1st day of street sales over!! :D I am like chao tired nowzz.... 腰酸背痛. and my shoulders too ): Woke up at 7.30 am and then had breakfast of 5 lemon biscuits + a super diluted half cup of chrysanthemum tea that I made myself with half a packet of chrysanthemum powder. And then after that mummy dropped me off at Raffles City and Han Wei went for 江.
And turns out I was super early and I reached at like what 8.10?! So I stood down there (in front of Starbucks and Mcdonalds and the A Entrance of City Hall MRT (after today I'm really familiar with the place now), looking like a total dork reading Romeo & Juliet and smsing Ting Ting and Sophia out of boredom.
2 random facts on William Shakespeare/Romeo & Juliet!! 1) William Shakespeare died exactly on his 52nd birthday. Like he was born on 23rd April and died on 23rd April, 52 years later. 2) Juliet was 13 years old when she first met Romeo like wth!! And they married like one day later?!?! okay anyway.
So finally saw Ting Ting walking into the MRT and 东张西望ing for me, and I immediately forgot about R&J and went up to Ting Ting and tapped her shoulder (: And we went down to the MRT tapping place and met Sophia and Fiona!! And Fiona was wearing this –ahem- black vest over her LSC shirt and we were like - -“ FIONA. And I went, “Eh Fiona you look worse than me”, cos Ting Ting was commenting on how both of us were in bright yellow (I also wore LSC tee). And that was how Fiona began her day of “not judging her” or something like that.
Got our tins and fairy-wand-like pens and awfully cute badges and started selling!! :D I was with Sophia and she is SUPER awesome at this street sales thingy okay –nods head- Both of us took MRT to Orchard, and on the way there were 5 French guys (probably cos of YOG) in the MRT and they were chao tall (seriously I felt like an ant) and they were speaking super quickly and I didn’t understand (yes I was eavesdropping 0.0 but I couldn’t understand which is not eavesdropping) and told Sophia about how I was going to fail my French Listening.
And I was exposed to 人性丑陋的一面! Like what Sophia was trying to tell me through sms the past few days. Ahem. We walked up and down Orchard like Ion → Wheelock → Takashimaya → Far East Plaza etcetc. And it was super tiring (already) and we only sold that little (I forgot how much ._.) So after that me and Sophia decided to try our luck at Raffles Place, and business was boomz!! :D I mean as compared to Orchard lar. Tsk all the tai tais and rich aunties in Orchard to stingy tsk. Okay not to exaggerate or anything lar, but yea, we had more luck in Raffles Place (: I think cos it was like lunch hour and a lot of people were sitting around chatting and eating and smoking (after today, my life has been shortened severely due to 2nd hand smoking) so yea. But it started drizzling (wtf!) so we had to go back.
But time was not up yet (stop at 12 mah) so we walked around randomly like we went all the way to Suntec and realised that there cannot (cos like got no open space or anything). And Sophia suddenly 心血来潮 wanted to take Circle Line, so we took the Esplanade station (which is actually at Suntec -.- so I don’t get why they don’t name it Suntec instead) to Dhoby Ghaut and from Dhoby Ghaut we took red line back to City Hall which is like one gigantormous round. So from 9 am to 12 noon, Sophia and I sold 22 stuff!! :D so about $66 in total (: 欣慰ness~
Had lunch at this cute sushi restaurant at Citylink with Sophia and Ting Ting and Fiona. Ate teriyaki chicken, and the other three people were not very full and bought more sushi. I decided to 省钱 and not buy. And the other three people also smothered their sushis with wasabi, especially Fiona who was egged on by Ting Ting. So it was very interesting watching Fiona put the wasabi-smothered-sushi into her mouth and slowly chew chew chew, and have this very 难为情 expression and try very hard not to cry etc.
