Confessions of a mini shopaholic

The Great Singapore Sale has started! And I've bought 6 things in the past 2 days. Oh dear. Sale will be on for almost 2 months...! i will need to avoid the shops from next week onwards... else will really go broke. Sales are evil cos they cheat ppl into thinking that the merchandise is worth buying when in the absence of one, you might not have bought the item(s). I really tried to be more discerning when shopping and conscientiously considered the above when making all my purchases. Sadly that still didn't eliminate that many candidates from my list haha. To absolve myself from the sin of extravagance, I consoled myself that these were all pretty value-for-money purchases, and that I'm just buying everything at one go now... and that if i didn't buy these things at the START of the sale, they would all be gone (or i'll be left with display pieces) if somewhere later this or next month I decide that I do want to get them... :P Aiyah, in any case, my life is so unhappening... need to pamper myself from time to time.....

For your frivolous info, here is an incomplete and biased list of ongoing sales I can recall off the top of my head (as at now and might not be 100% accurate :P) ...

1) m)phosis: 50-70% sale.
2) ZARA: No sale. Boo.
3) Mango: 10% off
4) BHG (formally SEIYU, goodness knows why they changed to such an awful name): think 20% off, but >20% on selected items
5) Esprit: 10% off only if you have Citibank Credit Card
6) G2000: Up to 50% Sale. Think additional 20% off if you have DBS credit card
7) Little Match Girl: 20% sale storewide
8) Pazzion: 30-50% off older collection
9) URS: 10% off (+10% if you have UOB Card)

Hehe, shall look out again when I go walk walk in Orchard after Japanese class :)

Heavenly chocolate fondue

went with colleague to a HDB-organized food event at Swiss Culture Restaurant earlier this evening. It was a pretty good bargain cos for $20, we got a soft drink, creamy pumpkin soup, cheese fondue for appetizer, black pepper steak for main course, chocolate fondue for dessert and a tiny glass of tiramisu for dessert-after-dessert. Cheese fondue was yummy, but the chocolate fondue really won me over. The chocolate was just so good that I couldn't resist drinking spoonfuls of it.... a fellow diner at my table followed suit :P Ah... so sinful. To be fair, I haven't really had choc fondue anywhere in Singapore before, so there might be better places that I'm unaware of... but if I were to choose one thing to have here, I'll definitely vote for the chocolate fondue :)

Two good movies

Priceless (Hors de Prix)
Caught a light-hearted "romantic comedy" starring Audrey Tautou (who acted in Amelie) this evening. I think she holds an uncanny resemblance to Kirsten Dunst, but maybe like a dark-haired version. You can watch the trailer at the above website, though if you're French-illiterate (like me) you prob wun really be able to navigate much there... Anyway, thought the show was quite entertaining... and you get to see all these expensive items that the super rich can afford.... so it was kinda eye candy too :) Makes you wonder how many ppl really get married/ attached for love?

The Painted Veil
This i watched some time ago in two parts on my flight to HCM City- half on the way there and half on the way back. That I liked it so much despite having my movie "cut" into two says something doesn't it? Excellent dialogue and acting... (I loved this bit whereby Naomi Watts character tells her mother, "The idea that any woman should marry any Tom, Dick or Harry regardless of her own feelings is simply prehistoric"). Feel that the characters in the movie really develop and grow on you... Even the disgust I felt for Edward Norton's character turned into some kind of affection towards the end.... haha. I shall get the VCD when it's available; it was on screens some time back in Jan :)