A week of rest

Although we didn't go visit a lot of family friends this year during the CNY, this whole last week was definitely overdone. Every morning we had our giant spring rolls and daikon cake, after breakfast we kept chewing on the chocolate and sweets and sunflower seeds. At night, we either had big feasts with visitors at home or dining out at fancy restaurants with the most extravagant dishes. Seriously, do we need four different desserts after having 9 savory courses? While we are salvaging our cholesterol, I did a rough calculation, not only our stomach are stretched to the max limit, we drank without any mercy at all...we probably had killed 20 bottles of wine just this past week.

Now I am taking a break from this festive CNY, kicking the love handles out of the way, back to this dry and dull working life..

One thing that occurs to me that seems rather odd..is that I seem to be close with a lot of people (esp male) who are addicted to designer goods/fashion. I think it is okay for girls to love pretty things.. but for guys, why??? Am I too stereotyping guys to be more of tech savy gadget men, or am I too reluctant to believe that they will spend ten grands on a jacket? Not only that they have tailor-made shirts and shoes (which I think is normal), but also they don't find any resistance paying that extra buck to spend a night at a designer hotel, scanning girls to find out what they are wearing instead of their cup sizes, prompting designers' names as if they are part of the dictionary.

I know a person who shares the same love for Eames loundge chair, having a stock of EorS chairs, Bourgie table light and Chaise lounge chair. When I asked for suggestion for the brand of electric pepper mill, the response is like... "you wouldn't be able to survive with a low quality grinder, the way the blades work and everything..you should really get the top of the line peugout branded ones, I just got one, it is amazing".. I was like.."how come you know all these? you don't even cook? why do you need such a powerful grinder?" " no no no. that's not the point, I don't really use it much, but it looks pretty in my kitchen"

Is it that girls are becoming more like men, and men are becoming more than girls. Or are we seeing neutralization in genders??? A thousand question marks are bubbling in my head.