don't have, will never get one.
But here my most memorable christmas.

Well I remember the first Christmas back in Romania before we moved to the states I think it was 1986/87 not sure.
On Christmas eve my dad dressed up as Santa (in Europe Santa is a skinny old guy that looks almost like a old man in a Eskimo suit) and surprised us all that evening, We were all very excited because we heard of him coming and there he was holding a big bag of gifts and he greeted us all and passed out our gifts. I unknowingly didn't realize it was my dad but my older brothers though something was fishy. Anyway the old man passed out the gifts and everyone was happy and cheerful and at one point my brothers confronted him about his suit and somehow brushed them off and told my mom he had a gift for her so he gave her a wet one when my brothers saw that they jumped him and I guess my brothers saw who it was and let go so I guess us young one would not see it's him. So the old man left and my dad came home and we told him what happened he acted surprised and said if we go to sleep right away that the old man will come back and leave candy in our shoes while were asleep. (I know Europe culture is a little different instead of socks it's shoes)
So we woke up the next morning to find all our shoes stuff to the brim with Christmas candy, boy those were the good old days very happy times.

 

[xoier]

ZALMAN, PATRIOT, and GIGABYTE, The truth is i don't own any of your products... coz most of your products are expensive FOR ME... but i think the price speaks for your quality ( according to reviews )... I would be very much happy to own your products for FREE so I can enjoy it with my family. Merry Christmas...

 

[jancerny]

Hello, this is bad xmas, because I must work on mine bachelor thesis. No fun and to many learning.

 

[slugbug55]

My best memories of Christmas would have to be many moons ago when I was a kid. Video games and computers had not been invented yet and the big thing most kids wanted was a bicycle. My parents didn't have much money so my siblings and I knew not to expect much in the way of Christmas presents.

Well this one year we had the surprise of our young lives. We awoke Christmas morning to discover shiny new bicycles for each of us in the living room. My uncle had paid a visit the night before while we were sleeping and quietly dropped them off for us. I know my parents were as happy and as appreciative as we were. Too bad we had to wait 3 months for Winter to end before we could ride them.

 

[kureme]

Back in the day I played D2 straight through christmas and new years just because we were on christmas break and I didn't have to go to school.

 

[Guest]

Well, On my bday 12/12 I got a cake from walmart.
Me, My brother, My father, and my mother all got food poisoning from it the next day when we ate it on 12/13. How does a cake go bad after 1 day???? So we used up all the toilet paper from wiping ourselfs 10mins to a hour, as well as blowing our nose from puking and having puke come through our nose. we are still sick as well currently, but turns out it wasnt the cake theres a heavily stomache flu going around and we all caught it by coincidence and everyone at my mothers and fathers work all got sick and they told them, yea we thought it was a cake we got at walmart for our sons bday, wich let me remind you the cake they got me from walmart, me n my brother went there and threw up on their store and threw the cake at the building and ran like hell because we thought it was the cake.

I still do not trust the cake because maybe whoever made it had the virus and should not have been working. So now I dont want cake ever again on my bday.

THANKS WALMART YOU REALLY SATISFY UR FREAKING CUSTOMERS...

 

[corwinamber]

Well, the best Christmas was the first one with my wife as husband and wife. I had given up on finding love and now I can celebrate with her every year

 

[dermal_plating]

The most interesting christmas I've had was when I was 5 years old. I live in Australia, and our family went camping in the desert. While I was in the tent a meter long goanna (a large Australian lizard) came in through the flap and terrified me. I yelled at the top of my lungs and my father came running in to the tent, knocking over the gas cooker in the process. The cooker fell onto some dry grass and set it alight, and all of a sudden we had a small fire on our hands. My mother screamed, and my father, in the middle of saving me from the admittedly harmless lizard, was forced to run out and begin stamping out the fire. We had to inlist the help of several other campers and fortunately the blaze was extinguished before. In hindsight it was both traumatic and hilarious and the story is often told over christmas dinner.

 

[ag-williams]

Christmas for me was always about integrating my mom's Italian Christmas traditions with the more standard American traditions that we've all grown up with. In Italy, they have a "second" Christmas in the first week of January where a grandmotherly, Italian, female version of Santa comes and gives a second round of gifts to children.

Hurray for Toms Hardware and these other companies' efforts for continuing holiday giving!

 

[frrobin]

liked all the facebooks. Felicity

Xmas story. One year I went to the movies with my Bestfriend to see blackchristmas. Great to have the movies open on xmas. We were the only ones in the theater was great. Movie wasnt on the other hand. After we went home ate a bunch of candy, made ramen, stayed up all night and had a blast web surfing playing games, and watched tv. Best xmas.

 

[tehmasterer]

i would have to say the most memorable christmas story is when i drove down to my grandparents house like any other trip we all take but the twist to this was that i had forgotten to pack something so small yet so important. we get down there the first night and im wearing my contacts like any other normal day. that night i go to take them out and come to find that my contact solution is not in my bag. now mind you im about 15 when this happened so theres not driving to the store and im not sure why i didnt demand it from my parents. but i should have because what comes next was very foolish. i go to take out my contacts that night and find that all that my grandma has in the cupboard is "gas permeable contact solution". thats contact solution right? oh how wrong i was. i try to put them in the next morning and that for some reason it burned my eyes a little. me being still a little unknowing thought that my natural tears would make the burning go away. but in fact it did the opposite. after about an hour of my eyes feeling like they were on fire and not getting any better, i took them out of my eyes. this is when i get really scared because for the next two days i could not open my eyes for more than a few seconds. the miracle to all this is that on christmas morning i was able to open my eyes and enjoy christmas with the rest of my family.

