I bought them in Singapore for S$20 I think. Very versatile and fairly comfortable to walk in.
But today, I discovered the hard way that the bloody soles do not have enough grip.
I was walking to Toowong train station and I slipped. Luckily there were not many people around and nobody saw, so I straightened up, pretended nothing happened, and continued on my way.
Then after work in the city. Peak hour. I was squished amongst a group of mostly professional-looking people, waiting to cross the road.
The pedestrian light went green. Everyone started to cross the road.
I was halfway across when I slipped again. In the middle of the road. In front of four lanes of cars and shitloads of people watching FML MAX. I had flung water out of my uncapped water bottle too as I fell, and I wasn't sure if I had drenched anybody because I was too utterly horrified to notice anything else.
I quickly picked myself up while concerned pedestrians asked if I was OK, smiled and salvaged whatever dignity I had left, limped to the other side of the road and inspected the damage (some small scratches) on my stupid shoe. Luckily I wasn't hurt (apart from my dented ego) and in retrospect, I'm really glad I hadn't worn a skirt!
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On another note, it's my second day on the new job and I'm enjoying it. I have a class of bubbly elementary-level students from different countries including France, Japan, Taiwan, Brazil, Korea, Saudi Arabia and New Caledonia who, instead of listening to me speak, have no qualms about chatting away merrily to each other in class despite their very limited English.
I'm only relief-teaching for the moment so I'm not sure what will happen when the other teacher comes back. Hopefully they'll let me stay cos I'm lovin it- The college is great, my new colleagues are lovely, and I'm having heaps of fun with the students!
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On another-nother completely unrelated note, meet the latest additions to the family:
My beautiful new granite mortar & pestle (which are so heavy I cannot even lift 'em with one hand), and a flour tin haha. Goodbye unglam ziplock bags for opened packets of flour! :D
I did some baking that very night and used my new tools to crush the biscuits for the base of my NY baked cheesecake slice. It came out too brown on top, but was yummo nevertheless. I am becoming quite the domestic goddess *beams*
It was Mervyn's birthday too so after the boys played soccer, Julia & Brenen came over as well to have dinner and stayed to watch Paranormal Activity: Uncut.
I'm not a big fan of scary movies but this one was pretty good. None of that gory crap and lots to the imagination. Seriously guys. You should watch it. *Evil chuckle*
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Aaargh Mariah was playing with a big fat cockroach and has left the thing under my chair and now it's crawling up my printer and the dumb cat has gone out EDDIE SAVE MEEEEEEEEEEHHH :( :( :(
