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just got a nice surprise.. no work for 304 this week! some review thingy going on.. cool.. but i've just found something to counter that.. extra work for 306.. bestest.. they just gotta give us work..

anw.. went shopping with ms N yesterday.. it was a purely shop-for-shoes trip.. great deviation from the boring work-towards-honors skool life.. we went marche for lunch.. and though i haven't been there in ages, nothing much has changed.. neither have i.. i ended up eating the same old fare as i always do.. we had... rosti with mushroom ragout.. and crepe with caramel bananas.. Well, I was considerably full after the rosti, what with the high level of carbohydrates and fat intake.. but i couldn't miss the crepe after coming here..

IMO, marche's got the best dessert crepe i've ever had.. i might be possibly shortsighted, or ill-exposed.. for i've only tried crepes from 2 other offerings: Out of the Pan and Crepes n Creme.. I gotta say OOTP offers better savoury crepes considering that they've got a better variety of ingredients to choose from, and an even nicer ambience to go with it.. (ok i'm diverting!! this is NOT supposed to be a comparison of the restaurants.. just the dessert crepe!!) ok.. back on track.. first.. let me tell u why marche's crepes are good..

1. the crepe is thin enough to taste crispy and light, and not doughy
2. the custard is gooood
3. the sauce they use for the caramel bananas is gd too!
4. actually at this pt of time, i think i made a mistake in my claim.. i shld say.. the banana crepe is good.. not ALL marche crepes.. haha..

i always have my crepes without ice-cream.. or at least, the ice cream will be on the side if i do order it.. cos unless u eat fast enough, by the time u finish a quarter of this heavenly smelling dessert, the ice cream would have fairly melted and soaked up the crepe... and obviously.. the crepe is no longer crispy, but soggy..

and b4 i continue.. i realise that there quite a lot of ppl out there that pronounce 'crepe' in a variety of ways.. but well.. if u speak british english, (or at least, here in sunny island we try to adopt the UK system,) crepe is pronounced 'krape', and NOT 'creep' or 'crap' or any other weird pronunciation that i can't think of at the moment.. and i shouldn't think that the american pronunciation will differ much from this... someone please enlighten me if i'm wrong..

ANYWAY, the main thing being that most dessert crepes offer ice cream with their crepes.. which just makes everything soggy.. and which is probably why i think all the other crepes don't pass my standard.. but in any case, crepes and creme uses a funny sorta flour for their crepe.. i can't comment on the quality, because i have no knowledge about flour.. but i can sure say they're crepes are not sweet.. and they are mostly tooo thick.. u feel like u're eating a pancake instead..

now moving on to my shoes.. we went like... many different shoe shops.. (oh my gdness!! i jus discovered that i this blog offers quite a huge variety of font colors! ok.. call me suaku)
my aim was actually to get a pair of flats, or maybe with a lil bit of heel so that i can wear them with my skirts without looking too casual (which my beach-looking slippers are doing).. but prior to that, we went to get ms N's shoes which is a pair of high heels... quite nice... dainty looking too... shan't spend too much time on her shoes...

anw.. after looking at heels, heels and more heels, by the time i went to look at my flats, they just looked.. err.. flat.. and of course.. terrible.. because heels give this dainty look to your feet.. (i think it's the thing about having your foot pointed... just try! while sitting on your chair, just point your feet and don't u just think they look instantly nicer? haha.. maybe it's a ballet thing..)

and of course... being totally disappointed in the flats, i ended up getting a pair of heels! and i hope they look casual enough now.. cos i wanna wear them to skool.. dun wanna end up being overdressed u know.. in any case, the heels are sorta like the platform kind.. (too bad if u dunno what i mean.. but basically there isn't a heel sticking out by itself.. think stilettos..) yeah and i think the platform heel thingy makes it look more casual la..

before i end off... gotta say this! we went zara with a cup of bubble tea in our hands.. and subsequently got chased out by the security guard.. rather rudely too.. ms N was kinda bushuang with him for being rude.. but now i think it could've been the salesgirl's doing.. cos he was there when we went in... he din say anything.. it was like after a round of shopping that he chased us out.. must be one of the salesgirls!

and.. not trying to be racist or anything, but it seems to me that zara and mango employ quite a bit of malay staff.. wat's it with spanish fashion and malay girls? in any case, my point here being that zara staff especially, do not possess manners... or is it just that zara stinges on it's staff training program? or that it's HR department is so heavily worked that it doesn't have time to screen its employees? i can tell u giordano's employees are 10 times friendlier..

please, i don't need to followed around or anything, but i would appreciate sales staff that look happier to answer my questions, or those that try to keep their store somewhat neater and not as if it's been raided... seriously the zara staff look at people as if they themselves were the boss, or that we're all just desperate to wear zara stuff and will do anything to get our hands on them..

and why did i mention the malay staff? that's cos the zara outlet at wheelock place which has got chinese staff definitely gave me better service.. may i repeat, i'm not trying to be racist.. the malay auntie at the muslim stall in skool, my ex-neighbours and etc.. they're all nice people.. it's just.. Zara..

maybe i shld just cut n paste this and send it to zara HR.. i wonder if they'll even read it..