Monday, July 6, 2009

"A Bathing Ape"

Does anyone know a store/brand called, "A Bathing Ape," or "Bape" that's made in Japan? Well, my aunt (Faith and Will's mom) gave my brothers, cousin (Byron), and I "Bathing Ape"/"Bape" t-shirts. When I tried out my t-shirt yesterday, it was a little small for me so we got the reciept and tried to exchange it for a bigger size at the store today. It's so expensive! Each shirt was $600 Hong Kong, which is about $77 U.S.!!!! Mine is just a plain t-shirt that says "A Bathing Ape" in a weird font and rainbow colors on the front!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What does the name mean? Like a monkey/gorilla is taking a shower or something! I don't get how people thought of that name. And the weirdest thing is that on the label or the logo, it says "Ape shall not kill Ape." o__o (I'm not sure how to make a correct face. My mom's the one who told me how to make this one.) Try going to www.bape.com. That's the website. You can probably find the logo there. It looks really detailed.

I rode on the tram there, and it's really cool! I have a video. It's kind of bad though, and it doesn't tell you much because I took it right when we were exiting.




We got to the store, and there is nothing special about it! I was disappointed, actually. And here's the most ridiculous thing about the store. When I tried to exchange it, they said all of my kind of t-shirts are sold out! And my aunt bought it 1 or 2 days ago when it was a new product! In fact, all t-shirts are sold out! That was hard to believe. They only have shirts with a collar now until they get more stock. I really don't get why people would buy such an expensive but plain and not worth t-shirt! Well, it's made in Japan, and Japanese stuff are usually really expensive. I don't feel too bad though because if you buy something in Hong Kong, you can't refund it. I just forgot about that when I went to return the t-shirt. And since my grandma brought me there, she didn't really mention it either.

After we came back, we went swimming again. It's fun! Byron was with us the whole day again, and he's still here. I have to eat dinner now, so bye!

3 comments:

Qy said...

interesting!!! I have no clue on how they came up with the name!! weird!! anyway, im going to check out that site, so ya... also, leta gave me two of her billions of fish, so now im afraid taht it is going to get over populated in my puny vase that i use as a fish tank... :)

Annette Chang said...

wow that's cool hey how did u post the video on the blog???
still ur vacation still sounds more exicting than mine

Cindy Yuan said...

Jane it's so nice to hear ur voice!
Lol the tram is like the tram in Disneyland combined with a bus in Beijing.
I went on buses like 10000000000000 times in Beijing, I like the double-layered buses.
and the kinds with the spinny wheel thing in the middle cuz the bus is too long so the first half first turns then the back half of the bus. that wheel part spins when the bus turns, fun standing on it.