my friend and i was window shopping the other day at NAC..and she was telling me about a friend who just bought a new LV original bag. but i was telling her of course she can afford it coz she works in a big oil co. and big oil co pays her big many many months bonus..while we have pathetic bonuses..but i digress. i should instead be thankful for getting a pay though not much but nice enough for some extras.

anyway we were talking about buying branded stuffs..the conclusion was, it's better that we dont waste money buying branded stuffs.. not becoz we dont believe in their quality ..or we really think its a waste of money for everyone to buy branded goods. we reasoned that we shouldnt make fun of people who spent thousands to buy bags or shoes.....like my friend with the new LV bag wouldnt spend the same amount of money on cameras; coz people place different value in different things, and as long as it makes them happy it cant be that bad.

but the reason why me especially and my friend believe we shouldnt buy branded goods..its a waste of our money coz we can never pull off carrying branded goods and people would think we got it from petaling st instead..hahahah

part of the reason, apart from it never really being our style, we dont have that 'glow' or that 'look'. firstly the 'glow' here, as we were tyring to dissect is the 'rich glow'. like that day we were driving down siglap and suddenly someone said 'wow, those people look rich!' ( she turned out to be aimes and friend)..not that they were wearing a lot of bling blings or had big hair or attired in loud brands. but he said they just look 'rich'. i am not sure if you have seen some of this glow in the rich. they have this very clean, very well scrubbed, good skin, hair in place (though not all the time) look. espcially the men. maybe gay men or metrosexuals have it too.but they just look very clean and groomed. you know, some of them already have this look way back in school. my friend said coz we the public transport taking people always reached school looking stressed out and smogged out while the chaffeured in jaguar kids, of coz can appear as unfrazzeled and clean.

else, the 'look' is the very tai-tai branded from head-to-toe very madeup look. or can also say this look macam 'kakak-kakak branded' type of look. this is different from the above 'glow'..coz this 'look' can be faked. but this faking must be consistent..hahahah as we shared, if you want to look branded, must consistenly wear stuffs which look like they were from paragon or nac. even if they were not. cannot one day wear gucci and another day wear something that looks like its obviouly from lemon tree from FE. and this everyday looking like we don a lot of 'bling-blings' or look like we can afford it, is very tiring. and which we have not been doing..hahahah..

so as we said, it might just be a waste if we put money on some brands coz even if i had gotten a cd bag..i have a strong feeling, some people may well ask me..so when did you go KL?

anyway..from this rather bimbo rant..i have to say, i do have had some relatively wealthy acquaintances..and not all have the above two i mentioned..but i know they are wealthy. and there is one lil rule that i realised those truly wealthy abide to:

Don’t discuss money. People with money don’t need to mention what things cost, nor do they appear to care.