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Urgh.....I really can not believe I just spent NT 2K on a pair of stockings which currently looks like I will never be wearing, ever........I really need to stop impulse shopping!!

I'm like a shopaholic on a rampage in foreign countries with funky monetary numeration systems (to be absolutely honest in any foreign country).....like when a dollar isn't a dollar...give me that decimal point anyday!

But anyways.......the stockings are suppose to look like this.....

But on me, they barely even touch my ankles. A part of me wants to return them....and another part of me wants to keep them.....urgh....

Just Arrived

Some clothes I ordered a couple of days ago off the internet have just arrived. And I have to say I am a tad disappointed. But then again, I should have known better. Most things that are too good to be true, usually are. This will teach me to buy cheap clothes off the internet. Quality costs money my love, you get what you pay for. Of the 6 pieces I bought, I'm only truly satisfied with one, and thankfully I caved and decided to get it at the last minute! Without it, oi vey indeed. The rest just make moi look fat. Ugh. You'll most likely be seeing them at the next flea market then. C'est la vie. That'll teach you......

Thankfully I did spend some dosh on some rather unique pieces this week...ah the power of debit cards. If you haven't yet, do go apply for the Visa debit cards by Maybank, so useful! And financially, I'm so much more supportive of debit cards. I mean you should always only spend what you have, right? But that doesn't mean I'm going to be returning mummy's supplementary card anytime soon. Heaven knows there's always such a thing as an emergency. A fashion emergency. ^_~

STYLE capital

Certain cities just simply force one to be fashionable. Surrounding you with constant reminders, albeit many fashion victims.

Take Taipei, my current adopted city, for example. Never before have I felt the constant pressure to be fashion conscious. Albeit, I've not really lived in any of the other major fashion capitals of the world, like Tokyo, New York, LA or Paris just to name a few. But I have lived in London...

Though perhaps I just wasn't in a more fashion conscious frame of mind back in my collegiate days, nonetheless I never really felt the need to dress up all the time. Or urge to look like I've just stepped of the set of Gossip Girl or Sex and the City. To me, London was a very forgiving kind of fashion city, perhaps it was also my circle of friends, non-fashionistas the lot of us, but hey who can afford to look like Posh Spice on a shoe string budget? Well, frankly a lot of people can but I just couldn't be bothered. It was all about individuality back then or some unique brand or find I couldn't get back in Malaysia, or something punk and goth from Camden. Now though, I'm still all that plus It needs to be fashionable. Oh but fashionable is such a subjective word. But I wander...

Back to Taipei. I walk on the street and just feel so pressured. Fashion is something you need to relish, it's where you show your individuality. Here you have all these girls who are so trying to be what constitute locally as being hip. But I have to say most of them are just fashion victims or perhaps worst still just blend into each other. There this constant insistent need by the masses to go out all kitted out in false eyelashes, makeup and full gear. It all just leaves me thinking how tiring. This whole throng of fashionalbe copy-cats, who all read the same magazines and watch the same fashion oriented shows. How boring!

Though perhaps it is just my own boredom of seeing just Asian faces in the throng, all the time , looking all exactly alike. This constant sea of yellow is a far cry from the myriad of skin colours I get back home in KL.

So I concede.

Perhaps Mark is right, I do miss home.

ps: for those politically inclined, I myself am yellow and would proudly call myself a chink, thank you very much.

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