midnight sale

As I tirelessly navigate through 1347435 Japanese websites in search for nice birks to buy, I realise that this IS retail therapy - channelling attention and time to shopping, away from the thoughts that spoiled your evening.

On a completely bimbotic note, Japan has the widest variety of birks ever! And all I want to do now is to plonk wads of cash down and start a collection of limited edition collaborative birks. Disney&tatami, keithharring&papillio! DAMNIT, pass me the money!

Oh well. I think the poorer I am, the more I am inclined to spend. It's usually a case of "since I'm so poor already I might as well spend because I can't get much poorer anyway", haha. But on second thought, when I'm feeling a tad richer I do spend a lot too because the reverse works as well - the "since I'm feeling quite rich it doesn't matter if I spend a teeny bit right" mentality.

So I guess the only conclusion we can draw up about Ruizi is that to her, instant gratification in terms of acquisition of material possessions, despite its superficiality and impermanence, is usually chosen over the promised sense of security in the long term, despite the fact that she would very much want to have both.

Classic case of heart over mind. And of greed, of course.