I just JUST JUST finished reading Anna Karenina that I borrowed from QQ (actually XX's) a few months back. Ok ok judge me judge me for reading so slowly. It had taken me eighteen years to read the book, described by some Russian dude (Dostoevsky) as "flawless as a work of art". Jasmine Tan probably read it when she was what, 4? It is good, just that Russian names escape me. After a few chapters I got really tired of turning back to the characters page, and I had to write down their names and who they are so I could refer to them. Loser lah ok.
So anyway the book is semi-complicated. Prescribes some kind of complex societal expectations. Aren't you glad you're not preggers or married by eighteen like Anna did. And I find it so weird that Tolstoy titled the book Anna Karenina after Anna's husband (Karenin) although in the story she didn't really love the husband and tried to run off with some other guy (also Russian - ok ok I will lay off the Russian thing) - Why not use her maiden name? Since she was so uncommitted to her (Russian) husband anyway. Yeah so in the end she killed herself by walking into a train's path. Cool or what! Wahlao damn morbid lahh.
Yeah and speaking of reading. I read in this book, that shopowners (designer wear) generally charge 2.9x the price that the designers themselves sell to them. WAH what kind off ripoff. That's in the UK. So if Chloe charges lets say 300 pound sterlings to Neiman Marcus, the shop will sell to the mass market at approx 870 quids! Wahlao. In the US it is even worse, the average ripoff ratio is 1:3.1. Let's assume a Viktor and Rolf blouse costs Viktor and Rolf US$60 to make, they will sell it at US$100 to Barney's. Barney's in turn will sell it for US$310 to people like Sienna Miller. Haw haw what a funny world. Or, maybe not.
I swear I want to make it big for this reason. While the poor gets poorer, the rich can only get richer. Yknow what I mean. I guess I don't mind being Sienna or Kate or Daria or Gemma. Ha ha ha don't mind. More like pray every night that I will be like them (did you notice I affectionately referred to them with their first names? I texted Nicole happy birthday last week) Guffaw. Yeah yeah see! Things can only get better. After you get videoed snorting coke you get deals from goddamn Burberry Prorsum. And apparently she gets 26 handbags every month on average! DID I MENTION THAT ALWAYS NAKED SKINNY BITCH (KATE) GETS THEM FOR FREE. So there you go.
When I like people immensely, I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. So says Oscar Wilde. And so says Stella.
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