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Although I do praise for pushing the envelope in letting their clients customize their own shoes last fall, I’m appalled that they have the galls to blatantly copy designer shoes to sell them off as their own at a cheaper price. Repeating their offenses from Christian Louboutin to most recently Balenciaga. The pair in question came into light at the where the sporty multi-colored pump has been grossly and obviously copied by Steve Madden. Not only that, those lacy peep toe, construction boot pumps they call “” are also a knock off of line. Perhaps the sales won’t mean much significance to Balenciaga’s financial portfolio, but designers need to protect their designs from profiteering companies like Steve Madden. Even now there is barely a dent or law that cracks down much on counterfeiting, much less crack down on companies who blatantly parade these copies around proudly with their own names stamped on it as if they were geniuses. And yet, they are. Because fashion is perhaps one of the few places where this sort of plagiarism can go unpunished no matter how big the elephant in the room is. Funny how Steve Madden is expanding to a store within the Eaton Centre soon. I used to like them for making some cute shoes, but now, like Nine West, they’re not original enough to make their own designs and resort to copying for the sake of sales. A shame. The predicament is typical and expected though. People don’t want, or can’t afford, to drop $500-$1000 on a single pair of shoes, even I haven’t taken the plunge yet to get shoes for that price. More importantly though, I put an emphasis on durability, I’m pretty rough on my shoes as I can get them scuffed quite easily, and prancing around in heels all day is a painful venture. Perhaps I should take heed of my cousin’s advice and start looking at shoes for comfort and classic styles. Growing old or growing wiser? Above is the Steve Madden’s Balenciaga peep toe boot pump (wow, we gotta find a better name for this…), and I have to admit it’s a hot shoe I’d love to sport myself - but I don’t buy knock offs (and they never carry my size anyway). Image credit: Steven Madden
So Yahoo 360 is still alive. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Frankly, I’m glad the community continues to thrive despite the service not being fixed or upgraded. Strangely enough, my own page is still seeing a lot of friends requests. No doubt there are so many more people searching for answers…searching to find themselves. Kinda like I still am, even after over a year on hormones. But I know I’m on the right path. And I think all my friends know that I’m on the right path too. I haven’t had a chance to really keep up with much online as of late. Work keeps me busy from 7 a.m. until around 6 or 7 in the evening, and by the time I get home and get the kids ready for bed…there’s very little time left. But even then I’ve got to continue to deal with where my relationship is going with the wife. This week she was feeling down, and I didn’t know how to respond. I certainly didn’t want to drag out her feelings before she had processed them. She finally opened up last night. In our discussion she acknowledged that she knows I’m going through a difficult time and that I want to go full time. She said that she knows I say that this is ME and not who I’ve been as *my male name*. She was trying to convey that the masculine side of me has always been there and was hoping that I could come to that understanding myself. She then told me that she was researching medical reports that physical attraction can change after hormone replacement therapy. I responded that she might not understand this,but I consider myself a lesbian, especially in my attraction to her. I finally got it though - it all revolves around her feeling like our relationship is growing apart, and that my affection towards her may be going somewhere else. She also mentioned how she has very little of the masculine side of me left…I think she’s seeing the end of the line for *my male name (again)* and it’s really hurting her. I told her that I have done my best to not force any issues or make her feel like she has to accept everything all at once. I also said that I was sorry for causing her pain. The largest reason for me feeling guilty was because of the impact and toll it has had on her tender spirit. I reiterated my commitment to her and I think she was relieved to hear that. I told her that even though I have my personal doubts if our relationship can survive this, I have to continue to keep my faith in God that it is somehow in his will and purpose that we go through this, and that there is assuredly some sort of blessing that will come out of this. I just know that these kind of talks with my wife are essential if we are to continue to work through all these things without becoming embittered. No matter how painful it is or becomes, we understand we’re not TRYING to cause each other pain. But the talks are necessary nonetheless. When she heard me tell her of my affection and love towards her, she embraced me as I lay on the bed. Placing one leg over mine, she held me tight. Yeah, I’m heading in the right direction. I think we both know that. I can only hope that we are a couple who can survive transition and retain the same passion for life that we had together as husband and wife. Yeah, I’m definitely on the right path.
Yesterday night, I listened to a sermon from CHC KL about Making a choice in relationship. I didn’t manage to listen to the whole thing but I knew God has something to speak to me. A relationship can either build or break a person. This morning, I woke up quite late. My whole body was numb, for no specific reason. I could not wake up. I ended my fast and pray a day because I felt that God told me to take a break b4 my parents start making noise and so on and I felt that God has strenghthened the inner being of me. I has the urge to check out my blog. First thing that came into my eyes was Ah Bee’s msg. She saw my boy boy and me in her dream. First thought came in was, call her to ask about it. I quickly phoned her up and asked her more. This is because I have no boy boy yet and I was praying very hard this few days asking God to show me whether baby was the one. When I asked her, she told me she saw me with two guys on two seperate nights. But she was kinda confirmed stating that baby was my boy boy. The first thought came into my mind was is this just a dream or something more than that. I know I could not do anything much now, except continue to pray. But this really makes me relate to what my pastor’s wife shared with me, and what her daughter said to me, “You look like wei yi jie…” Right now, I just wanna leave this aside and continue to pray hard!!!!!!!!!
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