Feeling chatty
So Singapore won the bid to the 2010 Youth Olympics! On the news, someone enthusiastically said he would volunteer to help out for this event. I thought, "Wow! I wonder what's his motivation since many people are rather indifferent here."
There's been some EdisonChen scandals in HongKong that had all my friends discussing. What's the allure of tabloids and gossips? Escapism from our own (mundane) lives? Envy? Boredom?
I wonder if you would buy a magazine if along with it comes a pretty notebook? Female collaborated with Paul&Joe last year to come up with a pretty babyblue calendar/notebook - i bought it without a blink.
Recently August gives away GAP's striped notebook - which yours truly have because my class worked with GAP for an advertising project. Sometimes Elle gives out free bags, makeup pouches and vials of tester perfume. I bet dozens of other publications do that too.
Nothing new here. But the decision-making mechanism behind our purchases intrigues me. Would you buy the magazine for the freebie?
Many of my friends (and myself included) are graduating. How is everyone feeling? Fear, apprehension, excitement or a mix of all of that?
The end of school! Something which has been part of our lives for the past two decades. It's like starting over again - in a new place, under different conditions. And this is no 100metre sprint. It's a marathon. Do people get jobs they like? Do people get jobs that pay - but they don't like. What are their considerations? To save up for their weddings eventually? To buy a flat? To travel the world? To raise a kid?
Choices - they permutate our lives. Hence we all get to travel different paths. No one path is the same.
If you are working now, are you happy? If you're graduating, what will you do?
There's been some EdisonChen scandals in HongKong that had all my friends discussing. What's the allure of tabloids and gossips? Escapism from our own (mundane) lives? Envy? Boredom?
I wonder if you would buy a magazine if along with it comes a pretty notebook? Female collaborated with Paul&Joe last year to come up with a pretty babyblue calendar/notebook - i bought it without a blink.
Recently August gives away GAP's striped notebook - which yours truly have because my class worked with GAP for an advertising project. Sometimes Elle gives out free bags, makeup pouches and vials of tester perfume. I bet dozens of other publications do that too.
Nothing new here. But the decision-making mechanism behind our purchases intrigues me. Would you buy the magazine for the freebie?
Many of my friends (and myself included) are graduating. How is everyone feeling? Fear, apprehension, excitement or a mix of all of that?
The end of school! Something which has been part of our lives for the past two decades. It's like starting over again - in a new place, under different conditions. And this is no 100metre sprint. It's a marathon. Do people get jobs they like? Do people get jobs that pay - but they don't like. What are their considerations? To save up for their weddings eventually? To buy a flat? To travel the world? To raise a kid?
Choices - they permutate our lives. Hence we all get to travel different paths. No one path is the same.
If you are working now, are you happy? If you're graduating, what will you do?
- the Fad girl
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ha, random.
speaking of cheapo purchase, i made myself buy 2 shirts from g2000, because you get the 2nd piece at 50%, and i needed one shirt for another interview the next day desperately then, since my other shirts were in the wash.
speaking of job-hunting, just had a week of interviews. crazy crazy. and now with the offer of one job that i never see myself in but attractive enough to give it a serious thought, but then again it's not that difficult to get a higher pay in any industry other than advertising! the question remains,
money or love?
sighs
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