Monday, March 03, 2008
MARATHON SHOPPING TRIP with Yuwen last friday -29feb...
A special day in 4 years..
The mrt trains are so crowded on a weekday afternoon, it's weird.. and there's people around holding flowers.. Guess it's also a special occasion for couples to celebrate together?
Shopped till i 'dropped' that day.. it's not that i spent a lot that day, it's just that i walked a lot till my legs ached..
From White Sands to Orchard Far East Plaza, Wisma Atria, Suntec City to Citylink & Marina Square, to Vivocity, then Bugis Junction. ALL IN A DAY! We had been to every single popular shopping mall/area in Singapore that i can think of. 不累才怪!
At noon, we went to the photostickers shop in White Sands, wanted to take photostickers at the cheapest machine in there $3, the shop's having promotion, so all the prices are comparatively cheaper than the town outlets. Took 3 times with Ida in 2 days.. haha maybe the guy working in the shop thought both of us are crazy over this. Went with Yuwen 1 week later, the machine is spoilt or something.. haiz.. and Yuwen complained that her newly-trimmed fringe looks weird, but i find it ok. Looks like a doll mah.. Cute~
So we took pics of each other in there using YW's camera... the green background looks so bright & cheery.. i like!
When shopping in Far East Plaza, i havent been there for months!!!
Spent quite a lot of time there, wanted to find the shop that Ida told her about but we combed the entire top storey & still couldnt find it =x
Stumbled upon a Paper People shop which sells nicely printed notebooks with their own in-house designs, i couldnt resist the temptation & bought 2 hot-pink notebooks =)
I dont know why, but i'm falling in love with the colour pink (*o*)
Saw a Newbie black jacket with a nice hot pink prints hoodie, liked it so much, but it's only available in S size, weird la! The store doesnt make girls' M size. Well not all girls are so small size one what.. Hmph! Then the guys' version of jackets (green instead of hot pink prints) isn't available in S size. Newbie and its weird sizing system~
But that design is selling so well that there isnt any stocks left for the black jacket with green prints, so i didnt buy it.
Then went Wisma Atria's Topshop, YW's fav place.. haha.. she has got Topshop shoes, dress...
Whereas the poor Cloud don't have any cos she's too poor to buy the expensive clothes & shoes there.
Went Suntec City for Career Fair, my mum wanted me to go, so i 'psycho' YW to accompany me there... Nothing much, just private institutions offering expensive courses & degrees and overseas universities setting up booths. Went to check out the SIM university, but it's more expensive than NUS NTU.. Hmm.. It's more affordable than going overseas.. yeah.. we just breezed past those 'Study in Europe' booths.. No $$$ don't bother to check out.. sure get either heart attack or heartache. Or worse, get both... heart attack cos the costs are sky-high (when can i get hold of so much $ to study & live there? unless strike 4D, Toto & Singapore Sweep) give me heartache upon knowing the interesting experience of studying abroad that i'd be missing out.
Went to Marina Square Newbie outlet to check if there's any last pieces left for the black jacket since we are near that area. Sighes.. don't have..
Yuwen thought of exchanging her n.u.m. bag again cos it's peeling yet again. That bag's so expensive yet lousy. It's not the first time YW complained about it.. haha.. Went to CityLink outlet, after calling his superior, the salesmen allowed 1-for-1 exchange even without receipt. Cool! Yw wanted to change her blue-black bag to a milky white one of a diff design. The salesman who looked vaguely familiar to me (like my sec sch tuition classmate or something)assured her that the leather-like exterior won't peel. He said 'this one is the new design, UPGRADE le, sure won't peel one' LOL. he's funny la.. When Yw asked what time the outlet closes, he said '5' then the salesman with a shorter version of S'pore Idol Paul Twohill's hair began laughing uncontrollably. We were like thinking 'Hur? You're saying it closes at 5pm when we are standing in the shop at 6+pm??' Realising his mistake, he said slowly 'Today is friday hor, hmm.. we close at _pm' (by now, i'd forgotten what's the time he said)
But Yw found that the last piece of the white bag is a lil dirty, so she wanted to go another outlet to get a new one. So 2 of the salespersonnel started calling & calling other branches while 1 (the cute one) stood at the cashier counter to slack. He grinned sheepishly in reply to the salesman with a shorter Paul Twohill type of hairstyle, who called him a slacker. He's slacking & he knows it. Turned out that only the Vivocity outlet has stocks. Yw wanted me to accompany her there *faints*
I wanted her to give me a dinner treat, if not i won't go Vivocity =p
And she did (yeah! thanks girl!) dinner at Carl's Junior in Vivocity. We shared a Charbroiled Santa Fe Combo, half a small burger each haha.. it just tasted so nice!!!!! I love the free flow of drinks there too.
Exchanging her bag at the Vivocity outlet proved much more difficult, cos their superior's (they call him IC) not around so they told us to come back later. (there's no such thing called mobile phone?) However the i/c of the store was reluctant to let Yw exchange without receipt, until Yw said the Citylink branch do allow exchange, then he relented. Ahh.. finally she got her wish~
I sat in the store to rest my tired legs while waiting for yw, i began to wonder where's the need to employ 5 salespersonnel to man that not-so-big store? The smaller branch at CityLink has 3 salespersonnel, so the cute one can afford to slack around. For eye candy perhaps? haha.. have you ever wondered why num only employs guys and not girls? And they sort of have a reputation of being good looking? Lol..
Lastly, we went to Bugis, it's already past 930pm, the Newbie store there was already closed =x
Me and the jacket 没有缘ah!
Of course we cant go back empty handed.. we took pictures in Bugis Junction~
Surprised to find a cardboard cutout of L outside 77th street. Quickly took picture before the shop closes..
Wow! So pink~~~Helped Yw carry the num gigantic paperbag which contains not her new bag, but the paper bag of materials i'd gotten from the Career Fair.
Tickling Big ape^^ 
Our favourite! Mirrors!~ 
yunn. at 9:26 PM