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When I was in Ikea last weekend, I fell in love with this armchair.

It is less than RMB1000 (RM500) here in Shanghai.

But in Ikea KL (according to the catalog), it’s RM849.
Uhuk. Why so expensive wan!!!

My dream wedding mobile…
D calls it the “shaggin’ wagon”. But that sounds kinda rude for something as cute as this. I wonder if there are any nice ones in PJ-KL which are air-conditioned and good for the road.

NS’s gonna help me look out for one. Production house folk have this amazing ability of sourcing for anything. Wonder if her crew will be able to find a Kombi as pretty as this one. Plenty of time from now till October next year!

My clothes are looking horrible and old and frayed.

Didn’t find anything I like that wasn’t a rip off in Shanghai (RMB 200 for one t-shirt? NO THANKS).

So I went to Threadless online and saw that they were having a sale. Some T-shirts were as low as USD 5 each, and some were USD 10 (usual price USD18-25).

I got these. Of course I went for designs that were food related.
And the ones with a good dose of irony.

‘Hunting Ducks’ (David Fleck) and ‘Pancakes Mountain’ (Mapple)

‘Piece of Meat’ (Ross Zietz) and ‘In Us All’ (Luke Ramsey)

All for a total of USD39 (RMB 280) including shipping.
How awesome is that! Love my new t-shirts.

Feel tempted to order a few more. Eeeeek!

Plans to get some exercise last weekend totally didn’t happen.

Instead, I had a Belgian waffle and coffee at this new cafe & chocolatier near my place. It was a solitary breakfast on my way out to buy some sugar to bake some chocolate chip oatmeal cookies.

Went home  to bake the said cookies.
There were about 2 dozen of them.

Then I met up with MY at Ikea. Couldn’t resist an Ikea hot dog (only RMB 3 here) after buying some energy saving lightbulbs for my apartment.

Had dinner (fish and chips) and a pint of home brewed beer at Boxing Cat Brewery, which just opened across the road from my house. The beer was great. The grilled steak salad was lovely. The fish and chips, not so.

Went home and became a couch potato. Snacked on mini prawn rolls (the spicy dried prawn type) given by my Singaporean neighbour. Ate half the pack. Couldn’t. Stop. Damn it. Slept.

Woke up. Cleaned up the house a bit. Followed by brunch with my unit trust agent (who is now working in a Malaysian company 2 hours away from Shanghai). Followed by grocery shopping. Followed by some food packing for the freezer (individual packs for easy daily defrosting/cooking).

Had coffee with the girls. Planned to go for a run after but that didn’t happen. Felt horribly guilty about the gelato I had with my coffee thinking I’d be going for a run after.

Stir-fried some chinese clover with chinese wine and poached an egg for dinner. Finished the rest of those mini spicy prawn rolls. Damn it.

Was wearing something sleeveless today and saw how jiggly and flabby my arms have become. Depressed. VERY, VERY depressed.

Photos to come later (the food, not my jiggly, flabby arms).

I first knew he existed through my childhood buddy LS (I never had enough pocket money to buy my own cassettes then… CASSETTES). I was 10 years old and borrowed her MJ ‘Bad’ album. I was happily singing along to the lyrics sheet (folded nicely inside the cassette box) and absent mindedly put it in my pocket. In it went into the washing machine and of couse, it was ruined. I can’t remember if LS forgave me for that. Hahaha!

I also remember watching the Thriller music video. Two things I always remember watching when I was a kid. Sound of Music (lost count how many times). And that Thriller video. I thought the moves were so cool. *flails arms left, left, right, then right, right left*

He became less cool over the years. But I still loved the MJ of the 80s.
I grew up with his songs. RIP.

Farrah Fawcett also died today.

My childhood memory of her was of her and the other 2 chickies running braless on a hill in the opening (or was it closing?) sequence of the original Charlie’s Angels. I always preferred Kate Jackson’s character anyway. And don’t ask me why I was already intrigued by bouncing boobies at such a young age. Don’t.

RIP.