What's your fortune for this year??

My Fengshui master said that I will have great luck this year... I think it is and will be all used up on my baby. Christina.... I think it will be a girl and also because the doctor cannot find a "dick" and so supposes that it will be a girl, will be born into a time where there is great discontent and also great economic problems. For that, I am really quite sorry. But then if not now, then when??

Instead of blaming all and sundry for the plight that we are in, I would say that after such dizzying heights of profits and gains... some how some where, we gotta plunge down again. But then who gives a sh*t.... At least I have a job and my baby is coming... And that is all that I worry about.

Actually that brings me to another interesting side flip of the story... My fengshui master keeps telling me to be careful of romance... Uuhhhhhh bro.... romance happens all the time... but then the big thing is that at this bad economic times.... I will not be too interested in getting romanced... That is why my wife is so secure with me, because I am a cheap bastard.... Everything I do now... I look at the cost and so on.... Yeah.... having romance does not equal to money... but then the thing is, to bring someone out for a meal DOES require money...

However, I will proudly proclaim that I do have a strange liking for N... she knows who she is lah... so I will not tell you who she is.... hahahaha... and for those who are in my inner circle... I will tell you next time we meet lah.... Anyway... she is really sexy and beautiful and I think that that is where the trouble begins... but gentle reader... do not worry... I am not that type of guy... I love my wife and my future baby and will not do anything to put that in jeapordy... And oh yea.... I have been the sufferer of a bite in the asse before... meaning to say that long long long long long time ago... I met this lady in Aus and we had a one nighter and she told me that we were adults and that it was only for one night... But the next day she started to demand that I go to her place for dinners and so on and it freaked me out.... So now... No more such things!!!! Even if the lady swears herself blind and says that she is not gonna call me after we do the diry.... I will not believe her... Once bitten twice shy.... Well... bite me once and that is enough... hahahahahaha

But actually I am just being cautious and also perhaps trying to be smart... I had an opportunity once to get a high school girl in Japan.... oooooohhh yeeessssss babes.... the wet dreams of most guys.... She was really into me and we went out for movies and meals... And nooooooo!!! I did not even lay a finger on her.... But then she turned "Fatal Instinct" on me and did a stalker number on me.... I decided to call it off because she was getting a bit too chummy and when we went out.. she wanted me to hold her and so on.... Nooooo she was not an ugly short or fat girl... she was in fact petite and very cute... (Trust me lah... if not cute... she would not even have been able to get me to ask her out... hahahahaha).. anyway... She called my workplace....many many many many times.... She called my home number... many many many many times..... and she called my handphone even more times.... I think that cuckoo had my numbers on speed dial and was just going "hmmm which number should I call now.... peeeeeeppppp"... and the hundredth time she called.... Hmmmmmm maybe I should have just answered each one and each connection would have been charged and she would have been asked to pay a fortune... Well luckily I lived thru that episode and never again will I trust women... sori hor... but like I said.... once bitten... twice shy.... get me a third time and I better go and die....

But it also depends on the guy's brain I guess.... for me I have everything I want.... I do not need sex.... I will be forty this year.... sex to me means having and ICU chamber... oxygen.... heart defib and so on ready and on standby.... and if it were N.... I think surely... with such a hot chick.... I better get ready my death suit and so on.... Such a shock will surely kill me... hey... at least I will go with a SMILE.... on my face....

But seriously... I look at things and always ask myself what do I want from this? If it is something that is not really wise... I will not do it...

But there are guys who do the most stupid of things.... In the lancer forum... there was this really pretty girl who was spotted driving a Lancer... and some guys said she was parking at her boyfren's place for the night.... But still a few of the guys went to look for her.... uuuhhhhh pretty girl never see before ah??? Man... get a life.... even if you catch a glimpse of her... it will not be nude... it will not be that she will turn around and decide that you are the one in her life... and she is going to stay with her boyfren... while losers hang outside... waiting.... Man... get a life.... the maturity level of Sg guys is sometimes really shocking....

