Shopping for good reason

On July 26, 2006 · 30 Comments · In Living, Places

In between work-related activ­ity in L.A., I’ve man­aged to squeeze in a fair bit of time doing wedding-related activ­ity. You know, things like call­ing my par­ents and telling them what me and my fiancée have planned, lis­ten­ing to them agree, and then try­ing not to be more stressed when they call back five min­utes later say­ing ‘you should do this and this’, and ‘why don’t you have the tea cer­e­mony there instead’, and ‘are you sure the cer­e­mony is like that one’?

Then there’ll also always be well-meaning friends who tell us ‘it should be a day to remem­ber’, and then add half a dozen vari­ables we haven’t had the remotest inkling of until the moment they bring it up, mak­ing us try not to be stressed.

But L.A. is great — there are shops to take a look at for wed­ding stuff, although I’m not sure if it’s a good thing, cos I got a lit­tle flus­tered check­ing out the vast range of things as sim­ple as wed­ding invi­ta­tion stationery.

Tonight I saw this shop near Bev­erly Hills called Papyrus, and was about use my nifty but slow N73 cam­era phone to take a pic­ture of the shop for the fiancée to see via MMS, but a mall secu­rity guard came by and said, ‘Hi, how’s it going?’ So I said, ‘Good, thanks!’, to which he replied, ‘You can’t take pho­tographs here’.

So I said to him, ‘Fuck you. Take photo of the shop things only lah, nabeh!’

Of course what I really said was, ‘Oh, so sorry, din know, heh heh’.

Los Angeles Day 3
Take that, secu­rity guard!

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  • http://ellisbeck.lah.cc PM

    Well done! Pic was “well-taken”.

  • http://ellisbeck.lah.cc PM

    Well done! Pic was “well-taken”.

  • http://cavalock.blogspot.com/ cav­al­ock

    Did u see Elvis?

  • http://cavalock.blogspot.com/ cav­al­ock

    Did u see Elvis?

  • http://rockies-ramblings.blogspot.com rockie

    con­grats on ur impend­ing mar­riage! get stressed and cover all cor­ners now, but on the itself, don’t for­get to enjoy the moment and leave the event to your faith­ful frens… ;-)

  • http://rockies-ramblings.blogspot.com rockie

    con­grats on ur impend­ing mar­riage! get stressed and cover all cor­ners now, but on the itself, don’t for­get to enjoy the moment and leave the event to your faith­ful frens… ;-)

  • http://sufficientgift.blogspot.com Cliff

    Came on to the blog after a few days, really like the new look. Con­grats also on get­ting mar­ried. Peo­ple say LA is very dirty. Have you seen any celebs yet?
    Oh, and if I were you, I’d have pre­tended to be Japan­ese and tried to get him in the pic­ture, too.

  • http://sufficientgift.blogspot.com Cliff

    Came on to the blog after a few days, really like the new look. Con­grats also on get­ting mar­ried. Peo­ple say LA is very dirty. Have you seen any celebs yet?
    Oh, and if I were you, I’d have pre­tended to be Japan­ese and tried to get him in the pic­ture, too.

  • Lin­coln

    I pre­fer the fuck you reply.…

  • Lin­coln

    I pre­fer the fuck you reply.…

  • http://www.mumsymusings.blogspot.com/ dra­ma­mama

    Best of luck with shop­ping for your wed­ding! Remem­ber to take deep breaths; worked for me!

  • http://www.mumsymusings.blogspot.com/ dra­ma­mama

    Best of luck with shop­ping for your wed­ding! Remem­ber to take deep breaths; worked for me!

  • blu­cat

    hey con­grats! i jus had mine in june and it was a rush of about 4mths of plan­ning and run­ning around — and its a malay wed­ding. glad its over man. any­way as long as u have friends will­ing to run the extra mile for u, get­ting car deco done the night before the wed­ding itself is achiev­able. miyagi boleh!

  • blu­cat

    hey con­grats! i jus had mine in june and it was a rush of about 4mths of plan­ning and run­ning around — and its a malay wed­ding. glad its over man. any­way as long as u have friends will­ing to run the extra mile for u, get­ting car deco done the night before the wed­ding itself is achiev­able. miyagi boleh!

