happy days

we went shopping for our prom dress and shoes on wed, with a budget of 100 and below for dress, and 50 and below for shoes. we spent half the day at far east shopping for shoes bcos there were JUST so many shoe shops, and we ended up buying a bag, earrings, flats, everything but our prom stuff T.T it's called retail therapy haha

my fren eventually decided to stick to her sec 4 prom shoes, and i got a pair of white and silver heels. i thought it wasn't very high bcos it looked 2 inches or so compared to all the other super high heels that we saw, but i measured the heel just now and it's 8.5cm = 3.34645669 inches!!! who knew 3 inches looked so short!!! T.T im going to die in those heels within 10 minutes. and i'm going to be 178cm tall! that's taller than like 99% of the guys in my class >.>

the nice dresses that we saw were too ex, like 200++ and many dresses were not very prommish. then most of those suitable for prom were tubes, and we refused to wear tubes bcos it's accentuates our lack of figure xD it would be worse if it ended up slipping off! i think tubes must be in vogue or something, everywhere you'll find tubes T.T also, most of the dresses were too short for me, and they're not even cheap - at least 100++ which is out of budget!

we went to far east, og, centrepoint robinsons' and takashimaya. in the end liwen got her toga one-shouldered dress from taka at a record 47.70! there are amazing discounts all over orchard, like at least 10% off most of the stuff. i got my prom dress from og's daniel yam (branded kayyy, don't play play). original price was $89, but it was a sale item, so i got it for an even more stunning record of $39! that's 43.8% of the original price!!

the dresses on sale were the cheapest dresses i saw in the entire day, and since i couldn't find any dress i particularly like, might as spend less and choose the cheapest one. esp since we usually wear our prom dresses like once or twice in our lifetime, don't waste the money! my prom dress is not too formal, so still wearable in the future though... ^^

it's a nice red colour, and while i find it rather short, it's not bad. we had a hard time choosing between champagne, silver and red colour, and between different designs, but yeah. that's how it is when you shop >.> if you want to see it, come for prom/wait for photos to be up haha. prom is tomorrow! hope it would be fun...and hope no one cries (unless they wear waterproof mascara hahaha). even though we may not meet again ever (esp the guys), we have had fun times right! and prom should be a happy event!

we had to rush our shopping bcos we don't plan to go out again for prom, so we ended up getting everything in a day. liwen said it's impossible to get everything in a day, but i just proved you wrong so THERE. ^^ though it's super stressful shopping with a mission AND a time limit, more stressful than a levels la! it's physically strenous rather than mentally draining, but it's also an emotional burden you have to carry the whole day!

there was also a class dinner right afterwards, but we were still shopping for the dress, so we ended up late by one hour+ >.< very coincidentally, there was a fireworks display at vivocity that night! it's super nice (better than ndp ones), with lots of star shapes, and lots of blue fireworks. zijun said that apparently blue fireworks are very hard to make, probably because it's harder to see. blue light deviates more from the normal! it was like some 10 minute show, and there were red green pink golden silver orange blue etc, my favourites are the green and pink, and the flower firework where the petals grow out and the middle part explode then the petals explode! i also liked the circles that opened up, looks like a planetary orbit zoom in, though some of the circles ended up elliptical/out of shape, it's still quite good! this is such a pleasant surprise after a day of tiring shopping. we're so lucky ^^

apparently it's in celebration of vivocity's 1st year anniversary! happy birthday vivo! in fact, there were so many photographers there so you can watch it here and find pictures here! (open the links in new tab/new window! don't navigate away from my blog :/)

oh i bought S.H.E's new book!
proof that i got the book xD

ok it's not so new anymore, but i had a hard time getting my hands on it haha, and it's cheaper than i thought! thought would be 30+, but it was 25. and i'm super lucky, i got the last copy of the book at that branch! yay. btw i'm working at google now, so i got the google shirt (:

look at the back!


cute right!

anw i applied for basic theory test for driving ytd. the place is so big, and there were so many people and everyone knows what to do and where to go! i was totally intimidated and lost. i expected a sign saying theory test --> but don't have! then the info counter was so small that i had to walk one whole round before finding it >.> im amazed that there were so many people when it was raining so heavily. i pity the people having their driving test in the heavy rain. i hope mine would be in sunny and good weather!

im learning as a private candidate and taking P3A licence ie. auto car. there were no more test slots for dec, so i booked the earliest date of 2nd jan. i shall mug hard! basic test should be easy, most of the stuff alrd know liao/common sense.

very very coincidentally, i met my pri sch classmate there too! apparently he saw me queuing early on, but he couldn't rmb my name, then so paiseh to go up and forget my name right, so he only came over when i was at the booking station. i couldn't recognise him at first, and there's this awkward silence of 5 seconds as my brain tries to fit his face to a name xD he said something like "hi you're joy right? remember me?"

-awkward pause-

-his face frozen in the smile, my face frozen in a half-smile of non-recognition, thinking why this guy knows my name-

then finally, i remembered him HAHA. aiya so long nv see him, i oso not very close to him in pri sch, plus a levels took up all my memory space, so need recognition lag haha (not the econs recognition lag! xD)

ok i shall end my rambling here and go take a nap. i've been sleeping late and waking at 7+am everyday. seems like my internal clock isn't adjusted to waking late; i just keep waking early. at least it's good for work in the future haha xD

p.s. if you actually believed i'm working for google, happy april fool's day! my bro got the shirt for free when google went to his school for a career fair and gave out free shirts, but it was woman's size so ya. ^^ gotcha!