Taking half a day off work occasionally is a nice way to break the monotony of everyday life, and that was precisely what I did on Monday. I met olduvai for lunch and we went shopping in Orchard. Yes, I bought more stuff! OK OK, I do feel a wee bit bad about spending so much money over these couple of days. I bought two pairs of shorts from Bodynits meant to be used when I go paddling. Then I bought a pair of white pointy shoes for work. Finally I’ve found a pair! I’ve been looking for them for ages. Best of all, it wasn’t too expensive at $19.90. Hee.
Then I, with some support from olduvai who was there to make sure I wouldn’t back out, went to get my ears pierced! Finally. Slumbering Girl and olduvai were egging me on to do it last Wed night over dinner. Admittedly, the only thing that’s been keeping me from doing so is my fear of needles. Vanity and the lure of earrings calling out to me every time I’m out shopping finally made me do it. It was funny how I became this spectacle while I was getting my ears pierced. This four-year-old girl, with her mum and aunt beside her, was being coaxed by the salesgirl that the process wouldn’t be painful and the little girl was told to look at me! Like hello, I’m like the biggest baby of all there!!! So despite my fear (very unfounded as I realized later), I put up a brave front (cannot sia suay with so many people looking right?) and sat on the chair and waited for the pain. It came and gone in a flash. Haha. OK, I feel very silly now. I should have done this long ago! I have missed out on so many pretty earrings!
After that, we headed for the Project Shop Café at Paragon for tea. Ooh, I love this café! We purposefully chose to sit next to the magazine rack because we wanted to devour not only the food but also those magazines!!! Both of us shared a big slice of chocolate cake which was delightfully sinful. So rich, so decadent, so yummy. Actually I thought I had a better time devouring the contents of the magazines albeit vicariously. There were food magazines like Gourmet, donna hay, Bon Appetit, Martha Stewart Living. Women’s magazines like Vogue and InsStyle satisfied girlish cravings for beautiful dresses and accessories. Men’s magazines like GQ and Esquire had many hunky male models in glossy advertisements. Haha.
We then made our way to the Champagne Room at Café de Amigo for a wine appreciation course with five other friends of olduvai’s. It was pretty interesting and I think I now have a better idea of how to taste and describe wine. But seriously, I would so fail a course in wine appreciation if it were graded. It’s so difficult to describe wine! I wonder if people who wax lyrical about wine and can write an entire page about one bottle are just imagining things in their head. The teacher was going like, “don’t you smell the plum [er, no???]; doesn’t it smell like cut grass [rrreeeaaalllllyyyy???]; can you smell the honey? [eerrrmmm….]”. You get the idea, I’m hopeless at it. I figured I would need to be transplanted with the nose of a dog. And so one thing I’ll never become is a sommelier.
Posted by DSD at December 14, 2005 1:47 PM