I have not been posting pictures of things I want to buy or things I bought for a little while. It can probably be attributed to shopping fatigue. I am that sick of buying clothes, shoes, bags, and anything for wearing.

Lately, I've pretty much concentrated on only books, selected magazines, music and of course, the camera. Which is okay because I'm okay wanting these things. You really can never have enough reading and listening material.

As a rather extreme person, in order to get myself sick of something, I just have to do it one too many time. I can listen to one song on repeat anything from one hour to one week, till the opening strains of it give me a headache. Or eat chicken sausage linguine drenched with tabasco and chilli flakes over and over again, till the thought of pasta makes me want to throw up. Or go through a reading frenzy, a blogging frenzy. Shopping is one of those things I've been doing excessively for the past few months in view of getting a new wardrobe for the new job.

But then the job got old and I got tired of wearing heels and went back to dragging my feet around in flats (sneakers when I can) again.

On top of getting sick of the job, I simply got tired of wanting something all the time. So everything fashion blog-ish got deleted from my google reader, with the exception of Sartorialist, Face Hunter and Garance Dore. Because inspiration is vital. It's just that I could do without the OMG I want HER shoes! type of reactions for a while.

I suppose the difference between the above-mentioned street photog sites and blogs of individuals posting what they wear can somewhat be like the style vs fashion debate. The former is an accumulation of real (well, sort of) people who are interesting enough to have caught the photog's eye. Each photog has his own preferred style (Sartorialist tends to have that terribly chic vibe while Face Hunter has is kind of off centre, which I like), and each blog becomes a collective giant of a personality that has a core theme and yet is varied enough to keep things interesting. The unexpected can be expected from time to time to stun you in the head and launch a kaleidoscope of possibilities.

Blogs of individuals wearing what they wear, while I still go through one or two every now and then, can sometimes fuzz into a shopping catalogue for me. Probably because most of these people have very distinctive styles and while this bodes very well for them, the feeling you had when you first explored their blogs is lost. You lose the big picture, the perspective, and you start zooming in on their shoes, that bangle, that detail in their skirt. Trends keep changing, they keep buying new stuff, I keep looking at their new stuff, I keep wanting new stuff, and I keep getting new stuff. Vicious cycle of poverty.

That's the difference for me. I think more with the first and react more with the second.

That said, while I plan to not shop in the next 2+ months, I fully intend to indulge when in Tokyo. As I keep telling funny girl, OMG. I. Can't. Wait.