Good old time

When I was a teenager, I used to wear only dresses and skirts. My eldest sister was the one that shopped for me. I was in the stores just to try on the clothes that she picked out.

Thanks to her good taste, I suspect I was one of the best-dressed girls in the campus. It was not too hard to win the title. As you can see, most girls just wore t-shirts and jeans, while I was in a dress like this one.

That golden era eventually came to an end when I started working and bought my own clothes. I decided dresses are too casual and too feminine for office. So I chose to wrap myself in shirts and skirts and pants that screamed "office wear". Total disaster.

I do not mean office wear is a disaster. It's just me that's not able to pull it off. I was too pampered by the one-piece dresses that I was a total idiot in mix-and-matching.

If you are in love with this dress, this is where to buy it.

Might as well

I might as well start writing in English.

You see, I do not have time writing on my own computer, which is sitting in my living room, which is strickly speaking not "my" computer but Mr. and Mrs. and Junior Chai's. And when all the abovementioned people are at home, there is no way I can have any peace in front of this machine. Isn't it kind of weird refering to this babe as machine? It is the one that I see and touch most frequently every day albeit the fact that there are 1 handsome man and 2 cute little boys in my life. It is so close to me that I should have called it my extended hand-eye-ear-mind... Oh well what I want to say is: it is no way for me to keep a steady going of this blog if I only type with Mr. and Mrs. and Junior Chai's computer.

There is another computer that I can use. Yes it is in my office. And no it has no Chinese input software. And no I dare not download it from the net. And yes that's why.

And don't worry you are not reading an unethical document as it was written during my breaks :)

一个人的时间花在哪里是看得见的

这么一针见血的话当然不是我说的，是亦舒写的。

自图书馆借了4本亦舒的书回来之后，儿子们看电视时少了妈妈的唠叨声，屋子也比平时更乱了。

看看我家，就知道我的时间*不*花在哪里。老公有时会埋怨我不爱干净，不爱整齐，我倒觉得更精确的说法应是：我不愿意把时间花在收拾屋子。

孩子醒着时，老缠着我，我尽量边做家务边陪他们。若不能兼顾，则专心陪孩子。

好不容易等到孩子睡着，终于有点属于自己的时间，当然要好好利用，哪能浪费？

宁可家里乱七八糟，心里充实愉快。

一个人的时间花在哪里是看得见的。

一个人的时间不花在哪里也是看得见的。

女人40学穿衣

不是曾经说过要学穿衣吗？又看了一本书40 Over 40: 40 Things Every Women over 40 Needs to Know About Getting Dressed by Brenda Reiten Kinsel。

虽然还没到40，可是好东西提前一两年看是没问题的。

这本书不教你什么配什么，只点出女人穿坏衣的源头在哪里，以及灌输我们正确的购衣着装观念。
以下几个当头棒喝，给同学们共勉之：

1。买，借，找来各种杂志（服装，室内设计，美术等），把里头让你眼前一亮，爱不释手的图撕下来，然后研究一下这些图吸引你的是什么，是它的格调，还是颜色配搭？看多了，可以增长自己对颜色，质料和协调感的掌握。

2。 想一想：现在的你有哪些身份？你希望你的穿着让你自己有什么样的感觉？给别人什么印象？

3。清理衣柜，把一年内没穿过的衣服，穿起来不会让人眼前一亮的衣服，都扔掉。 只留下穿上后，给人WOW感觉的衣服。

4。先别急着去买衣。看看衣柜里留下的衣服，有哪些是需要上衣，裙裤及饰物配搭的，想好要怎么配搭，写下来，然后出发去买。记住：在店里，只看你单子里列下的东西，其他东西瞄都别去瞄。

好啦，做到这里，你至少有几套配搭完整，穿上后满心喜悦的衣服啦。接下去，要注意的是买衣服时常犯的错误：

1。试衣是最让人沮丧的事，不过我们不要被沮丧击败，随便买一件不甚满意的衣物，要再接再厉，直到找到那件穿上后让你看起来容光焕发，年轻10岁的衣服，才掏出腰包。不然，难道你要重新陷入满柜衣服，出门时却找不到衣穿的窘境？

2。不要不要买一件颜色款式都非常衬你，可是小半码的衣服，因为老实说要到何年何月你才会减掉那多余的几磅肉呢？

3。最后，前面几项忠言你都可以不记得，但这一项，你最好记住：

You worth the full price!!

不要只在减价时去购衣，新到的衣尺码完整，比较可能买到适合你的衣服。而且，让平价冲昏头买下的衣服，过后不穿，不是花了钱又给自己添垃圾吗？硬穿上的话，破坏了自己的优美形象，更是不划算。

我看完书，扔掉半柜的衣服，花掉半个月的薪水后，的确有了几套比较可以见人的衣服。可见，看书学穿衣，还是可行的。