Win a date with Zul Hammyton

Wah, nanapok. Once the festive season hits, my wallet dies. My mum gave me a larger than usual budget this year, seeing as how I didn't buy many clothes last year, as it was the A levels then, so I didn't have time to shop.

She calls it love. I call it love AND dollar cost averaging.

So this year, faced with the numbness and regularity of my job, I took 3 half days of leave and went shopping like a crazy rabid moronic girl.

Let's review my shopping disasters:

Baju Kurung: $78.00
Head gear: $10.00

I had to please my benefactor, so I got those purchases out of the way. I buy festive clothes once every 3 years, cos I don't see why I should buy one every year. I wear it for like 2 days max and it gets chucked in my cupboard for a year.

Unless Vishnu is playing the part of some racial harmony thing and then it may get out of my cupboard again.

Then I went shopping for real clothes, the ones that I'll be using for going out, and perhaps uni, seeing as how its only a year away. (God, I'm old.)

And there went my budget, and my tuition earnings.

Zara Shirt: $99.90
Tangs shirt: $129.90
Aldo Shoes: $157.50
Dockers Pants: $97.50
Socks: $12.90

So yes, people. I've taken your advice and imparted on a sartorial journey to dress better.
As you can see, Mr You-know-who, I replaced the cowboy shoes.
I also added 2 more shirts to the few I have.
And I bought pants that are not brown.

Happy? Haha. Now its going to be more difficult predicting which shirt and pants I'm going to wear aye?

I was thinking on whether I spend too much, or too exorbitantly. But, I was raised to appreciate quality, not quantity. ( Somehow the teaching dint apply to food. Hoho.)

So yes, I may have fewer clothes than a normal person, so much so that you can predict which shirt I'm going to wear, but the quality is there all the time. 1.5 years on, and my shirts still look as though I bought them a week ago.

So in the end, I spend the same as someone who changes his/her wardrobe every 3-6 months.

Speaking of quality, I recently cut my losses on a venture. I invested too much time, thought and resources into this venture. YET, it didn't give me the returns that I wanted. Certain friends told me to just hold onto the stocks, so I kept investing and checking up onto it from time to time. There were flashes of potential now and again, but in the end, till today, returns were zip. So i decided to pull out. Yes, Hafiz said I'm stupid, but I think he's overestimating the potential of this venture.

As my wise friend Mamat Muhd put it, 'If you have to ask whether this venture is worth it, then its definitely not.' Ok la, he dint say that, but I construed his advice to be as such.

And now, I feel so much better. I feel free.

And to end this whole pointless entry, for which I'm surprised you didn't skip to the end, (you did didn't you? that's why you're reading this, you bastard.) on a meaningful note, let's take Muhd's advice and apply it to all our lives.

If you have to ask whether something is worth it, then its not worth it in the first place.

For that Muhd, you won a date with me to watch Resident Evil.