i have been blogging very little lately, and it's bad because now i can't remember anything that happened last tuesday, and normally if i couldn't remember i would've gone to my blog to see what i'd said and therefore reconstruct the day for myself, but i have been grossly remiss in not blogging about tuesday. or wednesday or thursday or friday or saturday or sunday or monday or tuesday.

tuesday will come back to me eventually. and this will be a post full of bimbotic nonsense because little other than shopping has been on my mind and wallet of late. it goes backwards from today, by the way.

meanwhile, today:
i shall mostly ignore school bits because school's irritating and boring most of the time. my grades have been completely stagnant and p.urvis hasn't even started marking lit and i have this premonition that my lit grade will be an absolute screwup.

after school: lunch at dome cafe in paragon with shirin and daph. was nice catching up with daph =] have barely seen her in probably half a year or something.

and then shopping. which is what i've been doing in excess for the past week or so. ugh. heeren, because shirin wanted to get her cornflakes tee from queen's couture, except it was gone. and then she tried a fruit loops one but the colour wasn't great, and then she tried a very sweet pink one but it was $65 and she didn't think it was worth it.

then i went down to get my alias dvds back from kitson. he was wearing the jeans and shoes i chose for him! am so proud of self. next order of business, i told him, was to get him a nicer bag. maybe i'll find him one for his birthday. which thankfully is far away in december so i can think about that shopping without guilt.

we walked around for ages. i got shirin her present - a pair of very very shiny sandals, i think they're rather lovely :) and she got me havaianas. well. she paid for half of it because it was quite expensive. i had no idea havaianas were expensive. i thought they were just flip-flops. after that we walked around and saw plenty of brandless flip-flops in the $7 range and i felt bad, but my label-whoriness kept me happy, i think. actually not really. am feeling quite shitty about spending so much moneyyy.

and plus after walking around for ages and shirin buying lots of things to make up for her lack of expenditure last week, we went into this newly opened store that i'd wanted to go into since we'd arrived and that we SHOULD have gone into when we arrived, because it had the most beautiful leather belts in the world!!!!!! no, really. they were gorgeously carved. ok that sounds really strange, but basically the leather was cut out in a design. but then i forgot to bring enough money today, and shirin didn't have enough either and daph only had enough for her belt and her cards weren't working so shirin and i reserved our belts and we're going back tomorrow.
actually shirin had rp money with her, which she realised much later. we could've used that first and paid it back later, because both of us have cash at home :(:(:( sigh.

now i'll go back tomorrow and i'll see something else i want to spend money on. i already saw this very cute paul smith make-up case which could be used as pencil-case, because my current ralph lauren one which is also supposed to be a cosmetics case, is about 6 years old and while it's still in pretty good shape and i still love it, i would like a new one. ugh. maybe i should wait till the end of the year.
oh yay shirin just told me she went back and picked up the belts.
oh and my mom bought me a cute blue tank today, with beads around the collar. will go nicely with white trousers.

and today i went running for the first time since saturday. overcame the laziness, finally.

also, my mother informed me that my brother's classmate, sam, who came over this afternoon, was here because he wanted to meet my brother's friend from rgs who lives nearby and plays football with all the boys who live around here. apparently she's a fantastic goalie, and evidently sam is a very desperate little boy.

i am amused.

yesterday:
school was boring. after school i came home. i slept. i did homework. slept again.

monday:
school. then borders with kelly, where i picked up Love in the Time of Cholera. stupidly, i started reading it and am absorbed in it although it's a translation and therefore of no use for S paper and i had this promise to myself that until the end of the year i wouldn't read anything that isn't S paper useful.

sunday:
mostly useless day, but the evening was extremely wonderful because i finally went to buy jeans. the a\x jeans i tried on friday, which are not really in the same league as the sevens, the citizens and the paperdenimcloths, but are very nice and anyway i told myself i'll save money and lose weight for a pair of uber-designer jeans after As. maybe i'll just buy a pair in the US or something. they're cheaper there. anyway. went with mom to pick up the jeans. and she found them rather cheap so tried to buy me another pair, except i didn't want two pairs of the same jeans and anyway they didn't have two in my size, so i got a gorgeousss pair of tan cords. and then mango had a 70% sale so i got an orange sweater. didn't find a nice belt though, but of course i've found my dream belt now and will possess it tomorrow when shirin passes it to me and i pay her.

