my 100th post

as befitting of such a momentous occasion, my term has ended. i am almost half way through my university education, which also leads me to think about a really philosophical question --

can one ever have enough perfumes?

before anyone starts laughing, i will have you know that it's a very profound and important question, and greatly impacts on one's well being. well narrowly defining one as me, but still. the reason behind this rather weird mind exercise is because my roommate's friend just bought 3 perfume sets, 1 for herself. i mentioned to her that today at next, i found a really sweet-smelling lovely perfume, but stopped myself from buying it because i remembered my modest collection of 5 perfumes sitting on the mantelpiece, 1 of which is still shrink-wrapped. anyway i digress. i am still thinking about that lovely perfume (actually there were 3, and all 3 were sorely tempting my willpower to not spend more than 5 pounds a week - more on that later) and seeing that my roommate and i are both perfume crazy (one more than the other) we decided that the simple answer to the question above is, you guessed it, no. =D the complex answer to that i will come up with once i can suffer the pain of the thought of a world without perfumes. perfumes existed since egyptian times for a reason you know, and i don't think it's because bathing was that expensive nor luxurious. and even then there are lovely perfumed or scented bath gels that i am sure they can use.

which roundaboutedly provides any justification i may need to get the next perfume(s).

to be fair, i really only adore (read will die without) my jadore, and one can realistically wear only one scent each time one goes out. but still, 5 perfumes just don't seem enough. maybe if i disperse the perfumes i own (i have about 5 back in singapore, so maybe it's time to leave 1 bottle or 2 in abiel's room - he mentioned something about sharing) i can get even more perfumes. the most depressing news he mentioned to me so far (his purchase of a pink hat coming a close second) was that perfumes actually have a shelf life of 3 years or so, so i shouldn't have half the perfumes i used to have, much less get more. sigh.

anyway this is the said hat, on said boyfriend.


i can't make up my mind who looks better in a pink hat, which says as much for the hat's unisex appeal (as it does his.)


and i am trying to survive on 5 pounds a week because i have grossly overspent this term. i figured that it is actually possible - bread, cheese, yogurt, imitation crab sticks, 2 blocks of chocolate, sultanas, pasta and eggs, with clementines as an added treat, brings the bill to around that figure. i have survived so far on that (4 and a half days and counting), can't make up my mind if it's because of the free food everyone's been feeding me during christmas parties and the like or because it's genuinely possible to survive on the variety i have.

the upside is that i've started to realise that the origins of stuff that i eat so often. pudding is just flour, eggs, sugar and maybe some butter, and in whichever permutation i can have different types of pudding. and going to abiel's means i can use a proper oven to bake nice pudding! yay. and i think i have conditioned the body to satisfied with less (variety) surely a good thing.

i should get back to packing.