I had the opportunity to shop at Irenelim Fashion over the weekend. Some of you may know that I myself sell clothing online so it was a good experience to be on the other side of a transaction. I must say that buying clothes with the many sizes and variety as wide as what I found on Irenelim Fashion is not easy.

However, Irene, the proprietor, was very helpful in assisting me to choose the right size. She was readily available for me to communicate with via MSN. Still, I have to say that it took me quite awhile to decide on this t-shirt with a mock vest, which is sold at RM20 on Irenelim Fashion.

I must say that the dresses on Irenelim Fashion are really feminine which makes it difficult for me to choose because I am a no-frills person and I would never have the chance to wear something as girly as those apparel carried by Irenelim Fashion.

I do love something frilly like this yellow blouse or the Korean-style dress but there’s no point dressing like this in my home office, right? If I have a Christmas party to attend, I’d definitely find my dress here.

I was shopping for gifts a couple of evenings ago. I hate buying gifts because I never know what to get. At the gift shop, I saw these ugly unique Halloween gifts.

I am sure most of us know that Halloween is a holiday celebrated in most Western countries on the night of 31st October when kids carve jack-o’-lanterns, play trick-or-treating going from door to door while adults wear Halloween costumes and attend Halloween parties.

Halloween is actually what we know as Ghost Festival. Can you imagine people here exchanging gifts and attending parties on 14th day of the 7th month of the Chinese lunar calendar?

I told my friend that I wanted to buy a pair of Crocs but I went into the Crocs concept store the other day and came back out. No matter how I wanted a pair of Crocs, because they are comfortable and I like their colour contrast, though they may not necessarily look nice since Crocs are an acquired taste, I could not justify spending over MYR100 on any pair of footwear, not just Crocs.

A few days later, I went to Kinta City and although they have been holding a sale for a long time now and I have gone to their shoe department a couple of times and could not find anything that I wanted to wear, I saw this pair of shoes (I call all footwear “shoes”), and bought it. It was cheap, considering it is Crocodile.

Please don’t tell me to shop at the pasar malam just because I used the word “cheap”. When I say “cheap”, I meant the low price relative to its brand name, product, material and workmanship.

I sent a text message to my friend and told him that I finally got myself a pair of shoes, and it is Crocodile, and he replied, “Crocodile or Crocs???” LOL I usually do not get to buy what I want, just what I need.

I went home and told my mother that I got new shoes. She asked me what size I bought and I said size 8 and she replied, “Wah, big foot!”