saturday:
was the UGH day. dad wanted to take us for lunch at some fusion place called Indinine at suntec. so we were driving there, when we saw a bunch of tanks rolling down nicoll highway. that was the omen. because. ALL the roads around suntec were blocked off! my dad tried three different routes to get to suntec, but there were guards standing around and roads blocked off everywhere! i don't think it was war or anything -- it didn't look panicky and emergency-like and the tanks were moving slowly, but maybe tanks move slowly even in war. but anyway it was bizarre and i still have no idea why the roads were blocked. and the traffic was crawling, of course, so basically we spent about an hour and a half trying to get to suntec, all in vain. and we finally gave up and ate at some little place near serangoon, which was just boring indian food and not particularly fantastic at that. ugh.

and then the party at night. which i'd been looking fwd to. but was quite terrible. for various reasons that i can't/won't recount here. have ranted enough to the appropriate people anyway =D

friday:
oooh friday was good. after school, went shopping with shirin. i bought cute butterfly earrings at j8, because i wanted new earrings for school. and i also got a little white badge with a black cupid on it, for my black bag with all the badges on it. (am about to go off on tangent). i'm still searching for the badges i collected when i was young. i want to put some more on the bag. sigh. the black bag that used to be my Black Bag has become my Badge Bag. and the only other black bag i have is a miniscule, rather formal one. i need another black bag. god. despite having about 40 bags i seem to never have enough. ok so i only use about 12 of those on a somewhat regular basis. i need to springclean my wardrobe.

heeren. haha it's my latest shopping place. it's so good! we've spent two afternoons there in the past week and i still haven't seen all the stores. and it's so refreshing compared to the usual topshop/mango/zara/fcuk/yadayadayada. i got a really really cute blue cookie monster Junk Food tee, a pair of beautiful chandelier earrings at Flowers in the Attic (love that store), a plain black tee, a bunch of hair things.

paragon -- tried jeans at calvin klein, armani exchange and miss sixty. decided that armani exchange was the nicest and decided to come back with the Maternal Unit with the Credit Card (see sunday).

then dinnered at coffee club express. food was good, but omg the service SUCKED. they took about 20 minutes to bring my soup, which was absolutely cold. and then they heated it and it was very good, and after i'd finished it they brought the prata wrap. which was good too. but normally coffee club express is really Express! what happened?

i also went to borders to pre-order TWO copies of harry potter for my brother. technically, one's for me. but it was my brother's idea to be extravagant, i swear! because he doesn't want to have to share the book with me - he wants to read it as soon as he gets it. anyway, i'm not really complaining because i like having my own book too, and it would be hypocritical of me to condemn extravagance. ah well.

it was lots of fun.

Thursday:
soph's birthday!
school kelly, soph and i were going to meet kitson at ikea and treat soph to a birthday spree at her favourite store. but then before leaving she went to change, changed about 6 times without satisfying either kelly or me, so we decided she needed a trip to orchard instead =] kitson was therefore asked to come to orchard mrt instead, and when we reached we kindly informed him that we were going clothes shopping. he grimaced and so on, but it was a cleverly-done fait accompli; by that time he could not escape. hahahaha.

in any case the boy had been instructed by his mother to get himself some decent shoes, so while kelly and soph browsed in forever21 i dragged kitson to the nearest shoe store, beetlebug, which actually has rather nice shoes, and made him buy a pair with which he promised he would NOT wear socks!!! they're nice versatile shoes -- sporty but in a dark colour, and i think they're leather, so they can be worn with trousers as well. unlike those strange adidas things he used to wear.

and then to forever21, where we bought soph a halter. and i bought two pairs of earrings. f21 has fantastic earrings. last year they didn't, but sometime at the beginning of june i bought three pairs of earrings there upon realising that they have fantastically cheap yet lovely earrings. oh before that we'd bought soph a very hot tank at j8 as well. and then charles&keith, where we bought soph a pair of sort-of kitten heels. quite cute, and useful, i think =]

then topman, because kitson also needed new jeans. i chose him a pair, which he liked, but refused to buy right then because he wanted to come back or something. but today was evidence that he did get them, and i think my choice was a very good one because he looked good in them and chose a decent shirt to go with it too :) oh there was a funny moment when we were looking for the right size for him and i said something like "kitson, what's your length? ..... i did NOT just say that!"

thenn we walked around, soph and kitson watched me stop and look at various items of clothing etc. i made my first sighting of the paul smith cosmetics case but didn't consider buying it because my week-long shopping frenzy hadn't quite begun yet. i hope that by abstaining from orchard altogether for a while, i can get my finances back in order.

