man. holidays rock.
it feels weird.
have you realised that only *twice* in your life will you *ever* get a holiday without homework?
1. end of primary school. after psle.
2. end of secondary school. after os.

this is my *last* chance to have a holiday without homework to come home to every night.

anyway, let's just say i'm not getting this opportunity slip out of my hand.

an hour after the exams ended, shopping is already underway.
the day that the exams unofficially end was spent at the beach.
left the house at 9am. got back around 7 or 8. (11 hours of pure fun.)
which sure beats my usual 11 hours of sheer trture at school.
go home.
eat dinner.
have a bath.
sleep, cause we were all dead tired.

day 2 [today]:
SHOPPING.
wake up.
realize that i should have met sylvia at taka half an hour ago.
jump out of bed and run to the phone.
i have now perfected the art of multi-tasking.

so i run into my parents room and speed dial the cab booking service and get changed at the same time.
operator: tibs taxi. how may i hel you?
me: i need a taxi. now. [phone number and details] from pine grove to orchard road.
operator: give me a second ma'am.
me: (furiously throws clothes on, and then realises that you should comb your hair *after* you pull your head out of your shirt...)
operator: hello?
me: (with my head stuck in my shirt) *hmmlo?*
operator: hello? ma'am? hello?
me: (with my voice still muffled by me struggling with my shirt..) hmmlo? hmmlo?(finally manages to get my head out of the hole..) HELLO?

i don't have much luck with clothes.

and let's then there was the time in sec 3 when i got stuck in a dress at isetan.

me: eh.. i'm stuck.
charlotte: what do you mean, you're stuck?
me: i dunno. (opens door)
charlotte: (sees this weird looking anjali in a distorted dress..) *laughs* what did you do?
me: i dunno.. there are so many holes... so i think i just wore it wrongly..
charlotte: (tries to help me... and pulls in every direction..) if i just...and then...STAY STILL...maybe this hole...DON'T FIDGET...
me: *jumps around* i'm not fidgeting..
charlotte: ok..let's see...now if i pull your hand out from here..
me: (sticks hand out..)
charlotte: not this hole.. the other hole...
me: (sticks hand out in another hole)
charlotte: no...not this one either...you have to...STAY STILL...
me: *jumps around* why can't it just fall off? (does some stupid, wild, thrashing, jumping action in a vain attempt to get the dress off...)
charlotte: you can't even stay still for a minute can you?!
me: *whines* charlotte...get me out of this dress...it's squashy...
charlotte: *stares* you're acting like a kid.

anyway.
i finally made my way there.
fortunately, pea smsed me earlier in the morning to make it half an hour later...
but anyhoo, i was still late.

sorry pea.

but other than that... we had a great time.
we planned our shopping trip earlier, with our list

list for prom:
dress
shoes
bag

i like shopping with pea.
she found this perfect m)phosis bag.
and later i realised that i had an m)phosis discount card at home which provided discounts and stuff.
anyway, later we went to taka, and we found this perfect dress for pea.
i like playing "dress helper"...
walk around.. look for stuff for pea to wear... give it to her to wear... wait for her to come out... tell her what i think... walk around somemore... make small talk with the attendants...
[must remember to lend pea my black organza shawl for prom..]

and i saw these "sparkly" earrings.
with a "sparkly" price too...

so that kind of threw me off..
but it looked really nice..

but i needed time to decide so we went to look for shoes.

and after trying on 9457462964296294 shoes, we finally gave up and went to paragon to look for accessories to match my earrings.

and then couldn't find anything.

but we found hollywood secrets...

and then we went for lunch...

and then to kino for pea to look for a book.

[oh, by the way, according to some asian face reader, i have the face of an 'amazon', meaning that i tend to be independent, able to appreciate the finer things in life, and also have a keen eye for detail. it also said that i have really high standards about men, and probably would get along wel wthout one.] (hmm...makes you wonder doesn't it?)

and then went back to taka again.

decided that the earrings were really nice.
and since daddy dearest is sponsoring today's big shopping trip, the "sparkly" price was no longer the issue.

so now the house contains 18 pairs of chomel earrings.

then went to turf city looking for more shoes.
caught on with pea's "be satisfied with the first oe you see and buy it and you'll still look perfect" attitude.
which works out quite well, since for the first time, the first shoe i looked at was the first shoe i liked, which happened to come in size 10, my size, and also looked really nice.

so now my nice "sparkly" silver heels have been chosen as my shoes for the night.

so it turned out to be a pretty good day.
8 hours of shopping churned out...
- the perfect shoes (for me)
- the perfect earrings (for me)
- the perfect bag (for pea)
- the perfect dress(for pea, but i'm really jealous cause of the way she looks in it..)

so now that i'm lending pea my shawl, her look is complete.
i still have the problem of the dress and the bag.
which should sort its way out in time.

i hope.