Stuff’s happened over the past two months. I’ve (unofficially) graduated from University, found a job in an industry I really wanted to get into (yay!), and while I’m not particularly well-endowed in the finance department at the moment like I’ve always envisioned myself to be after getting a job, I’m pretty much happy with where I am in life at the moment. I get to be around clothes and bags and shoes and accessories at work, so I’m not quite sure what better deal I could’ve gotten ;)

Anyway, I’m a little very late to the party, but I just started looking through the Fall 2010 RTW collections, and I have to say that I’ve been completely floored by some of the designers, some of whom I haven’t even heard of before. Then again, I guess I hear of very little designers, and mainly from reading blogs and such. In any case, I hope to post some of the incredibly gorgeous designs next post.

To celebrate mother’s day, my mom brought the entire family “trekking” at the Southern Ridges. We got on the bridge along Alexandra Road, and ended up at Mount Faber. According to my dad, we walked like 4 kilometers or something like that.

Everyone brought cameras except for my brother, which naturally made him Superstar of the Day. At first he was really enthusiastic…

… but then he ran out of gas really quickly.

(Sorry for the totally inconsistent lighting. I was trying to make the photos look arty, but then I realized that it didn’t really work very well with people in the photos. Ahem.)

So anyway, there were tons of walking, getting mildly disoriented, spying on my brother doing weird pee poses, and then more walking. We did so much walking my thighs died on me. Again. Well, they never really recovered from Friday’s Hip Hop dance session, but I was totally feeling the ache all over again this morning.

Then we arrived at the Henderson Wave. At least I think that’s what it’s called?

Great view from the top.

It’s super duper long and I thought it was something like 400 meters above ground, but I’ve got so extreme a fear of height that anything above 50 meters off-ground looks like 500 meters to me, so I don’t know how accurate my estimations are.

So that’s about it! I was surprised there weren’t more people on the Henderson Wave though, since it’s got a great view and is really well-designed and everything. They even have these parts of the bridge where you can sit around and chill and… stuff. Good spot for dating, me thinks :D

So I had lunch at the most obscure place today with Jareth, Roomie & Gwen.

Except it wasn’t as in-the-middle-of-nowhere as I thought it might be because apparently a lot of people know about this place. But do not be fooled by A Lot Of People. The food here is more like a 3.7 than a 7.3. Please don’t ever order Fish & Chips. I hope it gradually fades into obscurity so they will think about reworking the recipe.

After that we went to watch Kick Ass.

Holy. Shit. I really should’ve read up a review before I went for the movie. I went in thinking the movie’s an action comedy but boy, I was waaaay off. Warning bells should’ve gone off when I saw that the tickets were labeled M18, but man, the violence in that movie? It will make you shit bricks. Not to say it isn’t a great movie, because after thinking about it for a while, the deeper messages beneath the surface begin to sink in. To be honest though, I had my eyes shut and my fingers in my ears for maybe a third of all the “action” (gore, cough) scenes.
Which makes me wonder, am I ever going to be able to go through an entire thriller/gore (no horror because I never watch horror) movie with my eyes open throughout?

All in all, a pretty good trip I guess?