Crocs had their first ever sale at the Singapore Expo over the weekend. Yesterday, K and I met S and EK to check it out. We were shocked at the huge mass of heads bobbling around the exhibition hall. And the snaking queue for payment. So.. we decided to beat the crowd and go early in the morning before the sale started today.
But alas! This morning at 930am when we reached, there was already a snaking queue outside waiting for the doors to open. We were at least 7-8 lanes away from the start of the queue. And that was 30 minutes before the sale starts. We were so naive to think that we were the only kiasu Singaporeans.. haha!!
I managed to get 2 pairs of shoes, while K bought one pair. I must say the whole experience was more like shopping in a fish market. In fact, it's one of the worst sales i've been to. It's scary how i actually enjoyed it to a certain extent though. Firstly, it was a challenge for anyone to actually see or browse the merchandise. That is, unless you are at the first row of people. There were long benches set up in front of each section (women's, men's, kids)- Crocs employees on one side, consumers on the other. On the consumer side, there are at least 8-10 rows of people struggling to get their shoes. So the whole transaction goes like this: The staff will open up a whole box of shoes of a certain design, and start waving the shoes in their hands, one pair at a time, and yelling out the shoe sizes. Then on the consumer side, people will raise their hands if it's the pair (and size) they want. Then the shoe will either get passed from the front to the back, or get thrown around like fishes. = )
As i walked around the hall, i saw a lot of unwanted "fishes" lying on the floor. I managed to grab a few unwanted fishes - it was simply easier to pick up the unwanted ones rather than squeeze through the craziness at the benches.. People were literally grabbing the shoes, which were flying off the boxes and selling like hot cakes. I can't help but wonder what their turnover is like for this 3-day sale... amazing..
After all that craziness, K and I met up with Kel and Carol at Thompson Medical Center to visit Andy's wife and their newborn Shihao. The baby was adorable, and mummy looked radiant.. it was comforting to hear that she had an easy delivery. Her labour took only 7 hours.. Andy said the trick is to have the epidural injected early.. point taken. = ) More of the relative arrived shortly after. Carol and Andy's wife started chatting intensively on baby topics (since Carol's baby will be due next month), Andy and Kel started talking about their LPG work. So K and I started to feel a bit left out and decided to leave. Eventually, Kel and Carol left together with us.
K & I went for lunch at UE Square at this cafe called "Globetrotters"(upon Carol's recommendation). We had pan fried fish, mushroom soup, garlic bread, chicken salad and calamari. Super delicious! Would definitely recommend this place to friends.
Lunch was supposed to be followed up with gym and swimming at Uncle Steven's place at Orchard Scotts. Unfortunately, K and I had a major tiff on the way there, and i decided to take a train back home on my own. Which on hindsight, was a good thing, cause i felt i haven't really rested this weekend, and i really didn't feel like exercising or swimming after the fight. I bought my favourite honey lemon green tea from SweetTalk as my comfort food on the way home.
K says i tend to go crazy everytime my period is due to arrive. Maybe this was why we had the tiff. Thing is, i've missed it by a few days now.. maybe i'm pregnant. That'll explain my major outburst of craziness today..
I managed to get 2 pairs of shoes, while K bought one pair. I must say the whole experience was more like shopping in a fish market. In fact, it's one of the worst sales i've been to. It's scary how i actually enjoyed it to a certain extent though. Firstly, it was a challenge for anyone to actually see or browse the merchandise. That is, unless you are at the first row of people. There were long benches set up in front of each section (women's, men's, kids)- Crocs employees on one side, consumers on the other. On the consumer side, there are at least 8-10 rows of people struggling to get their shoes. So the whole transaction goes like this: The staff will open up a whole box of shoes of a certain design, and start waving the shoes in their hands, one pair at a time, and yelling out the shoe sizes. Then on the consumer side, people will raise their hands if it's the pair (and size) they want. Then the shoe will either get passed from the front to the back, or get thrown around like fishes. = )
As i walked around the hall, i saw a lot of unwanted "fishes" lying on the floor. I managed to grab a few unwanted fishes - it was simply easier to pick up the unwanted ones rather than squeeze through the craziness at the benches.. People were literally grabbing the shoes, which were flying off the boxes and selling like hot cakes. I can't help but wonder what their turnover is like for this 3-day sale... amazing..
After all that craziness, K and I met up with Kel and Carol at Thompson Medical Center to visit Andy's wife and their newborn Shihao. The baby was adorable, and mummy looked radiant.. it was comforting to hear that she had an easy delivery. Her labour took only 7 hours.. Andy said the trick is to have the epidural injected early.. point taken. = ) More of the relative arrived shortly after. Carol and Andy's wife started chatting intensively on baby topics (since Carol's baby will be due next month), Andy and Kel started talking about their LPG work. So K and I started to feel a bit left out and decided to leave. Eventually, Kel and Carol left together with us.
K & I went for lunch at UE Square at this cafe called "Globetrotters"(upon Carol's recommendation). We had pan fried fish, mushroom soup, garlic bread, chicken salad and calamari. Super delicious! Would definitely recommend this place to friends.
Lunch was supposed to be followed up with gym and swimming at Uncle Steven's place at Orchard Scotts. Unfortunately, K and I had a major tiff on the way there, and i decided to take a train back home on my own. Which on hindsight, was a good thing, cause i felt i haven't really rested this weekend, and i really didn't feel like exercising or swimming after the fight. I bought my favourite honey lemon green tea from SweetTalk as my comfort food on the way home.
K says i tend to go crazy everytime my period is due to arrive. Maybe this was why we had the tiff. Thing is, i've missed it by a few days now.. maybe i'm pregnant. That'll explain my major outburst of craziness today..
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