  • http://www.eowchak.blogspot.com Justin

    nice scold =p

  • http://www.eowchak.blogspot.com Justin

    nice scold =p

  • NoPics

    A lone guy with goatie prob­a­bly look sus­pi­cious. Wel­come to the post 9–11 US. :-)

  • NoPics

    A lone guy with goatie prob­a­bly look sus­pi­cious. Wel­come to the post 9–11 US. :-)

  • Car­men

    haha, at least he asked “how’s it going” first…you know, try­ing to be polite. S’pore secu­rity will go like “eh, no fotos no fotos!”

  • Car­men

    haha, at least he asked “how’s it going” first…you know, try­ing to be polite. S’pore secu­rity will go like “eh, no fotos no fotos!”

  • http://hareluya12.livejournal.com/ Hare­luya

    Hehh, con­grats on get­ting hitched soon. My own wed­ding is 3 mths away and I totally agree with you on the stress and fuss part of wed-preps.

    At least your encounter with the LA secu­rity guard was on a ‘friendly’ note. My bro had a brush with the police when he was try­ing to take sun­set shots near JE MRT station.

    Bless our ever-vigilant police offi­cers and a civic-minded but para­noid mem­ber of the pub­lic, he was ‘invited’ to the sta­tion con­trol office for a chat and had to delete the shots on the spot.

    Luck­ily, they still served him kopi and some dry humour chat. Heeh…

  • http://hareluya12.livejournal.com/ Hare­luya

    Hehh, con­grats on get­ting hitched soon. My own wed­ding is 3 mths away and I totally agree with you on the stress and fuss part of wed-preps.

    At least your encounter with the LA secu­rity guard was on a ‘friendly’ note. My bro had a brush with the police when he was try­ing to take sun­set shots near JE MRT station.

    Bless our ever-vigilant police offi­cers and a civic-minded but para­noid mem­ber of the pub­lic, he was ‘invited’ to the sta­tion con­trol office for a chat and had to delete the shots on the spot.

    Luck­ily, they still served him kopi and some dry humour chat. Heeh…

  • http://kierra.wordpress.com kierra

    i should con­sider myself one of the lucky ones whom met your fiancée and you personally.

    i’m look­ing for­ward to hear more of your wed­ding preparations.

  • http://kierra.wordpress.com kierra

    i should con­sider myself one of the lucky ones whom met your fiancée and you personally.

    i’m look­ing for­ward to hear more of your wed­ding preparations.

  • ala­mak

    why so stress?? relac la!
    like me and hubby, ROM 4 years liao still haven’t cus­tom­ary.. nem­mind we ??????
    merry as can be! stay together liao.. heck the FUSS!!

    con­grats!

  • ala­mak

    why so stress?? relac la!
    like me and hubby, ROM 4 years liao still haven’t cus­tom­ary.. nem­mind we 还是一条龙！
    merry as can be! stay together liao.. heck the FUSS!!

    con­grats!

  • Vicki

    lol I wish my sis­ter is like you ala­mak. She wants to be like you and not hold any cus­tom­ary thing but her hus­bands fam­ily want.

    Then ppl like me become mid­dle­man to talk to our par­ents. and then par­ents overe­act mak­ing it one hot soup.

  • Vicki

    lol I wish my sis­ter is like you ala­mak. She wants to be like you and not hold any cus­tom­ary thing but her hus­bands fam­ily want.

    Then ppl like me become mid­dle­man to talk to our par­ents. and then par­ents overe­act mak­ing it one hot soup.

  • Andy

    The guard started off with a cour­tesy, “Hi, how’s it going”, before inform­ing you of the restric­tion. When I tried to take a photo of the Bat­mo­bile when they exhib­ited it in Lido years back, the secu­rity just stood in front of my cam­era and waved me away. I was so shocked at the intru­sion, I gave him a good mouth­ful of four-letter curses. It was his turn to be shocked, not expect­ing such a selec­tion of lan­guage from a “well dressed, decent” sort!!!

  • Andy

    The guard started off with a cour­tesy, “Hi, how’s it going”, before inform­ing you of the restric­tion. When I tried to take a photo of the Bat­mo­bile when they exhib­ited it in Lido years back, the secu­rity just stood in front of my cam­era and waved me away. I was so shocked at the intru­sion, I gave him a good mouth­ful of four-letter curses. It was his turn to be shocked, not expect­ing such a selec­tion of lan­guage from a “well dressed, decent” sort!!!

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