wow it's been ages since i've blogged. let's just do this chronologically, or mostly chronologically given my chronic propensity to digress. chronic, chronological. that's kinda funny. ignore! ignore!

on saturday my dad left for india. i don't think i did anything useful -or- interesting. i think i cleared a couple of piles of rubbish off my floor and dumped the rest in the other room. watched a ton of tv.

sunday --- some more wasting away. soph came over to stay at my place for a few days before she went off to malaysia, which she did this morning. we watched tv, talked, did very little of anything useful. there was a long phone call with nasty, which fully ruined any plans i might've had of preparing for the oxford test the next day.

monday morning was the oxford test. really very stupid and annoying. how on earth do you explain the difference between 'credible', 'provable' and 'verifiable'? vaish was there so we went and walked around far east -- which has a lot of prettyish things but nothing that really works or is of real quality, which is a pity, or maybe it was just because it was about 11am and nothing much was open yet and Oh My God the saleswoman at mondo has SUCH a sour look on her face, which is another pity because that was the only shoe store there with any potential -- and then DFS, where there were sunglasses HUGELY on sale so i got a pair of ralphs. very normal, very plain but very functional. then to mango, tried on lots of tops and a pretty skirt which unfortunately made my ass look a little huger than necessary. bought a cool belt in the end. am building up my belt collection, although i have yet to acquire that most basic brown belt. AX and Nine West have some nice ones. all very expensive.

and then we met ian. got my kiehl's astringent lotion and had lunch. then to tangs, where we also met worm and lots of walking around ensued, pondered over the $75 shu moisturiser which i decided was not worth it cos it's such a tiny bottle... but then the next day i bought a $40 l'occitane moisturiser whose bottle is about half the size and therefore less worth it, if you think about it. that moisturiser kinda pissed me off but i think maybe also the astringent lotion (highly effective, by the way, really, everyone with problem skin should try kiehl's Blue!) is too astringent, it's got alcohol in it and stuff so while it combats the evil things that screw up my skin, it sort of makes it dry. but it's not a bad, flaky sort of dry. aiyah whatever. i like the astringent lotion more than i like my moisturiser now. when i feel less guilty about all the money i've spent, or all the people who owe me money pay me back, or my parents return and give me more money, i shall get myself another milder toner for less pimply days, and a better moisturiser such as the Shu. which also has spf, which the l'occitane doesn't. ah well atleast i have the stila which does have spf, but i'm only going to use that for Going Out because it's the smallest tube of all and it's $52 and it's tinted so i don't want brown rubbing off on my clothes all the time, though the tintedness is fantastic for balancing skin.

so. tangs. walked around a lot. finally got my prom-ish outfit. a really pretty blue dress at Island Shop. i love island shop! they have such pretty pieces and such decent prices. i want to go back and get more stuff. really comfy too. but the dress is really short and floaty and transparent so i'd only wear it by itself if i was at the beach or something. or WHEN i get myself a nicer pair of legs. which reminds me, i've been doing the shopping and walking around thing a LOT, and dancing (hahaha TRIANGLE GESTURE) but i haven't been to the gym in AGES. ok before i lose my entire darling audience here, i will stop with the esoteric inside jokes. no more triangle gestures and flappy arms and "ignore! ignore!" on blog. yeah. so for prom outfit i wore the dress over black dress pants. am not normally a fan of the dress-over-pants thing but i think it looked decent enough. i was happy! prom was very happy. i also got the gorgeousest earrings to go with the dress, and a bracelet that was a bit weird but i like it. the earrings, i later discovered, go in really weird. like i had to get nasty to put one of them in backwards so that both earrings would face out properly. whatever. when you pay really small prices for really pretty things you gotta deal with the lack of thoughtfulness in the manufacturing. Island Shop is full of pretty things. but the clothes seem to be Quality so i'm not complaining.

