i decided to indulge kai on her last day of exams [having indulged myself yesterday on mine :P] and we had the most interesting shopping experience ever [ok, for me at least lah]. kai was intent on getting this pair of orange-red-multitudeofcolours pair of shoes at World of Sports, so beckoned a straightforward trip to the third floor of Plaza Sing.

or so it seemed.

no thanks to the tinyness of kai's feet, none of the World of Sports had her shoe size! so we wandered from outlet to outlet, from PS to Cine, Wisma and Paragon just to find the same pair of shoes. like some urban treasure hunt. twas funny because we got progressively closer, from not having the shoe size to having one size too big, then the right shoe size but not having the right design. our epic test of faith ended when we finally found the perfect pair at taka :) since kai didn't have cash, i paid through NETS, which meant a 20% discount! yay. cheap :D so, 1.5 hrs and 5 stores later, we had kai's elusive pair of keds.

between that was the not-so-unexpected bumping into people of every manner of association. we met abt a third of my class at cine, who'd just finished watching superman returns. i just had to see cheapskate ling there, trying to save money by watching it on a weekday ;) kai bumped into a myriad of pri sch and sec sch friends from other JCs. i presume they were looking at me as if i had a death wish XD

then, of course, was the climatic moment of the day, when we bumped into ex. i swear i panicked and i didn't know what to do, not least because she was with someone else i knew. thankfully, kai kept her feet on the ground and rescued her ailing boyfriend so all was still well.

after everything, we went back to toys'r'us at paragon, where i entertained/scared a little girl with an ernie puppet :D oh oh, i saw the cutest spongebob + patrick toy there. they talk to each other and move!!! but costs a fricking $70 :( kai indulged herself in her childhood with elmo before the two of us made a fool of ourselves playing on the Xbox [at least it was free entertainment :)]

after a brief hello to cai and yeek, kai says bye and mike waits patiently for the next episode in the tale :)

tomorrow, smifekangkim! [reversal, for a change] after foregoing 'krrish' with yish, krystle and saif for them. germany v argentina! woo! XD