shopping can be a pain in the ass

for the past month i’ve been trying to concentrate on getting new clothes in time for the chinese new year. cos there was one year i had to collect my altered jeans which i didn’t even quite like from jurong point on new year’s eve, in the evening. being a smarter shopper nowadays, i decided to start shopping earlier, so that i can get clothes i like, the correct sizes, and of course, before new year eve.

out of desperation i asked my sister if she had started her shopping, since she hasn’t been seen lugging bags of shopping home and i thought i would feel a lot better if she hadn’t started. she looked at me with a look of contempt mixed with disgust and proclaimed that she had completed shopping a long time ago.

darn it. i’m the only one in the family who hasn’t finished the shopping. even the guys in the family have done theirs.

and it’s all thanks to the crazy tuition schedule i have, classes (not many, though) and the fact that i am bound to the school’s computers i have no time to shop. fyp is helpful in this department too. it has effectively kept me working intensively for a few days, then taking a few weeks’ break. all these are driving me crazy.

and this class presentation i had to do yesterday. my group mates asked to meet in sengkang last saturday, on the day i was supposed to go shopping. despite the effort we put in, we were shot left, right, centre by the instructor.

of course, he meant for us to learn, not discouraged or insulted. but i wish he had stopped harping on the fact that our sales forecast weren’t reliable at all. or that making figures up wasn’t a good idea.

yes, yes and yes. i knew all this were coming, but what could he expect when he asked us to do a sales forecast of jam in cambodia? there’s an obscene lack of information and when i explained to him the reason, i seriously don’t know if he was listening. i had to repeat myself so many times it began to sound like a sorry excuse.

there were classmates who suggested claiming that the figures were real or to make up some other excuse, but then hey, he’s not dumb either what. and i do agree with his point, just that if he wanted to attack the sales forecast solely based on that i couldn’t help it.

no available information means no available information. i don’t see the point in defending myself in cases like that.

anyway that was one of the worst presentations i’ve ever done for the past three years cos i couldn’t even speak properly. dunno what happened to me yesterday. sigh.

i’m going shopping tomorrow. one day before the chinese new year eve.

happy new year to everyone.

how i wish i can get a new computer for cny. i’ll gladly trade up all the angpaos.