I had heard a lot about it before, especially the IKEA Breakfast, but I never went because it's too out of the way for me and we never buy furniture from IKEA. Anyway, my mum wanted to go so she dragged my brother and I there.
It was pretty good! I didn't get to try the IKEA Breakfast because my brother slept in (and then found ants in his room and spent 30 minutes cleaning it up) and we didn't make the 11 o'clock breakfast curfew, so I just had the normal stuff.
I didn't really have too much because I wanted to eat relatively healthy so I had the organic kid's meal hehehe... That included like a kid's pasta, a fruit, a juice popper and some yoghurt and it was pretty good. I really like pasta so any pasta is good for me. My bro tried two of the kid's meals which included the nuggets and chips and the meatballs.
We've already had the meatballs before because one of my brother's friends always gives us a little container of IKEA meatballs when she comes over, and the're sooooo delicious! And the kid's meal they were in had this really nice sauce as well.
And the stuff there is soooo cheap. The organic kid's meal was like $4 and the normal kid's meals are like $3.50 each. The breakfast is $3 for an entire plate of eggs, sausage, hashbrown, bacon and tomato, which is such amazing value! I'm definitely heading back there for their breakfast.
So then after that, we walked through IKEA looking around at shelves and stuff because my brother needs to find one to fit all his board games. And then when we finished walking around we were like okay, let's head out! And we realised that the entrance we came through only had an up escalator, so we needed to exit by going down the stairs that led to IKEA's lower level.
And so we were in IKEA's lower level and we were like okay, let's head out! And then we discovered that the entire lower level is just another maze to get us to regrettably turn down amazing deals on unnecessary items. After walking a bit and checking the map, we realised there were two short-cuts we could go through to leave IKEA, so we went through them and we were like okay, let's head out!
But no. It was another open warehouse area, the storage area with all the furniture stored there as well as some outdoor furniture, similar to Bunnings. So we walked all through that and when we got to the end we were like okay, let's head out!
And then we walked out of IKEA and right into the IKEA Food Market. The Food Market has like a little takeaway shop that sells $1 hot dogs and it also has this mini grocery store of all this Swedish food. We ended up getting some stuff that were alright, nothing special, and then finally, we left.
So in summation, IKEA is a giant rat maze and it left me feeling very, VERY manipulated.
I also just finished reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower:
I haven't seen the movie yet, but I have a feeling that the movie is so much better than the book.
The book has an epistolary structure, which means it's all written in letters (for those of you who have forgotten your English terms) and so while we do get a sense of a plot and a narrative, it's all in the past tense and the way it's written made me cringe quite a lot.
The main character is 16 years old but for some reason the author decided to make him sound like some incompetent 5 year old with the choice of simplistic language and really immature, inexperienced questions and thoughts this guy uses.
Don't get me wrong, the plot and the major themes and characters are interesting enough to keep you reading, but that's why I think the movie would be better. It's about this student in high school who is quite lonely and starts making friends with these unpopular kids and he's very very confused because he has mental issues and he has to try and deal with them while making new friends and learning the recipe of successful socialising. It has some pretty heavy themes like suicide, depression, mental illnesses, the negativity of homophobia, domestic abuse and even substance abuse.
I'll have to watch the film to decide whether or not the film is more worth it though but I definitely do not really recommend the book (especially if you're not in the targeted young adult audience).
Oh and this is ages ago but I hit up the Boxing Day Sales and they were cray cray. I spent about $100 on clothes but I feel like it wasn't even worth it just because it was so hectic. I really don't recommend it to anyone because you could just hit up the sales in normal shopping centres during the New Year's/Early January period and you could probably get the same stuff.
It was so jam packed it took me triple the amount of time to walk from QVB to Pitt St Mall through the underground QVB, and then when I had to go back to QVB to meet with everyone it took like quadruple the time because I was going against the crowd. The whole thing was crazy, like buying lunch at Pitt St Mall and seeing the huge line of like 50 people waiting for the toilets and then needing to walk to the outside of the church next to Town Hall to sit on the floor and eat our lunches like scum. Anyway, I highly do not recommend it and I say never again.
I've also been cross-stitching!
I remember I bought this in year 9 when I went to Malaysia and I did a bit of it, but for some reason I stopped and yonks later (like last month) I was cleaning out my drawers and I found it and decided to finish it. And I shouldn't be saying this because it will just emphasise my image as a grandma, but cross-stitching is pretty darn fun. There, I said it.
Anyway I'm super tired right now and I should really be going to sleep, so that's all for now. Sorry I haven't been blogging as regularly but I'll bring it back up to speed soon.
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