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Thursday, April 17, 2008

E & T in HK

With Trish & Elene at Duran Duran. It rained. It was at an outdoor venue and the weather was fine that day until the band started the 2nd song. I felt drops on me and I wanted to burst out laughing coz it was very WTF... thankfully the rain stopped halfway through the show, giving us an opportunity to take pictures of ourselves since DD wasn't very attractive (and very very far away also)
We finished off the night with drinks at Yumla (in canto that means 'Drink Lah') My drink was great - lychee liqueur, white wine and elderflower syrup. I had 2 1/2. We wisely took the pictures before we started to look flushed. Post-drinks we bought kebabs home for supper heh heh.
Leisurely Sunday cruise on the 'Star' Ferry from Central to Tsim Sha Tsui where we checked out the huge ass Louis Vuitton store that is a tourist attraction in itself. I love the 'Star' Ferry. Everytime I board the ferry, I hum this cheesy 80s Channel 8 drama series song in my head. It's the show about China immigrants coming to Singapore to make it good in the 1940s. It's called 'Wu Suo Nan Yang'. C'mon! You know which show I'm talking about! I don't even know how the song goes except for the 'Aaaah.... ahh ahh ahhh' bit in the intro and that's the bit that pops in my head everytime I board the ferry! Hahahahah!
The disgustingly huge LV store that were packed with mainlanders. Very nice store, you can smell the leather the moment you walk in. They had those bar stools for people to sit at while the LV staff bring you the LV bag/wallet/overpricedpieceofleather for you to see. There were plenty of LV clothes which cost on the average... SG1500 for a ugly pair of pants. There were also watches which were very fugly as well. Aiyah I think LV is quite obiang what with checks and monogrammes, and no I'm not being sour grapes about it. I do quite like the 'epi-leather' range, I especially like strumming my fingers on the lines like a guitar but how can one covet something so expensive yet so common? Me no get it. This LV store also boasts of a photo gallery by Chow Yun Fatt and we also checked out a huge photobook by this photographer (can't recall his name now) and the book costs, oh just about HK$30,000 (S$5800). That's a few LV speedys horkay.

2 Comments:

Blogger Daphanie Teo said...

I saw DD at the V Fest and I thought they were spectacular. I didn't expect to enjoy them so much. Then again, it was the end of the night and I was pretty far gone by then. :-P

The pyrotechnics were great and they were still pretty, I thought, considering the drugs and booze and shiny tight pants...

10:50 am

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

your humming of "Wu Suo Nan Yang" song fail leh. i can sing at least first 3 lines. *beam*
i really liked the ferry with the funky sailor uncles! so old school cool

10:44 pm

 

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