Is this but a foolish game?
haven't touched this space in awhile but i have been good. surviving & spending much too. a short vacation to hong kong (we also spent 1/2 day at shenzhen; wasn't our land as it was full of smoke and knockoff goods) i wanted it to be a refreshing getaway but i now know it's almost impossible in that bustling place. shopping and eating really made up the trip. or rather, shopping & shopping > eating (i didnt eat as much i thought i would, seriously) i expected a lot of cheap thrills by little shops by streets and streets-stalls but it was really disappointing. i ended up visiting a lot of malls with higher end labels, departmental stores and small shops like that of far-east which stuff are exorbitantly priced! that explains the damage done to my poor wallet. h&m was a real disappointment because i can say out loud that paris' outlet offers so much more! i was really disappointed - i could hardly pick up four tops to try when ester & i probably could have easily gathered 16 in paris. it made me miss the latter so much! talk about being in time for the hongkong sale - i'm still glad the trip was timely! Label's markdown was incredible, markdowns you'll probably never see in singapore! it made me realise singapore's sale is no sale at all. this time round, no uber cheap good buys by the roadside, but (really)-worth-it-buys from worthy labels. guess it kinda made it up for each other! i promise, it wasn't planned; but they were too many "too good a deals" for me to miss. i got my first miumiu in classic black and i haven't started to regret it! (i have this weird tendency to buy things on impulse & regret) well, no regret as of now is a good sign. at least i don't have the "i should have.." syndrome now. we popped by Space too but didn't get anything - but i'm surely going back there the next time i visit hk =]] we were too busy shopping and partly eating hence massive load of photos; the rest are on facebook. very blessed with good weather (sunny) which was quite amazing because outlook showed thunderstorm. indeed thank God for good weather because everyone knows it's hard to shop in hk in the rain! =]] visited my aunt's cats too; very adorable!! i'm not exactly a cat-lover or animal lover to begin with but these cats are really very nice to play with. it still amazes me how my aunt manages to squeeze 9 cats in her studio apartment (we all know how hk apart. can be so tiny due to limited landspace) these cats sure do live a better life than humans - my aunt make sure they are well-air-conditioned 24/7 and food will never be absent from their bowls. oh, the first 2 days of the trip was really bad because we quarreled with 1) taxi driver who was a pervert and took us on a long route - aunt scolded him off and we didnt pay the full fare cause' obviously he thought we were all tourist-material and didnt know hk roads well. it so happen that aunt; a hk resident was in the cab and scolded him 2) this ahlian small shop asst who got very pissed off when my sister didnt buy stuff from her shop after trying. it was ridiculous and she started to scream into her friend's shop (next door) that we (pointing to us) have no money and they can stop serving us. we obviously got very offended and the whole lot of us (aunt, mom, sisters, grands) went back and gave her a huge dressing down. she was so scared and had nothing to say but to defend herself. it was nasty; the security and police came down. i promise, at one point i felt i was filming a hk serial drama. it was so real. we lodged a complaint and there were many onlookers cause all of us screamed real loud at her. so much for being a tourist. we hurled all kinds of language at her; english, mandarin and cantonese cause we were so so so mad! she was real puzzled where we came from and she kept asking us to "stop speaking in english" i tried convincing myself that i shouldnt stoop down to her level to pick a fight, i thought the way she handled us as customer was really wrong and she deserve what she got. we got a video of her but i think i shall refrain from posting it up. we were all really mad at her, but some time after that, i re-ran the incident in my head & got reminded on the concept of : "she is a ragged doll, yes. but she's Jesus' ragged doll". at times like this i really get awed at how great God's love is. no matter how ugly we are inside, how broken we are - we are all God's creation and Jesus died on the cross for every single one of us, every single labelled-whore, every single murderer and every single lawbreaker. it's amazing. and thats the same Jesus i love, and i need to love His people too.
i kind of just cut my hair on impulse and it's now (very) short. but i hope this is a good change and it looks good. i keep on touching the back of my head thinking my hair is still there; boohoo.
now i'm missing hk's milktea heaploads. they are really to die for and very addictive!