One pair of shoes to rule them all

Woke up at about 10am despite sleeping at barely past midnight. For the 2nd time. Ugh. I sense something bad here. If I sleep for that long and yet don't feel well-rested, it only means one thing - sleep quality was poor. I'm chalking it up to the effects of having a slight cold.

Weather's still tempermental.

Shoe shopping at Queensway! Met up with Ryan, after being late (bus 93's way more irregular than expected).

In previous episodes: KC owns a pair of black Adidas shoes that had a developed a creaking problem. After some prying open of the shoe and deft wire-cutter work, the rubbing parts were removed. Also, he has a pair of silver Nike shoes that had a rubble sole part come off. After grafting on a piece salvaged from a dying pair of shoes, they were sorta OK. Until a few days back when the Adidas shoes creaked again, and the graft on the Nikes fell off.

Walking in creaking shoes is hell I swear. Creak. Creak. Creak. Creak.

So some conclusions from going a round through all the shops:
1. prices are more or less standard across all the shops
2. football apparel is so shiny and colourful, it's just possible people play football just for that apparel
3. the sales people in Queensway tend to know their stuff better than those in other places

Armed with information from the Internet, I ruled out all non-cushioning models (not suitable for my feet type). And keeping in mind a reasonable price, and simplicity and reliability of design, I ruled out even more shoes. Already narrowed down the choices, so the big question was between 2 variants of the same model - the Nike Pegasus:


A: Black/red, waterproof, slightly heavier, $10 more expensive


B: Blue/white, not waterproof, slightly lighter, $10 cheaper

Was mulling over it for a long time until I, with the sagely advise I had from Ryan, decided that.

1. For A - $10 out of the total cost doesn't really mean all that much
2. For A - Black matches more colours of clothing
3. For A - Option B has a white foam base, from experience this will be stained a horrible brown with time
4. Against A - Waterproofing's a gimmick anyway, you got mesh parts and all, water'll go in in either situation. And my old pair of Adidas are Climacool with air vents all over and it's not like I have issues even after hopping into puddles
5. Against A - Lightweight is always better

Eventually, A won.

Had time to burn, so went to Orchard. Hung around the shops. Kinokuniya. Then l ibrary, and found some comics to borrow. Already got 2 novels at home (1 I gave up on, the other I might just push myself to read it) so comics would be a better choice.



Hung around for a while longer then had to part ways, so took the MRT (amidst the crazy pre-Christmas crowd) back to Bishan. Decided to go to Junction 8 to check if there was any of that Evangelion Swimsuit toy machines. And lo and behold, there was.

After some difficulty looking for sufficient $1 coins (the 7-11 could only give me $4 worth of $1 coins as change for buying a small packet of milk with a $10 note, eventually found this place with Neoprint machines where they had some counter to change coins), I decided to try my luck.

First capsule was a yellow one. Looked inside the transparent part and saw blue hair. Rei.

Tried again. Yellow capsule again. Blue hair. Rei again. Next one had better be an Asuka!

Third one. Blue capsule. Red hair. Yay! Asuka!

To end this post, here's some Asuka porn. And even before that, a fake Borat introduction I originally composed as an MMS to some friends:

Jagshemash. My name a Borat. In Kazakhstan we pay money make sexytime in woman. In Singapore they use machine. They put in money in a metal vagine, screw, then a small woman in a water panty come out. Great success! I come here learn. Dzienkuje!