Hee. Just thought I'd blog about some rather mundane things today. Hi there, I wonder how many of you actually read the posts. Please leave a comment so I know you're there. Anyway, let me share with you what I did yesterday. After school ended at 1230, I took a bus (actually its two if you know) to orchard road to meet my mom at shaw centre where there was an Isetan private sale. Gosh, there were so many people going in. The throngs I tell you. Inside it was really crowded, people would be brushing pass you, rubbing against you, hitting, bumping into you. I was rather annoyed so I decided to bump back after a while. My mom and aunt were there. They got lotsa Clinique cosmetics (actually it was my aunt who got the most) which I saw them taking out after. My mom gave me a bottle of mascara and body butter that came in a small package I suppose, that you get free when you purchase a certain amount of cosmetics. They were dividing them out, there was lipstick, lipgloss and some other cool stuff. I smelt the mascara. It smelt nice. I had an exciting time at the jewellery and accessories section where I spent most of my time admiring all the things I never had the time or bothered looking at. Pearls, brooches, bracelets, earrings. I kept looking at them. Sometimes the salesgirl would say would you want to try it on? And i'd say yes. Then she'll help me put it on and she'll ask whether it was to match with a dress. I said no. But after a while I got tired for that and i said yes instead. There wasn't much change in their response. Oh well. I got quite alarmed everytime I realised the necklace I was trying on costs well over one week's allowance. Sometimes its over two weeks and my heart would skip a beat and i'd just take a quick look and ask them to take it off. I liked this pair of black pearl earrings but i decided in the end it would look better if my hair was brown. So I didn't get them in the end. My mom surprised me. She asked what i was looking for and I said a pearl necklace. So we went around 2 or 3 counters looking, trying on the pearl necklaces. Mom! Its over 100 dollars! Expensive... But she went about like that was normal. I got to know a little about pearls cos my mom loves asking the salesgirl questions. There are freshwater and semi-cultured pearls. And pearls don't like perfume and sweat. Liquidy things. The amazingly perfect spherical ones are actually made from grounded powder. I took a fancy to the light pink ones. There were the usual whites, and some pretty darker pinks, and the artificial-looking dark greyish, and the horrendous other colours I shall not bother mentioning. My mom would look for light pink pearls then she'd talk to the salesgirl. I would be gazing around then my mom would suddenly pop in and ask me to take a look at some pearls. They were oddly shaped I said. Weird-looking, because all the pearls I'd ever seen were so.. round. But as i tried them on and took a look at the mirror they looked fine. The salesgirl was pretty good. She said they looked more fashionable (though I cringed at that word because that would mean it wasn't my type) because of their irregular shape, that they were more natural because this was their real form, taken from the shell i guess and not shaped from powder. They were chemically treated so they don't mind touching perfume or water. It was either that one or the other more expensive one (you know how I keep my eyes on the pricetag). Thinking how my mom might be getting a little carried away with this, I said (when the salesgirl wasn't there to hear. Though I realised she was just behind me after a while) these are expensive, you actually want to pay such a price for this? But my mom kept harping on the 30% storewide discount. Expensive as they are you'd never be able to get them at such heavily discounted prices. I felt bad. As I always do when my mom pays for something expensive. You know she even wanted to get a pair of matching earrings for me. Anyway, I said she'd have to wear them too, I mean, she's paying for them right? Hee. We got 40% off the necklace. And an additional 3% discount from the Isetan store card. Man, I didn't think I'd be one necklace richer by the end of the day. I played around with the necklace when I got home. I really liked it. The best part is that the clasp is so easy to take out and clip together. :) Thank you mom. I didn't think you'd buy something like that for me.