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Sunday, January 22, 2006
Normally, I hate shopping. It's a waste of time, it's tiring and it is often, especially with girls, utterly and mind-numbingly pointless. However, yesterday (Technically the day before. Let me make it simple for you. FRIDAY.) was an exception. I actually had plenty of fun.
Vital Stats:
Location> Orchard (Taka, Wisma, Tangs and Heerens)
Coterie> Hot Babe Lay; Adorable Zi; Me (Duh`)
Harvest> 4 tops 3 bottom 1 pair of shoes and 1 pencil case
Nett Expenditure> $400~
Time taken> 5 hours
Guy to Girl Shopping Duration Ratio> 15mins : Eternity
Me > So I bought this really sexy pair of shoes because I needed something to wear for Mich's wedding which is in a few hours time. My faithful K9 footwear Hush Pupps died during my SMU convocation. Might as well, I need a pair of formal shoes anyways. Just in case I have presentations that require them. Woot, got a pencil case for school at long last. 4 weeks into term 2. I am highly efficient and motivated. Huzzah!
So anyway, after dinner at Tang we went into this shop in Heerens. "木" So this shop carries like a whole inventory of really interesting and different clothing, and in my opinion, they looked very very stylo. If there's one place you could purchase style, this would be it.
We spent the whole night in that one shop and the girls were trying one outfit after outfit and while this would normally bore the hell out of me, this time it was different. For 2-3 hours the gal went through through transformation after transformation and everytime they pulled open the changing room (curtains?), they emerged looking really really hawt. The thing is most of the items in the shop are a far cry from what you'd normally be able to get in normal shops, and tastefully so at that. You'd really have to see it for yourself to get what I'm saying. But trust me, they looked good. And I'm not talking, well they look like they have a decent dress sense good, I'm talking, wow, these people KNOW how to dress up good.
In the end I guess I got caught up in the moment and for the night, I became their gay fashion advisor and actually had fun shopping with them. $300 we spent in that one shop but the way I see it, money well spent. At the end of the night, the Dynamic Deadweight Duo: LayZee were now $300 more stylish and fashionable. Catch the new and improved LayZee at a CNY near you.
Anyways, watched "Memoirs of a Geisha." I wouldn't say that this is a movie you have to catch but its pretty good. The cast features, notably, Ziyi Zhang, Michelle Yeoh and Gong Li as well as a few guys who aren't Geishas. Michelle Yeoh's performance, I feel, was my favourite, if largely because she had the best mastery of the spoken English. The plot was okay I guess. It was pretty linear without any major twists and from what I overheard, quite abit of content present in the orginal novel was left out in the movie. (Though that's normally the case with Book-Movie-Tie-Ins) I guess there's only so much you can put into 140mins. Most of the time, it felt like a rather slow and mundane film but then again maybe I just don't appreciate it the level in which I'm supposed to. For the most part, the scenes don't carry with them the substance to make me engaged, to feel for them, to empathise. When they schemed, I was not intrigued. When they cried, I did not feel sad. There is one notably terrible scene though. If you watch it, you'll know exactly which one I'm talking about. It sticks out like a sore thumb. What was particularly good was the soundtrack. I'd recommend buying the OST even if you didn't watch the movie. The set felt very authentic too, very early 1900 Japan. On the whole, a good enough film that you can safely watch. But don't expect it to make you want to stand up and clap.
My Ratings: 7/10
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