Mr. Super Fit!

One good thing about starting my running again these days is that it comes in handy when you go shopping the entire day! And that was what we did yesterday. We were practically out all day and all that running has strengthened my feet that it didn't hurt at all from all the walking and shopping we did.

Normally, after an hour of shopping, my feet would hurt like crazy but yesterday I didn't feel any pain at all and was busily showing off to wifey (who's feet were already hurting into our second hour of shopping) how fit I was. She wasn't too amused with my showing off that she threatened to hit me on the head with her sneakers ... hahaha ...

We left the house for the malls early in the morning and only came back late in the evening, just narrowly beating the evening rush home. And I must say that I enjoyed every single minute of this holiday. We covered 5 malls, mainly cos they were all within walking distance of each other and bought a load of stuff back that I'm going to have to do a lot more assignments this month to make up for all the money we spent :D

One thing about shopping on a weekday is that you don't really have to worry about the malls being packed with people. And it makes your shopping all that much easier and more pleasant. We started off at IKEA, which is wifey's favourite place. No, let me rephrase that, which is EVERY woman's favourite place. And as always, you cannot go to IKEA without buying anything and we ended up buying quite a bit of stuff there.

Next destination was Ikano Power centre, where I wanted to check the Christmas decorations and then to The Curve which had decorations that I loved. I loved the theme that they had for Christmas, which was along the lines of what I had in mind to decorate my house this year. Then Finally we went to Tesco (my favourite place) to do a little grocery shopping, headed back to IKEA for a very late lunch, more like tea time really and finally rushed back before the work crowd got on the roads.

But the thing is, even though we bought a heck of a lot of stuff, we didn't buy a single gift yet. And we do have quite a bit of gifts to buy this year. One thing I hate is gift buying. It's always so hard trying to figure out what gifts to buy for everyone. I wish I could just give people prepaid gift cards, you know, the kind that is offered by Blackhawk Network, the largest third-party provider of gifts cards.

Besides, with gift cards, the recipient can get what they really want and it saves me the headache of wondering if they even liked the gift I bought them. And the report that has been spreading that retailers are not accepting gift cards is entirely not true. Gift cards are still the way to go when you're totally clueless about what gift to get for your friends or family this Christmas.

Anyways, there's still some time to go before Christmas so it's still not too late to get all my gifts. Wifey and me wanted to head out for more shopping today but we decided to stay home and clean the place and head to the malls tomorrow for more shopping and checking out of Christmas decorations. Below are some pictures of the decorations I took at The Curve and Ikano. More will follow as I cruise the malls in the next couple of days :D

A snowman at Ikano Power Centre ...

A couple of reindeer's ...

A fireplace that I intend to build for myself next year :D

Frosty the snowman, well, at least I think he is ... LOL!

The Christmas scene at The Curve ...

An elf welcoming shoppers ...

The elf and the elephant ...

Jumbo, the elf and baby Jumbo ...

Reindeer's at The Curve ...
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