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Bizarre Shopper

Went down to Carrefour to work as a temporary promoter for the carrefour house brand products today....thanx to huimin, i finally found something to do to earn some $$ to finance my high expenditure......hoping i'll have some $$ leftover to bring over to the states in May....Think its kinda too late liao..... no time to save up..... tot i told myself last yr that i shud be saving up $ for my graduation trip........but....where's the $? where and what have i spend it on? I mean, i did put them in the bank....save them....for a while... before i hand them over to the retailers.......but to clearly point out what i;ve spend it on, i'm seriously not very sure.... tough question.... boohoo.....


Ok anyway, witnessed something "spectacular".....ermmm...ok nvm....maybe bizarre today......was in carrefour from 10am.... think at 10 plus, i saw this family (not local..... they look like Europeans, with dark features like Spanish or Italian.......) shopping....when i saw them, they (4 of them, father, mother, a boy of age 9 or 10 and a infant, carried in the arms of its mum) had already 2 trolleys filled to the brim....... and they're in the midst of filling up the third trolley....and mind ya, carrefour trolleys are those huge ones, not like the normal ntuc kind..... ok, when i saw that i was quite amazed liao, how come they bought so much things..... a closer look at what're in them, well, saw items in denomination of at least 4.... like 5 pkts of corn flour (oh, maybe they're from mexico, that's why they need so so so much of corn flour to make tacos, tortilla?), 5 large cartons of Top washing powder, 6 pkts of kleenex (each containing 5 boxes of tissue), dozens of bar soap, many boxes of colgate, 8 pkts of sanitary pads (this amt can last me more than one yr k...), 5 big btls of clorox bleach and the list goes on and on........ ok, i was bored, nothing to do, that's why i managed to see what they've got in there.... and they're juz too AA (attract attention)....... i was amazed at how the guy managed to push so many trolley while the wife is busy with the baby...... then he came to me and seeked help with his oh-so-many trolleys...... he had needed to look for help with his three trolleys so that he could continue his shopping..... ok, then he left them at a cashier..... then the family disappeared.... then i was left thinking to myself maybe he runs a boarding house with many ppl staying together, or maybe this guy jzu hates grocery shopping, that's why he's buying so much things so that he dun have to shop for the next few months...


Then the auntie promoting handsoap came to tell me that there's a customer who bought 8 trolleys of grocery (not very surprising if he takes 5 of each items)..... i was like "huh?! oh i think i know who liao...." the counter staff out of curiosity asked him abt his huge purchases, and found out that he had juz come to S'pore and needed some stuff to clean up the house blah blah blah...... OH MY GOD.... i began to wonder how big his house is....


As i tot they were long gone, i was surprised to see that they're checking out at 6 plus...... which means they've been ard for like 7 plus hours for grocery shopping???!!! the guy is still chking out some items while the woman and her son sat aside looking thru part of the receipts (trust me,they're at least 10m long) and i tot, man......would she even notice if she has been over charged or what? her receipt (part of all her receipt i meant) is so damn long, unless she has a super duper photographic memory, she wouldn't know...) . This man probably top Carrefour Top Spender list man.... i estimate the 8 trolley or definitely more of grocery muz have cost over thousand of dollars. the manager must make him an exclusive member of the hypermarket and probably offer to pick him up in limo to do his shopping. or nope.....maybe dedicate 10 personal store assistant to help him push his trolley, load the grocery into the trolleys and unload at the cashier, deliever to his house, look after his wife and kids, carry portable chairs for them to sit as and when they're tired, maybe online shopping....better, so he dun have to push trolleys..........


ok lah, maybe i'm juz sua ku.....but i've never seen anything as exaggerated as that.... so i tot i ought to blog abt it...... its juz BIZARRE to me...... cos if i were to have all those stuff to myself, it'll probably take my many many months to finish....

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Btw something kinda spurred me to revise my french............. not that i saw a cute french guy or what........ anyway, at carrefour, there was this cute l'il girl who came to me and innocently asked for a gummy...... she's so cute.... her name's jade (cool name...) and her mum is thai and her dad is french (what an exotic mix huh....).....then later her mum came and she spoke very fluent french to the girl ("qu' est ce que tu fais?", "bon ou pas bon?", "tu veux ca?)...... with my bits of knowledge on that language, kinda made out what they're conversing...... oh man..... their fluent french inspired me to improve on the language which i've not spoken for like a year (except for once, tried to converse with xinyi in french over msn.....darn..... it was bad....)....... plus, the pdts i was promoting are from france, et il y a beaucoup du francais.... as i tried to decipher what's on them, i kinda felt frustrated of how, despite knowing what each word means, i juz couldn't form them into proper phrases or sentences........ great, i ought to make full use of my french dictionary and campus book and be like tan ai girl (hall 15 councillor), dilligently pick up a language on her/my own, speak it fluently and write it well....... that shall be the first resolution i have for the year! au revoir et merci beaucoup, ma petite amie! Tu es jolie et cute(ok, forgot what's cute liao, lazy to chk dic)!


alright, today's not a good day to be blogging..... so much things to do..... L'Oreal's results is coming out on tues, wish me luck!

Gera!