Weekend Shwar Shwar...

17 April

This is the first weekend where I have not planned anything. And it feels a bit weird for someone like me who has mastered the Art of Doing Nothing (after bumming for over a year). So what was keeping me busy for these past weekend since I've been here? After doing a bit of the touristy stuff (sight seeing, Desert Safari, beachineering...), meeting people (since I do not know anyone here, except for a high school batchmate of mine) bulk of my weekends are mostly devoted to buying stuff. Not that I have a lot to spend (since a am still settling in these new place)... Perhaps I deem it necessary to do so for the following reasons.
• I need smart casual to formal clothes for work - yeah unfortunately, I need to do this
• I need "things" since I just got here - home stuff I guess...
• A Sale is ang oppurtunity to get things cheaper, whether these things are necessary or not is another discussion

And as a Pleasant Surprise, this brings me back to my Pre-Bum Days in Manila on how "choice" confuses me.
i.e. I want to wear a white top, with a lot to choose from the closet I can't pick anything so I become confused. So why not buy a new one instead?

Confused by Overchoice?

I am Confused
Therefore, let's go shopping.

Back to my being a Bum, when my purchasing power has shrunk terribly at one point... Some of my thoughts then...

I miss shopping
Therefore...
I Need a Job?

Or...

Remain a bum, and accept your state of poverty...

In today's consumerist society - The more you consume, the less you live.
For one is less appreciative of the sensual pleasure of manual creation. The simple things, the sweet nothing (extreme humanism, is that you?)
Perhaps one consumes because one does not have time for such things??

The Buying Experience may imposes a sense of Emptiness...
"They" are Buying Our Happiness!
Therefore, we need to Steal It Back!

Who needs to Acquire More?

Kaya nga rin ba isang taon akong Bum (or I was just making excuses, haha!)
Hindi rin ako komunista
Ewan.