We were all exhausted; at least 4 hours of walking without any rest… maybe if I was a girl I would be able to shop even longer…..

Nah, Urban Myth, besides I’m happy the way I am and with what I’ve gotten.

Concluding the annual tradition between me and friend Praveen, the challenge to see who could buy the most without spending a lot of money, has decided the winner is…

Me. =D

For the first time ever, since he’s beaten me every year for the last 4 years.

I guess his boxing day strategies finally rubbed off on me.

Let’s see who can pull it off better when the next time boxing day rolls around.

florlamperouge: Haha go ahead, it’s something I feel we should all do so when we hit a slump one day we can look back at all the things we’ve accomplished over that year.

msyycfunshine: I totally agree, it is a really well done shopping centre with lots give, if only they named it something cooler…

When I first set foot in this mall?

I felt like a kid in a candy store as I also finally got to see what all the big hype was about with Cross Iron Mills.

• You’ve got parts of the mall being separated by names.

• A Ridiculous Food Court.

• A store that was like a wilderness museum inside (AKA Bass Pro)

• And of course, a monument that looks like a pile of trash.

Well, It has all the ingredients to create a Hype. 

Nonetheless, I still loved it that time.

Boxing day today.

Me and my good friend are hitting up the malls to uphold our annual tradition to see who can get the better deals.

He’s Indian and I’m Chinese.

Let’s see who wins this year xD.

At the end of the summer when I went up to West Edmonton mall to shop, one of my friends asked me a question; a question that I had trouble finding the answer to.

“What is the one thing that you wouldn’t mind spending a lot of money on and feel no regrets afterwards?”

I was speechless…. my mind went blank and I had no answer.

So on the way home, I thought long and hard but still nothing came to mind; perhaps there is nothing that I would spend a lot of money on.

Until I thought about it again out loud when my mother asked.

“What was the first thing you bought after getting the paycheck from your first job?”

Clothes.

Brand Spanking New Clothes was my answer.

Because as I grew up, my style was composed of Hand-me downs and home made designs. Yeah they were functional since they did what they were meant to do; cover up my birthday suit.

But did I like how they looked?

Not at all.

So the first chance I had, I escaped; I moved on from the hand-me downs and got my own clothes. Clothes that I liked and clothes that made me happy.

Because I’ve been able to get the clothes that I enjoy (by myself), it’s now become second nature. That’s why I had to think deep in order to remember where it began in order to answer the question.

It’s nice to remember what are our motivators to work for money are. So ask yourself:

What is the one thing that you wouldn’t mind spending a lot of money on and feel no regrets afterwards?”

You were born the opposite gender?

If things didn’t turn out the way they are now and you were born the opposite gender, how would your life change? What in your life would change? and What would stay the same?

I suddenly thought about this the other day and pictured it; if I was born a girl instead of a guy there would be many things for me that would change.

My life style would include many new additions as well as subtractions from my current life style.

Adding onto skin care would be make up and learning the techniques on how to use it properly; I already spend enough time on caring for my skin but adding makeup to it? Sounds like i’ll be stuck in the washroom for awhile.

I wouldn’t be allowed to stay out as late as I do now without worrying my parents (or more importantly my dad).

I’d have to deal with the “time of the month” and possible mood swings that come with it.

The shopping part I could deal with since I go shopping more often as a guy now and I don’t really see it as much of a hassle like I used to but rather it’s more like an adventure. There’s always different styles of clothing residing in each store and each store has their own combinations of colors, patterns and styles that makes the store unique. With so many combinations, there’s limitless possibilities to what your outfit will look like and actually spending the time to discover helps bring out your own style which I really enjoyed finding.

But there’s also the issue of dealing with the various guys that try to pick me up at the club and then my perspective of clubs will definitely change, from being a lot of fun (as a guy right now) to being not so fun (when being bothered by a lot of guys as a girl).

I could go on forever on what would change in my life though I don’t believe it all to be full of bad changes.

This world is like a balancing scale, where there’s one thing in our life that’s bad there’s another good thing that balances it out. So aside from the things that I will loathe if I was born as a girl, there would have to be better things that come along to make up for it. It’s just I can’t really see the full extent of it unless I was a girl, but no matter how much curiosity I have on this subject I will not be changing into a girl anytime soon.

But it’s still an interesting thought,

What if you were born the opposite gender?

How would your life Change?

What would Change?

What would stay the same?