Midday meanderings of my mind

Music may be food for the soul, but could it also be the key to physical starvation? If I don’t watch out, it just might be.
I blew several days’ allowance to acquire not one but two CDs while running some bank-related errands at SM North. I’ve always wanted to buy Maksim’s latest CD, but due to a series of unfortunate or inopportune events in the past few weeks, I had to temporarily shelve that particular goal. I guess I just ran out of patience a hearing, two midterm exams, and several class days after my Nunc Pro Tunc post.
I headed for SM North’s Tower Records immediately after IPL, and picked up a copy of Maksim’s A New World album. Not new age, but classical crossover. I can tune into straight classical without falling asleep but classical crossover music makes me feel alive. It helps that the seriously talented pianist is quite a piece of eye candy, too.
Just as I was about to have the CD tested, another CD caught my eye. It was a 2-CD compilation of classical music – soundtrack pieces, and film devotee that I am, I just had to have it.
So, now, after having seriously dented my intended budget for this week, I find the prudent part of me raising its rarely-seen head, and the prospect of spending a lot of money on food makes me feel as if my guts are tying themselves up.
I have an eye on buying the Grammy 2006 nominees CD, Linkin Park’s Meteora, and Shakira’s Fixacion Oral vol. 1 & 2 next. At the rate I’m going, I’ll have to cut back on pocketbook purchases. Not that my little bookshelf will mind – after all, it’s already groaning under the weight of all the books piled on it!

Addendum: I can almost see eyebrows rising. Banking … in a mall? The idea’s not so outlandish, especially when the bank has a branch within the mall. It has a tinge of the counter-intuitive, though, where building a bank account is concerned. The mall is one of the most effective innovations in inducing people to spend.