Was waiting for a roundup of news from the last fortnight or so before posting an update, but couldn't resist this:
It's part way through school hols, and I'd taken a week off work to spend with Capt Caveman and Cavebaby. I'll blog about the other days later..... but today's task was to go to the movies and get a pair of new school shoes for Cavebaby. New school term starts at the beginning of Sept.
So off we trotted to the Trafford Centre which is one of the UK's bigge$t $hopping mall$, and also has a multiscreen cinema, i.e. 2 birds with 1 stone lah. For those of you that really want a bit more action, there's also a LaserQuest and a 9-hole mini golf course.
We watched G Force (Cavebaby being slightly too young for us to sneak her into Transformers 2, HP & the Half Blood Prince, GI Joe and even Inglourious Basterds etc). Quite a good larf - didn't realise guinea pigs could be so much more than some Peruvian roasted *ahem* delicacy. Basically laughed till we cried. Oh yah.... it's been a long time as well since we watched a 3D movie. The wearing of the specs with the weird lens was kinda novel. But just for today.
We spent the rest of the morning going through what felt like a thousand shoe shops trying to get a pair of school shoes for Cavebaby.
Small snag........ a lot of the shops did not have her size as she is at that awkward age where the kiddie shoes are too small and the teenager shoes are too naff.
Large snag........ Cavebaby the fashionista did not like any of the shoes that were in her size. Or else she would pick some really impractical shoes really unsuitable for school wear.
Really, how hard is it to pick a pair of sensible black leather shoes?
To cut a very long and tedious afternoon short, we eventually got her a suitable pair that we all agreed on in the very last shop we went into. And it's the most expensive pair of shoes I have ever bought for school. Really, these retailers really know how to con us poor parents into buying the "very very best" for the spawn of our loins. (To the uninitiated/ kid-free parents/ potential future parents out there, you have been warned - the shoes that have no price tag on quite often have a sting in the tail......)
Come back, Badminton Master, all is forgiven! Remember these? I wore a pair like these pretty much entirely through my primary school days, before graduating to the Fung Keong canvas basketball shoes when I started playing volleyball.
And the damned expensive new shoes have now been added to Cavebaby's vast collection of current footwear. Current count lies at 13 pairs, and that's after recycling the two pairs of old school shoes that are too small for her this evening....... by 'eck, that Imelda Marcos, she ain't a patch on my little monkey!
It's part way through school hols, and I'd taken a week off work to spend with Capt Caveman and Cavebaby. I'll blog about the other days later..... but today's task was to go to the movies and get a pair of new school shoes for Cavebaby. New school term starts at the beginning of Sept.So off we trotted to the Trafford Centre which is one of the UK's bigge$t $hopping mall$, and also has a multiscreen cinema, i.e. 2 birds with 1 stone lah. For those of you that really want a bit more action, there's also a LaserQuest and a 9-hole mini golf course.
We watched G Force (Cavebaby being slightly too young for us to sneak her into Transformers 2, HP & the Half Blood Prince, GI Joe and even Inglourious Basterds etc). Quite a good larf - didn't realise guinea pigs could be so much more than some Peruvian roasted *ahem* delicacy. Basically laughed till we cried. Oh yah.... it's been a long time as well since we watched a 3D movie. The wearing of the specs with the weird lens was kinda novel. But just for today.
We spent the rest of the morning going through what felt like a thousand shoe shops trying to get a pair of school shoes for Cavebaby.
Small snag........ a lot of the shops did not have her size as she is at that awkward age where the kiddie shoes are too small and the teenager shoes are too naff.
Large snag........ Cavebaby the fashionista did not like any of the shoes that were in her size. Or else she would pick some really impractical shoes really unsuitable for school wear.
Really, how hard is it to pick a pair of sensible black leather shoes?
To cut a very long and tedious afternoon short, we eventually got her a suitable pair that we all agreed on in the very last shop we went into. And it's the most expensive pair of shoes I have ever bought for school. Really, these retailers really know how to con us poor parents into buying the "very very best" for the spawn of our loins. (To the uninitiated/ kid-free parents/ potential future parents out there, you have been warned - the shoes that have no price tag on quite often have a sting in the tail......)
Come back, Badminton Master, all is forgiven! Remember these? I wore a pair like these pretty much entirely through my primary school days, before graduating to the Fung Keong canvas basketball shoes when I started playing volleyball.
And the damned expensive new shoes have now been added to Cavebaby's vast collection of current footwear. Current count lies at 13 pairs, and that's after recycling the two pairs of old school shoes that are too small for her this evening....... by 'eck, that Imelda Marcos, she ain't a patch on my little monkey!
3 comments:
Ah yes.. those days of Fung Kiong and Badminton Master! But funny how all those shoes are making a comeback, albeit with a little more colours. Design is basically almost the same. Cavebaby has more pairs of shoes than me!!!
teruk horrr - when I was that age i only had the badminton master for school and a pair of rubber japanese selipar for wearing at home tra lala la. how times have changed even after 1 generation only!
i bet Cavebaby has more shoes than we did growing up due to climate differences. we could get by with school shoes and a pair selipar jepun, but in the winters, that ain't gonna cut it!
although 13 seems rather much, little imelda-baby :)
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