ゆりの世界

...and everything else such as family competitiveness of course but at times like that we were focusing too much on how to win and didn't really bother to take pictures.

Let's face it, Asians are obsessed with food so here are our festive meals for the weekend. First the traditional Christmas food according to our family Christmas expert.

Follow by a typical Japanese (maybe with some Korean influence) meal for the cold Winter season - Kimchi Nabe.
And the traditional pile of boxes under a tree naturally grew in the living room! Well, actually I forgot to take one without people in it so I've borrow one from somebody who did remember. I hope she doesn't mind.
When we were done with the pile, it kind of looked like this.

Christmas eve coming up tomorrow and I've found a perfect Christmas card to share with friends and blog readers out there. Merry Christmas! Happy Christmas! Well whatever you prefer ^^

Despite recession, the Swedish teens seems to have a lot of money to spend on clothes. So much that they are willing to pay double the price for the item!
If you think about it, almost all clothes, big or unknown brands comes from one source or country where they were made. The further away from the source you buy, the dearer the price you'll pay. This is quite logical in the old world where you've got to make a lot of effort to buy from a foreign country but with today's efficient infrastructure and internet technology, there's simply no excuse to pay more.

Now there's a couple webshops in Sweden that take advantage of this and using popular blogs as marketing media they are making a fortune from ignorent Swedish 'teens'. Chicy.se is one of the site.
I'll pick out 2 of their items as example.
You can find this Luxury Sequin Dress for 699SEK at Chicy.

 But if you really can't afford it, you can get it for 41USD = 280SEK at Zipia, the Korean online shop where Chicy got their goods from. Of cource shipping is additional but I bet it won't cost the 419SEK extra Chicy charge you for.
Fancy a nice coat? You can find this lovely one at Chicy for 989SEK.
 Or go to Zipia and get it for 424SEK.
Actually Zipia is still the middle man. After receiving your order they'll go and buy it from shops in the street and don't do this favor for free. With Zipia, at least they deserve the credit they take in filtering out the nice stuff, arranging pictures and got out there and get it for you. What Chicy does to deserve the 100% profit margin they've added on the item, is a mystery to me. If you're going to order the clothes online, save some money by typing www.zipia.net instead of www.chicy.se.

...this!

Wonder if they've got it at Gmarket?

I've been out shopping for a whole day today - in the pissing British rain! Feels good to be back in the warm and dry. Gonna relax a bit before heading out for food.

 Update frequency will keep remain low for a couples of days since I'll still be away from home.