501 jeans....

I know I haven't been blogging. To my parents, I must say, that ma and daddy, "this is actually a good sign, it means I have been busy doing work." My current research requires a little funding to help buy some equipment. Particularly, the embedded motherboard, GPS module, and satellite transmitter are not cheap. So we applied for a grant through the interdepartmental grant award.....and hence I had to do a lot of work to get some preliminary data from our experiment and embellish the specification requirements. Alhamdullillah, my proposal for A Cost-Effective Sensing Platform for Aquatic Hypoxia Monitoring code name "SensorBuoy" managed to get the funding required and won the inter departmental award to buy my equipment.

But this is not what this entry is all about. It is about me buying a pair of jeans. Last weekend, I went to Macy's to find a pair of jeans for myself. I figured I need to buy more jeans, since being a student, I have never found the purpose or the need to wear a pair of slacks or dress pants. Well, that's the privilege of being a student, your attire is basically, jeans and t-shirt...and sometimes....shorts and t-shirt. Provided the weather allows it.

So I went to the Levi's section....looking for a pair of jeans. I was particularly interested in my fav. pair, the 514 straight cut-slim fit size 32. The one I have now seems to look nice on me....so I decided to get one and tested it out in the changing room. I walked to the changing room, and took my pants off and tested out the 514...hmmmm, for some reason, the color doesn't suit me, and the pants was just too loose. So I put on my pants again, and went out to look for maybe a different cut. But as I was looking around, I saw a couple of the classic 501 button fly levis. I used to like the 501....and I still do. Although, putting it on would undoubtedly take you a few extra seconds more than a simple zip it up levis, taking it off is easy and for some reason gives me the weird feeling of satisfaction. So while im at it.... i took a pair of 501 size 32. I walked to the changing room again, took my pants off and put on the 501, and again the pants seems to just fall off. I figure maybe I lose some weight, I never noticed it because I have always used a belt. So again, I put on my pants, walked out of the changing room to take size 31 of the 501 jeans. Again, it fell right off. And I went in and out, until I reach size 29. Five times in and out of the changing room.....is this really right....am I a size 29 now...? Damn....the last time I was size 29 was freshman in college.

I guess, I can go back to Malaysia, into my old wardrobe and get all my old pair of pants. So maybe I should not buy more pants.....:) Save money there....