New Toy

Called vPost on Wed to enquire more about the delivery timing.... just so I could try to make sure that mum was around to receive it. If I missed this delivery, I would have to wait till Sat to get it from the post office but I was too excited to wait till weekend to try my loots! But their response was exactly like what hubby told me earlier on. If only hubby still working there, he'd have performed the same stunt he did 3 years ago - I bought a set of clip-on hair extension from UK & wanted it urgently. So hubby monitored my shipment & once it reached the processing centre (not sure what exactly it's called), he intercepted & got it just before COB! :P

Anyway, I still got my new toys that evening! :D

My Friday look. Colleagues thought I permed my hair!
It's supposed to be curlier but I 'un-curled' a lil as preferred it that way for a start.
The colleagues said it looked nice! Hee.

Jose Eber Pro Series Clipless Curling Iron

So these are the 2 hair sprays that caused delay in having my parcel...

Sedu Moisturizing Heat Protecting Boost

Sedu Beach Beauty Sea Salt Spray
The coconut scent is soo nice to smell! And it's effective in keeping my curls.

After more than 12 hours, the curls still looked ok;).

Love how easy the curls can be achieved. Just couldn't do it right in the past when I used curlers with lots of curling lotion.

Can't Wait !

Made 2 online purchases from different sites end of last month. Both with free shipping within US... so great, thought I'd use vPost again. The last time (but it's like 4 years ago?) was quite a pleasant experience & saved about half of the shipping costs if sent direct.

Told them to ship the 2 purchases together. Both were delivered to vPost USA without any hassle. But for 1 of the purchases, vPost asked for the Material Safety Data Sheet for the 2 haircare sprays I bought. Asked from the merchant, F, & we're told to contact their manufacturer. Called the manufacturer & after passing us around & putting on hold for more than 20 minutes, they said they couldn't provide as it's supposed to be F who'd provide. So we're extremely stuck... having my purchases stranded at vPost USA with F & his supplier refused to provide what was required. So grumpily we made a call to F & after another long round of on-hold music & then with us trying to explain our situation to them, they said would look into it & revert. When I previously bought one of such sprays from F & got it shipped direct to me, I didn't have any problem. Guess that's the advantage of paying more to the merchant for direct shipping.

We're contemplating to have the parcel returned to F & then shipped directly to us. That'd be another long process with additional costs. So thank God that after a few days, F came back with 1 MSDS... only for 1 of the 2 products. But we thought that's good enough.

And while we're corresponding with vPost on this matter for almost a week (with the different timezones, their responses were R-E-A-L-L-Y slow), without asking or notifying me, they 'silently' went ahead to send the other parcel of falsies to Singapore prior to receiving the MSDS of the other parcel. Hallo~? They don't listen to instructions!? So! Double shipping costs!!

SoOo upset. Thought would save us quite a fair bit by consolidating my purchases.. who knows! Ended up having to co-ordinate between various parties & take weeks to get my purchases. But have checked... we still save about S$40 on shipping. And I know, next time will only use vPost for dry items.

Got my box of falsies last Thurs... Happy:) And been tracking my F products & it's just reached Spore last night! :D Can't wait......

The French Label

Last year, before I returned to where I'm working now, Ben called from KL & said he planned to bring in a mid-market French label, Axxxx, as their KL/Spore franchisee. So he's looking for someone reliable to run the show for Spore's. Axxxx ever made its presence here years ago, in a boutique in Scotts Shopping Centre & I used to like this brand after buying a nice pair of pants. I also bought some pieces when I was in Paris. Their collection now is so different &I must say it's undoubtedly a good change! After a week's exchange of emails & smses, Ben came to Spore together with A's Managing Consultant, Ziad, from Paris.

It's an interesting afternoon. Ben, Ben's nephew (grandson of Sxxxxx Group who'd just graduated.. a humble & friendly young chap), Ziad & I had lunch in Paragon. After lunch, all we did was walking in the malls... Ziad was formally from Mango in Spain & being an expert in setting up new boutiques all over the world, he's here to observe the fashion trend & identify places with good human traffic flow that's suitable for A. It's fun talking with him... he seemed to have endless stories & jokes. He even said if I joined A, I'd be invited to the Paris fashion week or even some fashion shows in Milan;) Ziad was really bent on bringing A into Spore soon.
So we 'walked' Paragon, Ion, Ngee Ann City, 313, Mandarin Gallery & the last stop was Vivo. Moving around wasn't a problem as Ben had his Estima from KL & I just needed to give some road directions to the chauffeur. In the evening, hubby joined us for dinner at Vivo.

Hubby felt excited for me too. The half yearly buying trips to Paris seemed really attractive plus I've all along been interested in this line. But couple of days later, after all the WOWs & ecstasies of the possiblity of working in the fashion business, I thought about the number of hours I'd have to put in every day... including Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. It's not gonna be easy as manpower wouldn't be sufficient at the startup stage... it'd be like working office hours + retail hours (though could be flexible in the working hours). So I was like 50-50. I couldn't let go of the stable working hours yet I was greedy, couldn't resist the opportunity to do something I liked when it came my way.

We prayed about it & asked God to take control. Few weeks later, Ben called & said it's a no-go for the moment as he hoped he could focus on KL market first. Disappointed... yet I was very relieved that I didn't need to clock irregular/prolonged hours. God closed the door for me :) Then, since end last year I'm back to where I started 3 years ago.... after switching a few jobs, trying to find myself. So a 9-5 job is what I really cherish now and thank God, my health is getting better ;)

Recently I saw Axxxx in the fashion magazine. Ziad must have had brought in the brand (now selling @Robinson's) through someone else.

WWF

All thanks to Con... Hubby n I are now addicted to Words With Friends (mobile scrabble). Over the weekend we actually played 2 games (with each other) concurrently! Hee...

What's good about the game is we can play anytime anywhere n at the pace we want :)

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