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Monday, November 03, 2008

There's life!

Yes, this blog is super dusty! I didn't find time to blog lah. I don't even update Facebook that much.

Not so recently I went to Hanoi for a holiday with G where we had loads of pho and braved the insane motorcycle traffic! I should definitely find time to chronicle the trip a bit. What with all my subsequent business trips, that memory might start to get a wee hazy.

2 days after coming back to Hanoi, I went to KL and back to Hanoi again for work. Then the week after that, I went to Bali for a week long marketing conference which was just.... too long.

I just came back from a 4 day work trip (1 1/2 days in London where it was bloody freezing! even in October!) and 2 days in Barcelona for an Il Divo launch event. My highlight was to see Simon Cowell and I did though I was a bit too shy to go up to ask for photos! I did see him coming into our London office when I was having lunch with my UK colleagues at their canteen.

Barcelona was really quite nice though I did not get much time to myself - I had the morning off as I was going to do a generic interview with the band in the afternoon but it RAINED that morning which made walking around quite difficult. I gave up in the end and just sat in the hotel in the afternoon to wait for my turn. I was quite paranoid about missing it. I managed to track down Loewe, Camper, Zara, Mango (all Spanish brands) but didn't find anything to buy. Yes I lust the Napa bag from Loewe, but at 990 Euros (almost 2K), while it was significantly cheaper than in SG, I could not bring myself to buy it! There was nothing nice at Camper either and it wasn't that cheap too - something between 110 - 140 Euros for a pair as well. Didn't buy anything from Zara nor Mango as it was mostly winter wear. Did manage to buy a top from H&M and at the airport, my last attempt to buy something - I acquired a Massimo Dutti leather sling bag at 69Euros (it would have cost S$195 in SG) and finally just coz I wanted something Loewe so bad, I bought a golden pouch thingy made of the softest leather ever. It's so pretty and soft I don't think I ever want to use it! I think I'll take it out every now and then just to fondle it.

Alright back to work. Will try to post pictures. Hopefully it won't be another two months before I dust the dust off this blog and start writing and put up pictures. Hee hee!

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