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Off to shop

Shopping time!
I mean window shopping. Mostly.

Will be off to Thailand to contribute to the tourist dollar there, so unlikely to be blogging for some time. My contribution there will be fairly low, seeing that I haven't got a salary to speak of. Well, I do enjoy window shopping.

Anyway, I've yet to finish doing my part for the Great Singapore Sale. My only buys so far:
a) some toiletries from Watson's
b) some TOMY tracks for the boy's train set

I still need to get:
a) a new chopping board
b) a new ladle.

Ha ha, such a boring shopping list, right? But sales are good times to buy these things.
And I really don't need anything else.

Today, I thought of doing a bit of jalan-ing while the boy is at his holiday Chinese class. However, I was halted in my tracks because I bumped into someone I knew from my work days and we chatted for a while. She declared that it was a 'waste' for me to have retired from the field. Well, I'm still undecided as to what kind of waste and whether it is a waste. But I did decide that I should just come home and get the house in some sort of order before we leave. You know, not leave things all over the place to collect dust over the next few days and all that.

In the meantime, I will miss the opening episodes of Princess Lulu, the new K drama that will take over from Sad Love Story, which I didn't watch a single episode of. I don't like sad love stories. Give me quirky and fun like Sam Soon anytime. Lulu sounds more of the fun than teary type.

Lastly, I don't look or dress like the girl in the t-shirt above. In fact, I don't own any other shirt that has got people or even faces on it. But it's a very shopping-ish shirt, I thought. Got it from the Korean lady's shop at Far East (sorry, some of the words on that post are rather unreadable now because of my change of template).

Comments

Anonymous said…
i have watched princess lulu. i didn't like it too much. samsoon is a lot better. watch out for My Girl. i love this one! it's funny too!
have a good trip!
dee from royal leisure
Anonymous said…
Hi Dee
Thanks, had a fun trip. Sounds like you had a great time yourself (just read your HK posts).

Wonder when - or if - SCV will show My Girl.

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