i have Shopped. a really cute fitted white shirt from topshop, victorianish with slightly puffy shoulders and 3/4 sleeves and buttons all the way down the front. and it looked very good with a pair of slouchy jeans they had. i think i'll go back for the slouchy jeans on thursday. i reserved them and i got some 20% discount voucher. if i'm feeling rich i might also pick up a couple of colourful tanks. topshop tanks are super comfy. anyway i'm a bit upset because the shirt doesn't really work with anything besides that pair of jeans! it does work with my fcuk cords but i'm getting very sick of those cords and i'm also pissed off because when i got the length of the cords altered, they cut it too short so it looks weird with heels. i am terribly frustrated.

oh also, the slouchy jeans looked great from the front but a bit weird at the back. all my jeans are like that. actually i think it's because of my XXL ass. even more frustrating. no matter how much i run (not that much, really, lazy pig that i am) my butt stays the same size. probably gets bigger. i hope i'm just having a fat day.

i also got me another junkfood tee. this one's just plain white with a big junkfood logo on it. i think i might've bought that just for the sake of buying another junkfood tee but i love the feel and fit of junkfood tees and i'm a big fan of white tees so it's a good investment, i'm pretty sure. and then i headed to the really cheap accessories store and picked up a braided white belt. and the cool thing is it's got the buckles, plus it's long enough that after the buckle i have to do something with it, so if i want i can do that twisty-belt thing they've been doing on the runways.

queen's couture also had a yellow sesame street junkfood tee which made me very happy but chit said it was too bright. i don't know why everyone thinks yellow a bright, ugly colour. yellow's a nice colour, most of the time. unless beyonce (or was it sheryl crow? i cannot remember) wears a bright yellow dress with a big hole in it, that looks like someone took a bit out of a banana with the skin on. ew. anyway if i'm not buying those slouchy jeans i might get that tee as well. but i think i might exchange the white shirt for the slouchy jeans. that might make sense. and then there are those heels at wheelock that i was coveting. i could actually buy the jeans and the tee and the heels and keep the white shirt as well, but then i will be quite wiped out. confusion confusion.

this is a Major Decision i must ponder over. there is also the cream knitted headband i saw at the accessories store, but i think i'd prefer a black one. and there's the I Love Me lipbalm at qc, but i'm quite sure it's not going to be better than my kiehl's lipbalm, just prettier and funnier. and then there is the fact that i don't exactly need another pair of jeans, and i'd prefer slouchy trousers to slouchy jeans but i didn't see any slouchy trousers. maybe i should go visit BCBG. they haven't exactly done fantastic trousers lately, though. which reminds me i have a ton of runway photos i am too lazy to put up. aquascutum to tuleh. about 60 pictures.

despite the few nice pieces in topshop, and some very cute coats and amusing runway rip-offs, it is largely ragged-chic, if it can even be called chic. there was a grey miniskirt with wonderful satin ruching at the hip, but the majority of the skirt consisted of grey rags. and weird tops with bits hanging everywhere. and lots of beyond-ugly boots.

i feel quite guilty cos i shopped so much and chit bought nothing except lunch for both of us. and i had to loan 50 from her for the junkfood tee because i didn't take enough cash with me. there are so many reasons to get a Nets card but it would become useless too soon because i'd just spendspendspend.

oh and another peeve -- coffee club express. the place has totally gone down the drain. i was wondering why there were so few people there today, because during RG days on our regular coffee club jaunts the place was usually quite full around lunchtime on weekdays, but evidently i am not the only person who has noticed the totally shitty service and food. the last time i was there, in july, they gave me cold soup and an annoyed look when i told them to heat it up. and my prata wrap was burnt and rubbery.

this time, the soup was the only thing that tasted ok, although it was completely messy with soup spilt all over the plate underneath and the tissue when they brought it to us. and the prata wraps have shrunk so much! the price is still the same, though. and still rubbery and lukewarm. and they said they'd bring me my cake later, but they didn't and they were all congregated behind the counter not looking at the customers at all until i caught one of their eye and tried to wave him over, but he waved me over instead! and i went and asked for my cake and for two seconds they gave me blank looks until the guy who'd taken my order said "Oh yeah, cake!" and i returned to my seat. and then a few minutes later a guy turns up with the cake, and bangs it down on the table sullenly and practically drops the forks on the table from where he was standing (it was one of those low tables inside the round place). and the cake tasted like it had been made three weeks ago.

i am not exaggerating. chit was equally displeased, though less vocal about it. and nasty agrees with me that the place sucks. i filled out a feedback form, in fact, and wrote that i used to be a regular there some time ago, but that i'm not ever coming back. please boycott coffee club express so that the wisma branch shuts down and something fantastic replaces it.

another annoying place is o'briens at jelita. their hummus wrap is cold and horrible-tasting and the service sucks as well. there are very few places these days with good service. i think i have inherited my dad's peeve about restaurant service. he gets into really bad moods when service is less than perfect.

must stop eating so much and save money for more useful things, considering the dearth of good places to eat. Cream Bistro the other day was decent, though i only tried the soup. hm. oh and it was entertaining because one of the waiters was incredibly weird. his legs were really really really skinny and he had such tight jeans i bet they were girl jeans. and a tight deep maroon shirt. it was amusing, to say the least.

oh and chit -- despite the bad food etc, thank you for lunch, and for the 50. thursday or friday, i promise!

ew i hate doing shout-out thingys. so pretentious and girly. but it's probably easier to contact chit by blog than by phone or msn something. she is one of the most hard-to-contact people in the world, and if she's asleep she will never ever hear the phone. i wish i could sleep like that. i always wake up when the phone rings and then i feel annoyed.

i will go now and sit with my calculator and ponder shopping possibilities. sometimes i need a personal assistant even more than nasty does. or, really, just a Life Advisor.