My legs are aching from the long shopping trip with my boyfriends! What's more surprising is, I didn't even experience this during my expediton! That goes to show how much distance we covered in a short time.

If I'm not wrong, from Marina Square to Bugis and finally Orchard, we only sat down and rest at LJS over at Cineleisure to have our dinner. Damn that Herwan. He had (insert amount here) to spend and brought us all over to search high and low for stuffs that can satisfy his desire. I called him the 'Orang Kaya Baru', and it's not the bread spread that I'm referring to here for my non-Malay friends. It's loosely translated as 'The New Rich Guy'.

He supposedly had cash to splash to buy his 'uniform' before school officially starts for him and you should really see him set off! From the oh-so-cheap $10 shirt over at Bugis Street to the classy PUMA shirt, he still had hopes of landing his hands on a Billabong shirt at Flash & Splash at the end of the day. Eventually, he didn't buy what he's supposed to buy but hey! YOU STILL GOT (insert amount here) TO SPARE FOR NEXT WEEK!

Frankly speaking, he's making me envious. I spend peanuts compared to him. No wait, peanuts now costs a lot after the NKF saga. So I shouldn't make that comparison. But you get my point. Here's how I 'dissected' my $50 note into different parts:

• I forked out $12 for a TOPSHOP shirt that I bought together with Haikal, instead of it being at the original price of $16. And he bought the exact same shirt that I bought before! One day, we shall go out together and wear the same piece. Then we shall see how near, or rather how far, we will stand from each other. Hah!

• $10 went into the pockets of one of the many 'Ah Lians' manning a stall at Bugis Street for a shirt. They sure are proving many wrong that 'Ah Lians' cannot be entrepreneurs.

• $20 was exchanged for a pair of faded jeans at the same location. The auntie gave me that buey song look when I paid. Why she not happy that I got it at a damn low price is it?

• $10 flew to the friendly man in the Rastafari shop, over at Marina Square, for 3 pieces of bangles. I just wanna buy their $10 collection but it's over my budget already. Maybe next time...

AND LAASTLY $5 for a present for our very own Xabi Alonso-esque, John Tan, which I shared together with Herwan, Haikal and Mike. We got him something of a unique shape which yet fulfils the criteria of being useful. I hope it's of use to him... for the right reasons. You'll know why tomorrow, if I make the effort to blog about it. =D