Chau Bak Jiu
This refers to the affliction where you want to buy anything and everything that catches your eye.
I’m lucky that I only get a really major attack of this affliction like once a year. Around this time, actually 
Maybe it’s because the clothes that are on sale during the Christmas season are always the best compared to other times of the year. So it is during this period that I replenish my wardrobe. It is also imperative that I do it before the season ends and CNY rolls around because by then, every time I go to the shopping malls, all I see is red.
Red is not exactly my most fave of colors.
But I also count myself lucky because once I decide that I have bought everything I need, the affliction goes away. I can go wandering around the shopping malls the whole day and not buy a single thing after that.
Other than that, there are the odd times that I get the Chau Bak Jiu syndrome, like when Revlon has a something new or I happen to come across a piece of clothing here and there that catches my eye.
And oh, as an avid belly dancer, I do have the tendency to snap up hip scarves when I see one that is unusual. Conny has some new stock in her studio recently and I already chose two of them for myself.
My gym bag is already pretty heavy with all the hip scarves that I carry around in it. Looks like I’m gonna have to make other arrangements for them or else I won’t have room in there for anything else LOL.
Well, it looks like I’m almost over the Chau Bak Jiu syndrome now, thank God! Otherwise, I’ll be eating grass come end of the month :p
