Sunday, December 11, 2005
shopping is a pain, for once
I deserved to be in bed the whole day today because I didn't get a good sleep on Friday night. S stayed over for the first time and I'm just not used to having someone else sleeping next to me. I was down with flu and it was annoying me so I could barely sleep. We had to be up fairly early (read:8am) because he wanted me to go Christmas shopping with him.
It was a nightmare really. Except that this happened on a daytime. Let me re-iterate. Shopping with S is a nightmare. On a few separate occassions in the span of six hours:
Me: Get lipgloss for sis. Lancome juicy tubes are alright I supposed
S: Too expensive. What about a purse?
Me: Wouldn't that be more expensive?
S: You're right. But let's get her a purse
Me: WTF!
At the handbags department.
S: Pick one
I randomly pointed at a DKNY monogram canary color purse.
Me: That looks nice
S: $119. Too expensive
Me: You just bought a $400 PSP for yourself, $119 is nothing right?
S: But this is for my sister. And she hates me. She won't like whatever I buy
Me: You don't want to buy something for the sake of buying it. You would want her to love it and actually use it instead of dumping aside in 'crappy-pressies-I-would-rather-die-than-use-these-section'. If you don't know what to buy, get her a voucher from David Jones perhaps?
S: But I want people to think I'm thoughtful rather than just giving a gift voucher and ask them to get whatever they want
Me: I'd love a gift voucher better than anything pressies that I might not like
S: Okay, I'll buy her those lipgloss
Me: ?!?!!!
At the perfume store picking some pressies for his female cousins. We were staring at some miniatures with cute packagings.
S: Help me pick something for them
Me: How old are they?
S: 16 and 19
Me: Try that Lolita Lempicka, it has cute packaging with purple-ish fake flowers. It smells nice too. I love the packaging, very feminine
S: Okay, get that and 'Sicily' by Dolce and Gabbana
I stared at that boring bottle shape of 'Sicily' and thought, it looks a bit grandma-ish. Nevertheless, I asked the salesgirl to give me a tester. I'm right, it smells really grandma-ish. No offence to people who love D & G perfumes, I'm just never a fan of them. I understand that different people have different taste but seriously, 'Sicily' smells too old for a 19 year old let alone a 16 year old.
Me: Sweetheart, Emily is 16, not 61. Let me pick something else alright
S: How would I know? That 'Sicily' looks nice
Me: You gotta be kidding me. The packaging is conservative and boring. You have such a bad taste, sweetie
At the end, the salesgirl and I picked a lovely light hearted summer perfume, 'D'Ete' by Kenzo gift set for Emily.
It was so exasperating putting up with S that it's not funny. When I stopped to look at my stuff, he was all upset just because I didn't inform him. I'm not a 3 years old girl, I can take care of myself and there is always something called mobile phone that comes in handy if you 'lost' someone in the crowd.
I told him I'm never ever going shopping with him again. He is persuading me to change my mind as his Christmas shopping is not done yet and he promised he'll be good this time. Hah! (We'll see about that but I don't trust him).
*Sigh*
It was a nightmare really. Except that this happened on a daytime. Let me re-iterate. Shopping with S is a nightmare. On a few separate occassions in the span of six hours:
Me: Get lipgloss for sis. Lancome juicy tubes are alright I supposed
S: Too expensive. What about a purse?
Me: Wouldn't that be more expensive?
S: You're right. But let's get her a purse
Me: WTF!
At the handbags department.
S: Pick one
I randomly pointed at a DKNY monogram canary color purse.
Me: That looks nice
S: $119. Too expensive
Me: You just bought a $400 PSP for yourself, $119 is nothing right?
S: But this is for my sister. And she hates me. She won't like whatever I buy
Me: You don't want to buy something for the sake of buying it. You would want her to love it and actually use it instead of dumping aside in 'crappy-pressies-I-would-rather-die-than-use-these-section'. If you don't know what to buy, get her a voucher from David Jones perhaps?
S: But I want people to think I'm thoughtful rather than just giving a gift voucher and ask them to get whatever they want
Me: I'd love a gift voucher better than anything pressies that I might not like
S: Okay, I'll buy her those lipgloss
Me: ?!?!!!
At the perfume store picking some pressies for his female cousins. We were staring at some miniatures with cute packagings.
S: Help me pick something for them
Me: How old are they?
S: 16 and 19
Me: Try that Lolita Lempicka, it has cute packaging with purple-ish fake flowers. It smells nice too. I love the packaging, very feminine
S: Okay, get that and 'Sicily' by Dolce and Gabbana
I stared at that boring bottle shape of 'Sicily' and thought, it looks a bit grandma-ish. Nevertheless, I asked the salesgirl to give me a tester. I'm right, it smells really grandma-ish. No offence to people who love D & G perfumes, I'm just never a fan of them. I understand that different people have different taste but seriously, 'Sicily' smells too old for a 19 year old let alone a 16 year old.
Me: Sweetheart, Emily is 16, not 61. Let me pick something else alright
S: How would I know? That 'Sicily' looks nice
Me: You gotta be kidding me. The packaging is conservative and boring. You have such a bad taste, sweetie
At the end, the salesgirl and I picked a lovely light hearted summer perfume, 'D'Ete' by Kenzo gift set for Emily.
It was so exasperating putting up with S that it's not funny. When I stopped to look at my stuff, he was all upset just because I didn't inform him. I'm not a 3 years old girl, I can take care of myself and there is always something called mobile phone that comes in handy if you 'lost' someone in the crowd.
I told him I'm never ever going shopping with him again. He is persuading me to change my mind as his Christmas shopping is not done yet and he promised he'll be good this time. Hah! (We'll see about that but I don't trust him).
*Sigh*
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