then i left the three of them because i had a ton of stuff left to do, and was being very inefficient. picked up a shower gel at marks and spencer. lovely cocoa butter and vanilla smell. and then claud's present at borders. and then spent a ton more money. argh. oh yeah. underwear. is REALLY expensive. bras, particularly. but some of them are sooo irresistably pretty. although, really, i have no one to show off my bras to but myself at this point so i don't really know why i bother. but, again, shopping is all about making yourself happy so i splurged on pretty things. this is how i used a nets card and came home and totalled up my purchases and gaped at the pretty sum of $581. yes.

anyway by then i was feeling really annoyed with myself for spending so much that i didn't get my NARS blush. decided that my Loreal is working pretty well for me right now and i don't wear makeup nearly often enough to justify such things. so for now, i've got a good concealer and i'm focusing on skincare so that i'll be naturally radiant and beautiful without makeup =D anyway the only place NARS is available is True Colours at takashimaya basement. their range is really limited though. they also carry Philosophy but they didn't have the moisturiser i wanted, they don't have the Senorita Margarita scrub which looks so adorable, they have hardly anything. i so need to get myself to a department store in the US asap! so i finally got myself out of the Evil Shopping Centre and i waited AGES for a cab and i was SO LATE for dinner.

so i went home, showered, quickly did accounts and balked at exorbitant expenses and then got myself back to wheelock for dinner at Big O. claud's birthday! dinner was decent. somehow was not very hungry. then eskibar! was so much fun. confirmed my absolute burning desire to be out of singapore and somewhere really cold and different and snowy and FUN. i hope there's still snow somewhere in march because considering my absolute lack of holiday right now, i need to make my parents take me somewhere. anyway eskibar was So. Much. Fun. the cocktails are whateverish. i don't like alcohol :( there's very little i've found to like. anyway i love feeling cold and snuggled up inside scarves and jackets and beanie and stuff and thank god i listened to nasty and wore the sneakers!

and then back home. where claud and thong, drunk, said very silly things and looked very red. and we ate pizza, puzzled over a very crazy dvd player, laughed a lot as usual, my maid got horrified that i had brought Boys to the house. and then the Boys left. and the girls (soph, claud, nasty and i, what an odd bunch) were left. and we all went to sleep eventually. what a long monday.

tuesday... claud and soph disappeared somewhere in the morning. i got WONDERFUL NEWS that miraculously my dad's friend had booked us a suite at the ritz! so i jumped around in glee, had lunch with nasty and then she left and i went to meet kel at orchard. we shopped a bit. i got my l'occitane moisturiser which i think i've already sort of ranted about. bought harrod's chocolates for my dad's friend, as a thank you/christmas gift. got black strappy heels, again comfy, functional, not very spectacular but black strappy heels are such a necessity. looked around at the more colourful heels at Nine West and all sorts of other places but i didn't find anything i really liked. so that completed my prom outfit, amazingly, at only $210 excluding makeup and Very Expensive Bra.

after kelly left and i finished waiting for the harrod's stuff to be wrapped, i stupidly walked into AX which was having a huge sale, and i walked out with an infinitely soft pima cotton tee which was $48 -- amazingly cheap for AX tees which normally go for about $70. well. it's pretty. and i can't resist soft cotton tees.

then home again, waited for soph to return, then slept.

wednesday. was amazing. got out of the house around noon, attempted to harrass the l'occitane salesgirl into letting me exchange my moisturiser for something else, but she didn't let me. was quite annoyed but then i cheered myself up by getting to the ritz purely by mrt and my feet. i was so proud of myself for not taking a cab. it helped that i got out of the house so early. so my shockingly unusual punctuality also made me proud of myself. met my dad's friend, checked in, went up to see the suite, got wiggy and yee kiat and kelly and shooj and nasty up, took photos of the beautiful suite before about 30 other bodies messed the place up. some of the best photos will be up later on.

and then i rushed off, dropped nasty at orchard and went to Next for my hair. had a heavenly head massage while the guy (Kenji i think) shampooed my hair. and then Jonathon cut and blowdried my hair. i was very happy with it. i need to learn to blowdry my hair, because it's still a disaster when not blown. but it looked very nice that day, imo.

and then home for a daze of shower, put on clothes, makeup, run anti-frizz serum through hair several times to prevent it from acting up, and then cab to chijmes for dinner. esmirada is great in terms of atmosphere and the appetisers are really fantastic but the main courses didn't impress. and then one of the best parts of the evening -- The Surprise! i shan't elaborate since it isn't really my story to tell, but it was nice and rather exciting.

