My Kind of Shopping Spree

I went on a shopping spree today.

No, no, no. Not clothes. I spent USD$80/HKD$645 on two books and dinnr for one at DeliFrance at a giant mall about 30 minutes away from where I live.

Two books: one is called "World Press Photo 2005," which is a collection of pictures of events in the news during the previous year. The other is called "The Face of Human Rights." A very expensive book for my budget, but this is a compilation of articles on human rights, 10 case studies from around the world, and loads of pictures that are illustrative of human rights. This book is practically a visual collaboration of what human rights means when most people only know "human rights" as a concept, instead of a living thing that applies to real people. This is a 713-page book without the index. I intend of finish it all.

Tonight's shopping spree is an extravagant thing for me to do because I never used to have so much time on my hands ... well, maybe I just never allowed myself the time and the mood to go out and have fun. But now that my last day at my internship is Feb. 3rd, I suddenly feel light.

For whatever reason, I felt kinda lonely today. Even though the entire city is so festive, in preparation to welcome the Chinese New Year (which is a big deal here), I got tired at wandering around by myself for a moment. I cherish my freedom, but sometimes, it's hard to keep everything I feel about what I experience to myself. Maybe that's why I like writing and taking pictures. At least I feel like "someone" out there in the void is seeing what I see, hearing what I hear and feeling what I feel.