Shopping...

Like a demon on your shoulder you have nowt to do but just go with your instincts. "Is it a good bargain?" "I can't remember the last time it was this price!" "Even in this climate they match the same amount as it was way back whenever" "I can't believe it's not butter!"

Usual suspects, usual excuses, but it's always a pleasure for me to even just window shop. Buying will hurt my pocket but even window shopping can and is my guilty pleasure. £1.30 a bus trip is the cheapest way to the shops and that's not even including the cheapest way to eat. Possibly a Tesco meal deal £2 or if you're gonna push the boat out and indulge that's another £4 for a McD's meal which only lasts you for a couple of hours then the salt kicks in and you need to get a drink nearby. All in all you spend about £10 just to go window shopping and bring nothing back =( but as i've spent my £10 i think it's a justified relaxation therapy. Also if i'm with friends then i'll be even less tempted to buy stuff. I don't exactly have a svelte figure to die for and my tastes range a bit sometimes. So when i wear my stuff then no one says anything but when i look then people discuss my tastes which i dun like i just buy and wear. xD

Well my spoils for today is a Uniqlo hooded t-shirt short sleeves. I prefer long sleeves myself but i guess i can wear a Uniqlo heattech underneath. Can you tell i'm a fan of Uniqlo products?

Marked down from 12.99 to 4.99!  <333 Can't say no to that now can we ^^

As well as topping up my collection of HEATTECH sturff i'm pretty much sorted for the cold weather coming in. oh that reminds me i have a t shirt with a cartoon silhouette of a dog? anyways some helpw with ID's the shadow will be a great help for future reference when people ask "what's that?" "ehhhh duno dog? 8D"

Valentines day........

Another year another way of telling the singletons in peoples life "aww its ok you don't have someone, one day you will"

And what of those who are in a relationship? Just because i don't see my dear beloved constantly as oppose to other "unimportant" dates? Well still sucks when you "celebrated" the day by just going for a meal and everything was just very normal and average. How bringing this up with them makes me the bad person "oh but you don't like flowers" that's not an excuse to skive off of doing nothing! Effort! you can get me a cactus for all i care it would be nice to have/see /do something different to make the so call day "special" not that i don't love you with all trimmings and you're the light of my life etc and i know we express this every day and so on, well would you remember celebrating valentines apart from "oh we saw each other and had a meal" as oppose to the other times we've met? clearly nothing significant to make it "feel" as though you were celebrating valentines apart from that date.

So, I have nothing to show for my work and years of commitment and efforts of going out of my way to make time for you! Not even small lindt chocolate bunny! (so so cute by the way if you buy more than three and put them together)

So yep love you lots big hugs hate not being able to see you on a working day, as it's a working day and although my job is stable i need my sleep and we've celebrated it together so all is fine right munchkins? lots of kisses and hugs from your one and only with lots of whipped cream and cherry on top (metaphorically ofc as i have nothing to show you of this unless you want a cherry on an eclair)

Happy valentines day to one and all!

Shafting of responsibilty

Go on be honest, you know you've done it; you know you're the one being shafted onto; you know a cheeky sod who's done it. Either way it's not cool when you're on the receiving end and the thing is both parties know whats going on. But in comes the pleasantries and the sarcastic undertones that come with making the other person to take up their work. When it's called for you then go do it you little s***.

I don't care if you have "washed" your hands off them, clearly only you have declared this and have not done a proper job. If you have then you wouldn't still be getting notifications and follow ups. Just because you say this is this when there has been no change to your sitation doesn't make it any better.

So in other words man up! take your responsibility and hand it over gracefully not like some spoilt little humpty dumpty to those who are willing to accept it. Don't just walk away with tail between your legs and get another "representative" to do your dirty work and clean up.

F***ing loser.

Sorry, ranting today because now it's getting me involved and clearly you're starting to make it personal. I can drag it out and throw it back in your face and put you on the spot if I wanted to. But it's not my place. However you bring it to my yard I will hose you away you cretin.

Happy Chinese New Year?.....

So since my mum's a sucker for traditional this and that. The first Sunday after the official Chinese New Year (3rd Feb this year) is "time to go to China town, spend and hour finding for space and waiting an hour to be seated and eat" day.

As usual my mum drags us outta the house and orders us to take her there, we spend an hour looking for parking with the mother at the back spouting "didn't i tell you to wake early so we can get here early for parking?!". Well sunshine i'm sure all those hundreds and thousands are thinking the same thing. Doesn't help that shaftsbury Avenue is actually closed off because the "celebrations" spill onto the streets. I say celebrations with alot of sarcasm because it's not really celebrating anymore, the only thing that's celebratory is just the lion/dragon dances that go around the shops. Although something new this year is that they  created a "wishing tree", whereby you would usually write down a wish on a piece of paper, tie it to an orange or orange looking/satsuma like thing and throw it into the branches of a tree. If it hangs then your wish might be granted or has some possibility of coming true, and they usually say the higher the better. So there's people throwing lile bags of polystyrene balls at the tree. Very cute if i do say so myself.


Sooooo finally getting seated around 2.45 we get down to the main deal, eating. And what do you know, mum's getting all hysterical about missing out on seeing the "stuff" and it seems like you can't get away from it more like. A Lion dance troupe comes round the corner and i get a nice view from the 1st floor window. Honestly speaking the best performance was the one i saw a good few years back, the two guys who was the "lion" end on the other guys shoulders and turned around and the drummers were really loud and it really drew me in. This was.....the usual round the mill thing, arrive, prance around, slooowly grab the greens/money (i thought they were carnivorous ;) ) slowwly shred the greens and then throw em around the place. dance around a bit more then leave to go to the next one. Maybe the more money you pay the more effort they put in?

After all that and a minor accident with a little boy attempting to throw a bean bag and knocking his mum's food out of her hand and onto my mu.not much has really happened.

Oh and ofc the yearly tradition of greeting the "money god" and getting a small red pocket of 10p. My mum says "it's all about sincerity and not the money2 then goes back a couple of more times to be "extra sincere"  ^.^


Some pictures to go with the post.

The "Wishing tree"

The throngs of people just before a lion dance goes down