March 24, 2008
My luxury goods confession
I am a shopaholic and I have enough entries on this blog to evidence of that. Clothes, shoes and bags, I buy alot of them and sometimes even the same design in different colors. However, there is this other something I have to admit. I have a weakness for luxury goods. If I were rich, I would be decked out in LV, Gucci, Prada, CD, Hermes, Fendi ,Chanel etc. However, I am not, so I can only content with little treats now and then. Whenever one of my friends buy a new luxury item, they can count on me to "ohh and ahhh" and share in their purchase experience. Even when I walk along the streets, I observe the luxury items other people are using. Sometimes, when with like-minded friends, we will observe and gossip about the authenticity of the luxury item that another fellow human being is using. Why would someone be carrying a SGD3,000 bag to the neighborhood shopping mall? Is it fake that's why she is so careless with it? Or is she simply a show off? Silly questions like the above sometimes plague me and my like-minded friends!
I bought my first luxury item after graduation from university. Such a momentous event of course must be celebrated. I bought myself a green Salvatore Ferragamo wallet which I have not used yet till today. Why??? Well, on the advice of my good friend, in my first job and as the lowest life form in the company, it will not do me any good to be flashy. Although I have since progressed from being the lowest life form, I am now saving that gift I bought for myself for some other time.
After that first splurge, I did not buy anything in the next few years partly due to the fact that I was getting a really tragic pay in my first job. Besides basic necessities, there really was not much left over to splurge. I love luxury goods but I am not one of those people who are so crazy to own a luxury item that I am willing to forgo basic necessities in order to buy an item.
My second luxury item was a blue Bally bag. Until today, I still have no idea how I ended up buying it. It was on sale and I felt like spending money and that handbag was just calling me to buy it. To date, the handbag ranks as one of the most expensive impulse buys for me. I still use the bag these days and its in good shape even after 3 years.
To celebrate my promotion from a graduate assistant to senior, I bought myself a Gucci bag with pink leather trimmings. That bag is my most expensive indulgence to date. I thought about for some time before deciding to buy but decided that I should just buy it. Hey, you only live once and I really do not want to regret not buying that bag.
Since then, I have been buying little treats for myself every year. I know some of my friends do not understand this fascination with luxury goods just as I do not understand a techie's fascination with buying the the latest technology. I do not try to make excuses or try to make people understand, its just a part of me. I enjoy buying luxury goods and I enjoy carrying them. I also know that there are cheaper stuff which are just as pretty and durable and I do buy those too. But if a pretty luxury item does catch my eye and its within my budget, well, I am buying it!
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March 02, 2008
Bangkok 2007
I think one of the highlights of the trips I take is the food that I eat. I popped over to Bangkok last December to visit XZ who was working there at that time. The lure of free 5 star accomodation was just not resistable!! However as I went during a public holiday, my air tickets were horrendously expensive.
This was my first trip to Bangkok. Yah, I know, its rather funny that I have been to Europe, USA and Australia but have seen so little of Asia. For the record, I have never been to Hong Kong also but I intend to remedy that this year. Many people have laughed at me already that I have never been to Hong Kong and Bangkok since those destinations are so common to Singaporeans so if you are laughing, you are not the first.
Besides the food I ate in Bangkok, the other thing that remains deeply etched in my memory from my Bangkok trip is the amount of walking I did while I was there. Yes, XZ, I am going to keep talking about it!! Ha ha. My dear friend XZ insisted that I should see as much of Bangkok as possible and since everything is within walking distance, we walked and we walked and we WALKED! By the end of my first night, my feet were aching very badly. Ok, looking back, I am quite glad XZ made me walk so much coz I really got to see alot of things and went to many places. And dear XZ kept laughing at me coz by the end of the second night, I was limping. She could not believe how lousy my stamina was!
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Taiwan Trip Part 2
Someone left me a comment about the Taiwan trip I took last year in March and that was when I realised that I never finished blogging about it!
I visited the usual tourist spots in Taipei. However, the place that left a really deep impression on the trip was Hua Lien. The scenery there was super gorgeous and the hostel that I stayed in was fantastic!! The owner of the hostel is a super friendly auntie and she makes the most FANTASTIC breakfast!!
The Stone House Hostel that I stayed in Hua Lien
As part of the entertainment provided at the hostel, we were invited by Auntie Liu to paint rocks. All materials are provided by Auntie Liu. What a cool way to spend time with friends on a holiday!! At the end of our stay, Auntie Liu gave us the rocks to bring home as momentos. These are my handiworks!
Line and I at the beach. It was super cold then!!
Taroko Gorge, Hua Lien
Along the shoreline of Hua Lien
And here's one of Line renacting a scene from Titanic!! Ha ha.
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February 17, 2008
Beauty 101
Well, apparently it really does take alot of effort to be beautiful. Recently, I bought a beauty magazine. This is isn't any usual beauty magazine mind you. Its a special beauty magazine written by a Taiwanese actress who "miraculously" after the birth of her child remains as gorgeous as ever. Frankly, after filpping through the magazine I felt a headache coming on, not because it is written in Mandarin but all the effort she puts in to look SO gorgeous.
That got me thinking, maybe Fatgirl is Fatgirl because she only puts in like 10% of what the gorgeous actress puts in. Just make up alone, there are so many things you can do with false eyelashes that boggles the mind. I always feel like screaming in fustration after 10 minutes trying to stick transparent tape to my eyes to give an illusion of double eyelids. And till date, practice still has not made perfect so I have kind of given up creating such illusions. I do not even bother with make up most of the time, so the world see my freckles, dark eye rings and whatever else skin imperfections on my face. And most mornings, I am too lazy to bother with contact lenses as well. Most times, I look like the frumpy, boring accountant because I seriously cannot be bothered.
Next came the section on diet. The actress seriously puts in thought on her food. Everything is boiled and healthy, nothing is fried nor does she recommend lots of sauces. Most times, lunch and dinner for Fatgirl is hawker food, which is high in calories and cholesterol. I mean, hey, there is only so much of fish soup and niang tau foo a person can stomach when one has to eat out so often!! Okay, maybe if Fatgirl had more self restraint, I will make a bigger effort to choose healtier options.
Oh well, as the Mandarin saying goes "There are no ugly girls, but only lazy girls". I realised that I am a very lazy girl after reading the beauty magazine. Of course, to begin with, the actress is pretty and slim, however, to look as gorgeous as she does, she does put in ALOT of effort and she does not just get out of bed looking that stunning. After reading the magazine, I do feel a little more inspired to make a bigger effort to make myself look better. It will probably take a long time before I put in as much effort as her and I will never look as gorgeous as her. Hopefully a little effort a day will start my renewal process and you will see a more beautiful Fatgirl the next time you see me. Stay tuned for updates here.
Here's the link to the magazine I bought. Click on the link and see how gorgeous she is!
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