Brain Stew

I apologise for this extremely delayed entry... I have been rather tied up the last few days, ever since my mother flew in from China about two weeks ago. And let me just say... O...M...G.... It has been one sleepless mind-fuck... She has this crazy habit of going to sleep in the wee hours of the morning like at 2 or 3am and then wakes up again at 6 or 7am. So now I’m sleep deprived, overworked and brain dead and can’t string together a coherent sentence but I shall do my best, just forgive me if it all of a sudden doesn’t make sense, now on with the blog. This week I have been forced to go hunting for a new wallet. I am wallet hunting because my current wallet decided that it would like to irritate me by producing a hole in the coin compartment. This is probably the worst possible thing I have ever had to go through in my entire shopping experience (the second being shopping for a new diary). And I’ve now done it twice. Last time as sheer dumb luck that I just happened to find the perfect wallet in the 20th or so shop that I walked into, which just so happened to be a Guess wallet.

For me a wallet has to be something super special because of how much I will be using it and I will always see it so being exceptionally visually appealing is a must but without being too gaudy and tacky. It needn’t be a major designer label I just needs to look good, and amusingly enough there was only one out all the Gucci’s and Prada’s and Burberry’s that was worth even a second glace was a hot pink patent leather purse by Louis Vuitton. The wallet was cute and I would have bought it if it wasn’t going to cost $1090... Might as well sell a bit of my soul with it too.... It’s not the price I have issue with; it’s the price for that particular sweat shop manufactured piece of cow’s hide that put me off. Sure it looked wonderful but nowhere in my headspace could I justify shelling out one grand for it.

So after running around all afternoon from shop to shop to shop to shop... you get the picture... I finally returned to Guess and chose another one of their wallets that showed some potential. Now most wallets come in three sizes, small, medium and large. At first I purchased the longer one out of the three but after careful scrutiny I came to realize that it was really ugly and so after staring angrily at an unwilling sales assistant I changed it to the medium one. It wasn’t until I was sitting down to and sipping at a cup of tea that I tried to transfer over my stuff from my other wallet and to my shock horror nothing fit. The word frustrated comes to mind when I try to think about how I was feeling, but somehow that doesn’t quite cut it.

Old wallet on the left, new wallet on the right

So today I ran around all the stores in Melbourne to see what else was available and finally came across this little red patent leather wallet sitting under the glass in some Korean clothes store in Melbourne Central. Of all places... It’s a bit fat for my liking but it’s cute at least, and everything fits in very comfortably so it will do for now until my bid on eBay for that awesome Chanel Leather Cambon wallet goes through.

My new beloved wallet

Christ that was such an ordeal just to find a wallet. I don't understand how something that potentionally was so simply turned out to be one of my worst shopping nightmares. So I decided to spoil myself and bought a few other things to tickle my fancy.

I love Pucca ^^

Awesome Japanese Magazines that destroy all remaining pieces of a disheveled self-esteem

Anyways my brain hurts and my eyes feel like they might bleed so I shall head to bed.

Auf Wiedersehen

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