Wow, it's tough being a shopaholic without a salary. I must say, though, that I have successfully kept shopping largely to supermarkets and such this year. Not many real sprees this year, except for a few, e.g. the one at Blum . Yesterday, my friend CK and I were supposed to meet at a clothes shop called Cocoon and then go to the museum. We ended up spending the whole afternoon in Cocoon. Ha ha, us girls will be girls, huh? Well, nowadays we non-tai-tais must be on the lookout for freebies , and Cocoon might be a good place to start. If you need clothes, i.e. They have this rack of 1-for-1 dresses, many of which cost $85. Yes, for $85, you get two dresses! We just tried and tried and tried dress after dress after dress. Incidentally, just before this little shopping spree, I had finally started on Sophie Kinsella's The Secret Dreamworld of A Shopaholic . I'm quite enjoying it. A cute, entertaining book, though there are too many parallels with Bridget Jones. More on that s...