The Foreign Land of Flushing

lol it looked like that skirt, maybe it wasn't a dress but instead a skirt? either way it looks awful.

Today was the first day we had to open the store so we had to be there at 7am, which meant waking up at 5am!! I fell asleep around almost 2am--so that meant I had 3 hours of sleep :( I was super tired and was a lil late so I missed my bus to 36st and took the B11 to the D train instead. Vivian called and she was waiting for the same train as me. We got to work just in time and had to run clothes all day. (Running is pretty much getting a rack of random clothes and then putting it back in its place in the store). lol me and viv ended up working together so we were laughing about how we couldnt find the right location for sooo many clothes. If we found two or more of the same miscellaneous outfit, we'd just start a new spot for it haha. We also encountered what we feel is probably the ugliest piece of clothing ever--it was this super ruffled black tube dress (so it looks like a basic rectangle) that looked like shingles on a roof. Then we found it's identical twin in white. How horrifying that there is more than one copy of this atrocious fashion disaster.

After a few hours I started feeling the tiredness seep in. My whole body just felt exhausted. But the best thing happened. The manager let us go, 3 hours in advance!! I was more than elated that I was free by 12pm. Viv was on her lunch break and I told her I was let out. She then attempted to see if she was able to leave early too.

Forever 21 has this loss-prevention policy of checking their employees bags before you leave the store. Since I had already got my bag checked by the manager and left the store I didn't want to go back in cuz then I'd have to have the manager check my bag again before i exited. Thus to see if Vivian got permission to leave early too, I snuck back in and hid behind a rack of men's dress shirts to see what the manager said. It was such a spy moment.

Fortunately she was allowed to leave early too. We went to Flushing together and sat in Mcdonalds. We both got an iced coffee but her's was too sugary and mines wasn't sugary enough. So we kept alternating our drinks to balance it out lol. Soon enough we both had to pee really bad. Since I had a thing against going to bathrooms in fast food restaurants, we ran across the street to Old Navy. Sadly, their bathroom was under construction cuz the sink blew up or something. Then we ran to the library where Vivian had a funny blonde moment with the librarian.

Vivian: Can I have the keys to the bathroom?
Librarian: You don't need the keys, it's public.
Vivian: Where are your bathrooms?
Librarian: There's one in the basement and one on the third floor. (we're currently on the ground level)
Vivian: Which one is closer?!
Librarian: I would assume the basement...
Vivian: Oh. right. THANKS!


this is the fancy mall staircase!
Psst..click on the picture above for the clear version and don't forget to scroll right cause it's long! So proud of my panorama shot!


me and viv trying on trenchcoats at the fancy mall. mines was way too long HAHA

After we peed, Jason arrived and we went to Duane Reade really quickly before we started walking around. We went to this new mall that looked super fancy. Well, we wasn't sure what it was at first but we were like oo let's check it out, it looks shiny and new haha. With lit staircases and fishes in their fountains, everything was all new and luxurious looking.



After that we went to get bubble tea at Sago. It was very very yummy :) I got the Milk tea with Coffee and Viv got the Coconut Bubble tea and Jason got the Spiced Chai bubble tea. We all tried each others drinks lol. Thanks for treating us Jason! Oh yea when I went into the bathroom to pee (again) the lady before me took a huge dump and didn't flush! Ugh, some people...

We went to Macys to try to finish the rest of our gift cards but failed because Macys suck. Seriously.

Went to a fancy Korean bakery cause Jason was hungry for some snacks. It was so spacy and nice. I like !!

Then we went on a search for Morning Glory or some kind of stationary store. (This reminded us of the great search of Romantic) We went into Flushing Mall, which looked nice on the outside, but was nasty and run down on the inside. It was like a desperate attempt to create a thriving mall out of a previous Chuckee Cheeese's or something because it was all dull-colorful inside with random designs and stuff. The bathroom there gave me the heebie jeebies because I had to fight a family of flies to make it to the toilet and the bathroom smelled like rotting crap. I ran out of there as fast as I could. I vowed never to return.

We found some cute stores near the train station and then we piled into Jason's car and he drove us to the Korean supermarket. I wanted to get the hot sauce to make bibimbop at home. We couldn't read the labels because it was written in korean. To ensure that it was the right product, Jason opened the seal for one of them and licked some of the sauce lol. We still couldn't really tell but I'm trusting Jason on this one!

Finally we went to some Taiwanese restaurant called 66 for dinner. Jason kept praising their beef stew soup so me and Viv got it. It tasted pretty good! Slurped that good stuff down and then he drove us home. I gave him Peanut because his cat supposedly ate his hamster. Bye bye peanut!

I had a fabulous day today, all thanks to getting out of work early. Woohoo!

PS. I love my biffle/homie/v <3

PPS. today's the first day i forgot my camera so hooray for phone pics!

PPPS. sorry for super long entry lol