Anyway... seriously.... I told my fengshui master not to worry... I am using the best tai chi techniques to keep my romances in check.... but.... hmmmmmm.... I got a problem there.... I tried to tai chi my ex when we first started and she became my ex....... oooooooohhhhhh shitssssss....... hmmmm.... better get my wife to come to Sg with my child soon man.... end of year.... wow... it will be fast.....

But then... I will be starting to travel again from tomorrow.... So I will be safer.... hahahahahahahahaha... Byess for nowsssss.....

No Job learn to drive lorry

I am surprised at how out of touch some people are with life.... The newspaper mentioned that if we become jobless, we should learn to drive lorries and other heavy vehicles and the government will help... Yea thanks a lot.... I already have to adjust my seat in my normal car almost to the front most... how the hell am I gonna even touch the pedals of a heavy vehicle? Or see over the top??? Chey.....

But then what is surprising is that the transport industry has already gone belly up... I have a lot of frens who have been restructured because they work in freight and carrying companies and demand has gone down... So how will the trucks and so on survive??? I think it is because of the fact that taxis are now over crowded. ALmost anyone who losses his job will take a vocational license and drive a cab... So now... the only other choice is to drive a bus or a lorry...

The economy is going south... how far south... no one really knows... But it will be pretty damn far still man.... I have been reading up on the magazines and it seems like the wolves are out again selling mortgages and other things under the guise or bail out funds... They do not care who suffers when all they are about is their own pockets.... (I mean bankers hor) Imagine using the bail out money from the US gov to line their pockets with multi million dollar bonus.... to even think about a bonus at this time is like saying the name of Satan in a church.....

Anyway... things will really be tough and I do hope that everyone gets through ok... Please do all take care and stay nice to each other ok???

Dead Tired and Busy

Its been a few days since I last blogged constructively, but I just wanted to put down some thoughts. Baby, (who for the life of me, I still do not know if boy or girl) is damned active and causing wifey to even put it to sleep. Poor thing is so tired because when she tries to sleep, baby is kicking and moving. Hmmmmm... kinda reminds me of my Energizer Rabbit. Damn... I do hope her genes are not too powderful in my baby.......

As for little Energizer... like I said... she doesn't know the meaning of the word "bad economy"... Ok... maybe it is two words and she cannot understand that. The a*hole ex husband of my sister's is MIA and does not pay mom the repayment of the loan.... But incredibly, little rabbit is playing mahjong twice a week again!!!! I do hope she doesn't lose man... Where the hell is she finding her money??? I am not against her playing, but I am just hoping that she will be more careful in her finances lor... Just like my sis, she wants to buy another house because Chris has 70k in his CPF which they can use.... Uuuuhhhhh.. She wants to buy a 2mio house... and it is not even worth so much... In such bad times... lets face it lah... we don go for the deal dat looks nice... we cut as much as we can to ensure that we can make as much as we can.... If I were to go in, I would take into consideration the valuation of the house, the price it was bought at, the number of years of interest and then give a consideration. Wah liao eh.... if I told you this were a magic panadol which will cure all your pains and try to flog it off at $5 per tablet... you would be careful right?

Haizzzz. that is why sometimes I do feel so stressed at my family. I am just wondering where the brains went to. Dad wasn't stupid and I am not stupid, but the problem is when it comes to the female side of the family.... really no brains..... It is sad man....

Anyway, I was just talking to a few frens and seriously speaking, times are really bad nowadays. It is a time where we have not seen or imagined before. In past recessions, it came slowly, but now I came in a matter of months. So we really gotta be extra careful.

Well gotta go for now... ciaos till a later time.

The shit is only starting to hit the fan

We are faced with a lot of bad news lately. This company is retrenching and that company is not doing well. The scions of the economy are also facing huge losses. No one can actually blame anyone lah. Seriously, I am not one of those silly Sillyporeans who cry and bemoan that our esteemed SWF's have had to endure huge losses. Firstly, how the hell are they supposed to grow our reserves if they do not invest? Play with themselves and then pay themselves? So like any instituition or individual, they place funds in places where the returns will help to grow them. So I am not complaining lah.... Don wori.

