The Happy Pill

June 8th, 2006

so what ivan and i did the other day was ..

go household-item shopping!!!

(or whatever the term for it is!)

we hit Metrojaya in Mid Valley, because the things there are so pretty! not to mention cos there was a huge SALEEEE. heeheehee.

as weird as it sounds, i actually like shopping for household items more than i do for clothes. (shoe shopping, however, is another arena altogether!) it is so much fun that i used to always beg the boyfriends to take me to Ikea, just so i can run around the model kitchen displays screeching “I WANT THIS KITCHEN I WANT THIS KITCHEN I WANT I WANT I WANT!!!”

or bounce on the beds

or hide in the wardrobes yelling BOO to unsuspecting middle-aged couples from PJ who opened the doors (and then saying sorry like crazy after that)

or spin around the floors in the office chairs with wheels until i feel like puking

and then finish it all off with the super yummy Ikea meatballs and softserve ice cream!!!

sadly, Metrojaya is not Ikea, but nevermind, can have fun also. we didnt camwhore or anything, cos there were security guards patrolling around looking at us warily .. and these ones actually looked kinda fierce =( so intimidating lah, not cutesy and roly-poly like the ones at Bangsar Village. i felt weird even though i was just taking pics of stuff like plates and pots.

so we went around oohing and aahing at all the pretty plates and cups and saucers. i kept telling myself i shouldnt buy any plates, cos the last time i did (a white one with pink daisies on it), my mom kinda yelled at me, saying that i ruin the plate-sets at home.

huh?

i mean, i know what she means la, that we shouldnt buy single pieces of dinnerware and stuff cos it looks alien amongst all the other sets .. but then it’s not like we eat dinner at home?! or have guests over! correct or not?! the only person who has guests over is .. me!!! and my friends dont give a shit if i serve them pasta with a pink daisy plate …

sooooo i went and bought plates. hahaha. very nice lah my plates. they’re like just plain white plates, one is very funky - it’s actually an assymetrical plate, and another one is like a soup dish, and another one is a big white dinner plate. and then i bought this black bowl. i mean it was like BLACK! have you ever seen a black bowl outside of japanese restaurants?! no, right? so now you can come and see it in my house. below is the display -

and i got the big black dish too! it’s now on my dining table (that is not used for dining btw, more like a storage surface for old school books and letters and shopping bags), filled with little white stones, and used for placing housekeys. *beams* see Ma, i contribute to the household too.

oooh and i got these two little earthenware sugarbowl thingies, that i actually don’t need, but they were EIGHTY PERCENT OFF.

HELLO.

EIGHTY PERCENT.

WHICH MAKES THEM LIKE 2 BUCKS EACH.

who cares whether i need them or not?!?! buy only!!!

i have no use for them so far, cos this isnt the first time i’ve bought sugar bowls on a whim, and here in my house sugar is kept in jars, but i can see how totally perfect they would be to store coins. right? i know.

actually, household-item shopping is really damn fun. how many of you people can look at a wooden spoon and not go “ooooh so cute”? i guess that kinda explains why i have 3 wooden spoons of different sizes, but anyway. towels are something else, too. when i was 16 i went on a towel phase, i’d buy towels for like EVERYBODY on their birthdays - nice, plush, terry cloth towels in their favourite colour, tied up with ribbon. and that was the year i became a bit of a towel elitist. i still am, actually. the only towels i ever use now are white terry towels. you should, too!

Aussino has super lovely towels. that’s where i get all my towels!

(and i just wrote the word ‘towels’ 10 times. towels towels towels. looking at the word towels now, it makes no sense. towels. huh?)

oh hey check out the pink wicker hampers up there. see the one on the left? lovely isn’t it? i totally wanted to buy it but it costs like 50 bucks. and Ivan was standing there by my side, being my voice of reason, cooing - “It’s 50 bucks, you have no use for it, dont waste money, blablabla”. and so i didnt get it. but should i have? should i???? tell me!!! tell me and i’ll go buy it rightaway. hey actually, my brother’s birthday is this Saturday. i’m thinking maybe i should buy him the hamper, then borrow it to use. like i did with his 2004 birthday present, which were 3 Topman tshirts that i really liked. hahaha.

my final buy was this big sand-coloured milk jug which was 70% off. GORGEOUS PURCHASE. i so love it. i dont know why it’s so appealing, but it just is. when i closed my fingers around the handle, i simply knew i had to get it. it was a serendipitious experience. 70% discount some more.

all in all i think i spent about rm50. that’s 5 plates, 1 bowl, 2 sugarbowls and 1 milkjug, and a lot of happiness.

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