Jayjaywander

After finishing the shift in District 1, my hubbie picked me up. We had a nice conversation earlier about his visit to Rhode to check the BMW car he wanted to buy. There were a lot of things that he needed to check before making the purchase. The funny thing is that he'd cancelled at least three car inspections, and that makes him feel so bad that he decided to go today. Afterwards, he returned saying that he's gonna buy it, a BMW car model 320.

I sometimes wonder why he needs to go that extreme. I mean he's had everything, why needs to buy another car?😥 This is a question being left unanswered.

After searching, there would be some conclusions being reached:

For some consumers, splurging on expensive goods might feel really good. It can go a long way in increasing their self-esteem and sense of achievement. In short, it brings emotional satisfaction than utility and demand.

Perspective towards spending: They perceive non-luxury goods to be inferior and think that higher-priced goods are of greater quality.

Enough with the story of the car, moving on to the story of buying shoes. The other day when we were in a trip to city, we paid a visit to Hype - sneakers and clothing shop. He passionately introduced his favorite line of Nike shoes - TNs, which is the abbreviation of Nike Tunes🏃🏼‍♀️. Today, while browsing around different sneaker stores, we were lucky enough to buy a TN pair with $180 instead of $240. That's cheap, not to say crazily cheap (according to my hubbie)😤.

Normally I'd have shifts to work in District 1 but today I've got a day off😆. I think it's a nice opportunities for me to focus on studying. So I'm rambling around just to find ways to focus on what I need to do🧐.

Probably I'm thinking about finishing the two writings today before spending the whole tomorrow for Assessment 1 of APPL8260. I feel sorry and guilty because I didn't check the readings before the class😔. However, I need to work on with it soon.

The interesting piece of knowledge today is about:

Integrativeness and experimental?

The effects of identities to out-of-class self-regulated study?

Situated identities

Discourse identities

Transitional identities. Prof. Peter's given the examples for (1) - the identities which are explicitly presented - like job titles/ occupations (doctor, teacher) and changes if there is a change in the situation (where a doctor comes to a class and becomes the student of one of his patients, the role turns into learner - teacher). (2) Discourse identities - in a conference (mostly involves talking), a professor is an audience while his students are speakers. (3) Transitional identities - these identities are only revealed during interaction, when a person ask others about their part-time jobs or freelancer jobs, they might give their implicit identities such as designers, athlete.

I'd love to re-watch today's lecture about Motivation and write more about my outcomes😂.

I've waited for quite sometime (nearly a week) for my two pairs of Nike shoes to arrive. I'm pretty certain that by the day I made the purchased, I spent loads of time checking the size to make sure it would fit me. It would have fit me, theoretically, based on the effort I put on searching. But in reality, things do not always as pleasant as people want.

I feel a slight disappointment, that's it. However, instead of sending it back, I'd probably put it in Marketplace and sell it with cheap price (because actually I bought it with literally a half of the price).

Hope this can turn out well:).