LA Gears better step up their Choo game...

Jimmy Choo's Zap light up heels are definitely the grown up version of the LA Gear trainers we all loved as kids. When you walk and dance [if you can manage to do the last feat] the neon perspex heels light up! The price of these made-for-music-video heels are about $2,500 or £1,680....I'm sure your face lit up at the sound of those numbers ;)...

Talking bout Jimmy...you remember this poor excuse to name a song after Jimmy Choo by Shyne & Ashanti....just cos you start your song with, "I see you ma...your thousand dollar weave, masterpiece diamond face on ya sleeve....waist petite, alright, Jimmy Choo's shoes on ya feet, you right", that should warrant this pooooooor song's the title. Shyne looks mad bored rapping from his cell too....it looks like Ashanti is the money grabbing wifey who is more concerened with feelin' on her booty than going to visit her man....

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Smarty Boots

Today, I dressed smart. However, I still kept parts of my 'style' using checks, tweeds, black lace, bits of fake snakeskin and gold. Oh and but I had my neon Marc Jacobs bag too lol....! It was different but fun! I didn't know this outfit was hiding in my suitcase of 'give-aways' to my younger friends. Looks like I'm not giving this away after all haha!

The boots I'm wearing [and trying my hardest to get in the shot :S] have a crazy story behind them - long story short, I had Rachie-Pie and her sister stalking these Kurt Geiger boots for me while I was at work on the day they went on sale lol! And with their team effort, I was able to get them....gold chains intact [one KG store tried to sell pair of boots WITHOUT the set of chains!?!?].

LOL someone got a horse at their Sweet Sixteen and one of the party-goers said, 'She needs to throw some D's on'a pony!' HAHA!!

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Wishlist: Tribal Mish Mash Booties

As you can see from the post before, I'm still in a tribal mood so when I came across what I can best describe as a hybrid of said mood and one of my all time loves, I was très happy!!

TRIBAL FOOTWEAR!!!WOOOOO!!!

These shoes are visually exciting but, what is even better, is the fact that the shoes are Fair Trade-friendly! In every sense of friendliness, their trade is fair from the Osborn factory down to the threads of these headturners!

Kente plimsolls ^^^!!! And no, I'm not biased because I'm from Ghana....these are hot!!

Carla Venticinque-Osborn and Aaron Osborn, are the people behind the art that is Osborn Design so if you think these are hot, there's even MORE at their online store!

*HoodandProper* sings "...gimme gimme...more...gimme...gimme gimme more..."

Kick-a-Licks: Nike Air Tech Challenge Hybrid

"Broker than a joker but I had to get these trainers,

But I got 'em on a discount - forty percent to be particular,

Should I get da white or black - both are so hot,

But the black is in nubuck, like leather, it's so soft."

[I rap on the weekends lol!]

My trainers have been getting rewinds like all the time since I bought them last week - I can't stop wearing them! I think it's cos I have a thing for shoes/kicks that are nubuck/suede. It just feels so good when you can run your fingers over 'em and they feel like a freshly, shaved cat or something [errr the cat was the first thing that came to mind].

If my kicks called talk they would probably sound like Barry White when he was on the block macking on all the hoodchicks......that kinda hoodsmooth that girls just love.... yea....THAT'S how smooth these are....
Oh - remember that rapper, Smooth......no.....okay! I used to really like her song, 'Strawberries', when I was a lil girl....I was in love with the beat so much. I now know that it was because of the Patrice Rushen sample she used.....dahwell...the 90's had heaps of sampled/original songs that are way better than the trash I hear nowadays. Enjoy and Goodnight/Goodmorning!

Hmmm....I have to think about what I will wear to a meal @ TGI Friday's tomorrow [YUM - JACK DANIELS SAUCE!!!].....I gotta remember to wear something that will hide my stomach well so I can shovel loads food into my pie-hole!!!

*I am* Angry my early morning Scrubs is not on cos of Big Brother and Proper tired

'Back for the First Time'

I have just got back to uni after my 'week of waste' and I feel like it's my first time being in this dull place. I noticed this feeling of unfamiliarity as I turned the key in my door an unnecessary amount of times even though it was open after the first turn. I also forgot about the annoying chicken that crows around 10.45pm (yes - some idiot leaving nearby has a chicken and it crows soooo much that I KNOW what times during the day/night that it will make that unearthly yelp!).

After dumping my bags, I checked to see if anyone had stolen my unwashed pasta pan in the kitchen, 'Still there - good,' as if anyone would take it. Walking ever so slowly as I marvelled at the oh-so fresh suede-ness of my new kick-a-licks [see below], I returned to my room to find the light was off. Now, everyone knows I tend to have the memory of Dory so me being lost, I simply turned the light back on, 'OH - the light went out - I get it ....great...aaawww man - that creepy, freshy security guard who used to try and move to my friends when they lived on halls is the only person who can help me....I don't even make eye contact with him.....maybe I should just ask him - hold up - but that means he has to come into my room - nahhh bruv - not with them shoes he's been trekking the vomit-strewn halls with - ya must be mad cuzzy! Actually, I can deal with the darkness.....but the Freemasons might get me in the night.....right - lets go to the security dude....'

So after swallowing a lot of pride (and I mean A LOT), I went to the security dude's office and told him my light went out.

"Erm - hi..."

"Hiii..."

"....yeaaa erm - my light went out so erm I was just wondering if [images of him walking with me into my room crept up again 'ABORT, ABORT!']....I was wondering if I could ask for help from... the maintenance people [yeah - nice diversion] tomorrow - the morning right? - because I don't mind, as you have to guard this place overnight, I don't wanna-"

"Don't worry - you can fix it yourself....have you done it before?"

"Yeah?" Nope. [Double Entendre]

"So you just turn it round yeh....here's the bulb alright...you do know-"

"Yeah - I do - thanks."

Taking off, like a bullet, back to my room, a feeling of relief entered my lungs, 'That wasn't so bad.....now, back to the light.' You know those big ol' round lights that are fixed on bathroom walls and that - my campus room has one of those so I knew the deal, 'twist and OFF'! So as I got through to the 78th turn, I accepted that this ain't a 'twist and off' job'.
"I bet he knew I would'nt be able to do this....fool....well I ain't goin' back that's fo' sure!"

So I'm using my precious Ikea bedroom lamp now. I hate using up my own stuff when I got free stuff to burn out!

Oh and that rave that I was supposed to be drowning my sorrows in.....how about I didn't get in! It was THAT packed! 'I'm not going to another', I decided! I'm moving on to a different free rave where scene people are not a priority but a minority. I won't be doing this until I finish uni in April and counting >>> [Check my countdown, ha!]

And my posts are going to become bitter at times because I'm not in South ...I'm at uni...where the sun never shines.

NOW, back to footwear! I quite like the LA Lakers colourway so I fulfilled this 'like' in a pair of Nike Blazer High Premiums last year. However, recently I bought the lovely LA Delta Force kicks, so now I'm sooooo over the Blazers. To be honest, the Blazers are half a size too big! BUT I got them because they were in the Boxing Day sale at Niketown (and are still full price in my place of work for some strange reason!?!?!). I was getting a deal at Niketown so I was ON IT! Not anymore though, as my unworn Blazers have never come out of their box since then haha!

Which ones do you think are better [it won't affect my decision muahaha!]....or should I just keep both even though I'm as broke as a bank?

*I am*: Stuffing my face with a 4-pack of Yum Yums and Proper