god i am PISSED OFF. i HATE it like nothing else when people tell me they'll go for something with me and then pull out at the last possible instant. it really really really annoys me.

what a magnificent ruination of a good day.

ikea in the morning with soph and kitson, and poor kitty got so bored that he told us he'd pay for lunch if we scooted out in 5 minutes. so we dropped everything and ran out of the crowd. except that we went back to finish shopping after lunch anyway, so he who had nothing else to do with his time came with, and ended up walking around with us for another hourish, and even pushing the trolley full of stuff. during which time even i got exhausted by the crowd and the labyrinth and the walking. thankfully my sandal broke only when we were standing at the cashier, no earlier or i'd have been walking around ikea-maze with a broken sandal. kitson's gotten generous and gentlemanly - he says it's cos he's in town only two months or so a year so he might as well be nice. and soph was like a kid in a candy shop or fao schwartz or something, completely blissfully in wonderland with all the beds and bookshelves and kitchen things and candlestands and bathroom things.

and then i came home exhausted, tried to watch some buffy but even too exhausted for that. it's been a long time since shopping exhausted me. i think it's the combination of crowd and labyrinth and bad choice of footwear. ikea on a public holiday is a bad place to be. lethal. but all in all that was a lot of fun, especially with the unbelievably euphoric sophie.

after falling asleep for what was supposed to be an hour-long nap, i woke up with a shock at 515 and panicked because i was supposed to meet shirin at 545. fashionably late, which was apt - i eventually got to taka at 615.

the show was much fun, fantastic clothes, fun sitting there and fashion-commentarying and celeb-watching and bitching about the ugly people in order to make ourselves feel better about the gorgeous ones. there was one model who was a recurring wardrobe malfunction. first her tube dress started falling off, though thankfully she was wearing a white tube underneath that looked quite normal, but she was trying to hold the dress up which kinda gave it away. and she nearly fell off her heels at one point and had to kneel down and fix them. then she was wearing a dress that was really flimsy at the chest, and as she was walking that typical scary bounce-bounce model strut, it blew wide open and her left boob was revealed in all its verysmall glory. boy, was she flat. but a nippleshow is quite appropriate for roberto cavalli anyway. he of the barely there africa prints. half his outfits either didn't really have a lower half or had a bikini for the top - which isn't outrageous by fashion standards really, but the crowd applauded only the skimpy outfits. but WOW cellulite-free asses and flab-free tummies. and the last roberto cavalli dress is one that i've seen worn by Eve to something. there was another model who tripped over her skirt several times, thankfully not falling but the look on her face was hilarious. there was another model who had a very normal amount of flesh and ass, compared to the rest of the models, and she gave me and shirin hope. especially because she modelled a very gorgeous aquamarine dress for chloe. and chloe in general is beautiful. and we spotted the direction of fashion for the singapore tourism board (who has a very covettable job but wayy too much eyeshadow), wong lilin (really pretty but her husband looked ever so bored), jacintha, keagan kang (really hot, this is the third time i've seen him in person and it never gets boring), robin leong (also quite hot but his accent always annoyed me and he was wearing a weird cap), and lots of dressed up socialites i've seen in Tatler, and some other people shirin spotted whose names i don't remember because i'm kinda hopeless with singapore celebrities. and there was this little girl in a really not-pretty outfit, sitting in the front row with all the important people. lucky twit.

after that, walked around The Link to try and figure out if any of the dresses might be attainable for prom or something. but they're all 4 figures, i shall have to do a lot of mummy-wheedling and even if she does agree, they all seem to be made for women 6 feet tall or something. the dresses are hung on the rack, their hems touch the floor and the collar area is above my head :( tried on a manish malhotra flapperish dress in very non-flapper colour swirls, it was a rather nice colour but the shape was kinda sack-y. natalie portman wore a white one like it by chloe to some premiere, with a brown belt, and it looked cool. but, well. natalie portman vs aparna.

and then the ferragamo shoe exhibition, which was disappointingly small, but quite interesting - shoes worn by marilyn monroe, judy garland, the maharani of cooch behar (which i think would be the mother or grandmother of maharani gayathri devi), rita hayworth, audrey hepburn, zhang ziyi. and their foot casts which are these wooden models of their feet. zhang ziyi has typically asian tiny feet and marilyn monroe had big feet.

and thennn wisma, where shirin left and i went to fcuk to try tops, and walked around a bit in warehouse and topshop before finally getting a cab back. and i'm all alone at home with the maid because the parents have gone for a concert after which they'll join my brother at some person's place for some dinner party that wouldn't interest me but i feel sad and alone and therefore am blogging in such copious detail.

but it's cathartic, blogging is. now i will finish watching the buffy ep i started this afternoon, and i'll go to sleep.