While I’m talking about interesting conversation, I had this just a couple of days ago with my Korean colleague. Boy I’m on the roll! :D
Me: I saw a queue in front of Louis Vuitton store at Paragon just a few days ago. I wonder why people were queuing (really, it’s not like those bags are anything close to even expensive bag.. they’re super expensive!)
LV girl (carrying a Louis Vuitton bag): Really?
Me: Yea, they may have had discounts or something *shrug*
LV girl: Mm LV never has discount ever.
Me: Woo really? (Seriously, what’s with LV bags?!) I have a Korean housemate whose sister asked him to buy an LV bag in Singapore to bring back to Korea, cost him around 3000 dollars, and after that he didn’t have much money to buy anything else. You know, since the sister only returned back the money after he got back in Korea.
LV girl: Yea 3000 dollars is quite a lot. I bought mine for around 1000 bucks.
Me: So you like bags do you?
LV girl: No, I don’t like bags.
Me: What!? (If you buy a 1000 dollars bag, don’t you at least have to like bags?)
[We're laughing together here.. She's really not the snob type, she's such a sweet girl.. :)]
LV girl: I bought this bag because my cousin said it’s the bag which I can carry my whole life in it. I was looking for that kind of bag. The kind which I can carry my whole life in. So after I bought this bag, I just use it all the time, I don’t really buy other bags.
Woah that’s a pretty good way of talking someone into buying it :D
The “carry my whole life in it” thing was really what she’s trying to say. I asked a couple of times to make sure I didn’t hear it wrong. It’s so cute. I wonder if she just direct translated it from Korean, because it sounds a bit weird in English. Anyway, I know LV is so popular and all, but Koreans may have a special soft spot for LV, because so far I knew only Koreans spent so much for the bags (with the certain level of earning, not sure about the more high class people).
Ah well but what do I know about bags. I carry around a cat bag…
she told me the exact thing when i asked her too!
Comment by gatchaman — 19 Jun 2007 @ 9:22 pm