Wednesday, May 24, 2006  6:30 AM
London spree
I am officially suffering from major jet lag. It is 6:28am and I have not slept. It is now 11:28pm in London, where my body is screaming I should be. And I thought after that deep 13 hour sleep I got last night causing me to be almost an hour late in meeting Jan, Fel and Luqs (am so sorry, my dears), I would have recovered totally. After all, I didn't really suffer from any when I arrived in London, so I don't understand why I'm going through this now. So I've been watching all the episodes my all important and efficient and favourite Denise (thank you, sweetie!) has taped for me while I was away, and the next thing I thought of doing was to cook breakfast for my family. But we all know that I'd probably burn the kitchen down first, so I did the next best thing. I rang MacDonalds delivery and ordered some breakfast! :)
So as I'm waiting for my Big Breakfast to arrive, let me backtrack a little to my last few days in London. Was spent mostly with my eleven-year childhood best friend, and also had a lovely time with my best piggy pal. Ling (the piggy pal) and I went down to Camden Town on Friday, which is a really cool punk and rock place, where they have flea markets like those in Hong Kong, albeit way overpriced. The scenery's really pretty though, a little bit like Venice with those little boats and canals and overhanging trees. Also visited Ling's university at Holborn, the highly-ranked London School of Economics where I met her (rather) cute Singaporean guy friend and also bought a funky shirt from the gift shop! I am super impressed by LSE, by the way. It's right smack in the middle of town, near Oxford Circus and Covent Garden, looks like a shopping street and has two pubs in school itself. Then April arrived from York and we had this fantastic dinner at a Chinese restaurant famous for its roast duck. We ate like starving animals, and because white rice there is so expensive (£1.60 for a single person's portion, which is S$4.80), we ended up eating white rice with the yummy sauce even when there was no more duck left. It was so good meeting up with my SALA girls once again, the only regret was that Rah wasn't there to make the picture complete.
The next two days with April was reminiscent of our Genting trip in 1995, where we slept together in a double bed (the bed definitely seemed bigger when we were nine!), talkedtalkedtalked, did more shopping at Oxford Circus, Harrods, Selfridges and Covent Garden and went to All Souls Church at Langham Place on Sunday where there was this awfully cute drummer who was sitting just two rows away from me playing the drums. I was paying attention to the sermon, mind you, it was about the "Spirit of Truth", but that drummer was cute. In case you're that cute drummer playing at All Souls at the 11:30am service on 21st May, feel free to buy me a ticket back to London to see you, and your drums. :)
I miss London, and Bo, April and Ling already.
I've decided to do an inventory of my purchases in London, like how Becky Bloomwood did in the first Shopaholic book, just to keep track of my deficit balance of accounts. This does not include stuff I bought for my friends, or whatever my mom kindly decided to buy for me, or food or transport but just things that I bought for myself with the money I changed and that wonderful thing called the debit card.
Amelia's London Spree
H&M greenish-grey top - £3.99
H&M pale peach top - £4.99
H&M black top - £5.99
H&M faded red top - £9.99
H&M charm bracelet - £1.99
H&M white bracelet - £2.99
H&M gold necklace - £3.99
H&M mustard yellow bag - £12.99
Topshop belt - £7.00
Topshop shoes - £13.50
Dorothy Perkins bracelet - £1.00
River Island blue top - £5.99
River Island denim shorts - £25.00
LSE top - £11.95
Gold bag from Camden Market - £9.00
Teenage Millionaire top from Camden Market - £6.00
Aldo belt - £2.50
Lush lip balm - £3.95
Boots lip salve - 79 p
BikBok top - £8.50
Claire's Accessories ring - £2.00
Claire's Accessories mesh bag - £1.00
Superdrug earrings - £1.99
Harvey Nichols chocolate praline biscuits - £1.95
Gap top - £4.99
Wimbledon Martina Hingis poster - £3.99
Wimbledon postcards - £2.00
Vintage earrings from flea market - £2.00
Marks & Spencer Honey Roast Wiltshire Ham potato crisps - £1.00
Marks & Spencer Four Cheese and Red Onion potato crisps - £1.00
Marks & Spencer Dutch Shortcake - £1.00
Hershey's Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (x2) - £2.00
Krispy Kremes - £7.95
Selfridges chocolate - £1.99
Glamour magazine - £2.00
Sugar magazine - £2.20
Cosmopolitan magazine - £3.20
LK Bennett gold pouch - £19.00
This list is getting too long. I cannot remember what else, and add about £30 more to that list for stuff I got for my friends as souvenirs which I'm not getting money back for. And another £10 to things I bought for my mom and dad. So that is £203.36 just on myself, which is about S$610.08, plus that £30 on souvenirs, and £10 on gifts for my parents which I refuse to add. So that's more than S$600 spent just on myself. And that warrants enough reason not to shop for anything in the next month, or maybe two.
And also enough reason never to do my accounts again. It's depressing.
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