Its Valentine's Day

Its that time of the year again when retailers, especially florists are feeling all the love. The innocent looking part timers have come out in full force armed with baskets and baskets of roses, preying on unsuspecting men who, god forbid, forgot to get their better half a plant.

Ok enough of being cynical. Valentine’s Day is actually quite an enjoyable season…..if you can call one day a season. I spent a good part of my lunch out getting a pressie for my future wife. I actually saw something yesterday, a red handbag from ESPRIT and was going to get it, but…………. My kind and wonderful colleagues decided that they wanted to have a look at it as well. (Think it is just an excuse for them to go shopping …hahaha)

Anyway we made our way to cuppage centre for a quick lunch, (which I will get to at the end of this post) and proceeded to Centrepoint. Imagine the shock I was in when, not one…. Felt that the bag was nice…. Hmmm either I had really poor taste in female handbags …or I’m surrounded by kids with a total different concept of fashion… Well I held my composure, not showing even the slightest sign of panicky and suggested mebbe we walk around.

Things started to pick up from there cos I met my savior. Michelle and Aloysius. These were close friends of Debbs and if anyone knew what Debbie liked, it would be Michelle.

We looked around Robinson and decided on a handbag…. Was about to get it when I saw the price…. Whooo!!!!!…..nope… dun think that is gonna happen today…. How do you justify a handbag that is $150 and it doesn’t even use batteries???!!!!……

Just when I thought all was lost, we went back to ESPRIT. Yes !! there is a branch in Centrepoint. Michelle picked out a black bag and felt that Debbs would most probably like it…. I felt it was a whole lot nicer than the one we saw earlier too…..so a quick glance at the price and although it is still costly for a bag (in my opinion at least)….

I got my Valentine’s Day gift!!!!

Thanked Michelle and went back to work a happy man.

Oh…before I go. Lunch consisted of mixed rice with sweet and sour pork, braised pork, bean sprouts and long beans. The damage…..$3.50.


Heres the pressie all nicely wrapped.....

WISHING EVERYONE A HAPPY AND LOVING VALENTINE'S DAY!!