I am Thompson Boy

My god, where do I begin? So many things happened and so many changes. All in the short-but-sometimes-fun-and-can-be-scary-a-well-month called December. The usual style of the month would be filled with drinking, parties, smoking, drinking, celebrations, shopping, tons of wrapping, drinking, smoking, not much work, drinking, smoking, overspending and did I mentioned drinking and smoking? But the change for this year is rather interesting, work is actually quite on par with every other months, I tried cutting down on the shopping, maybe I am behaving in the style of "in this economy", hence cutting down on the presents and etc (but I never skim on love...lol) and for the first time, I actually look forward to spending the end of the year with someone. It's a nice feeling...it's not to say that my previous rather quiet Christmas is bad, just nice and almost too comforting. A change is always nice and this year is everything but same. Change is nice. Let's embrace it...

It's been awhile and I have been racking up quite a number of bags over some time and while it's all fun and all, I've always have this sneaky feeling just tossed aside that it's not exactly the best and right thing to do. It started off as rewarding oneself but somehow the need never cease. There is always one and another one more to acquire and while it's not exactly all adding extra harm to my cards (no bad debt here), it is also not exactly healthy for my savings. Which brings me to the point, what savings? I know we have talked about the general gay community who lived on buy now, think later - kind of live for the day attitude. It's not exactly a bad thing, to go for 'things' and live the day like it's your last but somehow a backup plan is always required. To a certain extand, I might have it but I don't know. I am guessing this is due to the Chinese boy in mind, the mentality of being safe and save. For now at least I am safe/save. I don...