archive for the “shopping” category
I won’t buy anything from Parts4Euro.com again. I can’t trust that it will send that which it advertises. And I can’t trust that I’ll be able to return unwanted parts for a 100% or 75% refund.
On January 20 I ordered mirror-mount dark turn signals pictured on Parts4Euro.com.
The ones that I received were barely darker than stock signals. They were not that which was pictured on Parts4Euro.com. »→
I guess that Americans will buy anything. Persons who have trouble falling asleep can buy a sample 2.5-ounce bottle of water for $2.49. A six-pack of 2.5-ounce bottles costs $19.99 –$3.31 each!
See http://www.DrinkDreamwater.com
– more photographed items for sale in Malaysia –
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crabs for sale in a wet market in the city of Kota Kinabalu
continuing our series of the finest-quality consumer goods for sale in Penang, Malaysia: a beautiful Chinese-made (?) backpack
Continuing our look at junk on the shelves in Malaysia
‘Brylcreem Protein Plus pomade is No #1 good for you pleasure styling hair beauty’
Cigarette boxes in Malaysia bear photographs of diseased persons and warning such as “Cigarette Causes Mouth Cancer”, “Cigarette Causes Neck Cancer,” and “Cigarette Causes Lung Cancer.” Yet Malaysians still buy cancer sticks, because nicotine is as addictive as heroin. A friend of mine is tapering-off his cigarette usage. Thanks be to God!
Some things I cannot find in Malaysia yet. I can’t buy a flat bedsheet (top sheet), York Peppermint Patties, SAM-e, Rhodiola Rosea, Dr. Pepper, homemade chocolate chip cookies, a good pocket notebook, wadding polish, hydrogen peroxide, rubbing alcohol … I found ‘some assembly required’ cardboard roach traps yesterday. I couldn’t find plastic ‘roach motels’ in Philippines or here. Yesterday I thought that I had bought a liter carton of orange juice. At home I found that it’s an orange-juice-based drink which includes pulp, but it’s not all orange juice. If you reside in the U.S.A., be glad that you can buy fresh orange juice, and count your many blessings. »→
Today I spent $162 donated from some parishioners of Saint Dominic Parish to buy reference books and story books for Baguio Gold Elementary School in Tuding, Itogon. The principal, Nestor Asiong had written a wish list, and the librarian had phoned me to come to the school to get the list. »→
A year ago, I participated in One Laptop Per Child’s promotion, Give One. Get One. I paid $399 to give a rugged, durable, portable “XO” computer to a child in another country, and I received one. I had intended to fiddle with mine, learn the ‘ins and outs’ and all the applications, in anticipation of perhaps using XO computers in a school in the Philippines. »→
Today, in a span of two hours, I readily gave money to four sidewalk beggars, remembering Matthew 25. In Session Supermart and U-Need groceries, I couldn’t get a large bag of peanuts, so I walked over Magsaysay to the north sidewalk then along it to buy a large bag of nuts. »→
Don’t buy anything expensive in a Gigahertz Computer Systems store unless you want to be stuck with defective merchandise that you’ll have to argue at length to return for a refund. Buyer beware. You might buy something cheap like a mouse or muffin fan or USB cable, but don’t buy something that’s expensive. »→
Yesterday, in Baguio City, I bought nine educational posters for P 10 each from a sidewalk vendor at the corner of Session Road and Mabini Street. This evening, Nick came to this apartment to do homework, and he used two of the posters: land forms in the Philippines and types of bodies of water.
So that was convenient for Nick and for me. The usual play is this: Mack or Nick comes here and asks to go to the city to buy a poster to use for a homework assignment or extra-credit project, then we spend an hour (or more) going to the city, shopping, perhaps buying dinner then returning to Tuding.
Today is Charlotte’s eighth birthday, and her family is too poor to do anything to celebrate. I doubt that they’ve ever celebrated birthdays ‘American-style.’ I walked down to Baguio Gold and went in their shack to blow up balloons while the kids were in school. I carried a bag of inexpensive gifts that I’d bought when I shopped for Nick’s and Rose’s birthdays. »→
