I'm the queen of complains. I admit that. Given so many brain cells and even more talents, I should be glad and happy and satisfied and everything but sad. But instead, I am sad most of the time. Kenny is nice. He is. Although he's not the nicest in the world, but he is nice enough for me to want to spend the rest of my life with. Am I comparing too much? Or is there really something wrong with him? I think there's something wrong with him. haha....
I'm especially sad and stressed these days. After coming back from a nice trip home, with my lovely parents and sisters and a fairly interesting trip to Disneyland, I was faced with so many irritating episodes and people. I got angry, I cried, I slammed the door, I kicked the wall. Gosh. After school started everything got even worse. 8 tutorials a week, Union mess, FOC, Kenny, homesick, 2nd-lower syndrome, inferiority complex, bad-hair-everyday, fat fat fat.....Life in NTU is full of shit. Occationally Kenny would be a nice bf and make be happy, but other times he's also too stressed to bother me already. I understand, but I just can't stop complaining of all the chores that I have to do. I am willing to do it for him. Really I AM. But all I need is a "thank you very much" or "I appreciate it" or "maybe I'll treat you dinner" plus a nice little hug. I'm superficial, tell me you love me, tell me I'm your loving girlfriend, tell me its really nice of me doing chores for you, tell me you need me. I need to hear it. I stress... H~~~~E~~~~~A~~~~~R! I don't wanna jus KNOW, I wanna HEAR!!!
Anyway instead of doing my tutorial and giving tuition, I went for a little retail therapy today. Okay, little is quite an understatement. I bought a suit and some other stuffs. That makes me feel better. Made me at least. I wanna know why do I need to buy to make myself happy. I mean, can't I just be happy like by nature? Come on....SAY MY NAME. Is life so miserable that I need to resort to burning my pockets to make me feel happier now and worse later? Gosh life sucks man.
Anyway I was also bored enough to check out what's retail therapy.
Retail therapy is shopping with the primary purpose of improving the buyer's mood or disposition. (1) Often seen in people during periods of depression or transition, it is normally a short-lived habit. Items purchased during periods of retail therapy are sometimes referred to as "comfort buys."
Retail therapy was first used as a term in the 1980s with the first reference being this sentence in the Chicago Tribune of Christmas Eve 1986. "We've become a nation measuring out our lives in shopping bags and nursing our psychic ills through retail therapy." (2)
In 2001, the European Union conducted a study finding that 33 per cent of shoppers surveyed had "high level of addiction to rash or unnecessary consumption'." [1] This was causing debt problems for many with the problem being particularly bad in Scottish young people.
Researchers at Melbourne University have advocated its classification as a pschological disorder called oniomania or compulsive shopping disorder. [2]
One Musician used this term Retail Therapy in attempt to caution the marketing oriented music industry.
And here's a little new about retail therapy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4181822,00.html
It doesn't f***ing work!!! Get a life!!!!
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