Ad Infinitum

Melanie Griffith must stop wearing things that reveal her legs in such sad, sorry state.

                                   She’s barely 50.

I am scared. Must take care of the knees too, from this day on.

I am feeling confused right now because I am not getting my magazine subscriptions the way I expected. What I’m saying is one day I get Time Europe, the next it’s Time International and then some days it’s Time Asia. This is really not much of a problem except that I usually ( almost always to be precise) miss the special issues.

I love special issues. I usually find myself buying magazines that I don’t read whenever there’s SPECIAL ISSUE largely printed on the cover. It’s a weakness or sickness, whatever you want to call it. But I digress.

Foreign magazine subscription here is hard to come by, and they charge really ridiculous,over the top fees that would make you just forget it. So imagine my delight a year back, when I saw an ad in an expat forum offering reasonably low subscription rates. I jumped at it of course, with no second thoughts. 

Now there’s a price to pay for things you get for less, so aside from having to guess which issue I’m getting each time, I also have to deal with their questionable provenance. One time, I flipped through a page and something that looked like coffee stain met my disgust. And I’m not even going to talk in detail about this other time when I came across something mucous-like that got dried. Ick!

It looks like my "dealer" obtains my magazines from airports, coffee shops and hotels. And I mean the "take away in stealth, while no one’s looking" kind of obtainment. I am quite sure because in one of them, there was a sticker of an airline’s name on it.

Those are some reasons to justify why my reading backlog looks this way.

But what I really want to say is, to my understanding friends whose e-mails I have not yet answered, I have not forgotten and will not ignore them. Even these magazines have not taken precedence over your mails.

I read a lot of online news and blogs ( which translate to only one word: gossip) though. But that is another story.

Quote of the day:

"If you don’t wear lipstick, I can’t talk to you. You need to have lips. They are very important for getting men."

                                                         - Isabella Blow,1958-2007

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