Cheap, Cheap

I just can’t believe how bling bling accessories that can be found in somewhat high-end Malaysian shopping malls can also be found in many other Asian countries… in street stalls… same quality… same materials… SO MANY TIMES CHEAPER!!!

This is starting to feel like a total rip-off, girls…

Picture above: Buy one of these for RM10 out there, bring it back to Malaysia and sell it for RM50 or more. Certain girls probably wouldn't mind the "slightly higher" price... What they don't know won't kill them...

I now wonder if these Malaysian shop owners got their goods from nearby Asian countries, only to mark-up those product prices manifold simply because they’re selling everything in nicer shops/boutiques back home.

These similar products are so much cheaper out there you could actually buy a whole truckload of them and open your own shop in Malaysia, selling everything by hiking up the prices ten times more...

Not only are these bling bling stuff, handbags, shoes and clothes cheaper in countries such as Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam… Even the kept women from such countries seem low-maintenance too… As in, they'd be happy to receive any pretty roadside trinket that's given to them.

Market stall

I was looking through row upon row of clothes at a dimly-lit market area, feeling each outfit’s material and remembering certain designs, when two middle-aged Chinese men walked into the same clothes stall. I couldn’t tell if they were Malaysians or Singaporeans from their familiar-sounding accents.

One of them held up a sexy-looking nightgown…

“Ah, how romantic. Must be for his wife back at home…” I thought, while minding my own business.

The two men continued with their conversation…

And the one holding and admiring the nightgown casually said, “My wife doesn’t have this kind of a body…”

F@#*%$! WHAT?!?!

He paid for the nightgown after that…

A dirt cheap nightgown from a dimly-lit market stall bought by a Big-time Cheapskate all for some cheap thrills while being away from his wife… But it could be a priceless gift to the poor girl who’s gonna receive that cheap piece of material from him… The country’s not a rich country and many people still live in poverty…

*Visions of Tiger Woods and a team of excitedly screaming, strange-looking blonde women suddenly flash through my mind for no reason*

Little boutique

After his trip to the market stall, Mr. Big-time Cheapskate would probably bring his guy friend along to a nicer-looking boutique somewhere else to choose something for his wife… before making his way to an obscure little hotel room for his CHEAP secret rendezvous.

I hope Mr. Cheapskate gets warts…

Picture above: A young child beggar being led around by her “owner”. This would be the only life she would know.