shopping for love.

11:35 PM

Sometimes i think the way people shop can be linked to what kind of attitude they adopt when it comes to love. (or playing the game of love.)

there are different kinds of shoppers:

1) The impulsive shopper

He's the one who buys useless things on impulse and then regrets his purchases. Remember those horrid highlighter pink and yellow tops you bought last season on impulse? they're sitting in the closet now aren't they. or maybe they're already in the trash can. how tragic.

2) The contemplative shopper

He sees this shirt he's really interested in. "Wow. It's really not bad. But... It's a bit too expensive. Do i really need it? Or is it a want?"
So he waits around. (I really don't know what he's waiting for though.) And then one day when he goes back to the shop and decides to buy it, it's gone. off the market. too bad. how typical.

3) The "i-know-what-i-want" shopper

"okay," he says, "Today I'm gonna get a shirt to wear for my cousin's wedding dinner on saturday. It's gonna be blue, checkered and long sleeved." He goes to the shop, spots the shirt, grabs it, tries it on, and pays at the cashier. how swift.

4) The emotional shopper

He believes in retail therapy. So he shops the most when he is feeling down. Or sometimes he buys stuff to fill some kind of void inside him. Sometimes he ends up buying things that he's not interested in at all. He just needs to spend some money. how strange.

5) The one who's just filthy rich.

He shops at all the best shops and he always gets what he wants. He likes all the newest toys. His philosophy: You can never have enough watches. Even if you can only wear one each day. He doesn't really have any emotional attachment to his possessions. Afterall he can always replace them. how irksome.

6) The loyalty card member.

He loves the clothes from this shop. And this shop only. He has the loyalty card and almost all the staff at the shop know him. Maybe it's the discount that attracts him to shop there, or maybe there's just some inexplicable attraction between him and the shop. All his life he will prefer to shop there. how ideal.

I think i'll add some other types to the list after i encounter them. (i just realised i haven't included many positive types. that really shows how pessimistic/cynical i am?)

So, what kind of shopper/lover are you? (:

sua. (it means "forget it.")

1:17 PM

it's a new blog skin again.
A new blog skin symbolizes a new beginning. (or maybe i was just getting sick of the polka dots and i wanted something cleaner.)

"i wish you were here with me but you're not here, you're there.
and there doesn't know how lucky it is."

What an awesome line. doesn't really apply to me now. i don't know.
men these days should really mean what they say.

-i'll always have time for you.
-wow really?
-~~but tonight a bit special.~~
-(so is it really always?)

and promises should matter if the promisee matters to the promisor.

every girl waits around all her life for some knight in shining armour.
some fairytale-like endings.
no, not me. not now. i'd rather take a pauper.

the ugly truth

10:47 PM

I went to watch "The Ugly Truth" with mister photogenic today.
It was a suuuuuuuuuuuuuuper funny movie. i cried once or twice though. being the super emo person i am.

basically what i got from the movie was: No matter how much of a control freak or how dense you are, there will be somebody who will appreciate you.

Yay that means i can continue being a control freak. (ok im really not. lose.) i'm just loud and I dont think before i speak. at least that's what i wanna think i am.

i hope one day the truth need not be ugly. i hope the truth can one day be beautiful. let's wait for that day then.

only human.

10:59 PM

tonight is one of those nights.
one of those nights i'm more human than other nights.

it's a phrase i use to subsitute for being "emo".
which expands to become "emotional". having said this, what's wrong with being "emo"?

it simply makes us a bit more human.

been listening to colbie caillat's new album "Breakthrough".

my favourite song (next to "Fallin' for you") is "Fearless".

If that's the way you love,
you've got to learn so much.
If that's the way you say goodbye

If this is how it ends,
then i'm alright with it
you're never gonna see me cry
cause I've cried.

So go on, go on and break my heart
there's nothing you can do to me,
that's ever gonna burn me.

So go on, go on and leave my love
out on the street
I'm fearless, better believe I'm fearless,
fearless

If this is how it hurts
it couldn't get much worse
If this is how it feels to fall

Then that's the way it is
we live with what we miss
we learn to build another wall
till it falls.

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how true.

to surrender.

10:10 PM

some people wait around all their lives.
not me. im not gonna waste my time waiting around anymore.

had an awesome lunch with sonia mao today. she told me that the most important thing in a relationship is to "surrender" when you fall in love.

and i was like, "you mean to compromise and give in?"

she was like, "no, it's way more intense. it's to surrender everything. completely."

(intense is like her favourite word right now anyway.)

really, this concept of surrenderring is interesting. to surrender your pride, your ego, your inhibitions, your fears, your everything.

and it's not easy to do so. this kinda changed my perception of falling in love. it isn't so easy. it never is.

tough times don't last. really.

10:18 PM

Just read one of my friend's entry and I feel that I should update too.
We're pretty much in the same boat, everything seems to be going downhill.

Besides the fact that I'm really struggling with AA202 and I'm a total Excel idiot (there will actually be a test on Excel omggggggg), I lost my camera at St James that day while i was drunk.
Okay i was not totally drunk. maybe just very giddy. Don't know how i lost it. maybe it just slipped out of my hand and I didn't realise.

the camera, as mentioned in a previous entry, was a birthday gift from my daddy. SIGH. I was planning to replace it this weekend at the IT fair (yes i checked already and i know it's this weekend), but I guess my plans will have to be scrapped due to the unresponsiveness of a certain somebody.

I'm really unhappy in my course because I really really dislike accounting. managerial, in fact. used to like it, but i've suddenly lost interest? i'd be happier doing something like linguistics.

Alright I think you're sick of my ranting. So i shall tell yall something interesting:

One day i received this missed call and so i gave the person a call back. So this guy asked me whether i knew of someone called Jonathan Sim. So i was like, yeah he was my acquaintance back in Hwachong. According to this "Danny" guy, Jonathan gave him my number when he asked him to introduce a girl to him. -_- why like thaaaaaat.

ok anyway the weird thing is when i asked jonathan about it, he said he doesn't even have my number (and i think it's true). So how the hell did this "Danny" guy get my number?!

Btw, fun facts abt Danny:
1. He has an amazing ability to continue conversations even though the person on the other side of the line is obviously uninterested and irritated.
2. He dropped out of school after his Secondary education. Reason? "Aiyah i just dont like to study."

that was what infuriated me. His very lousy attitude. I mean, I don't like studying too. but it's my responsibility so I try to do my best. and to do it well.

Therefore i stopped replying him. and yesterday at around 8am (what the hell?! super early) he called me using his office phone? I thought it was some tuition lobang so i picked up the call. Damn he totally sounds like an ah beng. when he asked me "where do you stay?" I immediately said "Pasir Ris". The further away from my house, the better.
URGH!

he hasn't been contacting me since i got off the phone with him. and god i hope he doesn't.

anyway, moral of the story: don't return missed calls. EVER!!!!

Yup okay back to my original agenda. I just want to say.. there are good times and there are bad times (quotes neighbour). you can't ALWAYS remain suey. sometimes when you least expect it, you'll get lucky (:

As long as you tell yourself, "i'm trying my best, i'm working hard. there are
certain things in life i cant control, so i should stop worrying about them. I
can't control the outcome, but i can control the effort i put in. And that's all
i should worry about."

WOOTS. I believe I have been putting in effort for many things, so time will tell whether my efforts will pay off. and even if they don't, forget it. life's too short to be spent worrying and waiting.