It really is a material world
Sunday, March 26th, 2006I actually had a normal day today. Although I did sleep through most of it, I still went out with mom. We had dinner and did a bit of shopping (her, not me). Mom finally brought a replacement for the Laura Mercier tweezer she broke so I’m glad that I have a good tweezer again (I highly recommend this product! I swear it’s so good). I also picked up my Rustan’s Frequent Shopper Card which I’ve been neglecting to do. I told mom to buy a wireless lan card for our old laptop so she can use it since I installed wifi at home. She agreed but unfortunately our laptop is really old and it doesn’t meet the specs requirement of the wifi cards.
Ours is a Sony Viao notebook we bought back in the late 90’s if I remember correctly. It’s lovely and very expensive back then. We didn’t buy it for ourselves. My stepdad asked us to buy one for him as a favor but when we got back, we found out he was able to buy one so we got stuck with it. So that’s our only laptop and mom isn’t computer savvy so she doesn’t see the need and importance of upgrading or buying a better one. I told my mom that if I won’t go to the US with her, I’ll use the money to buy my own laptop. My sister said she’ll do that too. Mom is rich but my sister and I aren’t. Unfortunately, we’re the ones who want gadgets but don’t have the money for them. Sometimes I wish I have a parent who spoils us. Like someone who gives us huge allowance or at least buys us our own computer instead of having to share. But that’s not how my mother works.
I’m envious of my cousin. Now this guy is loaded. He just bought himself a Treo and a new mac mini. He also bought wireless keyboard and wireless mouse for it. He’s an only son so he can get away with buying such things and his family is richer than mine. Good thing my cousin is a good guy. Other rich brats are super jerks. Anyway, I just sometimes wish that I were in his shoes. Never having monetary problems. Always having the option to travel to wherever. Etc etc etc. I know, this is shallow. This is so material but I figure that since I’m already miserable most of the time, it would be better to have lots of material things and be miserable rather than be poor and miserable at the same time.













