Retail rocks!

I am so touched! Met up with Faz this evening at Pavilion. Supposed to go pick up some stuff she needed to doll up for Festival Filem Malaysia on Saturday night. Met later than planned about lunch sebab the jam, the rain and so on.

Chilled at Michaelangelo's and grabbed a bite. Masa Faz arrived, baru nak tanya apa dia shopping, cause she had this huge bag with her when she plopped it down on the seat, said, "Hi dear, here's your belated birthday present, I gotta go to the ladies."

Erm... alrighty then. She took a few steps and then turned and said, "open it up ok" and moved on. Looked at the bag.



I wondered what it was. Ok, I did play a guessing game. I slipped in my hand and messed about and tried to guess. Guess I must have slipped up and groped the wrong thing cause I guess wrong. I thought it was a shirt! The eventual result was much further cause I had actually grabbed the cloth bag in came in.

All I know about Jaspal is that it's a big local brand in Thailand, and the likes of Kate Moss, Gisele Bundchen, Milla Jovovich, Mischa Barton and Selma Blair have been the face of the label.
So I popped the bag open. This was what was inside.

Awesome! Tell me isn't that the coolest bag! The smell of leather was yummy! One of the best birthday presents for a long time for sure. She sure knows my taste.
We grabbed a bite, then moved to KLCC to get the stuff Faz needed.

Can't say where we went or what we got, but I love Faz's outfit for the event. Oops! Then jalan jalan shopping. This counter selling the coolest but expensive charmbracelets caught Faz's eye. Love them!!! Oh my God!!! They're so cute!




After she perused through the individual charms which were all just so yummy, she got stopped by some counter staff for a photo opportunity, aku lak browsed what they offered. And this caught my eye. I want this!!



And it on discount, even though just 10%! Yeap, I want the one on the pink pillow. Lawa gila! I could do without the D&G logo which was a little obnoxious though. But the design was awesome! Didn't get it though sebab aku nak sleep on it.

Spent the rest of the night finishing up shopping, and then just chilling with friends.

I love how this week is turning out.

Oh by the way, when we popped MAC, perasan this display!



Oh my! I love the Heatherette label by Traver Rains and Richie Rich! And the packaging caught not only my eye but Faz pun perasan. But since it was sold out, kita ogle jer la.

Heh... ok... something tells me I am going to blow my budget this month. Let's just hope I don't have the next few days free to go shopping and I've forgotten all I've seen... kalao tak pokai aku.... anyone wanna get a belated birthday present for me? Matilah aku...

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Ouch! (Or the pains of a shopaholic)

You know how they say yang wanita ni insan yang lemah (sexist though for some physically true perhaps) or how women can't defend themselves? I found out today that, that is totally NOT TRUE!!!

They just need motivation.

And what's the best motivation, especially for majority of female shopahoics? Massive discounts and the word SALE!

Aku tak tidur semalaman after AC Di Sini sebab ada jemputan ke closed sale Estee Lauder Group of Companies.

Sale bermula 8 pagi, but being the experienced shopaholic, aku da cakap kakak aku awal awal kita kena ada kat sana 5.30am.

Gila?

You'll be surprised. Tengok je jenama yang sale tuh! Estee Lauder, Clinique, Aramis, Bobbi Brown, M.A.C., Tommy Hilfiger, Donna Karan, Michael Kors dan Origins.

Still my sis tak caya, so spent the night watching the fourth season of The L Word (best gila series ni - the female version of Queer As Folk) sampai 5.30 pagik) bla Halim call. Rupanya dia maki aku sebab dia caya aku sampai ada kat venue kol 5.30am da!

Sentap dia dapat tau aku masih kat rumah Bangsar. Five minutes later dia call, with a tone of disbelief. "Wei!!! Da 50 orang lebih depan aku wei!!! Datang cepat!!!)

Erm... aku pun paksa kakak aku siap, bought breakfast for Halim yang hold our place in the line, and sampai at about 7am. The sight was FRIGHTENING!!!

Baru dok nak makan.. with about 50 over people in front of us, and about a thousand behind us, meka announce nak start da sale. Alamak... the energy was overwhelming. You could feel everyone warming up their purses and wallets and credit cards!

Aku wolf down my food secepat mungkin and took a swig of Coke for energy and that much needed sugar rush, before geared up.

I knew this was going to get violent!!!

The tension built, and it wasn't like going into a sale.. cam nak berperang lak! Aduh!!! But dalam panik kena pijak by a four foot auntie who looked around with a mean look, as if daring anyone to beat her to the fragrance counters, I felt good!

Aku pun gear up... and when the doors open, we surged in. They let in about 100 people only, so I was among the first batch. Truly amazing was the sight that greeted me...

Rows and row and rows of displays! I'm in shopaholic heaven!

Mana nak start pun tatau... juling jadiknya camni. Aku ke fragrance area dulu. Cek harga, tak berkenan sangat because the mark down wasn't that great. Maybe about RM30 to RM40 jer. Not much compared to the last sale where I spent RM1600 plus on almost 20 bottles of perfume.

So aku rush to skin care... alamak... da abih! Banyak barang da nak finish da. I saw some women with FOUR huge plastic bags yang da penuh. Aiyo!! Meka ni main grab je ke. Memang pro shopaholics tul!!!

There was this adrenaline rush. Pernah tak tengok this old game show called Supermarket Sweep? It was something like that. Just grab and run to another item to grab and throw into your shopping bag sebelom moving on.

Rushed to the M.A.C. and Bobbi Brown area and started grabbing. Yerp... I love their stuff, and so does my mom and sis.

And in about half hour were done.

Letih...emotionally and physically. Seriously... aku penah main rugby in the main scrum pun tak camni. I was savaged by these women who were hungry for a good discount!

The damage? RM310! Kakak aku punya dekat RM500 da. Halim punya bawah RM200 kot.
Kuar je dari dewan... this was the scene outside the grand ballroom.

Sesak!!! Penuh ngan orang masih nunggu peluang nak masuk. Each and every person waiting to be let in outside, were eyeing our bags with hatred seolah cam "damn!!! that's my discounted stuff there!" Ha ha... sucks to be you. Lan kali kuar la awal sikit.

We headed on downstairs nak go towards the lift to the basement nak amik keta aku.. terkejut beruk!!!! Ni pandangan tingkat ground floor (the sale was in the grand ballroom on the first floor)

Mak aih!!! Beribu orang lagik. Once we got our car out, we saw all entrance and exits to the hotel jammed up!!! Half of KL's shopaholics had turned up for the sale. Merasalah ko!

Aiyo... scary!!! Thank goodness we got done quick.

So this is our acquisition.

Yang left tuh part of barang barang my sis beli. Aku punya on the right. Between us we had a ton of M.A.C., Bobbi Brown, Clinique, DKNY and Michael Kors items. Erm.. kenapa ada Crocs skali? What can I say... nama pon shopaholic... pair number two!


Letih tapi satisfied... today started early... but it was amazing! Ok. Tak larat da. Nak tidur. Malam lak nak PARTY!!!


PS - Three days to go before I'm 31.

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