Rain rain go away

We were home for the weekend to attend a wedding. After which time, it drizzled. Here is a picture of the parents. The one rushing to the car to avoid the hair getting wet...and the slightly slower other half with obvious drops of rain on the camera bag. It POURED and thundered the minute we arrived home. And I got a minizap from the lightning when I held the umbrella up from car to gate.

Oops

This may happen to you too. Our attempt at getting the banana tart out of the aluminium foil it came in.

Carbonated water

Picture taken from livestrong.com

Hooked on this for the moment. Infusing carbon dioxide into water gives it a rather odd taste and gulping this down takes a bit of effort. You'll hate it at first but it'll grow on you after a bit. I wonder tho...those one pass more gas ...*ponder*

Mind the Gap

And it started oh-so-well!! I had a lovely lead with the letter "J" you can just about see the word at the bottom of the scrabble screen. After which, it went downhill steadily and ending with the "GAP" between winner (meh) and loser. Boohoohoohoohoo. NO names were changed in the picture....as a true sign of humility and humbleness (Grin widely)

The weekend for longchamp spotting

It would appear that I give in too easily sometimes. How else can I explain the fact away....that I spent Sunday afternoon at ( hold your breath and wait for it ) Petaling Street. That's right. The DAD watched a program on tv on the best hokkien mee evah! Situated in front of some building. 3 generations of cooks. And the opening hours was impressive. That program must have had some sublimimal pull because despite not actually remembering the name of the shop, nor the exact location....the DAD persevered and the we eventually sat down at a restaurant which sold hokkien mee. The hokkien mee was mediocre. So it would appear, the DAD has succeeded in leading us to places with crowds in a futile attempt to get the goods. ( read car show trip please and then sympathize with me)

Now that I've gotten that off my chest, let me get on with the ROWS of fake longchamp bags I saw. Some of them had some neat stitching but the giveaway is the feel of the canvas. Fake canvas feels smoother, looks shinier and folds in a rather undefined manner.

Those interested to know...the fake ones cost RM 30....and as we walked away, the price came down to RM 25:) I didn't stay on the bargain. My original la pliage and I moved decidedly towards the direction of the carpark and home.

Sunday walk

The red colour caught my eye. Passed this during the post-breakfast walk before having coffee. Happy Sunday everybody. It'll be a Looooong time before we have a long weekend again.

Longchamp replicas

The handles are similar to the original 

Woohoo, look what I found after breakfast this am. some bags reminiscent of a certain more expensive brand. The handles are remarkably similar. Stitching was a little less fine and the printed picture spoiled any chance of it looking posh. Oh dear ....

The original Longchamp makeup clutch 

The real thing, perfect pencil case material. My next purchase.

Smurf Village update

Not my village...I'm currently at Level 30

Uploaded the new update which was released in November. I've yet to find Marco smurf and the night scene makes it difficult to locate my butterflies to beep their XP. Harvesting takes just that bit longer too. Of course you can over rule this day/night theme but I won't.Is it just me or do you find the start up slower?

Booksale time!

 Did you know that Georgette Heyer also wrote whodunnits and not just soppy romantic novels? And look at the price of these books. Just RM20....very cheap. I found these yesterday evening at Plaza Damas. The sad thing is, I have them all already...and I didn't buy it for RM20. Booo

This is another series which is not readily available. Last seen at Kinokuniya and it was priced at RM35.80. Here it is at ( guess guess ) RM20.

Modalu bags

While we're on the theme of bags this morning, Allow me to share with you what you may want to buy to look hip and young. I can't say I'm immediately attracted to these but when seen on a certain almost-royal-lady you must agree it looks rather nice. So nice she has it in a few colours. Here are the pictures to prove it. ( The bag comes in black crocodile,oak crocodile, black leatherm brown leather, tan leather, shark and red leather)

How let's just see what so special about this bag.
1. Handles look solid. I suspect the shoulder strap isn't. Just a hunch
2.It can fit the ipad/laptop  and others. After all, its a portfolio bag its meant to.
3. It looks super cool

Pippa Middleton Modalu bags

Would you be seen with this?

This is not a Longchamp La pliage ( obviously) neither is it a Modalu ( Seen enough times on Pippa middleton to be renamed after her...such is the price of fame). It is a shopping bag by Harrods. Let's have a show of hands ( don't be bashful) those of us who own such a bag!! I must confess to almost owning one. Possible ones to tempt me would be:

1.Knightsbridge Map Shopper ( Medium tote) and the a matching mug please

The mug is lovely! 

Bought this fake version in HK for mum

2. And I would also add this to the possible must-haves from the tote-bag range. I had a bag like this ( similar only in material, given to me by my granny many years ago which I used diligently day in and day out. It came with a pencil case and some pencils.

A delicate cream colour and neat lines. Perfect for violin class

These macaroons, they are everywhere...

Harrods has jump on the macaroon-bandwagon 

Spotted at a respiratory conference....2 macaroons(bleah) in a rather cute box(yay) 

Spotted at Ikano...en route to eat Steam boat!

I cannot think of anything nice to say about these so best to say nothing at all:)