Monday, April 03, 2006

to shop (v. , 'shupp'): to part with cash / swipe credit cards to gain ownership of pretty, pretty things

Was propping myself up against the wall, sitting cross-legged on the bed and getting ready to type a post when I saw the slightly misplaced letter Z on the keyboard. So I got reminded of the Z situation (I've sorta gotten used to typing 'z' gently and the feeling of the letter dislodging under my finger). When am I gonna find the time to bring it for service / repair / replacement? Wonder if CIT's gonna be open after exam week. I might just let their in-house engineer take a look before resorting to the IBM service center. Baaah. Just the thought of being apart from my lappie brought tears to my eyes (err well not really but you get the drift). I'm such a junkie!

Another thing I'm addicted to is Wild Arms 4. Seriously kinda wished I hadn't started playing it. Then again, I don't really regret starting 'cos it is so much fun! I never wanna walk out of my house ever again. It's too much fun staying inside accompanied by my PS2. Haha.

On the study front, think I've sort of settled revision for QM. Now what's left to do is Tax and TWC. Have got a Fixed Income take-home paper too but, well, honestly. I'm so lost on Fixed Income I wouldn't even know if I had the text or notes the right side up.

And now for the finale.

I went on a s-h-o-p-p-i-n-g t-r-i-p. Well, two trips actually.

After dinner with the usual XLB suspects on Saturday, Z and I went to speed-shop while Yang still managed to look somewhat bored despite the fact that we were, well, speeding our shopping! It's a shame indeed that men are losing out on the joy of shopping. They'll never know. In the end we felt bad so we sent our boy home while we proceeded to F21.

Picked up a gold necklace which Z liked and I didn't so she bought it, and I bought another necklace, also gold with champagne beads ($18), plus a pair of gold earrings ($11). Before that I picked up a moss green spaghetti ($13) when we speed-shopped at Mango.

The next day, went to Zara after church and tried on some stuff for fun. Ended up liking them so much that I reserved them (went back to get 'em today). Had to reserve them first as my mum's around (went to church with my family) and I CANNOT let her see me buying stuff from Zara. No no no no no. Don't know what she'll do to me if she sees me with a Zara carrier. She'll send me to a nunnery or something, maybe.

Things begotten from Zara:
White capris with salmon stripes ($59)
Black hoodie jacket, cropped and sort of pouffed up ($49)
White TRF Angel tank, gold imprint ($19)

Dare not total that up.

Argh! What's wrong with me? Why can't I just NOT shop?? (Hmmm... actually I know why. 'Cos it'll be against nature. And we all know we cannot defy nature.) Burnt a hole in my pocket deep enough to stuff my wardrobe in. Dammit. Only thing left to do now is to wait piteously for my TA pay. And to invest in baked beans as cannot afford to eat anything else.

PS: Almost forgot! Had TWC make-up class today and as a goodbye present, Prof Sujit gave us all chocolates. Not some measly one-piece-of-Ferrero affair either, he bought each of us a huge BAR of hazelnutty chocolate goodness. Yum. He's such a nice prof!! And that reminds me. Shall proceed to eat the choc now.