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Anyway, i had a shopping dream last night about us! We were at a church camp in malaysia, and we were supposed to be playing a lame game in a shopping mall. Naturally, shu, melia and i escaped into the shops. There was a chingchong t-shirt store with chinese new year canto music blaring in the background, but the t-shirts were fabulous. Imagine your junkfood-type prints at pasar malam prices (i have a mouthful of words for pasar malams, but that shall come another time). Unfortunately we were broke, and we agreed that we'd come back after collecting cny money. Then it was a mad race through the shops before the game-time was up. "Should we be going back?" i kept asking, annoyingly paranoid and prudish in my dream, what a horror. But shu and melia just ignored me and kept shopping. The last stop was Aussino -definitely influenced by their hall decor talk on sunday- which was filled with pretty pretty cloth lanterns for the bedroom.

Shu showed me this pillowcase with a huge terry cloth mousehead stitched onto it. It had the most enormous ears any mouse has ever had in the history of applique sewing. "Isn't this so cute?" she gushed in her genteel shu way. "We got one each for our room!" The pillowcase was a washed-out hospital blue, and the mousehead was puke-brown. I had nothing to say.

Melia yanked out a metallic peach pen and bent over the cashier counter to write her name on her pillowcase.

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Bad case of dream shopping, i know. But i've had worse, in which my bcbg-and-ninewest friend bought knee-high camel-colored suede boots with embroidered flowers in all the colors of the chinese rainbow from a BATA SALE. So be grateful for your ugly pillowcases, because at least they were from aussino.

julie

What's hot:
Bags are outsized or detail-heavy, sunglasses are bold and bug-eyed, wide belts cinch the waist and shoes play to colourful, quirky extremes.

One of the joys of online shopping would be the satisfaction you get when you fill the wish list up with all your favourite fantasies! Especially so at branded boutiques! The wish list makes you feel important because you know that once you get that certain something like that coveted Hermes Birkin or yummy Manolo's that's befitting of Sarah Jessica Parker, its as if your wishes came true! And also it all adds to the glam factor of shopping online. Imagine having to squeeze in small fitting rooms, after falling in love with the cute Oscar de la Renta dress and someone else grabs it before you even whip out that American Express, you can get it all first hand online!

This is somewhat similar to registering either your engagement party, or post wedding party, or even your first newborn's babyshower at Tiffany's or Louis Vuitton. This tradition should be embraced wholly because who would like breast pumps when you can have gorgeous LV pumps?! And your poor baby might have to suffer with ugly jumpsuits when he or she can enjoy adorable baby DKNY or baby Burberry jackets... Not forgetting matching mummy and child outfits! Moreover, its doing your guests a favour! They now do not have to think of what to get and rack their brains over something so easy... And spare them the embarassement of having to change the gift just because its too ugly or doesnt match with your favourite jeans. Plus, your child would love you for not publicly humiliating them in public with revolting barbie doll dresses. Just because babies can't talk doesn't mean they don't appreciate beautiful things. Research have proven that babies are naturally attracted to beautiful things...

Just do yourself a favour and get a super hot husband with equivalently attractive personality and make gorgeous babies! Your child will not only thank you once they know the whole Prada, Gucci talk, it just screams GLAM!

Toodles!

-Shu

In life, most people belong to different organisations, or religious or social groups. If not at the moment, at one point or another in their lives. The bane of belonging to an organisation or social group like this is that it requires some kind of identity - be it free bags, t-shirts or towels - there will be that distinct logo printed on the article that people belonging to the organisation proudly adorn. Sometimes, they make you pay for the t-shirt or bag which supposedly makes you feel like you belong.

The question is, what if the thing you're paying for is the ugliest thing in the world and totally cramps your style? Being a glam girl, do you have to compromise on the fashion statement you so painstakingly make out for yourself by dressing like the others? You'd think, for example, if the t-shirt were nice enough, you would consider wearing it. But what if the cut is totally wrong and if the t-shirt is designed in such a way that is obviously biased against the female population? Should you take matters into your own hands and design a new t-shirt for the good of the rest of the organisation you belong to?

Alternatively, you could make the best of this dire situation, especially if your social or religious group requires you to take a unified group photo in the t-shirt that will be pasted on the notice board for the entire world to scrutinise. With belts, heels and a little ripping off the parts you do not fancy, you could do wonders to the once mundane looking t-shirt and turn it into a perfect outfit.

-melia