sunday's the day of markets! today we went to camden market slightly to the north of london! it's london's version (though much, much to the power of 10 smaller) of chatuchak market, fused with lots of punk culture. its like the average price is £12 per not-so-high-quality-you'll-find-every-
other-shop-selling-this-same-shirt or £20 for 2. talk about benchmark pricing hor.. imagine they are the equivalent of the 129B t-shirts in thailand! can buy so much more there! needless to say i end up coming back from the market empty handed (except for a french dictionary) which was pretty unusual for a shopaholic..
overall the market was rather disappointing, since firstly a lot of things they sell were overpriced-due-to-exchange-rates clothes. the souveniers were stamped all over with the irritating made-in-china insignias. i started lamenting over how the french has art nouveau and the germans have ornate woodcraft to sell the the world, but british markets are overrun by chinese food sellers, indian souvenier stalls and punk fake hashish/weed/whatever-the-drug shops. i did try to get a london policeman look from one of the shops selling those hats.. kinda reminds me of the mr. bean episode where he gets tricked by kids wearing these hats. :)
at night we went to oxford street to walk around the shopping malls! due to some strange sunday trading laws, all shops must open late and close early on sunday (what's the rationale?!) so we had to stop shopping at 7pm. saw a tammy (nyp? =.=) stall.. maybe this makes me look like i'm the male lead in the tammy video? (ya rite..) as we were walking i bought a bottle of mineral water for £1. i was commenting on how i can get the same thing in thailand for 7B. kiat reasoned that in UK, where people earn £2000 a month, a bottle of water costs £1. in singapore people earn SGD2000 a month, so 1 bottle would cost around SGD1. so if thai bottled water costs 7B, the thai's average salary would be around 14,000B. which is rather true! that leads me to derive Sing Yong's Law of Average Salary To Price Of Mineral Water Ratio, where the average income of a city dweller is about 2000 times of a bottle of mineral water found in a convenience stall.
sunday's the day of markets! today we went to camden market slightly to the north of london! it's london's version (though much, much to the power of 10 smaller) of chatuchak market, fused with lots of punk culture. its like the average price is £12 per not-so-high-quality-you'll-find-every-
other-shop-selling-this-same-shirt or £20 for 2. talk about benchmark pricing hor.. imagine they are the equivalent of the 129B t-shirts in thailand! can buy so much more there! needless to say i end up coming back from the market empty handed (except for a french dictionary) which was pretty unusual for a shopaholic..
overall the market was rather disappointing, since firstly a lot of things they sell were overpriced-due-to-exchange-rates clothes. the souveniers were stamped all over with the irritating made-in-china insignias. i started lamenting over how the french has art nouveau and the germans have ornate woodcraft to sell the the world, but british markets are overrun by chinese food sellers, indian souvenier stalls and punk fake hashish/weed/whatever-the-drug shops. i did try to get a london policeman look from one of the shops selling those hats.. kinda reminds me of the mr. bean episode where he gets tricked by kids wearing these hats. :)
at night we went to oxford street to walk around the shopping malls! due to some strange sunday trading laws, all shops must open late and close early on sunday (what's the rationale?!) so we had to stop shopping at 7pm. saw a tammy (nyp? =.=) stall.. maybe this makes me look like i'm the male lead in the tammy video? (ya rite..) as we were walking i bought a bottle of mineral water for £1. i was commenting on how i can get the same thing in thailand for 7B. kiat reasoned that in UK, where people earn £2000 a month, a bottle of water costs £1. in singapore people earn SGD2000 a month, so 1 bottle would cost around SGD1. so if thai bottled water costs 7B, the thai's average salary would be around 14,000B. which is rather true! that leads me to derive Sing Yong's Law of Average Salary To Price Of Mineral Water Ratio, where the average income of a city dweller is about 2000 times of a bottle of mineral water found in a convenience stall.
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