dinner at marche. great food and hilarious conversations about everything from the possible ways to stash a hundred million bucks in a secret offshore bank account, to lesbian porn. and soph has the strangest ideas. for lack of energy now, and lack of memory, i cannot detail everything she said but basically she would get caught very easily in the event that she needs to get rid of a 100 million bucks quickly. therefore kitson and i have pledged our help in such an event. and of course soph will be easily fooled into pouring a percentage into our pockets. oh, and soph on Why Lesbian Porn is Hotter Than Gay Porn: "women are meant to have sex. men are meant to be construction workers in jeans." i take the remark kindof out of context, but it's hilarious nevertheless.

and something else she said, i can't remember why but i've saved it in my phone: "lobsters are like prawns! they look like big prawns! don't they?" it's not so funny anymore, sigh. but atleast if i lose my phone i'll have recorded some stuff here.

oh i also saved this, from an fcuk t-shirt: "sex is like snow. you never know how many inches you'll get or how long it'll last." cute, no?

then kelly, sonia, timyap and other people from their church were there for someone's farewell party. talked to them a bit, then left.

kitson was very gentlemanly :) i asked him to walk me to the bus-stop - he whined a bit then ended up walking me, except the bus-stop was gone! the one on orchard link or whatever, behind cine next to taka. they've blocked off the whole road for construction. then he walked me most of the way to the orchard boulevard bus-stop, although there's no footpath to get these and we walked some of the way on the road. it was fun though. wouldn't have been fun if i'd done it alone, what with buses roaring past and missing us by inches. traffic is so scary.

i had loads and loads of fun on thursday. except for the fact that while standing on the bus home there was an annoying guy invading my personal space and jostling against me although there was a decent amount of space between him and the PDA-ing couple on the other side. eurgh.

wednesday:
was, annoyingly, monday's timetable. which meant pe, but skipping pe in usual fashion meant a nice catch-up with nasty who has an ankle problem from running away from a cockroach! but i will not mock it because a) she wasn't actually doing the running away, she was dragged away and caught her foot in a hole or something, b) her ankle was really in pretty bad shape and being subjected to acupuncture etc and c) i totally understand, because a couple of years ago i ran away from a gigantic moth, tripped over the edge of the marble floor that goes into my room, banged my knee on the marble edge and had a swollen knee for a week. so i think i've had the stupider, though the somewhat less painful of the injuries. i have a history of embarrassing injuries, like tripping down the metal stairs from the specs gal last year, right before 2.4, and rising with a magnificently bleeding knee.

anyway, school ended at 2 because GP was cancelled for the class due to our good grades, so nasty and my catch-up session resumed after school when we had a magnificent lunch at the marmalade pantry. the penne with fresh pesto tomato & grilled butternut was heavenly. i lovelovelove cherry tomatoes in pesto sauce, and those cherry tomatoes were really fantastically done. and we had the wild mushroom spinach & truffle oil tart (haha i'm getting all the names right because they have a menu on their website, www.themarmaladepantry.com) and chocolate truffle for dessert. that was the same as the chocolate truffle at Toast, only a slightly more generous slice, and i'm not very impressed by the truffle at Toast so the dessert was the only disappointing bit. i want to go back and try more stuff. the online menu seems to have a decent vegetarian selection, and even if it didn't i would go back just for the penne pesto. and of course the company was great, very long chat =)

and then we went to look at Inhabit. it's not a very impressive store. I checked out the Botkier bags which are very hot among American fashionistas right now, and they have a very nice one in pale yellow, there's another nice-ish one in white, but the gold details make it look a little cheap, and all of the bags have metal studs which aren't very nice. they didn't have the suede Botkiers i've seen online that are a lot prettier. the jeans variety was also pretty limited. i'm hoping Blackjack's better.

and then we went to borders because nasty wanted to get a copy of W with the 60-page angelina and brad feature. wheelock was supremely crowded, and we realised it was because of neil gaiman! until then both of us had been under the impression that that was at kino, but apparently he'd been at kino on tuesday and it was borders on wednesday or something. daph, chit, andi, claud, claud's friend, kitson etc were there. tried to help them take pictures of the man, but horrible people shooed me away and scolded me although as far as i could tell i wasn't holding up a queue or human traffic or anything.

and then i went home.

and i still can't remember last tuesday, and monday i blogged so here, roughly, ends this post.

it's been a good past week. now i'm feeling guilty. i have shopped a LOT and i still can't stop thinking of things i want. (eg new black bag, slouchy boots etc etc etc.)
WOW what a fabulously long post.