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Month: August 2013

Free shopping… and more

Today feels like an early Christmas and adds on to the list of why this year is awesome. It all started about two weeks ago when I received a call while running at the gym. For some weird reason I answered it though I didn’t stop running at all throughout the convo because I didn’t want to lose the momentum.

This woman from Nee Soon Central CC asked if I would be interested in an event at Chong Pang CC where we would get to choose clothes, all of which were FREE and BRAND NEW. All I had to do was to turn up with my IC at 8.45am and I could even bring one female aged 16-60 so I gave my mom’s name.

So this morning we went despite being clueless about everything. The only info I really had was ‘pick free clothes’. Registered our names, queued for awhile and woohoo we made it into the first batch of 20.

We were given McChicken Burger each as refreshments and there was even a free polaroid-taking session.

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Then we were allowed into this indoors hall where all the clothes were. I was hopping it was not the kind of grab as many as you can in xxx seconds or those you have to play games for because I was so not in the mood for that on a Saturday morning. Luckily it turned out to be much more organised.

Every person could pick one item from the red zone (tops, bottoms, dresses), one item from the orange zone (underwear , stockings), and one item from the yellow zone (shoes, bags, accessories in sets of five). Not bad, quite a lot to choose from!

Spent quite a long time choosing till the staff was telling everyone to hurry up because they were gonna let the next batch in. We got a black dress, a pair of black shorts, a pair of fur boots, a bag and bras between the both of us.

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Ahhh definitely my favourite find of the day! And it’s from River Island — a shop I have never bothered entering because the things are so pricey. The price tag on this bag says $106!

river island bag
fur boots

Second favourite find! Fur boots which I can share with my mom because we have the same shoe size 😀
The price tag on the soles say $139

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fur boots

So we went to checkout the items and I thought that was all. But no… they gave us a goodie bag containing drinks and a bottle of hand lotion each. Followed by an ang bao too. You’ll never guess how much it contained…

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A WHOPPING $100 EACH!!!!

When we finally left the hall, there were free accessories for us to choose and take as many as we like from.
Wtf is this real life of is this fantasy!!!? I still can’t believe how lucky we were.  I was told only about free clothes (they really were brand new) and it turned out to be so much more asdfghjkl

First time hearing of such an event in my neighbourhood. During the phone convo, the woman said I was eligible because I’d applied for some bursary in 2011 (which I got) and it’s an event for lower-income families (can’t stand it when people say I’m rich just by judging from my shopping habits lulz).

My mom and I were saying that we would totally be uneligible if the saw the amount of stuff I have at home and if they knew we were going to Bangkok in a few weeks time 😀 Woohoo can use the extra cash to do more shopping then HAHAHA. Thanks so much whoever contributed to the event!!! In terms of:

1) Free food
2) Free polaroids
3) Free clothes/shoes/bags/accessories
4) Free goodie bag
5) Free cash

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Brunch afterwards… what a splendid day! Glad to have spent it with the one person I love unconditionally 🙂
Just realised that I didn’t arrange the food properly before the photo because three meatballs are hidden lol.


Why I disappeared

In the mood to say whatever I like and everything I feel.  Doesn’t matter if it offends anyone because those who will feel that way are probably those I don’t care about anyway. Why am I so hostile and bitchy all the time 😀

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1) Annoying people

Zero privacy!!! Acquaintances I don’t even like that much telling me what to do or giving me shit after reading my blog (which has no mention of them in the least…). Because they think they know me very well or have the right to do so just by being a blog reader. Lol wanna laugh at those that only started talking to me for awhile and yet think they can be as close to me like my friends are.

Many of my friends don’t read my blog — and they don’t have to because they are part of the blog 🙂 I don’t really care who reads it (I’d rather not know) and anyone is welcome to actually, but I’d honestly prefer it my blog isn’t brought up in real-life conversations because I’m self-conscious like that.

Especially if you are going to be creepy. Like I was just trying to get rid of Some Random Jerk who was going on about about not ‘understanding’ me (that’s the point, isn’t it) and I just said “No one gets me anw so whatever”. Reply I got:

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1 ) I didn’t mean it that literally, 2) So NOT socially acceptable especially when I have never told you about my friends, you just knew about them from going through my WhatsApp list and online activity.

