[C'EST MOI]
living paradox. individualist with anarchistic tendencies.
eludes eminence but appreciates subtle recognition.
capricious yet dependable. clandestine and unfathomable.
cynical realist who succumbs to the occasional idealism.
[J'AIME]
music. films. feasting & drinking. team sports.
good company; family, friends and those who share similar interests.
Sunday, January 15, 2006
Extravagance and Mosaicity
I've morphed into a shopaholic overnight and it's taking a heavy toll on my credit card.
Went shopping for New Year clothes with Von yesterday afternoon and we spent loads on clothes just at Wisma and Ngee Ann City. Got a dress from m)phosis, a dress and top from Fashion Lab, a tube and cardigan from LVER, yet another tube from Joop... gosh, we were practically unstoppable; and to add fuel to our burning fire for more, there was an additional 15% off in most boutiques @ Wisma for UOB cardmembers, which numbed the pain of the gaping wound in our accounts.
My favourite buy of the day but now the question remains: will I have an occasion for this?
Whoops... It was like we were twirling in the centre of a raging storm - so insidiously destructive, yet almost impossible to get out of. Fortunately for our aching feet (we were walking for more than 7 hours, talk about needing exercise!) and our tormented cards, we managed to swallow hard and walk away from all the shops that screamed out "SALE" to us.
Just the night before, my mum and I attended a skincare workshop at a beauty centre at Middle Road. The company was promoting a range of skincare from France (but the name doesn't sound French at all) that they were distributing and I got to try the products while the beauticians demonstrated how they should be used.
It wasn't too bad an experience other than the fact that the entire course was conducted in Mandarin.
Then it was a pretty interesting sight; they showed real-life testimonies of bad skin turned good and fat people becoming skinny (they're BIG in the slimming business; more than 5 people I saw lost close to 10kg in less than 3 months and kept the weight off for years. They showed me the photos of their hey-days and I could only marvel at their 'achievement').
My mum bought the entire skincare range for me; a whooping $300++. It'd better be GOOD.
I was probably the youngest there and I sat around while the older women swarmed to the beauticians to enquire more about their products and their slimming programmes. There was a queue at the weighing machine and the body fat analyzer (which I tried before the workshop only to find out, to my dismay, that I've put on weight.... someone please tell me it's muscle mass?? haha...) and the high-pitched tattling around me only reminded me how tired I was.
I have been losing sleep the past few nights in hall. Not only are the tutorials starting to bug me and keep me away from my affair with my lovely bed, there seems to be an increase in night, no, early morning activities around the hall. Loud talking and tittering almost drove me crazy even till 4am in the mornings. Don't these people need sleep?!!!
Someone get me ear plugs.
To calm my irate temper, nothing could do better than good music and the bringer of good news says that the Mosaic Music festival is BACK! There's the Pat Metheny Trio (with Christian McBride!! I so wanna go and listen to him!) , Incognito with acid jazz, funk and soul and of course, UBlues, but it clashes with Incognito! Arghh, I wanna attend ALLLLLLLLL.... Can all the other audiophiles out there please stand up?
[Time of Confession] 6:58 PM 0 Wisecracks for Me
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