But what I am more afraid of is that the economy is on a slippery down hill slide and there is nothing much that can be done for it for the time being. During the good times, banks and institutions have made crazy bets, some even betting on things that logically do not need to exist. The derivative market is fabled to be USD$600 trillion... Ladies and gentlemen, there are so many zeros in a trillion that you will go cross eyed just looking at it. And if you think that you can try to understand the figure, forget it lah. Lets put it this way.... 1 million is still not so unaffordable. U have a house worth 500k, your savings worth 100k, insurance worth 200k, you are just short of being a millionaire. Billion is almost an improbably figure already. If you manage to save 5k a month, it will take you well over a thousand years... and ladies and gentlemen... we live on average 70 years hor.

But then it really brings me to the question of when is it enough???? Ask yourselves this every once in a while. Is $50 a day enough? Or $5? We can strive for more, but are we happy with what little we have. If we save, then will it not be detrimental to the economy? Yet if we spend, would it not be detrimental to us? So how? These are questions that when asked, we really can only scratch our heads and sometimes our asses and just have no answer for that...

But I do wish one and all well and hope that you will all get through this bad times without too much problems hor.

Our funny little country

You know my friends, I read with some sense of amusement at the news article of some of our elderly being sent to JB for care. Why??? Because it is so expensive in SG. Imagine, I have made a study of a few homes in SG and they are all around the 1.2k-1.6k ranger per mth. If I had a salary of only 3k, half of it would be spent on my energizer rabbit's care. (Actually I would be paying the same amount just to keep her alive now anyway)(She is playing mahjong almost every weekend and sometimes several times a weekend and if she wins, it is all fine and dandy, but if she loses then how???) Anyway, it is disappointing lor. The government thinks that we should be able to look after our own elderly, who are the founding citizens of our fair land. No little wonder since our reserves are not that much and losses recently are quite substantial.

However, the bane is with healthcare. Since we are a meritocratic society, if we merit something, then we get it. A normal home with an income of 5k will be comfortable. But if we have just one old demented energizer rabbit, we are screwed. She spends more than what we can earn, and if we were to put her in a home, she will cost as much as we earn. Why do we want to put her in a home??? If she starts to eat trash, put glue on her feet because it is itchy, do you think she should not be put into a facility where she can have 24hr care? I live on the 10th story.. if she stays at my place and she wants to go down... she may decide not to take the stairs. If she does that... heavens forbid, people might think that I was a bad son man... forcing my mom to suicide... when all that happened was she did not use her brain!!!

If she is sick and needs long term care... it comes out of our pockets.... We pay for almost everything. Of course the government says medicine is subsidised.... Has anyone tried the polyclinic lately??? Cheap but the lines are so long that you would most probably die by the time it comes to be your turn. Build more lah..... haizzzzzz....

Or if you need to go to hospital.... Want to stay in C class ward.. go for means test and if you are too rich to want a C class, you pay more.... Waaaaaaahhhh.... Want to save money also cannot... Build more facilities lah!!!!!! Then everyone has a choice mah.....

It is a sad truth lah... Sg is now too expensive to live and to die... And even if you are alive or dead... no one really cares.... I care and that is why everday, I am slowly dying... because I see those who I love slowly dying... My mom, my sis and so on.... Sometimes... I wish things were different. I also wished that things were more simple.... Haizzzzzz

V Day coming around again

I promised my wife that every year I would so something romantic with her on V day. But I am feeling so poor now. No not as in "poor thing... awweeeee! Poor" but as in no money poor. No matter how hard I have been trying to save, the need to spend just overcomes my ability to save. Like I just had to pay road tax for my car, insurance and blah. Then I also needed new clothes for work,eg, shirts and slacks and because I am a short little guy, I have to have them tailor made. It beats the hell out of buying something off the shelf and then having to cut half the bloody material off to make it more suitable for my height. It was like the other time when I went to Giordano to buy a pair of jeans, the shop assistant asked me if I wanted the remaining material back to make a pair of bermudas. It was that bad ladies and gentlement. Anyway, that is another story for another day.

