血拼记 - 把钱花光，为国争光
I am a certified shopping shit, aka 菜头。
I bought a Columbia double layered jacket at 720RMB (SGD140) in Chengdu, the same thing is bought by Chinyee at 270RMB in Lhasa. Nobody could tell the difference. I believe anything different that we spotted is actually all in the mind ... Last I checked on Columbia.com, the model I bought does not exist ...
I bought a 'Yipelou' cargo pants at 95RMB (SGD19)... a steal if it was the Columbia pants which I thought it was.
Back in Cambodia, every other thing which Chinyee and I both bought, I always paid at least 1USD more (1USD is a lot in Cambodia). With the 720RMB jacket which I splurged on, I led the pack in spendings till the last few days where everybody started to expand their RMBs.
I was ultra disappointed with the day trip out to 杜甫草堂. The entrance fee (RMB60, SGD12) was already a big turn off.
While it didn't help that I could not understand nor appreciate 'dao-pok' and his poems, the park turned out to be a major tourist trap. Every other 'heritage' building there has been otherwise reconstructed into a shopping centre. So turned off ... Bought a 'limited edition杜甫wine' at one of the kiosk, intending to give it my auntie who might have liked it. The 'wine' reached Singapore with its cap dented, part of the liqour outside the bottle and my heart on the floor. RMB30 left behind in the airplane's overhead storage cabin.
I bought a Columbia double layered jacket at 720RMB (SGD140) in Chengdu, the same thing is bought by Chinyee at 270RMB in Lhasa. Nobody could tell the difference. I believe anything different that we spotted is actually all in the mind ... Last I checked on Columbia.com, the model I bought does not exist ...I bought a 'Yipelou' cargo pants at 95RMB (SGD19)... a steal if it was the Columbia pants which I thought it was.
Back in Cambodia, every other thing which Chinyee and I both bought, I always paid at least 1USD more (1USD is a lot in Cambodia). With the 720RMB jacket which I splurged on, I led the pack in spendings till the last few days where everybody started to expand their RMBs.
I was ultra disappointed with the day trip out to 杜甫草堂. The entrance fee (RMB60, SGD12) was already a big turn off.
While it didn't help that I could not understand nor appreciate 'dao-pok' and his poems, the park turned out to be a major tourist trap. Every other 'heritage' building there has been otherwise reconstructed into a shopping centre. So turned off ... Bought a 'limited edition杜甫wine' at one of the kiosk, intending to give it my auntie who might have liked it. The 'wine' reached Singapore with its cap dented, part of the liqour outside the bottle and my heart on the floor. RMB30 left behind in the airplane's overhead storage cabin.
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