shopping's madness and exhaustion

gosh, i never thought that this shopping trip is going to be so tiring. i am down with a flu due to exhaustion and sleep deprivation. i really need to sleep! i think i only slept less than 4 hours after taking account of those interruption in the middle of the morning (mosquitoes and air-conditioner noise).

reached klcc at around 3.30p.m. and all the parking entrances into the building were already closed! full, only season parkers were allowed. this was not a good start. so i had to park outside and cousin and i headed straight to isetan as soon as we were in the building. there was strict check of member card outside. some resorted to applying for the card on the spot.

inside, it was not as chaotic as i expected. but of course the crowd started to get bigger after 5p.m.- after office hour. it was like a bazaar in the women's clothing department. you have to queue quite a while to get into the dressing room. that was what dear cousin had to endure to get her suit. luckily she did get it in the end, or else it would have been a waste of time and effort hanging around on that floor.

so these are the bags i came back with. not many lah. they are all supermarket stuff. i got a pair of suede slip-ons from everlast, a pleated black skirt ( i love pleats!) and a handbag for a friend's birthday. oh, and also my sunblock. the hole in the pocket is not that visible. phew!
supermarket bargains. instant noodles from korea and wasabi nuts. they are really cheap so i got 3 packets of each. i dun eat the nuts but brother and mom love them. it was rm7 cheaper for each pack ah. had to get them fast or else they would run out of stock. and poor me and cousin, we lugged the plastic bags around while choosing clothes. luckily a good samaritan was spotted by my observant eyes and the burden was lightened. haha.

that 'porter' was non-other than mr yee, a close friend. he was just hanging around alone while waiting for another friend (mr leong) who was coming back from singapore. we ended up having dinner together. more later. back to the bags. my arms are still feeling the strain of yesterday's holding all those bags and the right wrist too. right arm was all right but not the left as all the bags were transferred to the left. now two arms also painful.

this is super good bargain for members! 50% discount. if you are a non-member, it is only 20%. these leather bags are from jane holli. never heard of the brand before but i think they are nice. luckily i am not into bags. i would have picked either one.
these white ones are from the same brand too. aren't they divine?? white bags are like so in now. i finally utilised my mms function in my phone. sent photos of bags to friends to ask their opinion. and it worked! i finally found a birthday present for a colleague. no more headache and worry.

while waiting for mr leong to arrive, we put the bags into my car and sat outside enjoying the night view. cousin and i grab a lil' bite of some bread we bought. hey, i did not have any lunch that day! the view was beautiful and thanks to my camera phone, i managed to capture them and share them with you. hehehe.

clear? nice?

fountain show outside klcc. the lights around were so bright. bane or boon?? cousin said, kl is after all known as the city of lights.

when everyone was done with sight seeing and waiting, we headed to alexis bistro in great eastern mall, ampang. my first time in this place but i have heard about it and read about it, so my expectation was kinda high of this place. too bad, what i experienced was not as flattering as what i have read.

mr yee booked this place because shanon shah was supposed to be performing that night. but due to unforeseen circumstances, the performer had switched to a janice yap. sigh, her performance did not live up to the credits given to her in the ad outside. she sang out of tune, and her cover version sucks (she spoiled lisa loeb's stay!!!) . luckily she managed one of macy gray's song quite well. that was her saviour. her back-up singer sounded way better than her. he was good and i think the applause was meant more for him when the song ended.

the crowd was mostly made up of expats. so obviously the prices of food are somewhere near what they can afford as well. a tad overpriced i will say. haha, a glass of ice lemon tea rm10.50. the most expensive i have ever had. there was only one burning pocket hole that night. mr yee's. he owed me dinners, so he foot the bill. yeah!

the started mr leong ordered. some pita bread with three choices of dipping. dunno what those white ones are, but the green one is guacamole. yummy. read about it in one book and i finally got to taste it.
my dessert. pavlova aka mixed fruits meringue. my first pavlova. hey sis, you know how to make this?? i dun really like the cream though, it was just too creamy for a person who does not take milk. plus i was quite full already by then. what a waste. cousin ordered something similar but with nuts and the cream was chocolate cream. much better. but the best went to the guys' tiramisu. it was good. one of the best tiramisus i have tasted, well i have not tasted that many good ones.

it was really a fun night with a lot of banters. thanks to two talkative ones, and i, the one who prefer to be the listener and observer, got my entertainment for the night. talking is really not my department and i think even when it comes to answering those questions on boy-girl relationship, i am just hopeless. i guess i am just as lost as the questions.