i have a hobby.
i was really addicted to it.
i bought them but at times i don't even open it.
today,
i had to threw some of it away as i need to make space in my room.
it was quite hard for me to be separated from it.
i spent 4 long hours looking through it again and try to convince myself that i don't need them.
i even jot down the amount i had.
in total,
173.
i might have more but was thrown away in the previous years.
my hobby brought bittersweet memories with my mom.
because my mom will always want me to get rid of it.
but i,
find it really hard, try to hide them somewhere.
it's been a decade.
but eventually today,
i decided to let it go.
it all started 10 years ago,
when i was in secondary school,
the green polka dots uniform.
when i think about it,
maybe that was how my interest for psychology develops.
what's my hobby you'll ask.
it's collecting magazines.
i fell in love with magazines!
not because of fashion but because of the articles and aunt agony.
mostly it's the cover page that intrigued me.
it makes me want to buy and read about it.
and so that was how it start.
i collect different kinds of them.
not only local ones but also overseas.
lime
teens
teenage
smash hits
tv hits
max
bliss
girlfriend
teen (us)
seventeen (us)
seventeen (singapore)
vanity fair
cleo
female
her world
cosmo girl
elle
cosmopolitan
you can see my maturity level.
like it moves from teens, girlfriend (adik-adik) mags to female, cleo (kakak-kakak) mags.
haha.
now to think back,
it was a waste of money.
really,
because some mag costs more than $7.
at least i've spend $25 per month on them.
i collected them in 1999 and stop collecting in 2004.
i think i realised that i have no more space to hide those magazine and thus i had to stop buying them.
most of the cover pages were dusty.
when i looked through them,
there were 2 of the mags that i bought twice.
haha.
i can't even remember whether i've bought them.
it was pearl harbour that makes me go gaga over him.
haha.
as i try not to be emotional about it,
i distracted myself by taking pictures of the same celebrity in different mags.
after 4 hours of arranging, looking through, jotting down, reading some articles,
i decided to keep the below.
and throw away the below,
which mostly are teens, teenages and lime.
goodbye teenage years,
hello adult world!
they've been great companion throughout the long bus ride to school.
=)
it is quite an achievement that i am able to throw them away.
because it wasn't easy convincing myself that things won't last, i am an adult i need to accept things, etc.
but in the end i managed.
good job nurul!
=)
the problem with me is i like to keep things and never throw them.
it's like i've grown attached to them.
just like the bouquet of flowers below.
it has been almost 2 years.
if i have a choice i would have keep it.
but mom helped me throw it.
haha.
nurul is going to be a karang guni.
hopefully not la.
i wish that i can get over my problem and have lesser things in my house in the future.
dinosaur you are ancient which is why it is harder for me to get rid of you.
=)