Clary wrote:perfume - I have a favourite.
Well, then!
OK, Clary, you are not a rampant materialist, from what you've said. I can relate. This leaves another option: Romance!!!!
What is all this abt red shoes ?
They make you dance & feel very jolly!
But I do that with black, brown and fawn shoes !! Are you saying that I am missing something ?
But methinks red shoes will look silly on me
You're right, Gautam, you're not a woman!
Gotta be a woman to get the full benefit of red shoes!
Still, there is nothing like red shoes. Gautam... have you ever tried say... red trainers? Maybe those would be OK for a guy and are bound to make you feel so happy.
MsOlga -- You sound like you have some buyer's remorse. Say it ain't so!
Clary -- I know what you mean... I'm not much of a shopper either. I'm such a bargain hunter... I've heard HK was the place for that, but oh well. This doesn't mean, 'course, that I don't love some things I've bought. But it is the serendipity of buying on impulse that makes them great. I rarely get my most favorite things on an expedition to do so. (Though I gotta admit, museum gift shops are my downfall.)
I'd probably be buying some antique-lookalikes -- Ming horses. What about taking a class in Tai Chi or some other subject while you're there? Become a Feng Shui adept? Learn to paint in the Chinese style? A cooking class? Astrology? Maybe you'd meet some interesting people.
Take the 24-hour cookery course-
wait for it-
entitled-
Wok Around The Clock
YAY! A pun before breakfast! (After my 1 1/2 hr commute, I'm sipping my coffee sl-ow-ly). I haven't really got time for courses and such, and to tell you the truth, my social life is picking up, though romance isn't what I'm looking for. Interest and friendliness will do me fine. Went on a junk trip (that would be a BOAT trip, not a tat-buying session) with my NZ/Canadian friends last night, and then arrived back at my Chinese hosts' at midnight to find a friend of theirs all set to meet me and have a long chat- a linguistics academic so we had lots to talk about - but then I had to get up before 7 and do this standing commute and I'm bushed! That reminds me - a botanist friend of mine who calls herself more a globeartichoke than a globetrotter, heard her son talking about George Bush and assumed he was saying Gorse Bush!
Prickly subject. Let that not intrude here, plenty going on elsewhere.
I've always loved chinese junks, and all sorts of native craft (should I say "vernacular"?- they are certainly not primitive) and as a boy spent a lot of time reading and learning about them. Very sophisticated machine, the seagiong junk.
Glad to hear you're beating 'em off with a stick, Clazza! Way to go, girl! ("Have you swallowed a thesaurus, or are you just pleased to see me?")
The coast-confined junks here are very flat bottomed so they rock about like bath tubs in the slightest sea; this can make for quick and involuntary recall of recently eaten seafood dinner! They still make the boats with lots of varnished wood, not just hi-tech fibreglass. 'Snice.
I've missed this thread for a while and am the worse for it, wonderful to read.
On red shoes, I have done a series of red shoe photos. Have four so far, and took a flick at a pink pair, which I will reject, not just because they were pink but the photo wasn't good enough, though Chanel shoes snapped at a display case in Neiman Marcus tea cafe in SF recently. I have red shoes from Rome, Vigevano, forget where, and SF, all pricily ensconced in window displays... but I need some pics of downtrodden red shoes to round things out, as it were.
maybe we could do a red shoe calendar...
Osso - I wish you'd told me before I left Melbourne - I could have taken a photo of the MsOlga red-shod footsies!
I don't think my digital camera takes as good a photo as my SLR one, though
Well, I don't have a digital one yet, and my slr had duct tape holding the batteries in, more or less (duct tape expands..)
Piffka wrote:
MsOlga -- You sound like you have some buyer's remorse. Say it ain't so!
Piffka
I have absolutely NO remorse about the red shoes ... I love them! The remorse is about extravagance ... I'm not working at the moment & PROMISED myself to tighten my belt! I am such an indulgent Pisces!
Ah, I bought a red purse in San Francisco...
and I am in the same monetary straits..
this helps me survive them, I think.
If this gets to be anything like a SHOPPING THREAD I'm defecting from my own digression!
Hey, osso, Let's share a glass of wine to red shoes in defiance of practicalities & the boring life!
Here you are: a fine glass of Oz white! Bugger the cost!
now that will keep me here, as long as I can have one too. A buttery Chardonnay please!
Clary
You can have two, or three, even!
Here you are: Enjoy!
