saturday night fever

this has to be the most pathetic saturday evening in recent history.

to take away the stayed-in-the-lab-all-day-staring-at-figures-and-words blues, i decided to swing by (Berjaya) Times Square on the way back, cos:

1. debenhams was having a clearance sale
2. shopping is good therapy
3. needed to get dad a birthday present
4. debenhams' cafe has a wondrous RM15 eat-all-you-like italian buffet which comes with heavenly rum-n-raisin gelato
5. i had to get myself dinner
6. i had to pick up some groceries as well

however (you saw that coming, didn't you, duh):

1a. the 'sale' was crap. stuff was either unwearable, in bad condition or still cost too much.
2a. therapy? what therapy?
3a. the size 'S' Ashworth shirts looked like size 'XL's big enough to fit a grizzly bear.
4a. so much for spaghetti and gelato. debenhams' cafe was closed for renovation!!
5a. what dinner? i reluctantly dragged myself to McDonalds about 6 floors up to get a Grilled Chicken Foldover which didn't even taste as good as it usually did..
6a. what groceries? walking up and down 6 floors of a useless shopping complex makes you too tired to do anything but get into the car and drive home.

but wait, there's a no. 7!

7. all the parking payment machines did not accept RM5 or RM10 notes. you wouldn't believe it. being short of RM1.40 after emptying my wallet of coins and RM1 notes, i had to ask people in the queue for change.

how was YOUR saturday evening?