Shop till you drop?

Today is the first day for us drivers (who had renewed our road tax in April and May) to claim our petrol allowances (not sure what is the term they used). Mum and me went over to the nearest post office, which happened to be at a shopping mall near our house. We had planned to go get a few "necessary" items after getting our RM625 allowance.

After we took our numbers at the post office, we realized that it will only be our turn after some 230 people. Oh well, we can always go shopping first, besides, we were quite sure a lot of people were going to give up and result in a shorter waiting time.

And so there we were, spending some money in advance in the departmental store (by the way, I've just donated my last 50 dollar note to get a book of coupon for the Miracle event. I got "caught" by little bro and this liang lui on my way out from gym last night. So, it's good return for a good course so to speak).

A good half an hour later, we both got ourselves new swim suits. I have not bought any swim suit since I came back from studies overseas and I didn't replace my old swim suit after I've lost 2 sizes through PT. So, yes, I got myself a swim suit which is in size S. :) And little did I know that swim suit fashion had evolve so much, it's mostly in two pieces now. No, I didn't get a bikini - I might get that if I'm going off to some island for a romance getaway or something. We got swim suits because we are planning for weekly swimming (replacing our weekly, used to be weekly, squash session).

Went back to the post office and they've attended to about 50 odd people. Okay, not bad. Continued with shopping. This time I got new bra and so did mum. Although I tried about 10 different ones, by the time we returned to the post office, there were still some 100 over people ahead of us.

So we went lunch and just then I got a text from LGM informing about warehouse sale of the same brand where I've just bought my bra. What a coincidence. But no, I'm not getting anymore. For now.

After lunch, we still had time to shop for some kitchen stuff, mainly plastic containers to improve our storage system. All in all, we spent almost 3 hours "waiting" for our turn. And we spent another half an hour after we got our "allowance" to shop for a pair of new pumps and a bluetooth hands-free for me.

It's great to have extra money to shop! Okay, now I've got to pay for the petrol from my "own pocket".