Was out shopping with some friends. 50% sale for all branded goods. A pair of Prada shoes cost as low as $5000 rubles (about $300). Relatively cheap I would say. But I ended up empty handed while some of my friends picked up some items. Why didn't you buy? You may ask. Well, simply because I could not afford a branded lifestyle. To me, paying $300 for a pair of shoes is extravagant. No matter how worth it it is. Anyway, Prada shoes do not go well with Giordano clothes.
However, I had to confess that I almost succumbed to temptation. Simply because I am in an environment where I need to be branded. What will others think of me if I am not carrying a Longchamp bag or wearing a pair of TODS? Will people start to talk behind my back? Shoo me for being LC? Well, I come to this conclusion. I need the money for my Masters and I need to prepare for life after 3 years in Moscow, possibly without a job for the first few months. Although $300 for a pair of shoes is not something that I cannot afford, I have alternative use for the money. If people have to see me in that light, so be it. Anyway, everyone of us has different priorities in life.Sometimes it is a drag being in such a society. Life back home is simpler, much simpler.
4 comments:
your house looks cosy. i can sleep on the couch when i bunk at ur place...haha...and jan can sleep on the floor...haha (i know im mean! HAHA!)
just be yourself. tats very important. $300 for a pair of shoes is rather too much unless someone wants to buy it for me...hehe...
you find life back home is simpler but to me life in sgp is complicated & far too stressful. for me the simple life i hv tasted was at Wgong. time just stood still. things & ppl move at their own pace. so it brings back to each of us having different perspective of life and bottom line is to be true to oneself.
life is a bitch sometimes. live and let live.
Yo, if you come, I have a guest room which can house you and Janice comfortably. So no need to fight...hahaha
good hor.. flowerger... let me sleep on the floor hor... hantam u ah.. hey wanna go there together next year?
btw... not that life in Sgp is that complicated lah... sometimes circumstances & relationships made things complicated...
i always believe that simplicity is in the heart of a person. If there is no need, then dun make it complicated.. ya .. i know.. sometimes it's beyond ur control... then make the best of what is within ur control.
Nobody can make your life miserable, it's a matter of whether u want to or not... haha... am i making sense... sigh.. it's the heavy lunch lah...
I was expecting your apartment to look oldish and communist. Haha...It's modern. I won't have guessed it's moscow. But then, what do I know about moscow.I only know about the laid back simplicity of down-south america. Longchamp, what's that?
Life back home in singapore isn't simple and easy at all, unless you are talking about the public transport. I'll take the first flight out if I can.
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