morgueville,heartland living.

There is this men's boutique at Wisma Atria where they've got supposedly cheaper Ben Sherman's originals. And cheaper alternatives, amongst other.

And very, very scary salesmen.

In case i get sued for defamation, let's just call it That Shop, since blogging has pretty much evolved into some sort of new money making opportunity for lawyers and associates. Who knows who's reading.

So i was out shopping. Again. And decided that perhaps i should check out That Shop. Aince they, at times, do have got pretty much nice tops at relatively cheaper prices compared to their higher end counterparts. So i walked in. Almost immediately, two salesmen (and they were the only salesmen around. so, naturally.) surrounded me within their not-so-big boutique space, and then the Classic Salesman Question:

"Looking for something?"

Duh. So I muttered the Classic Customer Answer:

"Looking around. thanks."

They proceeded to show me the price range for the different designs; long sleeved, short sleeved. And the 'new arrivals' which had a suspiciously uncanny resemblance to their old stocks. Perhaps the difference was a darker shade of stripes. I don't know. They looked boringly ordinary. Every shirt i held was, "This shirt is so you!" or "You got great taste! It's neew er-lai-ver leh." They assumed every shirt I held was what I wanted. (I had wanted them to put it back for me. Hello?) I wanted to get out. But I couldn't. I wanted to say no straight in their faces. But I did not. In dire situation such as this, I am uselessly meek. It is impossible for me to reject these people.

So I bought a shirt for my Dad for Father's day.

As you can see, I am not a very good son. It wasn't even a nice shirt. And I am every salesman's favourite victim.

Oh yes, I was supposed to be talking about Lost, the new series that is "worth getting lost in". I told everybody "It is freaking exciting. !." Those were my exact words to every single soul I gushed to. Because it is. 48 people stranded on the South Pacific after a plane crash. The unknown creature that loomed in the deep jungle. Polar bear in the tropics. Twists and fightings more exciting than that Mark Burnett's yesterday reality trash. Every episode had flashbacks of the different characters; Why they boarded the plane. It's like Lord of the Flies. And the special effects are of cinematic quality, not VD-Man or Channel8 Chinese Dramas sort, thank god. The accompanying music adds on to the excitement, like The Ring. If all that and more still didn't convince you to go download it or at least watch it on channel 5, Singapore was mentioned in some episodes during some of the airport scene, if it helps.

Please go watch.