Monday, January 21, 2008

Lost - in a mall? How silly is that?

Good morning, everybody!
The weekend is over and one thing that I have been fighting with is jet-lag (let's get the silly complaints out of the way first :P). Initially, six hour difference doesn't seem like an awful lot, but check this out - I'm not getting my highly essential beauty sleep before 4 am or so. My new buddy Mr. Insomnia. Normally (Christina - you will know), the most efficient sleeping medicine is one beer or a glass of wine; I had the beer, but I guess I shouldn't have bought one that says "Light" on it - completely useless for this particular purpose :

For the guys out there - you can skip this section. For the gal's - operation code "SHOES"!
Several times I have been asked if I'd gone shopping - I think that people here are as much into it as tourists. Well, it had to happen at some point, so this Saturday Wikana (the girl, that has sort of taken care of everything involving me coming here) and I got to it. Now, mind you, how cool is that to take a taxi to and back from a shopping mall? :P Felt like the worlds biggest capitalist. Anyway, we got to this enormous shopping center and no kidding - Bruuns Galleri is for kids, if compared to this giant. 

As a real western woman, I, of course, had to go on my own silent&secret mission the day after as well (it didn't feel right to force Wikana to suffer through my browsing). Lets just say that the personnel at one particular store might get to know me quite well in the future - take a guess - a shoe store! :P Oh man, I will simply have to use postal service to send em' babies home! Also, some day I will have a walk-in shoe closet, therefore, anything I buy now, is a future investment and thus justifiable. Another thought - if anybody is a foot/shoe fetishist, Thailand must equal paradise.

 Anyway, the whole process resulted in rather many shopping bags - relatively heavy to carry, you see. Since the Murphy's Law is always working, the inevitable happened - I couldn't find my way out, not on the right side of the mall, anyway! :) All jokes aside, I estimate that I was wandering through that place for at least like 30 minutes going from one exit to another. This was just another proof that I do, indeed, suffer from topographic idiocy. Embarrassing, embarrassing and once more - embarrassing (secret message - doesn't beat the blueberry muffin, though :P). 






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