royinmoonride

All right, except for atas Dolce & Gabanna underwear, I hardly go for atas labels, be it my top or bottom outfits, not unless they were gifts from friends. Of course like many, once in a while we do have some crave, crave for nice design, not so much with the labels. It's just that most of the time you can only see nice stuff in labels. Still I have the habit to ask myself this...


"Do I need this?"

Angel: Roy, you have many pairs of shoes. You don't need this. Don't waste money. Get out of this place now!


Devil: Roy, take it! Remember the last time the similar pair went out of stock, you must have it. And in fact when you were in HK, you went over to this label boutiques to search for it. Plus you don't have a green pair of shoes at home, you desperately need green. And who can resist the label....


Angel: Don't listen to that evil Devil! Look, it's $119 and no discount, you can spend better money with that. Here's Orchard Ion, surely you can find something much better with this amount of money.


Devil: Who says no discount, there's a 10 - 15% discount depends on the item.


Angel: So what? It's $101 after discount of 15%, it's still over $100.


Devil: What's a big difference between $101 and $99? Take it, hesitate no more. And don't forget, it's Fred Perry...


Just when the two of them were arguing furiously in my brain, a polite male assistant (my radar sensed that he could be Xmen) came over and I was a little impressed with his observation.


"This is size 9.5, I left with a last pair of size 9 in the store which I think it will suit you better."


"How you know I'm size 9?"


"It's my job. And Sir, I would like to offer you with a further discount." He said with a warm smile


Suddenly a 'poof''! And the Angel disappeared, leaving the Devil smiling with victory, "now take it."


So i happily got the pair of shoes at 25% discount, which means I had to pay $89 for it. Don't ask me why I got such a good discount, for sure I never wink, I never wore sexy and show Long Gao, I never stick out my tongue, I never release my contact number, I never have eyes contact or body contact, I never 'paul lam par'....i never....


The only buay pie say thing that i did was like Auntie go market buy vegetable and get free 'Cong'...


"Err...this polo tee is in Net price (Nett sign hanging there), I wonder if the one in blue has a little discount?"


He smiled and brought my shoe box and that blue polo to the cash register to key in....



to be continued....

royinmoonride

Last year I trained but at the eleventh hour I was admitted to hospital to had my appendicitis operation. Hence I missed my 1st attempt and I didn't know why I have the courage to register it again.

Anyway, exactly 2 months before the actual day started, I have ZERO practise, not unless u consider shopping the whole Orchard shopping malls as part of the training. I knew I would die tremendously at the actual day, but I always have this very strong determination in anything I participated or challenged so far.

I guess the full marathon thing was a nightmare to me the moment i start running from the start point. I don't know who planned the road but I seriously hate all those turning points. Right from the Nicoll Highway via Middle Road, the NEVER ENDING turning point at National Sailing Center, the Stadium Road, they were completely 恶心!

At Robinson road, I could hear my stomach drumming furiously and I had to endure to Fort Road to get my Big Business done. By the time I finished, I continued running the neverending east coast park. Somewhere at the Bedok Jetty, I had my 2nd ATTACK! Gosh, while other runners are challenging with the time, I had to challenge with my stomach, and again, I had to clear the BIG business. By the time I came out, both my legs went shaky and weak. And the final LS business at the Power Bar station and by then I felt like seeing stars even it was already bright day light.

I thought thing was getting better when both legs started to cramp and no matter how much stretches, how much 100 plus and how much pain relief cream i applied, it didn't help. I started doing a rather fast walkathon, thinking that I surely going to fail my 1st attempt, thinking that I spent more than 30mins for the LS businesses and started my walkathon from East Coast McDonald all the way to end point. At that point there was no issue of energy, I had lots of it but just my ultra cramp legs that stopped me from moving most of the time....

It wasn't a disgrace even I had to walk right to the finishing point, as I know I had to endure the pains and moreover it's my first attempt for full, and the missed of training, the LS businesses....

I gave a call to my colleague...

"Hi where are you?"
"I just reached!"
"How can it be, you mean I walked faster than you run?"

I was a little happy of what I heard, but the better news was another colleague of mine who was at our company 'energy station' and told me this...

"你懂hor, 你离开后一个小时多后他才到我们的energy station."

Oops....which means I quite likely to have secured my 1.2K cash though I have yet to confirm with the rest!

To be continued...