Random? bummed no longer

Namaste Readers,

I was feeling a bit bummed out because I got pick-pocketed.  The thief stole my aunt's cellphone, and my brand new umbrella by Fibrella.  I have a land line so I can still contact family, but not having an umbrella-ella during the rainy monsoon season is not good.  I had no other choice but to go shopping (again).  And to avoid accumulating credit card charge fees, I would have to buy everything at once in one department store: SM ( branch located in North/EDSA ).

I bought a blue-violet Fibrella, a fast-drying rubber sandals for the rain, some pasolubong, and music cds.  I was also short on supplies of shirts so I looked around for sales.  Penshoppe and Bench ( my faves ) didn't have a lot on their sales rack.  Mint didn't have a section at all inside SM.  Molecules had only small and large sizes.  And just when I was about to give up, I found sales and my size in the brand Bum.

Browsing Bum's sales rack, I saw designs I liked in different sizes.  At first glance, I would be turned off by Bum's aesthetics.  Most of their graphics consisted of skulls, a common "emo" icon.  ( I may have had my emo-phase wearing dark colors and impersonating the typical tormented woe-is-I poet, but I think I was leaning towards the Romantics championing the bucolic, pastoral, and organic (Nature), while reacting against the claustrophia-inducing destructive mass-producing nature of industrialism ).

They also have other images and I mostly chose them.  Graphics aside, I loved the details, craftmanship, and textures of their shirts ( so organic and sometimes subtle ).  Their preferred scheme employs muted colors ( blacks, gray, maroon, etc. ) with a splash of brights ( pink, royal blue, mint green, etc ).  Sizes are not as standard.  There are varying degrees of large, medium, and small, depending especially on the company and the materials.  I might be a small at Penshoppe, but a medium at Bum.

I gathered 2 items to begin with and tried them on.  Finding out that they fit me like a glove, I was further encouraged to keep browsing the sales rack, and magically a shirt to my liking kept appearing.  Next thing I know, I had 5 shirts in my shopping cart ( Bummed to the MAX ).  I had to leave before I do some damage on credit card spending so I checked out and paid leaving SM with not only necessary items ( such as the Fibrella ), but a new favorite brand, Bum.