lame things with us (as you can tell). That night, i learnt that we were not allowed to play our own CDs anymore (goodbye take a bow, bye bye etc etc) and can only play the CO discs. Seriously, i wonder who choose the songs fer our monthly discs because the songs are actually new and nice. They have the TINGTINGS! too! (points towards video on left and click on e triangular button facing the right) Soon i got them all mad with lust over the song too and Nana started a dance in e fitting room. (Actually i wasnt in e mood to blog now but i played the song and i feel silly all over again. the song just has that effect laaaaaaaaaa. Its super cute. LOL) Nana, whom is a ultra pretty and stylish girl with nice makeup, started hopping left, right then faster leftrightleftright. Heads bobbing plus funny expression on face too. Fidah joined in. Then me. and we kept going on till customers notice us/or we cant hold back our laughter any longer then we stop. Hehs. I think i went crazy over Avril's Best Damn Thing and Fergie's Labels or Love too. *coughs*

So the night was wild enough but i was still (not surprisingly okay) doing my job well at the fitting room. Yes. we're back to the shoptheft topic. This malay lady rushed into 1 of the rooms with a handful or clothes in her arms and i was kind of suspicious so i stopped her.

Reasons for suspicion:
- typical customers will peep around and say "erm, got room?" and wait for me to tell them which to go to but she was like urgently running for the toilet
- she was carrying a bigg bag
- 3 Secondary School malay girls stole clothes while i was at the fitting room before and i didnt manage to stop/catch them in time! :((( so i told myself not to let that happen again and i have to be sure of the no. of items customers bring into the rooms.
- gut feeling?

I counted her clothes and it was around 7-8 pieces so i let her take 6 in since the maximum was 6. When she went in, my friend (Eve) said it looks more than 4 pieces (since that day was crowded and we said 4 was the max.) so i explained that i let her take 6. Then, i went to the storage room to drink water with her, back facing the fitting rooms. The girl came out and left quickly. Thankfully, Eve told me "eh the 6-piece girl come out already" and immediately, i rushed out to the fitting room again.

Then, i saw her. Just 1 rack of clothes away, pretending to look at a guy's shirt for 3seconds, and proceed to STUFF THE CLOTHES SHE TRIED ON EARLIER INTO HER BAG! She had difficulty stuffing them in and was really pushing hard, doing it just paces away and in view from the fitting room -.-" She did not even double check to see if i have returned (probably thought i was chatting away) or try to walk further away to stuff the clothes. She then took out her handphone and pretended to talk on the phone, making her way out. I ran to tell Eve (manager-in-training) and she ran to tell our manager. Trailing the lady till she was definitely out of the shop (in case she said she hasnt walked out and sld not be considered stealing), our manager stopped her. I heard that she was saying a lot of sorrys and asked if she could pay for the clothes. But our manager was insistent and called the guards.

Pretty Nana stayed with her while the guards make their way over and she asked her "eh why you do that sia?" and she replied ... .... ... ... "i dunno... stress la... my bf..." We all thought it was a totally stupid reason to shoplift and i was glad to have caught her, until i went with the guards and she was crying her eyes out. Later on, 2 policemen came to our shop and took my statement and all and we learnt that she were having family problems as well. Maybe Stress really drives you crazy :( Since she's no longer a teenager (she's 22), she will be facing the normal charges for shoplift. While the policemen were in the shop and we were racking up, the girls went crazy again. I have NO IDEA WHY we were SO high that day. Fidah started saying i will be on the next expisode of crimewatch and i was figuring out loud what i should wear. Probably CO clothes (those that she stole) with a red underwear that says S for Superwoman Shirley. ... Thru all the giggling shouting and many phrases along the line of "you jealous of my fat ass is it?" the policemen wrote a 2 page essay (now that i look at it, 2page is not alot because i used up approx. 6 paragraphs too) of the incident. We all left the shop together with policeman 1 telling policeman 2, "actually the slippers here not bad. $5 only too" and policeman 2 replying "ya next time come when no work".

-.-"

I felt a teeny bit bad for the girl as it seems like her first time. I would much rather have caught the Sec Sch girls as they are not adults yet (wldnt have a permanent record) but would learn and not continue doing silly things like this when they grow up. Oh well. Anyway i get a $50 CO voucher for nabbing a thief so erm, its good to do justice? :x I didnt know bout the voucher before it but i somehow doubt it will come because such things tend to get dragged... hmm.

Anyway, working at CO is fun and crazy most of the time i guess and we are like a family (: But at other times, i really feel like quitting. We have around 20 staff but i only manage to get some of our pictures. So...


Tadah! The photo with just 2 of us is me with Yana, my size 6 friend (: She likes to say "look at that skinny girl carrying the ladder" to me when she is of the same size as me! She's Nana's best friend and stylish like hell too (: We can talk like there's no tomorrow. Lol.

3 nights ago, i had a bonding session with Sofia too (: That's her below.

Oh you mean it's too dark? Here's another peekture then:

Oh it's now worse? Sheesh, you're hard to please. Tee-hee. These were taken be Bee's handphone on that night while we sat outside 7-11 :x Sofia stayed with me at Mcs (super sweet of her) while i was waiting to meet Bee at BBatok and she went "feel like drinking sia" and i was like "eh me too" and we both stood up together with a "let's go!" Haha. RubyGrapefruit Barcadi is Love (not labels, no) and we chatted till i presuaded hao peng you Bee to come down. And we somehow managed to sat there with bottles of Hooch, cup noodles and junkfood till 5am. We talked our hearts out and cabbed home together. (: I love wonderful friends (:

I guess it's a rather lengthy entry so i shall stop. soon. Tee-hee. I just realized Ching is not in the collage :x I love these people i've known from CO but i know it will be hard to keep close after quitting right? . All righty, im gg to talk to my boy on the phone now. Bye! (: