Goodbye

You will always have a special place in my heart, because you were my first. It's been a rough ride together and I know I never treated you well, but I hope you'll forgive me...

"Goodbye, my beloved Crapmobile..."
3.2.09

Extreme Shopping

So Ness, Frank and myself decided to ditch the beach for some extreme shopping today.

Them: Sif you'd go shopping if you can go to the beach...
Us: Sif you'd go to the beach if you can go shopping...

Well I'm sure the beach was heaps of fun, but here's a little recount of our shopping adventure today.

Girl Power + extreme shopping + BOXING DAY SALES + Britney = 1000 x AWESOMES
Frank = Crying

So the plan was to meet at Ness' place at 8:30 this morning and then we'd go to Carindale for a full day of retail therapy. However, my day began at about 8:32 when I received a phone call from Ness...

Max: *rubs eyes* Hello...?
Ness: Oh hi Max! We were just wondering if you were still coming today...
Max: OMGSHCRAP!!!

Fail. But I quickly put on some (strategically planned) clothes and bolted out the door:

• Black singlet for layering... or conveniently trying on clothes in the middle of the store
• Jeans to go with almost everything
• Handsfree shopping-friendly messenger bag
• Marathon-friendly shoes

Bargain hunting begins at 0900 hours...

Sales at David Jones
50% OFF
Us: YAY!!!!!!
Original Price: $500
Sale Price: $250
Frank: WTH?! This is not my idea of a sale. My idea of a sale is like $2 shirts... :(

Myer Madness
Ness: Okay, let's split up.
Max: Yeah, just keep your phone on.

Mini Adventure 1 - Checkout Racing
*Max and Ness meet up again*
Max: What's with these kilometre long queues?
Ness: I reckon! We're gonna be here forever!
Max: Start lining up, I'll go see if the line at electrical appliances is shorter...

*5 minutes later*
Max: No luck, it's just as bad over there.
Ness: ... *moved 30cm forward since Max left* Maybe you should line up in that queue coz they have two people on registers.
Max: IT'S ON. I'LL RACE YOU. *starts lining up*

*15 min later, Max actually gets to the checkout first despite Ness' headstart*
Max: Come over to this line, we can put it through together.
Ness: Nice!
Max: Do you have Myer One?
Ness: Huh? No.
Max: You can use mine then.
Ness: Nice!
Max: You don't get any discount. But I get your points.
Ness: :(
Woman Behind Us: OMGWHAT'SYOURFRIGGINPROBLEMHURRYUP!!!!!!!!! *barges in between us and throws her pile of clothes onto Ness*
Ness: :(

Mini Adventure 2 - Losing Frank
Enough said.

Stressed Out Shoppers
Extreme shopping is not for the faint hearted as it can be quite overwhelming. I felt a bit distressed myself when I was in Myer, surrounded by masses of people, neverending merchandise displays and angry signs everywhere. But we came across an extreme case where a woman was quarrelling with her 30 year old son outside a shop...
Mum: Why... why can't you just...
Son: NO. I CAN'T. BECAUSE YOU ALWAYS KEEP SHUTTING ME DOWN.
*keeeeeep walking and avooooooid eye contact*

Lunch Break
Ness packed us gourmet buns for lunch and we also had Auntie Christine's legendary fruit cake. So! Much! Yummy! Plus, less money spent on food means more money to spend on clothes! WEEEEEE~~~ As we stood up to leave, people raced for our seats, like they literally sat down behind our bums lol.

Mission: Don't Lose Frank
Ness: Okay, let's split up again.
Max: Yeah and make sure you keep your phones on this time...
Frank: It was on! There was just no reception at Myer!
Max: Okay, keep your phones on but if we're really stuck, just meet here at the entrance when you're done.

*Max and Ness meet up again, Max calls Frank*
Frank: *picks up* ..........................................hello.
Max: Um, we're done.
Frank: ............................................oh okay.
Max: So, are you done yet?
Frank: Uh...................................yeah.
Max: We'll meet you at the entrance okay?
Frank: I'm at the section with the wefoijwelfjwlfj...
Max: What? Where are you?
Frank: I'm at the section wi...
Max: Just meet me at the entrance. *hangs up*
Max to Ness: Man, Frank isn't very good at talking fast on the phone.

