“Shopping” was once a word only can be read after mid 18th century in Oxford English Dictionary.
You do not have to actually purchase from a shop yet you can enjoy the soul balm from the environment, products which are shown in the area. That is the greatest enjoyment about shopping. The writer reflects a woman instinct of shopping from her sick mother shopping behavior.
The shop is a public arena for women where immerse themselves into dreams, sensational pleasure and free from men. Examine, trying on the dress and you own it for the moment you fit them on and you are free to draw back avoid any regrets. Isn’t it wonderful? Under the financial turmoil, it is free!
I was away for fictions reading. And it is a peace land of a troubled soul.
The word “shopaholic” of Sophie Kinsella novels caught my attention. As a used-to-be shopaholic, I would like to explore how well the author, Sophie Kinsella, knows about shopaholic and their lives.
It started with a letter from a bank. And that’s a heavy debited shopaholic’s daily life. Pay bank loans and shop again. This writer knows exactly the shopaholic’s life and what run in their minds.
I did not finished all the “shopaholic” series novels, and have no intension to watch the newly release movie, confession of a shopaholic. However, this is a funny story for those stressed out office workers.
Among the three novels I have finished, I like “The Undomestic Goddess” the best. It directs to a though of life, should there be another form of living other then being a workaholic or a slave of office? What the price are you willing to pay for alternatives? I am the one who choose to leave the slavery working style in office, and know the price to pay and I am paying it now.
The Sophie’s novels, no matter which, you can always find a fragment of reflection from your life.
The author’s official site, Sophie Kinsella
During the booming years, Japanese will not forget their lost decades in the 90’s, thus they prefer a humble life and focus to save for recession. Mrs. Masaki remind herself by the “ax will drop” and her husband five years from retirement, avoiding from conspicuous consumption and self-indulgence.
It is the time for many of the European and American countries review their life and consumption pattern in the turmoil.
It is not a surprise at all the drop sales of diamonds in last Christmas and New Year shopping season in the. Who will think of buying a diamond when basic living facing threaten.
Is it being old fashioned writing cover letter for a job application? Nope.
It is not about fashionable but a well presentation format for hiring manager to know about you and give you an interview opportunity. This is what you ask for, right?
When unemployment rate high and no response after pile of application letters had been send, seekers puzzled. Here is a good article to give those job seekers some clues, knowing the employers way of thinking.
It is better that using a “You” approach instead of starting “I”. Also, did a through research on the company before writing to them. Otherwise, your resume will be dump sooner than your competitors. Finally, misspelling, typos, poor sentence structure and grammatical error are fatal mistakes that you cannot afford. Better ask someone with profound language skills in helping.
I can’t help but feeling exciting when I first read this article. It is always interesting to know other’s life in different culture, especially, a Muslim’s woman’s life. There are too many questions of outsiders and very few voices to answer. I have never been friend with Muslim; the knowledge source is from text books and news. It is the first time ever, to read a Muslim’s woman own narration by her hands.
She started a blog, Spirit21, three years ago. And now a book is published about her arranged marriage. It’s an experience for a decade searching for Mr. Right, by her own hands. She is a happy Muslim woman, wearing the headscarves in her own choice. She is well educated in Oxford and grown up in Britain. She said she has never been oppressed and by the process of finding her Mr. Right in an arranged marriage, she can know more about herself, exercise her freedom of choice.
It is at least a different angle we re-think about love after we have been brain-washed by the Hollywood style romance. Because most people not knowing themselves before they want to present themselves in front of others.
The instant food is everywhere in our lives. Starting at breakfast, hot water and stir, like magic, there you go; the coffee. Lunch box is made by can food, then microwave well serve dinner.
When Starbuck’s serving the instant coffee instead of their primary customer made culture coffee in order to strive for a way in the turmoil, there are ones back to basic, unplugged their refrigerator.
Yes the refrigerator brings along lots of well serve food and instant habits. With the fridge, we tend to buy more because there is spaces for storage no worry of rotten. However, we always pass the expiry date without notice the stocks in fridge or double the same items only after returned from the supermarket. The abundance encourage our carbon footprint go far beyond necessities.
So today, shall we review our instant culture habit started at tomorrow breakfast?
I wonder what the sound will be like with the early recording technology echo again after a century. It is amazing that the once a time opera at that early time can be heard even publish specific album.
The time capsule is an interesting idea to hint modern people to the historical moment though a part of it was stolen. The place was chosen as a relatively stable area, it will not be easily re-constructed and people bared in mind to protect the historical building should be respected. I wonder same situation will be protected in Chinese society.
As seen Hong Kong today news, several historical builds are suggested to reuse however many of them were vanished in front of us before long. The same situation happened in most parts of China too. The Beijing old city walls, the Ming Dynasty Great Wall in Xian etc. You can name them with heartbroken memories.
The history should be well protected and cherished so that we can always travel back to the past through the remaining objects, sounds and air, by then we can learn the wisdom, imagine the old days and prevent mistakes.
A man who fought back cancer, return to professional race by contributing to charity should be honored with respect but not this!! This is disgrace to honor Armstrong with stealing his bike for his return.
The bike thief either may not watch any of Armstrong Tour de France races before or must be fascinated by the uniqueness of the black and gold bike. Otherwise he must be aware it will be hardly to pawn in market. The bike itself should be hard to pawn as a whole piece, I doubt what would that thief do after knowing this bike belongs to a world famous racer and millions of people spot it at the first sight. Will he tear the bike into parts and sold them as recycles? This is heart broken. Without his old mate, Armstrong had a tough race.
I lost my bike once though it is a very normal anyone can have type. However, it is an unforgettable feeling as it was just after I get used to it and ride with it happily.
It seems a world wide phenomenon thief’s sting on bikes. Why? Type in “bike theft”, hundreds of thousands links show up telling their own experience.
Free lunch? Yes, there is an offer out there. A restaurant in Farringdon, UK, sign a post outside said “No Food bills; pay us what you think our food is worth”. It is a test of one’s dignity and honesty. They will not set the price of the meal; instead, you rate it and decided how much their food worth. They charge you the drinks only.
This is a new gimmick and marks the new age of splendid restaurant. Under the recession, the bankers, top management high pay group flee; they shift their target customers and dare to offer in order to survive.
There, a three courses meal at 15pounds, how much does it cost in RMB (CNY)? It is about $146 (According to today’s rate, click the here for details).
Referring to the article, “there are 141 restaurants went bankrupt in the last three months of last year, and the trend is likely to intensify this year.”
The restaurant is hoping to build the good will between customers and expecting their returns. They believe to serve exceed value of food and good service would impress the diners helping the survival in the turmoil,for those who are playing fair game will soon be vanished in the competitions.
The recession is now spiraling into general citizen’s lives. From well educated lawyer to bodyguards, no one can be immune. The unemployment raised and protests everywhere. However, there is a different picture for the ex G.M. workers.
Those were laid off, will enjoy 48 weeks unemployment benefits and health insurance, they started their new life with buffer. Some are back to school for re-training, hoping to be employed again before the unemployment benefits running out, but there is doubt that “will the jobs be there once after retrained?”. Some are hoping the plant will be re-open in short period of time. According to one of the job agency spokesman, Mr. Borremans said, “What surprises me is how resilient and optimistic a lot of people have been.” It seems the buffer is too comfortable that people neglect the reality.
Once people believe work hard can make things better for their next generation now this value has been rocked as job vacancies vanishes rapidly.
