i wish i can support local ...

specifically local magazines. magazines targetted at (young or/and working) women. magazines supposedly filled w female-related articles and fashion. i have stopped buying them for the past few years. reason?? de content is weak.

perhaps its de taste of de majority of their target reader. i just cannot relate to the local magazines. i rather spend twice de amount and get magazines such as glamour, martha stewart living, real simple, marie claire, cosmo and so on. i have been faithfully gettin glamour for the past ten years. yes TEN years.

occasionally, i would get the magazines to check the "local" scenes. after i got them, i regret immediately. why ... you ask:
1) celebrity interviews are often purchased from other foreign sources. not locally conducted.
2) de articles inside gross me out. SERIOUSLY!! do i want to marry up?? do i fuckin care if some guy like to date some sweet young things!! and do i care abt extra-marital affairs?
3) i browse through de entire mag in an hour or less.
4) fashion items are beyond my budget.
5) fashion spread SUCKS. and to be honest. i find them ... lack of originality. straight from runway.

i find all these rather upsettin. some of the mags have been around for eon. i dun see improvements. i only found deterioration.

i really wish i can support local. i really do. i even dreamt abt oink being featured inside. but but but. sigh.

perhaps its me. i want features. i want people to care about others. i want people to support each other through the articles they write. teaching them about empowerment (marrying up is not empowerment). i want fashion spread to be practical. to be creative. to be wild. to be unexpected.

abit too much?? for now, i will still do de occasional buy. hope my luck will be good.