By now, Frank is totally exhausted. Later on we find out she was thinking, "OMGSH I don't even CARE what's in these stores anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" You see, extreme shopping is not for the faint hearted. But faint hearted I am not. Nor is Ness. So as we left Carindale...

Ness: Let's go to Garden City! They have Dotti and Bardot and...
Max: YES. WOMANIZERWOMANWOMANIZERYOU'REAWOMANIZER...OH!!!
Frank: *cries*

Extreme Pear
I hear you asking, what is this extreme pear? Let me explain...
Max = 8w + 12h
(And I don't mean width and height...)
Max = EXTREME PEAR
Max + Pencil Skirt = Fail

Harvest Time
And here are the fruits of our labour... well, these are my fruits anyway!



So when are we going to DFO again girls? ;)

We're Big Girls Now!

*Max, Frank and Viv meeting up last night for post-exam celebrations at Tea Etc*

Max: This is so cool! We're big girls now~ We can just go anywhere we like, whenever we like. Like I just told my mum I'm going out for a drink...
Frank: Sounds like you're going out for alcohol.
Max: Yeah it kinda does. Okay, we're big girls now, and we're going out to drink tea! Hahaha...
Viv: We can't even take the caffeine at night, we have to drink things like papaya milk.
Max: Okay, we're big girls now, and we're going out... to drink milk.
Frank: Impressive.

RED!!!!!!

As a result of all things stressful, I did a Vivian and went for a big splurge... on a laptop. Lol~ It wasn't really an impulse buy since I've been saving and looking at them for about a year. Got it for a pretty decent price and souped it up heaps to handle my (not-yet-existant) music production. It's about as heavy as a small house and the USB slots are so tight I feel like I'm breaking something... but I still love it.

Ooh... Special delivery~


















...RED!!!!!!!!!!


















Lol~ Everybody (Viv/Viv = Everybody?) told me to get the purple, but it was too dull for me, although I think it would suit someone who was more elegant and classy. On the other hand... RED!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eat You Up

OMGSH!!!!!1!!1!!one!!! BoA is gonna debut in America...

Cha Eun Taek (Korean version MV)


Diane Martel (American version MV)


She's been releasing all sorts of crap in the past year or so, but this song actually sounds pretty cool. I'm undecided on which version of the music video I like more. On first takes I prefer the Korean one. The American version looks amazingly low budget and BoA needs to get rid of the orange lipstick and get some eyebrows happening, pronto. But then the Korean version is so dramatic that it's really corny?

I'm not hoping that she'll be a huge success in America, just not a complete failure. *Sigh* I think I'll always have a special place in my heart for my super dancing hero no matter what crap she releases.

Video Credits: Platinum from Soompi

Mosaic Mania

Seen a few of these on people's blogs lately and I thought I'd give it a go (procrastinate)!

Flickr these things:

What is your first name?
What is your favorite food?
What high school did you go to?
What is your favorite color?
Who is your celebrity crush?
What is your favorite drink?
What is your dream vacation?
What is your favorite dessert?
What do you want to do when you grow up?
Who/what do you love most in life?
Choose one word that describes you.
What is your Flickr name?

- Using only the first page, pick an image
- Copy and paste each of the URLs into the Mosaic Maker
- Post your mosaic!

Unfortunately, I missed the "first page" thing so I went and found the pretty pictures that I liked...

Heelarious

Extremely high-heeled shoes, such as those higher than 5", are normally worn only for aesthetic reasons and are not considered practical.

Thanks for that enlightening piece of information, Detective Wiki. The notion of high heels is quite simply a paradox. My heart says yes, but my head says no... and my feet heartily agree with the latter. So what's so great about these damned little daggers anyway? They induce high levels of discomfort, they increase the probability of stacking it, and my podiatrist has me on a blacklist.

Well let's take a look at some pretty pictures with long, medical words to strengthen the validity of my analysis. For those of us who never made it into medicine, please refer to the diagram on the right. *click to enlarge*


*sigh* I love heels, but I think I'm just too unco to wear them... all the time.

Figure 1.1 is a graphical representation of the inverse relationship between heel height and the survival rate of passengers in Max's car.