Today as i looked through my documents, i was able to do some purging and got rid of some credit card agreements and fineprints. That’s quite a lot of paper. Having been back in China for a while i hardly use these cards. In an effort to reduce risks and cost, the banks cancelled my accounts one after another post the financial crisis.
Forget that MBA talk that credit is the best money you can have. i simply want less paper clutter which i never bothered to read but had to keep just in case. it is the kind of history you can most comfortably part with. it is the kind of memory you have no emotional attachment to. in a sense it is best NOT to posess something and to have the freedom to move around and not worry you have left something behind. No pocession. No baggage. No responsibiliy. Carefree. (Is that the excuse that i haven’t bought property in Shanghai, which is too expensive anyway?)
talking about “things”, why some people have this constant desire for expensive things that are utterly stupid. i like nice things too but please at least have some individuality and character. Lately in shanghai a couple of LV stores sprang up or got a big facelift. yesterday i passed by one on Huaihai Road, whose exterios is entirely a huge brown box, which is, though imaginative, very hedious, side to side with the enormous glitzy Dior lit-up “art” installation on the street. Such an blatant cry of materialism right in your face and so so ugly? i don’t like my city to smell this much of money.
and this is one of the conundrum i never get -- why people want such ugly stuff as LV? i’m thinking if LV is going to sell small packs of designer “processed” dogshit with a high price tag, you will see ladies and gentlemen walk around with it as an accessary to their keys, cell phones and bags. Actually i think it is a good idea because shit is exactly LV’s signature shades of color hahaha.
