Shopping for Love

It took me such a long time to find it. Somehow it was difficult to have a list of qualifications completely set in your mind before you even decide on committing to it.

Oh, and it was a bag I was shopping for.

One fine day, after such a long time of searching, I was able to find the perfect bag, which fit all the qualifications that I was looking for. It was spaceous but not too big, it had enough pockets inside, it was red leather and looked fab and glamorous, the style was right, and all that shebang. I simply fell in love with it. Didn't come cheap though, and it was a big leap for me to commit to purchasing that fabulous bag. But I did, and I shelled out enough to buy me lunch and snacks everyday for a whole month. I loved that bag, and every moment I spent with it.

I thought everything would be alright, that I would be spending quite some time with that bag until it's all worn out... But that wasn't the case. Just a short time after I bought it (a little more than a month maybe?), it got into a crazy little accident. A small bottle of alcohol I kept in my bag spilled (and this is a warning -- don't ever put a BAND-AID brand alcohol in your bag, the cover simply ain't good). This destroyed my wonderful red leather bag...

My time with that bag was so short lived. That has been two years ago, but up until now, I haven't found anything that would measure up to it yet. I've went back to the same store over and over but they simply didn't have anything close to it. I've bought another red leather bag after that, but it just isn't the same. Perhaps I am never to find anything like that ever again.


AND, my last love affair just sound so similar...

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Bad Peanuts

If you were a city bus rider, you'd surely know about the peanut peddlers who jump aboard carrying their goods. They deliberately open their tubs to let the aroma of the roasted peanuts linger in the airconditioned bus, while doing their "mani" chant... "mainit, malutong, bagong luto..."

There was this one evening on my way home, I was so hungry that I decided to buy me 10 pesos worth of their roasted peanuts. It wasn't a great experience though. I was able to go through only 1/3 of it, and didn't finish it because it really was just horrible. Rancid.

Well, thinking about it now, it really is questionable how these peddlers claim their peanuts to be. How in the world do they keep it warm the whole day? Those peanuts probably have been cooked days before... They are kept warm by some means, just to deceive the consumer that it's still freshly cooked. And since it has been cooked and re-cooked for quite some time, it really isn't crunchy anymore.

But still, how in the world do they keep it warm the whole day??? Still makes me wonder.