Philosophy made simple part 2

The thing about my philosopher-turned-shoppaholic friend is that she was so easy to take care of during her visit. Between me and another good friend, the 100-spoken-word-per-minute-amazing-mother-of-3, we cracked our heads to come up an itinerary that will, in our concept paper, give a finely balanced journey of the artistic, cultured, philosophical (that word keeps creeping up), randy, metropolitan, rural, domestic, familial, single-life experience to appeal to our friend, well-known to be someone who is interested in all facets of everything she runs into. In other words, we crammed a thousand and one things into her 6-day stay. We were so nervous that she would not be able to experience enough of the right things. She, the guru of philosophy at a renowned institution who had lived her life in many places exotic and barren, will need a lot of interesting things to stimulate her wandering mind. Or so we thought. When she did arrive, the things that impressed her most were the simple things that we had taken for granted. See my previous story (I can’t help repeating myself here :)). So all the frustration that my 100-word friend went through for not being able to book tickets to the philharmonic orchestra (they were on their summer break), the theatre (also on summer break), and me for not being able to come up with anything artistic apart from the IAMM (see http://www.iamm.org.my/) evaporated literally. The trip turned out to be one of eating, shopping, more eating, more shopping, oh, fashion show too, and errr….fridge magnets. I never realized that fridge magnets come in so many different shapes. We miss you. :D