Shoes, Tailor and Donuts!!

i recently just started shopping for a nice pair of court shoes and work wear just in case an interview props up.. the other day when i went to raffles city to meet weijia and adrian for timbre, me and weijia shopped a little b4 dinner.. we went into nine west and saw this pair of shoes which was pretty nice.. $119 after 30% discount! but I wanted to look around at other shoes first so i just KIVed that pair..

then last week, i went shopping with my dear at orchard.. went to all the shoe departments in taka but the shoes weren't up to my standard haha.. then we went to nine west in wisma and i saw that pair I wanted.. it was $86.. 50% discount!!!! -.-"" how inconsistent can such a reputable brand get?? but since that branch was selling so cheap, i was pretty ready to buy that pair already.. but unfortunately they only had the display set left, and it wasn't my size.. i asked them to check if other branches may have my size only to find out that raffles place is the 1 that had it.. and it was also the last pair.. AND a display set... T_T wanted to ask them about the price discrepancy at the other outlet but decided that i didnt really want a display item so i left..

just on thursday a few days ago, there was a NOC bootcamp appreciation dinner at Geek terminal, so i would have to drop by at raffles place.. decided that since i was in town, i should just make a trip to raffles city to see if that pair of shoes was still available.. sadly, that pair was gone.. my guess is they most prob removed it cos there were many new collections that arrived. guess i'm fated not to get that pair haha.. i shopped a little more there and i found this donut store at the basement called Donut Factory.. the queue was horrendous.. they only had a short queue in front of the shop, but that was because the queue was broken up into different sections all around in the basement so as not to obstruct traffic! =X but the sight of that store reminded me of krispy kreme in the states haha.. nostalgia~ unfortunately i was already going for dinner and i would be late if i queued for the donuts so i left for raffles place..

i talked to Charmaine, my ex-roomie in Philly before and she told me that she gets her pants tailored at raffles place, but she didnt tell me the exact location of the tailor, only the name of the shop.. I decided that since there are a couple of tailors around the area, so even if I can't find the 1 she mentioned, i could just approach another shop available.. when i reached raffles place mrt, i realized that there are many shops around inside the mrt!! haha.. raffles Xchange i think.. this shows how long i haven't been there =X i still had a little time since i was planning to look for the tailor, but shopping got to me and i decided to take a look around first hahahahaha.. a real blessing in disguise! i found the tailor that Charmaine recommended me lol.. it was a tiny store opposite the DBS atm machine.. i usually wouldn't take note of it but it just happened that i looked up (which is 0.001% of the time) and saw the sign board that says tailoring services haha.. i didnt realize that it was the same store that charmaine introduced until i saw the store logo in the fitting room.. i was so happy =p

anyway, i arrived at geek terminal 5minutes late.. and on purpose at 6.35pm.. but i was so wrong.. there was not a single soul there yet!! tsk tsk.. so i went shopping again at the golden shoe shopping complex opposite till 7pm before returning haha.. by that time, some people had finally arrived.. lol.. terrible singapore culture =X

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my dear is gonna start work on Monday tmr! yay~~ and i also told him about the donut factory haha.. initially i was intending to buy the donuts tmr and let him try after work, but my dear wanted to spend his last holidays with me so we went down to raffles city on fri instead; to get some donuts for brunch haha.. we went in the morning hoping to skip the lunch hour queue but we were shocked to see the long queue.. got many aunties and students queuing already =X the donut shop wasn't even open yet!! i went over to ask 1 of the employees what time they opened and they told me that they gonna open at 12.30!! it was 11am at that time so we decided to forget it and went to grab lunch at MOS burger instead. when we were done with our meal, we realized that the donut shop was open!!! 11.40am!! grrr.. blur employee!!! she bluffed me!!! i think they open at 11.30am lar.. sian.. the queue got even longer >.< but we still queued for it lar.. queued for 1.5hrs before we managed to grab our donuts..

Donut Factory box

each customer was only allowed to buy 2 dozens.. but i only bought 6 cos i scared cannot finish so many haha.. my dear bought a dozen for his family.. but seriously, because of the crazy demand, we could only buy what was out of the oven at that time.. if not we'd had to wait even longer for other flavors to be finished baking.. lucky for us, most of the flavors we wanted were there =p

my donuts! ^_^

the top 2 on the left are dark chocolate donuts!! it's the best selling there and gosh, they are so delicious!!! i ate both, leaving none for my family =X *guilty! T_T the flavors in clockwise direction after the dark choc donuts are: mocha, apple cinnamon, almond truffle, peanut butter flavors =D it's really good especially when it's fresh out of the oven~ =p all my nostalgia of Dunkin donuts and krispy kreme.. but i think donut factory is better and my is officially my new found favourite~ ^_^