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Saturday, November 29, 2003

lost in IT

went to lowyat and sungeiwang today to do some pre-shopping shopping. ok..that's another way of just saying window shopping. normally i wouldn't shop at sungeiwang or lowyat cause it's just not my style but today was different. i was looking for a laptop. i also bumped into a handphone...pda...and digital camera. that's the bad thing about going shopping...you're bound to run into things that you never thought you wanted. anyway...in some weird twisted way it felt good to be there. for the first time in my life i'm about to purchase an item that's worth more than RM1000. i've spent more than a thousand bucks collectively in one day but this is different. buying my car was different as well cause it wasn't really my money to begin with and i'd be paying instalments.

anyway...as i was doing that whole pre-shopping shopping thingey today i was amazed at the amount of options we have these days. the more options we have the more confused we get. i know what i want...i know what i need...
but is it really about what you need anymore? what are the basic necessities...food...shelter...clothes...enough money to survive...blah blah. what do we want? we want everything...we want money..lots of it...we want a big house...a very big house...we want nice clothes...many nice clothes. everything is about quantity now. the more we have the better we feel.

ok anyway...back to options. today i was looking for a laptop and i found so many that were on par with each other. but when making a decision...i find myself attracted the the better looking laptop as opposed to the cheaper less attractive looking laptop that has the same specifications. the same goes for everything else...i.e handphones...pdas...cars...clothes....

since when have we (or should i say 'i') grown so vain? i believe everyone is in some way or another...vain. we might deny it but we all are. it's part of human nature. we don't buy clothes unless we look good in it. we don't buy shoes unless it looks good. we don't shave our heads because we won't look good. some of us are even as shallow as to select our partners based on aesthetics as the number one priority. honestly...i wouldn't want to bring out that 'hag' to meet my friends but if above all he is 'the one' (gawd i can't believe i just said that seeing that i don't believe in 'the one') then i guess my friends would just have to deal with the eyesore being around.

once again...we've become so jaded that we fail to see the essence of the matter. oh well...i guess it's another one of those things that we can't change. we just have to play along.