These corporate jackets are more like what the Japanese wear to identify their corporate or company or rank or posistion… in fact it has become a norm for every company here to come out with their jacket styling and colour… but the colour usually follows their corporate colour.

For me… although I don’t have one… corporate jersey are good. It makes uniformity… just like the schools uniforms or hospital scrubs… by just looking at what the person wearing, we can tell which corporate or company he or she working at or what position or section the person holding.

And one good reason to have corporate jersey, staffs do not have to spend money on expensive clothing… they just have to get those standard corporate jersey… and don’t have to worry about matching their shirt with trouser or shoe… But unfortunately recently there is instruction that civil servant are not allowed to wear corporate jersey anymore to meetings… for man, they must wear necktie and suit… which I don’t like to wear… coz my standard jersey is short sleeves shirt with no necktie… it’s a hot country u know…

The worldwide shortage of raw materials for textiles and garments such as cotton and yarn with higher demand for the coming holiday season has pushed the materials prices up. According to Malaysia Textile Manufacturers Association’s CEO Mr Andrew Hong, prices for raw materials had surged 25% to 40% in the past two months.

So, getting new cloths and gifts this time around will be expensive… will there be less new cloths and gifts for families this year?… I hope not… if that do happen, other type of gifts will be still the same… so maybe less cloths but more on non-textiles stuff like the anniversary gift ideas at Personal Creations.

OK, what causes the textiles prices increased in the past two months? Blame it to the worldwide weather!!!… the flooding in cotton-producing countries like China, India, United State, Pakistan and Brazil had caused the serious worldwide shortage of the raw materials.

So, there goes my dream Adidas clothing… won’t be able to buy new sports apparels this season…

A friend was asking me to join him at the new gym at City Mall. The gym is actually as old as the City Mall itself… was it like one year? Anyway, the previous owner some how ‘cheated’ a lot of members, so it went ‘bankrupt’. Early this year the gym was taken over by a new management. Membership is not that cheap… like RM1,200 a year or so… but don’t want to join yet… I want to do ‘walk-in’ first… pay every time go there.

But I don’t have proper apparel for gym… shoes, pants, shirts… so I keep on avoiding my friend’s invitation. I only have my Crocs shoe, the Crocs Mens Santa Cruz which I love so much… it’s really a multi purpose shoe. Probably I can use that for gym too Imagine, I’ve used the shoe to climb the Bukit Padang hill twice and it’s so comfortable… no legs or back pain.

But it looks weird wearing that shoe coz it’s too casual, but it’s very comfortable… very light and soft. I’m still thinking whether to buy a new shoe suitable for gym or just use my crocs.

How about shirt?… OK, when I see people wearing shirt with big number like 3, 5 etc. on their chest or arm… I think it has something to do with horse… maybe equestrian apparel… no, I don’t mean clothing for the horse but probably the Polo game or something likes that… If I’m going to get those shirts, maybe time for me to change hobby and get a horse at the same time?… No lah, I don’t think I have time to take care horse… I’m only interested with the shirt. Well my standard shirt is golf shirt… golf shirts have lots XXL sizes, probably too many fat golfers So it should be OK for gym. Pants? Can wear anything lah as long it feels comfortable…