east enders (not the trashy soap on bbc) and one second of fame!

I'm still listening to the Wicked soundtrack ._. Everytime any one of my roommates comes in, I'm utterly embarrassed since this loud, crazy musical music is on (all the time). In other news, Clay Aiken is not gay! or so he says lol... I just thought that was funny, since it was the top story on People.com. Thankfully, I've gotten rid of my Pink is the New blog addiction :)

Since we didn't have class today (woohoo!), Danielle and I decided to go down to Brick Lane (east end of London), which is dodgier (right Vanessa?) to check out the vintage/thrift stores. I borrowed this book called the Bargain Hunter's London, which is amazing! Especially since I'm saving up my money for faboulous clothes and trips. ^_^ So the main goal was to go to Beyond Retro, a retro clothing store that Kiera Knightly shops at. But when we got there it was so overwhelming, especially since I've never been thrift store shopping before. I found some stuff, but I'm not too comfortable with blingin' 80s garb, used shoes, or crazy prints. It felt like going through my mom's closet actually. I don't have a really good eye for these quirky stores, but when the clothes are on a manniquin, it looks so cute!

Anyhoo, we walked around Brick Lane and found SO MANY vintage stores! :) The best part is that these places washed the clothes for you already and hand picked special pieces. I found this pageboy hat that was so cute, but according to Sarah, hats always seem like a good idea, but end up in the closet. Lots of stuff was so cute, but I realized lots of the same cute stuff doesn't fit me. Okay, so the point of this whole entry was to lead up to my new favorite store... The Laden Showroom!!!!!! OMG amazing! :) It's like the Musee d'Orsay of clothes... basically, it should be illegal for all the great stuff to be there in one store. It sells independent designers, so there's like only two of each item in there. Posh spice shops there :) Every pair of shoes I tried on was SO CUTE and SO COMFORTABLE (which is sooo hard to find). I found these heels for 30 pounds and flats for 45 pounds. (cringe!) Danielle and I found so many cute tops and skirts and dresses and capelets... AHH!

Brick Lane is also famous for its Indian/Bangladeshi restaurants, so we had some curry for lunch. There's 50 curry restaurants within a one mile stretch! O_O Sadly, we went back into the Showroom and tried on more cute stuff, BUT we were good and didn't buy anything! I think we're probably going back on Saturday to actually get the stuff because we couldn't stop thinking about that store :( My poor bank account...

This this entry probably was pretty boring (if you got this far), so sorry! But if it's of any interest, I stalked who atually made it to Junior Year Abroad. If you didn't hear me tell you about it, it was this reality show they were recruiting for from NBC. So close to making it, yet so far! The asian girl they picked is going to Taiwan!!! UGH. I guess I wasn't marketable enough, but my life is not as exciting enough for reality TV (ahem Rohini!) Well the lame part of the show is that it's an online show, so it wouldn't have been on TV anyways? haha... but they did put in a blip of my audition tape in the first episode showing the other contestants who I guess didn't make it. So sadly, unlike what Andy Warhol predicted, I got only one second of fame ._.
So if you're bored, watch my one second at:

http://www.nbc4.tv/jya/index.html

A little trivia for the Indians back home... as much as you don't like it, Indians = Asians here, Chinese/Korean/Japanese = Orienta. WTH?