Sample Sale

My new company (I can't seem to spell it out here because the last time I posted about my new job, someone at work searched for the company and my blog showed up. So I had to kill that blog posting. I wouldn't want my coworkers knowing all my stories). Anyway, my new company, being a clothing company, had a sample sale one Friday. The labels we have (there's two of them...damn, I can't say it on here) are pretty high end, with textiles coming from Europe. Normally, a shirt that would cost $130 AUD was being sold for $20. Pants over $100 were also $20. Jackets for $200 were being sold for $50. But of course, since they are samples, you have to be careful what you pick. My coworker almost bought a blouse that was cut at the back or pants that had a big hole on its leg. It was fun but hard to shop and not being able to try it on.

So I got my employee card last week which entitles me to a 35% discount on our clothes. I tried it that same day and went to MYER in the city. After trying on a few things, I was ready to pay...but was totally rejected. The sales lady told me I had to go to a freestanding store to be able to use my employee card. I told our State Manager that if QVB was not an option for me, I would not have bought the stuff. I was trying to help improve our sales!!! Eventually, I did get the stuff I wanted but was given a bit of a hard time. It was an experience!

Guiness Book of Records

...came to Leichhardt. Being the "little Italy" of Sydney, they held the event for the longest line of pizzas (I know its a bit silly). Along Norton St, they set up a long table starting from the street where we live (Macauley St) all the way to about Marion St...221 meters long and 826 pizzas in total.


Its a bit corny. What they should have done is make one long piece of dough with all the ingredients on it and roll it through the oven...then feed it to us (it was basic cheese pizza). But we did make it to the Guiness Book of World Records. I've never seen one happen before or participated on any.


Just to prove this is real, one of the pictures shows a lady representing Guiness Book of World Records. Actually, after she measured it, it was short of the record. So they had to make an additional 3-4 pizzas to cover it. And there were still some leftovers.

"Good News Week"

I had tickets to be part of the studio audience of the TV show, "Good News Week". Its sort of a comedy show/competition where they have a panel of celebrities and they compete to answer current event news. Unfortunately, I didn't really know who the celebrities were (they had Kelly Rowlands from "Destiny's Child" in the morning taping) and I didn't get some of the Aussie jokes. Haha!

There was a lady whose only job is to fix his tie and shrubs off anything that's on his suit. What bug me the whole time was the host's pants sticking inside one of his high cut boot and nobody told him (not that they would put the camera on his feet anyway).

Leichhardt to City

Who would have thought I'd walk (or could walk) from our house to the city (approx 6km far)? Nobody did...and I proved them wrong. I started off at 10am and got to Chinatown at about 11:45am, just in time for their mass. Along the way, I did some short stops (but did not buy anything) to an antique shop, glass shop, art gallery, was asked for directions, pub, checked out the price of a vespa, looked at the menu for a Korean and Japanese restaurants, and withdrew some money at the bank. It was a bit of an adventure.