Flea Market A Success!~~~~
Monday, September 04, 2006
To mark yesterday event as successful would be overstating it alittle as in financial terms , it aint really that. The atmosphere that Triple J set up was wonderful , as we had lotsa fun selling , yelling and disturbing one another , sometimes disturbing some young and fun customers too.
The weather was hellish , i never imagined there was a place hotter or as hot as SUnSet Bay.. There is and yesterday was a statement to mark that. We perspire buckets and melted like ice cream left on stone pavement , decked with all kind of shelter but to no avail. I was don in all sort of coverage to prevent the sun from "bronzing" me in his own little way , i wore my Sunglasses , my addidas cap , sunblock and even use my umbrella .. You know what ?? I was sunburnt still , and to add insult to injury , i was the "reddest" among the Triple J. Maybe because i waddle around like some curious duck , talking to customers and not really in the shade most of the time..and the fact that i get sunburnt easily. Now i dealt with red and painful shoulder blades and peeling skin all over again. *Woe on me....*
However i was grateful to all my friends that came and lend me support , without their (you guys) i couldnt be able to survive through the Heatstroke that i almost got. haa..
Wan ru and gals (G.q too..) , He Yi , Kelvin and Mei Ru who came just to support me and buy some sort of rubbbish from me...haa thanks guys. My brother and his gf who helped me along the process of preparation for our stall. Triple J, and their bf..and kelvin..who endured , thanks for making our stall such an wonderful event.
To me , setting a stall and selling stuffs was a deploy to have fun , mingling with all my frends and making a memorable day for the Triple J especially. We 3 had wanted to clear our truckload of stuff since zillion years ago , and to use 4 days to fully prepare a stall ..i think 3 of us did rather well. We only had 4 days to photograph our few outfits , did a poster , jio our friends , prepare our stall's setup and tagged our clothes,shoes, bags..Not bad i would say.
3 of us had minimal sleep and had to plough through the day with aunties that bargain as if their life depended on it for livelihood. We almost gave up and ask the whole lot of them to either scram off or just get whatever they want and we will sell...we were tired , shagged to the core.
The irony of the day was Eng Huat (jiashan's bf) whom we redicule about- his lousy clothes , bell bottom and even his Discman that he wanted to sell..made our day. His Discman was sold as the highest priced item of the day , his clothes was the 1st sale and his clothes sells rather well. Unexpectedly , Kelvin's clothes that was priced rather high in all of the whole Holland V 's flea market was sold rather fast and easy too. Unlike the 3 of us girls who had to sell like crazy . Sigh the guys were winner of the day..i vow not to make fun of the 3 guys again.
Our "kou hao" , widely used sentences of the day :
Kelvin( the slack male sale personnel) : Dun worry , its authentic ar !! *referring to his genuine soccer jersey* it did work after all.
Jiashan (the stern and aslo fun cashier cum sales women): You wanna see skirts that fits you? *she will proceed to fumble through the mess of clothes and bring out her demin mini skirt from mango or Espirt. / "Jasmine , Jolyn where's the Float? / How Much?? GOt discounts? "haa..yesh , she is our cashier cum accountant of the day.
Jasmine (Top sales girl) : Buy la , it suits you, you so Preeety, igive you discounts lo .../ I oready sold 2 pairs like it just now liao.. (she darn zai lo , from all ages the customers all seemed to look pretty to her..haaa)
Jolyn ( the Pushy sales girl ): eh wanna buy my ERP Cashcard cover?? Got teddy bear or WRX one oso...Buy la...(I push that item to all my guy friends who came down just to support me ..haa , but the respnse i got from Jielong was.."walao dun wan la , ar bo i give u $5 , you put that thing in ur car la .." -..- ) / eh you buy more from me , i give you discounts la...aiyah you faster buy la , cos i want to close shop liao. I want to clear stock. But kelvin being so observant yesterday complained that i been saying the same lines since 5pm till 8pm when i finally close. He seemed to imply that i have no ethics , use this kinda lousy antics to sell my stuffs. haaa.. Jasmine also lament that i have been telling many maids "Can la , can fit la..when its obvious that they all cant fit into my tight jeans and stuffs.." my antics were unethical i agree..haa Im so ashamed that i promise not set up a stall there in near future..hahahaa
After the Flea market , the shagged out 6 person (with Eng huat and Elson who is Jasmine's bf) drove our cars and 1 bike to Jasmine house to bathe. Yesh , we had 3 cars that day..just to set up a flea market stall..haa The guys had to wait at some nearby Kopitiam for nearly an hour before we were done. We set off in jovial mood to Geylang to celebrate Elson 's Birthday. We spent quite alot but we were very..very ...happy.
I almost fall asleep on the way driving home. *grinz sleepily*
P.S no pictures as we took very little photos yesterday. May post it up when i get them :)
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