So with Valentine's day coming, I am pondering, should I splurge a few hundred bucks to buy some roses that will make her day and spoil mine, or just explain to her that I have to be a miser because things are really going shitty. I am actually pretty lucky because a few of my frens have already been retrenched. And some of them have already been asked to take pay cuts. No matter how much savings you have, it is being eaten away even if you have a job.

It is also a vicious cycle as the banks have lost a great deal and the whole market has also lost a great deal. Even modestly safe companies have taken a beating because everyone is scared. So no one is spending, but then the there are still some idiots who think that they can spend a whole shit load of cash. My problem was that how come bank bosses still demand huge bonuses when other staff have been sacked. I will not talk about karma or what, but the world is not as stupid as it was before. Now the people who have not will rise to take over the people who have. The whole social order will change within the next 2-3 years and there will be great unrest. If I sound like Nostradamus, do not worry... I do not claim to be one. And I do not believe in foretelling a future. But the signs are there. We had a period of time where we had a lot of peace and relative growth. Now the generation that grew up in such a period are so screwed. My generation. We are too old to find new jobs, too deep in debt to take a lower paying job even if we are given it. How did it happen, why did it happen?

The base reason is greed. Everyone is greedy. However, those who have power want more. It is never enough. So they allow transgression to carry on. The bank bosses want huge bonus so they allow the banks to take huge risks. Hey... the subprime was an idiot's dream of hedonic hell. Imagine, you do not have the money to pay for a second house, but heck we will give it to you as long as you pay the interest and monthly payments. HELLO!!!! If I had only 3k and had to pay 2k for both houses, I will run myself to the ground. And when I run myself to the ground, how the hell am I going to pay??? And yet the banks allowed this to happen. The up side... if the idiot who took the loan is able to pay, he will be paying at a higher rate of interest to feed the bank bosses fat bonus.

But now, those who were led into this mess, those who were royally screwed by this will rise and rebel. As people become poorer, social order starts to be unglued. It is true. If you are poor and living in the dumps, what is robbing someone to get some money or getting caught and being sent to jail be? Rock and a hard place? I do not think so. When social order disintergrates.... the victims will make noise.... Where is the peace? Where is the safety? Blah blah blah... then you will see more troubles lor.

Fat bosses who think that everything is ok will find themselves where the French nobels were during the revolution. A typical lynch target.... Lucky I only drive a Lancer Ex.... hehehehehehe....

Well we shall see lah.... I do hope that my predictions do not come true. For if it does, this world will be a shitty place to live for a long while man. Do not forget, some politicians feel that if the economy is bad.... Lets start a war to make the people forget.

The sky is falling!! The sky is falling!!!

HEhehehe... actually not really just yet lah.... It will fall soon enough, trust me on this one, but the question is only when. I just spoke to a few of my friends that some of them have been retrenched. Now most of them are trying to find any job they can to put the food on the table for their family. I am not saying the large family hor... Just the wife and the kids hor... And the cycle goes on lor...

Of course, fiscal measures and also physical measures by the government should help a bit but then if you think about it, if the people do not change, then how can the measures take effect? There have been reports that the Yanks are at it again, lending money to those who cannot afford it using Government Guaranteed Funds.... It is the new sub-prime now.... So how? Will people change? Not very likely.... Banks have lost a huge bundle, but some are giving their senior executives big bonuses again.... can they change??? No likely again.

So now the topic will be when the sky will fall? Because it surely will.. People who are out of jobs will not be able to meet their repayments on time... Foreclose and you have a bad debt on your hands. Do not foreclose, you are only making the inevitable a little later. Take the hit now and your books looks horrible. If your books look horrible, investors and depositors will flock to your windows to withdraw their cash and make your books looks even worse.

