Galit sa RMB
Mahirap pag stressed.
Amazing how three little Filipino words can express so much about female psyche. It usually means, “It’s difficult when you’re stressed” but it also conveys the shopping aftermath: “You get poor when stressed.”
This is a fact. After a really, really lousy shoot in Manila where everything that can go wrong (and everything so simple you can’t even imagine they’ll get it wrong) went wrong, I shopped for two pairs of jeans. My suit also shopped after finding out how therapeutic it was for me.
So this is my excuse for shopping like crazy this week. All in, I probably spent over RMB5000 just for one week. But these are essentials! I bought a portable heater and humidifier and jackets and a kitty-shaped purse with its tail as zipper. Those are essentials, right? And the humidifier has to be shaped like a monkey even though it’s rmb100+ more expensive than the usual. I figured, if I’m going to use it everyday for the next three months and for the succeeding winters, I might as well get something that makes me happy (think Cost Per Puri). I also got a haircut at Toni & Guy but I can only afford a jr. stylist here; then bought two winter jackets which are essential (especially the felt, little-red-riding-hood-turned-glam one… a real must have). Bought a couple of hats, scarves, shirts, that fab & ridiculuously expensive top last tuesday, and boring stuff like a body pillow, towels, moisturizers, trashcan blah blah blah.
It must be caused by working overtime for two weeks including weekends. Or because my radio recording in Singapore was cancelled. (Darn it! I really want those rcs produced, kahit di sa Sing.) Or maybe I do need to buy most of these stuff anyway. But I feel guilty spending so much in a week, and at the back of my mind there’s this feeling of hindsight that I should’ve shipped more things over.
Back in the Phils I wanted to start fresh. And was also trying to limit my shipment to one cubic meter. So I gave or sold dirt cheap most of my stuff including my well-loved knives, pots, well-designed trouser hangers and painted bowls and plates I collected over the years. Eh p*cha ang mahal dito! And not as good or pretty. Then tipid ako ng tipid sa shipping fee by giving myself a self-imposed limit eh ang layo ko pa pala sa totoong limit! At least most of my good wares went to family and friends.
Over the years I also accumulated a lot of junk. That’s why it’s taking me forever now to furnish my apartment. I want everything to be just right. Down to the can opener and kettle.
So RMB, ubusan ng lahi!
