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Thursday, September 28, 2006

girly outing and early lantern fest eastie supper =)

Yesterday was a great day =) it began with an ultra girly outing with cel and bean, in which we shopped alot alot. no actually, where they shopped alot alot (because i only spent $8 whilst they spent really much significantly more! discipline sia =P) and we had good times catching up too!

we had ramen at ajisen ramen =)

went shopping at tangs beauty hall for mac makeup! this is cel and me. bean's trying on eyeliners at this juncture. trying on the various shades of eyeliners on ourselves to see which looked the best was really fun =)

and then we went perfume shopping! we smelt and critiqued so many perfumes, and showed each other our own fragrances (i love my sheer veil by vera wang)! it wasnt long before we got heady with all those scents =P and confused with all the little strips of papers that they use as perfume testers. trying to find a fragrance from marc jacobs that suited cel, and an interesting saleman topped it all off.

after this, us 3 girls went crazy in far east shopping centre. what was originally meant to be a 10min jaunt stretched on for about 2hrs in the same little row of shops. temptations galore! we went through dresses, skirts, accessories, white sunglasses (for cel), quirky skeleton earrings (that i really liked, but for $15 just wasnt worth it), searching for aimei's designs in the shop with all the cubbyholes that people rent spaces to sell their goods, buying belts (what's with the current craze over elastic belts??) drinking teh-ping and yuan yang will i was all overstimulated with sympathetic discharge. before we all got exhausted and tired of gazing at endless arrays of materialism.

i almost bought this $55 dress, but the price didnt appeal to me somewhat. haha =P im stingy (and poor, considering how i havent received pocket $ in 2mths because im paying for the car accident in july).

mooncake party at chiara's place later in the evening was great fun too! those who turned up were not the usual bunch of people I usually hang out with, so it was a good opportunity to mix around and get to know others better! especially since they all live around me, in the east =P

hanging up the decor.

wenbo's own handmade snowskin mooncakes!

learning how to appreciate chinese tea. chiara was teaching us all the steps - 1. smell the tea in the tall cup for the "hot fragrance", 2. pour the tea in the tall cup to the short cup, 3. smell the empty tall cup for the "cold fragrance", 4. sip all the tea in the short cup in 3 mouths - 1st sip through the teeth, 2nd sip through the tongue, and 3rd sip through the throat.
we all had great fun trying to do that, although i couldnt really tell the difference between sipping through the tongue and the throat.

sterling: "do i have nice eyes?"

xueying and sterling helping me set up the lantern, with everyone else looking on. i really really really wanted to carry lanterns =P

lantern! =) i havent carried one in many years. when i was younger, we used to go back to my dad's village during mooncake fest, where i would get to play with lanterns, sparklers, fireworks with my cousins. however, we stopped going back after i reached pri 6 thereabouts, because we werent free/no school hols etc. and being an only child, i have no siblings to carry lantern with. bought these last yr because i really really wanted to carry then, but it was not to be, no one to play with me =P haha i sound so sad. very happy that i finally got to carry yesterday!

hweeying decided to join me!

sparklers!

guys chilling at the pavillion downstairs.

great day =) time to go mug a little then heading out to meet dennis for lunch! havent seen my council buddy in ages. =)

lin~*
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