What can we do? Well, even this guru does not know.... All I know is that the apocalypse is neigh and the dark horsemen are riding over the plains... Hey wait.... Sillypore no plains leh.... and a horseman will take very little time to ride across a football field..... Which meanss... Oh Sh8t.... we are out of time......!!!

Well my little ones... that is life and this is one of the darkest hours of our short lives. Not many of us at this generation have had this experience before. Not many of us have suffered before... So now let the pain and suffering begin... Oh yea.... Don expect anyone to come to your help hor... Don forget... I still have a tonne of lemonade in my fridge.... hahahahahahahaha

My Little moo moo is a COW!!???

K fans.... it is not definite... but I think our little ox may be a female.... How do we know??? Well another scan was made while wife was in hospital and the baby still had its silly legs crossed and up around its head like a Chinese acrobat.... So the doctor did the only other thing possible and checked to see if she could find any balls or birdy... Nope... no balls as yet and no birdy.... so by process of elimination... It should be a girl...

I had a look at the vid and yups.. unless the baby has really small birdy... there does not seem to be one and so I have a girl.... Oooohhhh man.... I was just talking to wifey and was just saying that now I am in real trouble.... Guys have a tendency to be softer on girls.... Especially guys who have been brought up the proper way and respect girls... So how to beat the sh*t out of my baby girl???? And if she start to cry and look pathetic... I will be like tofu.... My sis already is tofu with her little monsters.. how u expect her to be hard to my girl? So now we have a problem.....

I was about to ask my wife if we can return the baby to the freezer for a while and try for a boy first?? Hahahahahaha... But then seriously speaking lah... It also depends on how we bring up the kid too lah.... For the first kid, because of the need to take over the responsibility of leading the family, we will always be strict with the first kid... unlike the chicken shit tofu of my sis... But if my second comes out to be a girl... I will be doubly in deep sh*t...We are even softer on second or smallest kid and if it is a girl... ... ....

Hai.... like my previous post... when life gives u lemons... make lemonade.... Anyone wants lemonade... I got too much here liao.... hahahahahahahaha

A bad weekend for me... The Ox Year is damn jia lat

Guess what children? My wife is in the hospital. She found dark brown blood in the morning and rushed to the hospital. They immediately scanned the baby and the placenta and it was ok. So she had to go back, get her things, go back to the hospital and wait for a room. Now she is staying in there for a few days.

What really drives me up the wall and really got me in a shit angry state was that just one week ago, my little energizer rabbit was sitting ever so quaintly in the dining table, telling me and the fengshui master how my sister's two kids had problems coming out and I would have problems too. Though it was not a curse in the direct sense of way, she should have been more circumspect in her statements. When I got pissed off, she even told my sis in a childish way that they should not make any statements about me in a sensitive way. But "Hello!!!" you were sprouting off about how my wife will have a difficult delivery even after I had lunch with you and told you that in Japan, we always hope that nothing happens because the medical system is not able to cope. Only hospitals that specialize in birth have NICU (baby ICU) beds. If these are filled, you will have to go to another hospital. If there is something wrong with the wife or mother, you will have to find another hospital that can handle the situation. There have been horror stories of how a mother was rushed from one hospital to another because she had a stroke while giving birth. In the end, she passed away. So seriously speaking, my mother's Alzheimer's is really getting worse. And to top it all off, while her only son and his wife and grandson are all troubled, she goes off the play mahjong.... Seriously, she is the happiest little energizer rabbit and should not have any f**king gripes man... Other elderly people will have to be careful about their money and so on man.

Anyway, back to wife. They do not know what is wrong, but as long as the baby is stable and the mother is stable, they will not take too many invasive measures. So she will be back home tomorrow and then have to go back again on Wed. This is the typical hardship of a normal person's life. So if you spoil your children, then how the hell are they going to be able to handle problems and situations by themselves?

Anyway, that is all from me for the time being... I am having the shittiest time of my life right now....But in the midst of life giving you lemons... you make lemonade out of it lor... you guys want some lemonade or not... I got plenty to spare here man.... hehehehehehe