After sushi, we went to OP, which was having a 20% storewide sale!!!!! :DDDD I want!!! And their shirts were like OOO: I WANT!!. Ok nvm. Ting Ting and Fiona and I were having a discussion whether it was pronounced as O-P (separate words), or Op, like one word =.= Then we went to MPH which was having an up to 90% off sale!!!! And there were many people and we walked around boliaoly (well okay for Fiona maybe) and Ting Ting and Sophia and I kept asking each other, “Should I buy this book? Should I buy this book?” I picked out a book but decided not to buy it to省钱 (trying very hard, apparently). And the children books were selling at like $3, and that Brisngr (or whatever) book by Christopher Paolini (I think) was going at $6 (I think) and Sabrina (who joined us then cos she just finished Wushu training) was like, “-feels cheated- I bought that when it first came out at like $40-$50!!” And then I 刚好 saw
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (Stephenie Meyer’s latest book) behind the counter (cos it was new), and I was like, “OMG I MUST HAVE THAT!!! OO:” Well, there goes my省钱ing spree. Ah well.
Went to MOS Burgers in Raffles City so Sabrina could have her lunch. She and Fiona also bought a packet of French fries each which I constantly stole. Seriously, MOS Burgers French fries are waaaaaay better than Mcdonalds one. Sophia also bought the corn soup which I recommended :D but didn’t buy for myself larh. 省钱ing again. Sigh.
Then me and Sophia bought bubble tea!! :D it was a necessity ohkay, cos I was really thirsty ): Then we went back up again and just as we were about to go back to the booth right, Ting Ting and Fiona were attracted to Accessorize, so we went in and I was oohing and ahing over all those preetty little thingums that I couldn’t buy ): The earrings were awesome okay, but super duper ex. Like one pair of nice studs (I forgot the shape o.o) was going for like $10. Ridiculous TTM. Sigh the thing about window shopping )): It makes you go, “OMG I want that but I can’t!!”
Started the 2nd round of street sales, now with Sophia and Sabrina (: we went to a place near Dhoby Ghaut and (amazingly), sold out all our stock in like 1½ hour!!! :DDDD we were like super happy and high!!! :DDDD ah~~~~~ then we went back to the booth there and tried to put on our poker face and told Daphne that we lost our stock like - -“ And Daphne really went, “WHAT.” like we expected xD okay anyway I was the one who let the cat out of the bag (cheem language –waggles eyebrows-) because the people manning the booth were staring at us like … while we were making a fool out of ourselves. So we got a 2nd batch of things to sell )): yes sad face. This time we went to Raffles Place again (: and when we were done, we were left with 8 out of 22 things :DDDDD
SO IN TOTAL TODAY, MORNING SOLD 22, AFTERNOON SOLD 44, TOTAL SOLD 66!!!! xDDDDDDDDDD super happyz. Oh and yes, through both sessions, a lot of people donated but didn’t want the badges/pens, so I went home with 13 badges in total o.O now of which 10 are pinned to my yellow sunflower hat bought from Malacca!! :D (I gave 3 to my brother)
And then when we finally 下班, I was like walking through City Hall MRT to get to Raffles City and halfway thru I was like, “OMG I CAN’T FIND MY HANDPHONE POUCH!!!” and I was really super 紧张 cos yea don’t need to explain right, but in the end it was in my bag - -“ I seriously have no recollection whatsoever of putting it into my bag okay.
Waited for mummy and yee ma and brother for like half an hour+ at the same place I waited in the morning. This time I didn’t look too much like a dork cos there were other people there. Then I also bought a medium sized cup of Coke from Mcdonalds, and finished it before they arrived. Okay so it was more than half an hour. And I had to brave another croluswder (crowd + cluster) of smokers (there were like more than 10 of them there lors) outside to throw away the cup, because there weren’t any dustbins in the nice aircon waiting place, like wth is this right.
And finally, went to the Joo Chiat place to have dinner at the steamboat place. I ate a lot ): And when we were finally done, I had this super bloated stomach. It actually protruded out!! Sigh. So 丢脸. I was trying to suck it in lol :P
I am trying to upload pics but it seems as if the internet connection a bit the 怪 leh so cannot ):