wifey getting ready to shop till you drop
From clothings to wallets, watches to sunglases, handbags to decoration, neckties and all sort of stuff that you could think off. Yup, this is definately heaven for shopper holics who has the same taste like me and wifey. Before we came here, wifey's main objective here is to purchase branded handbags and wallets (copy). So i guess the mission is clear, 1 - purchase handbags and wallets, 2 - purchase other stuffs and souveniers. Unfortunate for us, the day that we went probably wasn't the right timing. At first when we arrived, a lot of shops were displaying catalogs from branded items, but we ignored it at first since we had the rest of the night to stroll down. After walking down from end to end, we were geared to go to the shopping mode. But when we searched all around, none of the stalls were displaying the catalogs. We even asked around and all of them decline. And then it kept us thinking, maybe they had received a tonto saying that a raid might be conducted by the local KPDN. Well, it is illegal to sell fake branded stuff. So since we couldn't achieve objective no 1, i guess we'll have to settle for objective no 2 (for now).
So we were in shopping gear. We purchased a lot of stuffs to bring back to our loved ones and friends back in Malaysia. For instance, i bought a total of 45 fridge magnets to distribute back. never in my life i have bought that many magnets. After roughly calculating and bargaining with the stall owners, it comes down to the final price of around RM4.00 per magnet. Well, lets take it this way that i treat all my colleagues to a plate of rice worth RM4.00. The important thing is sincere right?! Other stuffs we bought were T-shirts, neck ties, purse pals, and other small items. For the stuff that we missed out, we came back again the other day as we still had time to achieve objective no 1. The very next day, we came back again to Mong Kok and this time we were lucky. The stalls were displaying again their catalogs for customers to choose from. Handbags, wallets and watches were the main attractions. So we stopped by at a few stalls. The system is, the seller will take you to their office located nearby at their stall. You will then be taken to a special room where all the good stuffs were placed. This is where you opened up your eyes, carefully choose which of the stuffs that you really like and bargain hard with the seller. It's all up to your bargaining skills. If you could speak Cantonese, i think it would be a better advantange. So we finally chosed the stuffs that we wanted, bargain with the seller and paid him off. After that, we went back to the streets. We did tested out what happens if we did not want to purchase anything. Well, eventually nothing happened. We could leave the room just like that if we did not want to purchase anything.
Now that both objective were completed, i eventually did a little shopping that at first wasn't in the list. What was it? A Digital SLR camera. Yup, a Nikon D60 camera. At first i didn't want to purchase such thing, but there was a small voice in my head kept saying, " buy me, buy me". Oh well, finally i used up the powers of the credit card to purchase the camera. The price, well you could say i saved up a few hundred ringgit if I purchased it in HK than KL. Hmmm, i guess i will have to extend the buying big stuff period to another year. So for the rest of the entries in the blogs, the pictures were taken using my precious Nikon D60 aka my very new toy :)
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