and then the next best part of the evening. in fact, the Best Part. i still can't stop raving about it. My First Mambo Night. it was amazing. i shall have to break my own rule and make another Triangle Gesture but i shall explain that it means that What Happens On The Dancefloor, Stays On The Dancefloor. that was amazing. i should really find another word to use rather than 'amazing'. we briefly went into Phuture, which has a really cool screen thingy, and funky reggae music, at which point i have to make another Triangle Gesture. hahahaha. i love dancing. we must go again.

but then it was rudely interrupted by someone's disgusting puddle of puke on the floor, which grossed me out completely so i had to get off that dancefloor asap. plus, our feet were killing us. if/when there is a next mambo night, i'm wearing flats. if i find myself a perfect pair of ballet flats, it'll be tres chic and comfy. then it was to indochine. i think it was the combination of the 2/3 jug of rumandcoke and the absolute high from the dancing, because i do remember myself being quite, quite, quite mad. there was the arithmetic in the cab, the "am i talking too loudly?" "no, i can hear you!" and the falling off the chair (my shin STILL hurts a bit even though it's been three days!). and numerous other things. pictures will come shortly. indochine was fun. good music, guys in suits, good company.

and then, finally, back to the hotel. pouring rain. a really good shower in the extremely large bathroom, kiehl's protein concentrate shampoo, no more cigarette smoke smell, my new pink pajamas and a bottle of cocoa butter lotion all conspired to make me very happy all over again. and then attempted to sort out money issues, gave up and giggled a lot on the Larger than Large bed, and finally fell asleep from about 5am to about 9am.

the glorious excitement of the previous night in itself caused some sort of post-fun blues/excitedness hangover, because i woke up with a horrible feeling. later features of the morning made it even more of a bummer, but the money issues were nicely sorted out and i had a good lunch at home with kelly, and then i slept the entire afternoon away so, well, i slept the annoyedness away i guess.

friday --- in the afternoon i watched Pride and Prejudice with shirin, nasty and vaish. before that, being in orchard, of course, i was compelled to whip out the wallet for something. so i got two plain tees at topshop. very comfy, again. i'm lately very attracted to comfy things. it's old age, i tell you. i wonder, by the time i'm really old, how much money i'll have spent in my whole life. that would be an interesting thing to keep a tally of, don't you think? unfortunately i'm already 18 and i've bought so many things i don't even remember.

and then my contact lens TOTALLY PISSED ME OFF. we cabbed to jelita where a very nice salesperson at guardian helped me with a bottle of saline to fix the errant contact lens, and then shirin, nasty and i bought a HUGE amount of food. came back, messed around in the kitchen and ate a huge amount of food, along with shooj who as usual turned up late. but it was great, because there was good music, sort-of-good food, and we basically sat at the table from 8-something to 1-something, laughing our heads off. poor shirin was probably lost through most of it. but i for one had an agony of stomachache and hiccups by the time i decided it was high time i went to shower. so while i showered my lovely minions cleared up the food and then the boy left, because once again, my maid couldn't sleep until there were no more boys in the house (yeah she's weird, and this despite me telling her that shooj is hardly a boy but then that probably just sounds even worse when i translate it into tamil especially with my dubious command of the language. i even got my mom to call my maid and tell her that the boy would not do any harm. my mom was amused, to say the least. plus, nasty and my maid are best friends now despite only being able to speak to each other through me. it's funny.)

and then nasty, shirin and i retired to bed. i was really sleepy but then nasty and shirin started having a sort of pillow fight, only using a huge stuffed dog instead of pillows. such Children, i tell you. but last night was great. tons of laughter. and this morning soph left, and we who remained had two pizzas for breakfast, then shirin left and nasty and i watched Bring It On, and then lounged around till nasty left and i watched alias and then decided it was high time my blog had some action. so there it is. the past week, in a nutshell. very large nutshell.

pictures will be up as soon as i get over the utter laziness and inertia that are essential to my character.