Wow for some reason this week seemed quite busy for me and it was also filled with unexpected coincidences.
Monday- Movies with Elisa (blogged about this already)
Tuesday- home
Wednesday- Burwood but first I had to go to Herb's house to grab my stuff from formal (yes that was a while ago), on the way we saw Better waiting outside the Bunnings bus stop.
My reaction: Hey that person looks like Better. In my head- she has glasses that Better wears but her hair looks different but then I remembered reading about how dandelion cut Better's hair during schoolies. Upon closer examination (not really the right word but I can't think of it atm) it was her except she was wearing all black so I assumed that she was going to work. When I got to Herb's house, she was still asleep so her grandma and dad just passed me my stuff and then mum dropped me off at Parra station but before that at the 7/11 intersection we saw Better again, mind you it was lovely to see her backside as she crossed the street. Oh and one more coincidence, remember the duck bag of mine that I bought online, well I saw it on someone else (actually on two people together) and thanks to the incredible zoom on my pink phone I have a photo to show you all.
Got to Burwood and using my skillful public transport intuition I knew that it would be faster to go to catch a fast train to Straithfield before changing to a different line and I was right (: I went past Wowcow there and they have peanut butter flavoured frozen yoghurt, left a few resumes before I had watermelon moochi (gosh it's been so long since I had that)
Thursday- Happy Apple's early 18th birthday party, fortunately the weather wasn't too bad and it was good to catch up with everyone. Btw your rocky road cupcakes were divine Happy Apple. Oh yeah I tried to find Victoria's Basement before going to the restaurant but it seemed too far away so I just gave up and I wonder if Batter ended up running?
Friday- City! Spontaneous trip because I had to go to Gucci to chase up something regarding my wallet and this mark that I want covered under my warranty and whilst I was there I decided to do some investigative shopping. At DJ I tried on some Michael Kors watches and yeah my wrist is tiny so I need someone to recommend a good jeweler/watch shop that can do alterations, went to a few shops to look for some bags that might suit my mum's taste but they weren't that great. After that I passed Hyde Park to go to the other side of city to do some more investigative shopping and I passed this filming site for My Kitchen Rules (yeah I love this show) or at least I think so seeing as everyone was adorned in the MKR apron and they were sitting in front of their food-mobiles waiting for lunch hour to begin. Anyhow I went to the Lindt Cafe at Martin Place and their Dark Chocolate Mocha is so good, I also bought these chocolate umbrellas seeing as they were decent priced and cute btw they have macarons as wells (jelly). Night time- we attempted to have a 4-way awesome foursome conversation on the phone but Batter was busy, btw guys I hope that your applications were successful and that you didn't submit them at midnight
Purchases from Lindt Cafe
Just being a tourist in my home city, Xmas tree in Martin Place
Xmas tree in QVB
Oh yeah did I mention that I had N2, I got blueberry but it melted really fast but that probably had to do with the fact that it was 30-40 degrees outside. Btw if you're thinking of going go after noon because they open late and I had to wait 5 minute but that also meant that I was their first customer of the day (:
Saturday- Home (phew)
Sunday (Today)- Long day
Okay so went back to city but with mum this time, first we went to QVB to look at knives apparently she knows this really good one for cutting meat but its curved (?) and not sold at Victoria's basement so she'll ask around for it. Then it was Westfield Sydney, visited the Nespresso shop, then a couple of the other shops in search of good decently priced bag. We went to the Prada shop and my mum was quite fond of the Saffiano Lux tote that lots of people have except she wasn't ready to commit to so we went to DJs to look at their bags and there's a mini Prada shop there so we went inside to have a closer look at some bags especially the....... which is a new arrival and limited edition. In fact there were only 15 in Australian shelves, 4 in Sydney and we just so happened to pick the last one in Black, matte calfskin leather. The price... well its more than a Saffiano that's for sure and being the last one my mother and I inspected it like crazy, us being asian and all. So we noticed this mark at the bottom as well some discolouration on the zipper and being Prada and all they wouldn't give us a discount ): So we went back to the Prada Westfield shop to see if there were any similar styles and I asked the sales staff and before she gave me an answer Better called my name out (btw she recognised my mum first) and yes I knew she was in the city that day (from our conversation on the phone) but I had no idea when so it was a coincidentally meeting. They had just purchased a black Saffiano when we told them about our dilemma and then after they finished their transaction we went back to DJs before spending another 30min just talking in general oh and yeah we did discuss the bag before we had a 3 vs 1 argument about the wallet that Better wanted (Better get the light blue but in the design that I recommended because then you can use when you're older as well). After some cleaning (of the bag) and some further discussion we decided to get the bag and Better thanks again for offering to take our on a journey and I hope you enjoyed shopping for the rest of the day. NTS Prada boxes are monstrous, I learnt the hard way.
Well the day isn't over and we made good use of our Family Funday Ticket but going to Chatswood next, we were going to go eat at this restaurant I wanted to try but seeing as we unexpectedly (yes I totally did not see this coming) bought something expensive we decided to minimalise our spending for the day by buying bread from breadtop because they were celebrating their 10th anniversary and that meant 15%. Finally we got our hair cut and then boarded the train for a 1hr 10min journey back. Also, this is just a trend that keeps on happening but whenever my mum makes us walk to the station instead either something good or bad happens, from past experiences it either rained really hard or I had to carry lots of heavy bags or I ended up finding (and obviously buying) something I loved.
Technically it's cheaper at Neiman Marcus (where I stole this picture) but apparently if you buy online you forfeit the warranty and apparently these online boutiques don't store stuff all that well. Also I'll be doing an unboxing the bag post on my other blog but for a heads up there won't be many detailed photos as I want to avoid people from using my picture to create a fake. Also today I finally learnt the value of being multilingual seeing as the sales assistant spoke to us in 3 languages.
wow if you managed to read all of this then good job!
