The start if a new year makes me wonder lots.

Like how much I've changed from the till now.

The difference between the ME when I got my diploma vs the ME when I received the flimsy paper at the end of my uni years seems to be age.

But with that comes opportunities that don't exist in the past, as well as a certain quality of life that I know I'll come to appreciate.

Like knowing that at the end of the day, I'll put the money that I've earn to good use. Work brings about some happy news that make me want to do better for this year. but with the label that is attached to all those fortunate ones, I'll just have to pretend that the green-eyed monster aint roaming around.

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The other day I was just thinking of the kind of spender I am. We all know the importance of financial management, and there are numerous consumer behaviour courses out there that guides people to recognise the way people make decisions about things they buy/ want to buy.

I used to divide people into 3 classes.
1) Those that think for very long but in the end of the day decided not to buy
2) Those impulse buyers
3) Those who think for very long and will end up buying, sooner or later.

Now I separate them into people who will spend money on things that will improve their quality of life and those that will use it to enhance their quality of life. The difference in that is that the former will use it for intangibles and the latter the tangibles, whom those materialistic people congregate to boost the economy. Of course if one has the moolah, they can choose to balance between the two, but most of us skew to either side.

and it makes me wonder if i'm leaning to one side so much that I should reconsider my buying behaviour.

I think there should be something that affects me more, like peer pressure or the power of advertisement. Like a normal person should always want more of a thing than another, according to Maslow's hierarchy of needs. and in terms of SG context, we are at least at the 'social' level so many of us should succumb to peer pressure to increase that level and move on to the tip of the pyramid.

so i wonder- what is the latest latest in-thing now? is it still the smart phones? Havaianas slippers? tights? thick eyeliners? or some other stuffs?

ok, I'm going bonkers.