CNY coming.... bah!! Humbug!!!

Do you guys remember Scrooge? The guy who was visited by the Christmas spirits and shown his future and so on and how he changed to be a better person???

Well, we are chinese.... and for me especially, I do not really find anything special about Christmas....(Sori to Christians out there hor) But for me, Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year is a bigger event. The big problem is that it is also a costly event... Imagine all the red packets.. (I remember complaining about it last year) and all the special goodies we gotta buy and so on.... and also I gotta wash and polish my car... which will cost me $400!!! (bloody rip off man!!!) So I was really feeling very miserable and also very stingy....

But I got visited.... no lah... u wish ah.... My case was 3 hungry ghosts who showed me my past, my future and my present.... and it did not change me in anyway whatsoever!!! Hahahahahahahaahaha.....

But seriously, my child... who I still do not know if is a boy or girl.... will be born this June.... And "it" will be costing me plenty of money.... Then my energizer rabbit... who is definitely showing signs of being dangerously demented already (she was actually very happy and jumping around saying "my son so tired" last night...??!!?? WTF???)So that is my present.... not very glam huh??

Then the hungry ghost of my lunar new year future showed me what will happen.... deep in debt.... having to pay off my bills.... energizer rabbit still bouncing around....... WTholyF!!! and the hungry ghost of my past showed me..... nothing.... because for me I try not to have a past.... hehehehehehe......

So in all... the 3 ghosts showed me everything and it still made me more than ever certain that we have to keep our money... be careful about the spending and just do our jobs.... We do not know what the future will hold for us and cash is still the best... I plan to save about 100k this year so that I can start to move to buy an apartment in Japan. This is because I am paying rental every month and it is not bringing the home anywhere closer to being mine... But lucky for me... I am a nobody... so when I say such things, no one will have any right to say anything.

Which brings me to the topic of the senior civil servant who bragged about his 45k cooking lesson in a posh school... At least he is doing what the gahmen have been asking us to do and that is to spend time with the family.... But then of course, personally, I do see a tinge of boastfullness in his prose and because of that... I am a bit reticent about condoning his act fully.... It is his damn money and he can spend it however he chooses mah.... hey wait.... it is actually our damn money hor... since we pay taxes and taxes are used to pay his wages... but that is another topic for another day.

The thing is that when people say that he is out of touch with society... I feel that it is a valid rebuke..... The reason being that the higher echelons of our civil service is made up of ranks of people who are scholars and have their career paths mapped out for them... Imagine... in my case, when I was in the army doing my NS, officers who were scholars came in and they would be promoted within six months or a year of their entry to senior levels..... And as I have said so many times before... being a brainiac does not promise that this person will have a high EQ... and this may rub some the wrong way..... It is okay if they are eggheads who laugh like the old Beavis and Butthead of the MTV cartoon fame, but many of them are actually not very simple people. They know that they will rise in the ranks of whatever service arm they are in.... Even X, my ex (no pun intended hor) is only 30 and she is going to be an Assistant Director.... for me... I still have a long way to go before the name Dir, let alone Director, comes my way.....

So these eggheads who may have had the ability to apply what they learnt from the boring text books run senior roles in the lives we lead.... We non eggheads have to learn to live with them lor.... It actually is interesting.... those who studied hard were mostly bullied in school.... Now it is their turn to bully us back liao.... oh sh*t......Well, like they all say.... we live our lives and they live their lor.... don bother lah....I have already seen the hungry ghost of my CNY past, present and future and nothing has changed from the shitty life I already have.... so I'm just gonna shut it and f*ck it.....

Cheers and peace out!