my life is so mundane lately that shopping for groceries have become the highlight of my week...and yes, i have been doing some groceries shopping these few days...what do u know, that buying 2 packets of spring onion, a packet of capsicums, a whole bag of onion, a kilo of beef, 500 g of mince beef, some chicken sausages, a litre of strawberry yogurt (yum yum!), a kilo worth of carrots and onion and tomato bread would send me into rapturous bliss...yup i was truly happy to have an array of cooking ingredients that can last for 3 months...maybe?...anyway, i love the idea that i have everything, from chicken to vegetables and staples that can last for long...i want them to last long coz i don't want to be sucked into buying unnecessarily when i have to get a bag of carrots, for example....yes, foodtown and lim chorr supermarket are evil representation of marketing strategies...
when i go there with a single intention of buying, say, a can of tuna, i'll be riveted by all there evil marketing strategies that make me spend more that i am initially planning to...they will do all sorts of sale such as 'come come!buy 2 packets of spring onions for $1 even though u have never even like spring onions!'...or 'hey u sucker come and grab 2 boxes of nut bars for $5 even though u only have $10 left to last until this end of month!'...or 'yum yum yum...see, these prawns look fresh and they're on sale!a kilo for $18!when else u can get these for this outlandish price!come and grab some!'....they are pure torture...i try to avoid foodtown, the warehouse and lim chorr as much as possible...my food budget will suffer if i continually go to one of them once a week...but still, i need oil!i want to grab a bottle of oil and scram out before i get tempted to buy all sort of things that are not originally in my list of things that i need to buy...
ah but then again, my kitchen and house fridges are full to bursting (well, all of the stuff are not mine alone, please!some of them are meghna's and evie's...well, some of them are *looks guilty and shifty eyed*)...so, i made a solemn promise that tomorrow, i'll just pop by in foodtown, grab a 2 litre oil (it's cheaper and can last for months!me a cheapo, i count every penny, like a houswife), and run for life to the payment aisle!mission accomplished!we'll see!i'll definitely not buy anything else...well...apart from a can of tuna...ah maybe a few fruit...ah!stop!just oil!no other things!promise!fuh!too much temptations....
when i go there with a single intention of buying, say, a can of tuna, i'll be riveted by all there evil marketing strategies that make me spend more that i am initially planning to...they will do all sorts of sale such as 'come come!buy 2 packets of spring onions for $1 even though u have never even like spring onions!'...or 'hey u sucker come and grab 2 boxes of nut bars for $5 even though u only have $10 left to last until this end of month!'...or 'yum yum yum...see, these prawns look fresh and they're on sale!a kilo for $18!when else u can get these for this outlandish price!come and grab some!'....they are pure torture...i try to avoid foodtown, the warehouse and lim chorr as much as possible...my food budget will suffer if i continually go to one of them once a week...but still, i need oil!i want to grab a bottle of oil and scram out before i get tempted to buy all sort of things that are not originally in my list of things that i need to buy...
ah but then again, my kitchen and house fridges are full to bursting (well, all of the stuff are not mine alone, please!some of them are meghna's and evie's...well, some of them are *looks guilty and shifty eyed*)...so, i made a solemn promise that tomorrow, i'll just pop by in foodtown, grab a 2 litre oil (it's cheaper and can last for months!me a cheapo, i count every penny, like a houswife), and run for life to the payment aisle!mission accomplished!we'll see!i'll definitely not buy anything else...well...apart from a can of tuna...ah maybe a few fruit...ah!stop!just oil!no other things!promise!fuh!too much temptations....
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