My “Feel-Rich” magazine arrived this morning

November 23rd, 2009

This is the cheapest “Pick-me-up” I know
The New York Times “T” magazine was delivered with my copy of the International Herald Tribune this morning, making my day. I can’t think of anything else that lifts me into another class the way the ads and the articles in this magazine do. I guess it’s because it advertises all sorts of items that I would not normally buy and features articles about all sorts of exotic places that I will probably never visit. Whatever, I read it from cover to cover, ads and all.

The watches
The watch ads are what get me really turned on. I haven’t worn a watch for about 10 years now, mainly because I am either in front of the computer which shows the time, or busy with a cell-phone which does the same. A watch is an unnecessary accessory. But that doesn’t stop me from looking at them and often wishing that I had one, especially one of the new-look hi-tech models. I could really go for that black Chopard that sells for about $6,000. For a change the Rolex ad has no picture of a watch but of filmmaker Martin Scorsese and the names of some other greats who wear Rolex watches. Maybe I’ll arrive one day…

Phnom Penh
I enjoyed this article. I have traveled in Thailand, set foot into Laos, and longed to visit Vietnam, often described at the most beautiful country in the world. Cambodia has never featured in my plans and the John Bowe’s article came as an eye-opener and made me move Phnom Penh up a couple of notches on my “places-to-visit’ list. The wealthy among us do not keep such lists, they simply go.

Hotel Stationery
This article is stunning. Whenever we stay over in a hotel, my wife comes home with little bottles of shampoo and miniature soaps in fancy wrappers, but whoever thought of collecting the little note pads that hotels place next to the phone in case you have to jot down a number in a hurry? Eric Torkells’ article opened a whole new world, not only about the collecting part of the notebooks but the creating of a record of one’s hotel stays. Staying in hotels always makes me feel wealthy and it’s a nice break from cadging beds from friends.

The fashion mobile phone
It had to happen, of course. The cell phone is now part of the fashion world. The one-page ad by a company called Vertu showing a hand holding a cell phone took me by surprise, but all that means is none of my children or their children own one of these fashion phones. I Googled it. Vertu is a British-based manufacturer and retailer of luxury mobile phones. The company is an independently run, wholly-owned subsidiary of the Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia. Their phones look good on their website. I will probably never change my first generation job for one of these. But like the watches, they look great!

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