∞ SWINE FLU LAND
Saturday, May 30, 2009
CONVERSE SHOES FOR AUCTION!
Completely brand new chucks. Drive (walk?) away starting at $10. PS. read the fine print.
* Only for people with amazingly small feet who can fit size 3 chucks.
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The story goes like this. Excitedly I stepped into yet another Chinese department store, filled with countless branded goods - a manifesto of cheap labour, no doubt. A pair of hightop Converse shoes caught my eye, and just like Sarah Jessica Parker puts it - " I HAD TO HAVE IT." So then, paid for it, and left the shop grinning like a little kid.
- 9 hours + 2 meals of plane food later -
*opens the familiar black shoe box and tries on the shoes*
"Hmm, why is it so small? My socks must be too thick."
And there I was, letting the precious hours of my life slip by as I tried desperately to slip my enormous feet into something so small and delicate like the ugly sisters in Cinderella. Eventually, it hit me that my feet couldn't have possibly endured a growth spurt in the past 48 hours, so then .. *looks at the bottom of the shoe*
"SIZE 3 WTFFFFFF"
Those stupid Chinese salespeople must've mistook 3 for a 5 due to their restricted vision, and now I can't even return it because between the shop and me lies THE FREAKING PACIFIC OCEAN + NEMO! ARHH *takes a chill pill before I turn into a Kim Jon Il and fires nuclear missles at that place*
But as the saying goes, behind every cloud lies a silver lining..
and it is on the land SARS and Swine Flu where I discovered my bestfriend ..
It looks so real eh. It smells like a bun too! I was carrying it around in my hand in the metro (the train kind) and all these other asians were looking at me like I'm some hobo treasuring my last meal of the month..
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And that's it from me. One last note ;
Always remember to hope. It may be invisible, but it's always there.
xx
Betty.