HOW TO NOT BE HOSTILE AND BITCHY WHEN YOU MALES ARE SUCH TURN OFFS???
Sometimes I even say certain things on purpose in hopes that people will be turned off and stop talking to me -.-

2) Depressive episode thanks to Hello Kitty

Remember my earlier entry on how I was gonna brave the haze and take a look at the queues? So I went with my dad — who insisted on driving me because my mom was convinced I was going to get kidnapped or lost in the haze — and we ended up queuing for 90 minutes at the drive-through till 2am.

I was really happy and thought it was worth it though, because I got two of the Ugly Ducklings. Even took photos for work the next day while I was there. Treated my whole family to McDonald’s too LOL.

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Friend gave me a third one. I posted this photo on McDonald’s fb fanpage asking if anyone wanted to trade me any of the earlier ones in the same collection. Was surprised to get a few replies but I only responded to one. So now I have two ducks and one Red Riding Hood.

I did feel like I picked the right person because he was super spontaneous and said he wanted to get the toy for his daughters. It was a Saturday and I offered to meet halfway but he said he’ll drive to my block, and told me to stay indoors because of the haze 😀 He came with his two daughters, we traded and I thought that was it.

A week later he talked to me on WhatsApp again, asking when I would be free to meet up and that he could “buy me dinner at Northpoint. I asked what for and he said to catch up but he’s “not asking anything from me”. Me being me, I made up some lame excuse about having to work night shift so I’ll have to check, and I haven’t replied since HAHAHA.

I don’t know what’s more odd. The fact that I have only met him for five minutes or the fact that he has kids. Then again maybe it’s just me and my reluctance to bother with people I can’t see myself being friends with a decade down the road.

Anyway, I went to queue for the black, limited edition Singing Bone the following week, but apparently I underestimated my fellow countrymen because I queued till 2am again and didn’t get shit! I didn’t think that would happen until I saw the queue for myself wtf.

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“Queued for 3 hrs and didn’t get shit.”
All single ticks because everyone’s asleep -_- I even complained to my editor HAHA. He was like damn surprised and replied,“Huh???? You didn’t get?!!” I know right, tell me about it.

Too lazy to repeat my whole experience but I wrote about it on this article as ‘a STOMPer’ LOL.
Seriously though, why the fuck did fucking Mac’s have to suddenly give out coupons and not inform us about it prior?

I went home to stroke my guinea pigs instead 🙁 Ughhh I’d wanted the plushie so bad.
It’s okay, not even 100 Singing Bones will make me trade my furballs.

The appeal of something increases by leaps and bounds when you can’t have it and that was the same in this case. I was like damn depressed but people still kept bothering with superficial shit like Some Random Jerk [see above], such that I changed my WhatsApp status to ‘No Hello Kitty No Talk’.

Got over it after a week though. I actually know of a website where I could get a Singing Bone for just $7 but I didn’t bother. It makes a difference queuing and getting it for yourself because you worked hard for it. There’s no kick otherwise. Meh!!

Funnily enough, I got put in charge of all Hello Kitty-related articles at work for the whole of next day but it made me be in high spirits instead of rubbing salt into my wounds. Crazy happening day because there were so many pics and emails due to all the queues, fights, scalpers, auctions etc. But I love the adrenaline rush.

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3) Went on leave

For a week! 😀 Planned to go to Bangkok but it ended up being too much of a rush so I’m going in August instead yay. Didn’t do much but just slacked around at home and avoided the real world. I think the only site I had updates on was Yahoo Answers and I let everyone assume I was overseas.

Woohoo I love the hermit life.
Basically here’s what I did whenever I wasn’t out:

– Read loads of fics
– Finished one manga (3 mini-sequels to go)
– Finished Japanese drama based on manga
– Watched more than 10 movies
– Played way too much Battleon and Theme Hospital

Excerpts from this one fic [x] about a girl who left her hometown in the middle of the night because she got pregnant.
Omg I can’t!!!! And yeah the tears… hahaha.

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Super shiok holiday ^_^ Just started another one, ha!
That’s about it… more updates to come!