Caty’s Blog

Well, a long break during Christmas last year and followed by 1 week break during Chinese New Year, here are some brief updates….

– Done one advertising related web site but not updated on my portfolio site because owner has not officially launched the site
– Designing Easter theme for a Danish client, ongoing..
– Designing virtual restaurant in Facebook Restaurant City, but.. getting a bit bored
– Browsing fashion online shop repeatedly yet forbidding my finger to add items into the shopping cart

Oh no, it is already March 2010! Hmm, just a little updates to let the world know that I have not fainted but going into hibernation, for a while…

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All reviews written here are based on my personal experiences during the whole shopping process till I received my items. I am not in any case affiliate to any of the sites below. If you have your own shopping experience, feel free to drop a few lines of comments here.

The second review is on Victoria’s Secret. I shopped less frequent at VS but started my first purchase on Aug 2008. The reason is simply they don’t add in new stock frequently as compared to RalphLauren.com.

Shipping: VS provide direct shipping back to Singapore and I find that it is much cheaper to ship direct rather than using a 3rd party shipping like VPOST.
Initially the items took more than 2 weeks to reach me but over the time, the shipping improved and took about 10 days.

Quality of clothing: Sweaters are pretty good in material wise and I really love their styles especially the sweaterdresses. I simply can’t resist my temptation and have recently bought this dress(see picture below) even though I might not be able to wear it now in my humid and warm country.

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Another series of my online shopping experiences begin here. All reviews written here are based on my personal experiences during the whole shopping process till I received my items. I am not in any case affiliate to any of the sites below. If you have your own shopping experience, feel free to drop a few lines of comments here.

The first one that I am going to review is Ralph Lauren. I have been a regular to this site since 2008. During the 1st year, everything from shipping to the quality of clothes were perfect. Shipping has always be fast and satisfactory. But things started to turn sour since the begining of this year.

I bought a tight skirt on Jan and when I received my item, there was dirt visible on it. So without hesitation, I hand washed it immediately. To my horror the black dye ran like mad under the running tap. The light yellow part of the skirt was stained with the black dye and as you can imagine, the whole skirt was in terrible condition. I didn’t even have a chance to wear it for once. I had taken a few pictures and sent them to the RL customer service. During that time I did receive a prompt and courtesy reply from them. The customer service requested the item to be sent back for inspection. After checking with my local post service provider, I realized the cost of sending back the item to US was expensive, even more expensive than I were to buy another piece of the skirt. I wrote back to explain the whole situation to RL. As a courtesy, a credit for the skirt have been issued back to me.

Well, at that time I just wondered why did such a big and reputable shop has such an under-sight on their part, to not run through a more thorough quality inspection. Nevertheless I continued to have faith in Ralph Lauren and still shop with them regularly after this incident.

So, things went fine for a few more purchases but the horror began on September. Sigh!

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I have been sick for the past 2 weeks, fever for almost the entire last week, plenty of phlegm in throat and hard to cough it out. Sigh, very tired but still managed to complete a new web design project. I know my blog is “lagging” behind a lot. Ah……..

Recently has been rather addictive about the games in Facebook, especially Restaurant city. Building up the interior of the restaurant is kind of fun, sort of fulfilling my interior design dream.

Anyone fan of this game?

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