Shopping is a demanding activity - I am not good at shopping!

Today I spent hours and hours trying to be a decent shopper. It is something that just isn't natural way of spending time for me. The biggest obstacle today was that there is SO much everything - items to purchase and crowds of co-shoppers - that I got tired in less than an hour. My eyes are literally aching because of all those colourful lay-outs of shops and boutiques one after another.

 

I had a plan to buy some necessities like a mouse rag and a towel, but I forgot everything planned as soon as I entered the MBK Shopping Center. The result is that I've no mouse rag nor towel, but I'm a proud owner of a Magic Mouse for my pretty new MacBook Pro. In addition to that cute and handy mouse I bought some books: one of them is "ACHAN - A year of teaching in Thailand" by Elayne Clift, who is writing about her year teaching at a university in Chiang Mai sharing her pleasures and pitfalls of living in a new culture. I recognize some of her feelings even now.

According to the book in the center it takes only 5 weeks to become a Buddha - how come?? Did not buy that one, yet.

What it comes to my intentions to buy couple of new dresses to wear at work, it was an utterly frustrating intention: all the reasonably priced ones were either too tiny for me or I was too robust to fit in them - I happen to be a solid Finnish womantype streight from the woods, strong enough to fight with a bear, haha, and the local dresses are not designed for my type of women.

This has been SO tiresome weekend with all these shopping activities that tomorrow I'll certainly have a lazy day by the swimming pool.