Catching up time

Met up with Xris for some shopping and dinner last evening. Had wanted to check out the Marks & Spencer (M&S) shoes which my sis has wanted at Centrepoint and Paragon. Although the salesgal checked for me this Monday, I am still not quite convinced they really got no more size 6.5 left.

Left office slightly before 5.30pm in order to catch the 5.30pm shutter bus. Find it quite ridiculous that the bus leaves at 5.30pm but people only knock off at 5.30pm. How on earth are we going to fly down to the bus? Somemore the bus always leaves quite empty at that time, dun they know how to be a bit more flexible?

So anyway, reached Centrepoint b4 6pm and checked out the M&S store 1st. Ok the brown one is indeed no more available so I managed to convince sis to get the pink one, since its the last second pair and in case she regrets again when its sold out. Xris arrived shortly after and she also bought a pink pair, size 5 and last pair!! We paid $60 each for the shoes, half price of what was the original price.

Picture of one side of the shoes (taken from M&S website) but the ones we bought are in Pink:

Dropped by at the MTM store in Centrepoint to say hi to my ex consultant b4 she was transferred to this branch. She mentioned that it could be a few months b4 she will be back to Wheelock Place again. Doesn't really matter coz I think the beautician (stationed at Wheelock Place and hopefully not transferring anywhere else I should be following her) is more important as she probably knows my skin better.

Intended to dine at the Central HK Cafe (中环茶餐厅) at B2 Taka when we passed by the MasterCard redemption booth at the Heeren. There was this promo to redeem some watch with every $500 charged to MasterCard in line with the World Cup 2006 promo. I had accumulated quite a no. of receipts and thus decided to quickly redeem coz the World Cup is coming to an end soon.

While giving the gal at the counter the receipts, we saw the promo for the hour "6-7pm, $150 charge slip for one watch, limited to max. 10 per person". Interesting, I can actually redeem more now. While calculating my expenses, the gal gave me lucky draw coupons to fill up 1st. There were about 9-10 of them and I really had a hard time writing my details. While still filling up, the gal came over and gave me few choices to redeem the gifts:

($500 change 1 goodie bag, $150 change one watch)

1. 1 goodie bag + 4 watches
or
2. 2 goodies bags + 1 watch
or
3. 8 watches

p/s: Goodie bag consisting of one watch, one notepad, one photo frame and one bag of coz.

I chose the 1st option and got one goodie bag and 4 watches. Gave one watch to Xris and one to sis. Now thinking maybe give one to Web, keeping one for myself and haven't decide give the last one to who. Maybe can sell it..haha


Finally reached Taka after hanging around in the Mastercard redemption booth and headed to the Central Hong Kong cafe (中环茶餐厅) for our dinner. Was feeling hungry by then and luckily the restaurant was not crowded yet and we managed to get a table pretty fast. Realised the floor manager was one of my ex-course mates at Louis Preston (took Diploma in Travel & Tourism) years ago in 1994. Did not approach him coz I dun think he recognised me and I got nothing to talk to him anyway. Could have got some discount but nevermind la... not that we cannot afford.

The food was so-so, of coz miles away from the real Hong Kong food but still considered something different. We realised we REALLY MISS Hong Kong!!! And thanks to Xris for the dinner!

Xris had luncheon meat and fried egg with Nissin noodles:
p/s: Din eat this coz ate fried mee with luncheon meat and omelette for breakfast.

Comments: Not bad but not as good as in HK (轻松一下)!!

I had Fried Fish with Nissin Noodles:

Comments: Too little pieces of fried fish and
noodles but not as nice as 出前一丁 one!

We shared a plate of Fried Calamari (supposed to be their signature dish):

Comments: Quite nice and crispy but too much garlic,
made our breathe stinko!!

Had one dessert each, comprising of mango, coconut cubes and grass jelly:

Comments: Nice but still miss 许留山!!

We shopped around abit in Taka while Xris bought a green striped shirt at Polo Ralph at $90 after discount and a $10 voucher. Spotted a nice wallet (new design) from Braun Buffel but did not bring my Taka vouchers out so probably will come back again next time. Settled down at Starbucks at Wisma and had a drink before leaving for home. Its been quite some time since we had chance to catch up with each other, b4 we met up once last week. Had wanted to arrange to meet our fren, nicknamed Joker but as we always decide to meet at last minute, did not ask her this time.