{"id":556,"date":"2005-04-22T09:08:30","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T09:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=556"},"modified":"2005-04-22T09:08:30","modified_gmt":"2005-04-22T09:08:30","slug":"skirting_the_issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"Skirting the Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my colleagues has noticed that I never wear skirts to work. Yep, she&#8217;s observant.<br \/>\nCome to think of it, I hardly wear skirts. Somehow I think I don&#8217;t look very good in them. Also, it&#8217;s so much easier to move around in pants. I&#8217;m quite &#8220;kor lor&#8221; (un-ladylike) and if I were to wear a tight pencil skirt, I can&#8217;t walk fast or take big steps when I need to.<br \/>\nI sometimes like to sit cross-legged in the office too. I know, it looks terribly unprofessional. But no one bothers me downstairs in the basement office and I&#8217;m tucked away in my little cubicle. The few other colleagues with me in the office never bother coming round as well. I&#8217;m holed up in a world of my own. So yes, I&#8217;m most comfortable trudging around in pants. Makes me look taller too! heehee.<br \/>\nAnd if you could see my work attire today, you probably wouldn&#8217;t think I was going to work. Especially not in Shenton Way. Perhaps I&#8217;m just playing up Urban&#8217;s stereotype of how badly dressed (compared to women in Raffles Place) Shenton Way&#8217;s women are. Gosh, that was such a silly and brainless article which appeared last week. Urban has seriously run out of things to write about.<br \/>\nAnyway, I could pass off as a student&#8211;a black V-neck tank top with white trimmings around the sleeves and neckline, and with seven white silhouettes of <b>Emily the Strange<\/b> across the front, jeans, and a pair of faux black and white bowling shoes. And I carried a white sling bag with me. As you can see, I take my company&#8217;s casual Fridays policy very seriously.<br \/>\nOn a related note, I read in today&#8217;s issue of Life! about how some teenagers are spending thousands of dollars buying underground clothes brands. Forsaking usual brand names like Gucci and Prada, they&#8217;re going for underground brands such as Bathing Ape and Neighborhood. The amount of money these teenagers spend is appalling and obscene for people who aren&#8217;t even spending their own money. All these prodigal sons and daughters! I would so slaughter my kid if he squandered my money like that.<br \/>\nAnyhow, it&#8217;s Friday! TGIF!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my colleagues has noticed that I never wear skirts to work. Yep, she&#8217;s observant. Come to think of it, I hardly wear skirts. Somehow I think I don&#8217;t look very good in them. Also, it&#8217;s so much easier &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=556\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings-mullings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}