A Piece of My Mind

To all my friends, selamat hari raya Idul Fitri, minal aidin wal faizin. Lots of food at my house on the halal bi halal this coming Friday

My friends, Rina and Rini (sounds like twins but not hehe), and I now have a new hobby to do at the office (if my boss is reading this, don’t worry boss, we only do this late in the afternoon when there’s nothing more to do work-wise … yeah, right!). It’s really the best thing to do while waiting for ‘buka puasa.’ What is it? Checking out the ever-so-cool-never-know-how-we-could-live-before-this The Bag Blog! It’s full of daily postings of what’s fab and what’s dab, what’s hot and what’s not on today’s trends in bags. Need we mention the 2 million dollars worth of Hermes bag collection by Victoria Beckham? The matching white Valentino breaded leather of Angelina Jolie and Princes Zahara Jolie-Pitt? Or the beautifully crafted 2000 bucks ostrich Bottega? Abso-fashion-lutely not healthy on our bank account in this THR season where the splurging desire is almost unbearable. Every click brings me closer to the end of my financial civilization as we know it hahaha.

Anyway, our favorite part of The Bag Blog is this section called What’s in the Bag, where anyone can send pictures of their favorite bag with comments on why they like it and what they usually have in it. And when I say anyone, it’s really anyone, from glorified fashionista like Kim Kardashian and Ivanka Trump to college students carrying Banana Republic. People say that there’s a lot that you can tell about a person from what they have inside their handbag (Gore Vidal’s book inside Ivanka’s purple hobo or Shakespeare for Dummies inside a college freshman’s L.L Bean). Never really thought about what’s inside my bag until I saw this blog, but in case you’re interested, here’s what I have inside my gorgeous camel satchel (I can be stranded anywhere and still survive on all the things I have in it):
- Prescription medicines a.k.a second life
- GSM and CDMA mobile phones and the respective charger (going out without these are just like going out naked!)
- PDA (where I keep all of my contacts and calendar events, would be lost without it!)
- Purse with bare necessities like credit cards, debit/ATM cards, ID card, and small amount of cash
- iPod and the JBL headphones, I changed the original iPod headphones with these because they just sound heavenly better (really great for killing boredom anywhere, and also to avoid having lengthy conversations with people who you don’t really want to talk to, like over-pushing shopkeepers).
- A small box of name cards (you never know when you’re gonna run into prospective clients, always think like a business banker hahaha)
- Passport (so if I need to run away to another country like Jason Bourne, I can just do it instantly from anywhere at anytime, not like I need to hehe)
- Pen (to write, to sign, to draw, to sketch, or to poke into the eyes of tukang jambret on self-defense … serem kali ya?)
- Basic make-up: tiny hairbrush, a Laneige sliding pact and an Anna Sui nude lipstick
- And last but not least, you see that yellow-black book? Yes, it’s my book! Why do I need to carry my debut published novel anywhere? To promote it whenever I have the chance hahaha.

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