 

[yizusc]

Well my best christmas eve was last year when i had my daughter in my arms a gift given from god, me and my wife were so happy that we completly forgot about party, but its gonna be awesome this year too because now my child its 1 year old and we are gonna party her bithday in company of my family, parents, friends and people that loves us.
now i am into trouble with my computer in some games that i play, like starcraft 2 and Call of duty black ops, and i decided to look for memory upgrade and i saw some patriot memory very cheap but i had some bills pending and the party expenses that i decided to step back, but i am very happy that i will win this contest , thank you in advance...
Merry Christmas everyone... and a happy 2011 new year.

 

[mac_angel]

I've already "liked" some of these on my facebook already.
Zalman, been a fan for a long time. I either use them or OCZ for CPU Coolers.
Gigabyte, sucks ass. Great products, but EXTREMELY bad customer support and service. I won't buy them again after my last run in.
Patriot, I have a lot of their products. USB sticks, MicroSD, and two SSDs in my one system. I'm looking at buying more SSDs over the holidays for my girlfriend's laptop and my server.

 

[mac_angel]

dammit, I just noticed the zalman laptop speakers. Those are sweet. I was trying to find something like that for my girlfriend's laptop, but I can't find anything like that in Canada

 

[coloradoleo76]

We used to have lots and lots of family and friends over for Christmas dinner. I distinctly recall as a small child taking a few drinks of wine from various glasses, and then falling asleep underneath the dining room table.

 

[zonik]

OK, here is my terrible (but with happy ending) Christmas chronicle.
Four years ago, on december 22, i had a terrible accident were i finished inside three cars at once (a huge crash).
According to my parents, i was in a coma until december 24, then i woke up, just at 0:00. The bigger gift i could receive on Christmas: the gift of life, and a family that was waiting so pacciently for my return.
Since then, the christmas is my favorite holiday.
I wish you a merry and healthy Christmas.

 

[nvarga]

My best Christmas was last year when my wife and me finally moved in in our new house. So we bought our own Christmas tree and all decorations. And then Santa brought us best Christmas gift ever - our little baby son

 

[liemfukliang]

I usually holiday in Idul Fitri, becouse I live in Indonesia. In Idul Fitri we take three day's holiday go to town near my home. Since we are not a rich guy, we only can holiday 4 days. 1 include Chinnese News Year. In Chrismast dan New year, sometimes if we have more money, we go holliday, if not just online at home finishing the download job. Today I just got home after got hospitalize from less trombosit (red blood cell). So this hear I can't go holiday.

I am also have difficulty in updateing PC because of same reason, money. My just updated pc is Athon II X4 640 with Gigabyte GA690 and 2 x 2 GB DDR2 800 local brand "V-GEN".

I really hope I can can win the contest for changing my holiday since I need recvery in home.

 

[sniper3000gt]

I must have been 10 or 12 at the time in the mid 90's, I can't remember but I don’t remember asking for anything for Christmas that year and still very happy with my still working NES. Granted i had a magazine large enough to keep the cartridge at just the right spot. (by the way SMB3 is still the best game ever) But when I opened a slightly larger box on Christmas morning, come to find it was a Playstation. I said thank you to my mom, and then ask “what do I do with it?” Like I said, I was still very happy with my NES and was more confused by this new chunk of hardware than anything else.
But I hooked it up to the old console TV and tried to play the demo disk with little luck. The TV was so old; it couldn’t handle the refresh rate! After a few weeks, I remember that there was another smaller, newer TV in the other room. After hooking it up and starting to play and get an idea what it was all about. Next thing I know it was 9 hours later and I had a blister on my thumb! I had to thank my mom again!

 

[CupoJoe]

It was a frustrating Christmas as a child; however, it's now one of my most fond memories. The Sega Dreamcast (best console EVER!) just came out and I wanted it bad. Christmas morning, to my surprise I unwrapped it as my first present! Best. Christmas. Ever... One problem, no games. I had a console and no games to play. It was torture. My parents forgot to get any games with it. For days I would turn the console on and just play around with the menu and settings (I even connected it to the internet). I received Sonic Adventure a few days later but it seemed like eternity. Looking back I loved that console even without games...

 

[petergibbons]

Most memorable Christmas:

The Christmas of 1989 ALL of my aunts, cousins, and uncles came to our house to visit and stay over the holiday break. Christmas Eve comes and goes and is very enjoyable... or so we thought. Long about midnight my stomach starts to rumble, and I made a mad dash for the bathroom; great seems as if a stomach bug has hit me! Not ore than 15 minutes later, one of my cousins gets up and vomits all over the kitchen floor. Continuing, my dad wakes up and is vomiting so hard I'm surprised his slippers didn't come up too. Still no longer than 10 minutes after that loveliness, my other cousin gets up and begins to vomit all over his sleeping bag. Soon my aunt, mom, and uncle are in on it too. A house with 3 bathrooms never felt so small. The culprit? The one relative who didn't stay... my aunt called later on saying she'd gotten sick and hoped we didn't get it. So for the next 6 hours, on the hour, there was a lovely chorus of people vomiting. ONE of my uncles did not get it -he stayed hiding in the basement acting like he was in a quarantine room and infected zombies were outside the door. Needless to say, that was NOT what we were hoping Santa would bring! Thankfully I got a Sega Genesis that year bundled with Altered Beast.

 

[shrapnel_indie]

UGH!!! There we go again with those ads taking over a web page thing again.


Anyway, My most memorable Christmas. It was after a divorce and some friends had me over for Christmas. It turned out to be a moving Christmas for me, as I wound up being a recipient of gifts. I guess it was only fair to be a recipient as I was a guest, spending Christmas with them, but I certainly wasn't expecting any, let alone receiving more than just one or two. Needless to say, it made what would have been a drab, lonely Christmas a happy occasion after such a horrible event.