Adebelle

Ouuuuch, my stomach is sick and am having this bad, bad nausea. It must be the Roti Bakar and Iced Teh Tarik I had as brunch… I don’t think I’ll eat Roti Bakar for the next few weeks. I feel sick even just to think about it now…

Gosh, it’s almost 6pm!!! Which means my mum and I had been out for more than 6 hours! Hmmph… minus 2 hours of church service + lunch = 4 hours of shopping! Not to mentioned 5 hours of shopping spree last Sunday, at the same mall… I think I might just have converted mum into a shopaholic!! *gasping* The shopping mall should award me with medal or at least grant me a 50% discount of everything in the mall for a year!

In a matter of 4 hours,  let’s see… I’ve got a pearl necklace, a posh black key pounch and new range of facial products (plus 5 pieces of free gifts :D)… Damn, it’s so easy to earn money from us female!

I must say these sales girls are so darn good! My mum pratically was grinning from ear to ear the whole time even when she was splashing her credit card! ‘Wow, is that your daughter?! I thought she’s your baby sister! You look so young!!’ ‘Like mother like daughter! No wonder you daughter is so pretty, just like you… ‘You have such a nice complexion and I hardly see any wrinkles’ ‘You two have very nice features. You are not pure chinese right? You have Dutch blood or Japanese blood, right?’ These are just some of the many compliments we received as we walked around in the departmental store!

I even got mistaken as a 16-year old and this aunty just couldn’t resist to pinch my already very thin face and look at me admiringly as if she’s looking at a chubby lil’ 5 yearold or some expensive art piece. I’d rather think it’s the latter though.

Heaven knows these sales people are giving out compliments cheaply just to meet their sales targets but who would refuse and resist few words of praise and compliment? I’m serious, if you need to get a boast of self-esteem, take my word, go to the departmental stores! Within hours your self-esteem would be up up up a few notches! That’s not it, perhaps like mum and I, you could also walk away with bagful of compliments and free gifts! I love free gifts!

Talking about free gift, I must mention about this counter manager of certain brand (if the products are as magical like she claimed to be, I’d probably write something about it!) She was so nice to mum and I especially when she found out that we are from Penang too! It only took mum 1 minute to warm up to her (as my mum usually doesn’t like sales person). Not only that she gave me a makeover she topped it off with 5 pieces of free gifts! She even gave me her mobile phone number in case the pimples on my face won’t clear up after using her products! That’s one hell of a personalized shopping experience!! I am so going to try on the new products… it better works the way she described or else…

Anyway, I’ve begun to enjoy shopping with my mum. It brings the two of us closer. I have a better knowledge of what she likes and dislikes and this helps to improve our relationships. I also realized that my mum and I are very similar in many ways (we share so many things from cosmetics, accessories, perfume to bags) and I, for sure have inherited many good genes from her except the height.

So, it’s a Sunday well spent… the only thing is I still haven’t found a new pair of shoe… Maybe I’ll have better luck next week!

And geez, it’s 7pm already! Sunday is depressing! I must think of something nice to wear to work tomorrow… something that will chase away the Monday blues! And then hopefully I’ll be able to say: "Thank God it’s Monday!"

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