Gilding the lily
I think clothing sizes in Malaysia are shrinking. I cannot even fit in XL clothes -- what's up with that?? I give up on department store clothing. Had to go to Dorothy Perkins to get slacks that would fit me. So yes, I ended up paying RM80 for a pair of trousers, the most expensive trousers I've ever owned. It's not that I'm going high-class... it's that mainstream clothing designers are discriminating against my waist, hips and butt.
Since I was shopping anyway, I went to The Body Shop, which is supposedly having a sale. I say "supposedly" because the sign proclaims, "Up to 70% off!" but all the stuff I wanted to buy only had a measly 10% off. Harrumph. What did I want to buy, you ask? Pressed powder and blusher. Just about the only thing I have by way of make-up is lipstick and lip gloss. I haven't got anything else coz I chucked 'em all out on account of not having worn any of them for the last five years. If I have to put goop on my face, let it not be five-year-old goop. I do have standards, you know.
I asked the sales assistant to help me find the best shade of blusher and pressed powder to get. She demo-ed it on my face, which I welcomed, because these things always look fairly different when they're on your face compared to your hand (that's why sometimes you take 'em home and still get a shock when you put them on your face, even though you tested 'em on the back of your hand when you were in the shop. Of course, sometimes they magically morph and look great when on your face in the shop, then don't look quite so great when on your face at home, but let's not go there).
Now, the sales assistant applied the thingies on me with a make-up brush, and the tester unit didn't have an application sponge, and it's been so long since I bought make-up that I forgot all pressed powder comes with an application sponge. So when she asked if I'd like to get the make-up brushes too, I thought to myself, "Oh ya hor, how to apply the thingy otherwise?" and said yes. This resulted in huge, HUGE damage to my wallet. Yes, two friends have already whacked me for going to buy make-up on my own. Obviously I was a sitting duck!
Anyway... I also got Product for my hair -- can you believe I am going to put gunk in my hair every day? No, I can't believe it either... and bought a pair of shoes from Hush Puppies. Admittedly, they were not exactly what I imagined myself buying; for one, they have a three-inch heel. (I just measured. I swear they didn't look that high in the store!) But they are very comfortable, and as you know, hope springs eternal in the human breast, even one that has just been operated on. So there ya go.
I am now all ready to start work next month, apart from still having to finish reading through the course syllabus, all 200-plus pages of it. And yes, Charis, I'm finally going to get my eyebrows done on Thursday. I really don't want to be remembered as "that lecturer with the bushy eyebrows" :P