The world is going crazy....

No I do not mean to speak about certain Current Affairs happenings in other parts of the world, I am talking about our little red dot.

The prices of things are really getting out of hand. COE is 60k for a 1.6l car... My god... that is almost the price of a bloody car which is already priced at twice the price of a car you can get at some other place.... Ahem.... guys... you are paying at least 300% of the price of a car in Sg. So why be so proud??? Your evo and your lambo and so on are waaaaayyyy over priced and you can only have it for 10yrs!!!

Our homes are not priced at 200k and above for new or old flats as now they have the arty farty BTO which you will have to wait 3 yrs for and pay for it the rest of your lives........ Somehow... as I have been saying for the longest time... There is really something screwed up about our lives here...

2012 is really coming!!!!

I do not mean the year because it will come no matter what... but I mean that world destruction will come. Look at all the political upheavals, deaths, earthquakes and volcanoes that are happening in the world now. Perhaps people are becoming more unstable and therefore starting to go crazy more easily. I do not know the reason, but it trully fills me with dread. It is not dread of dying and going to another plane of existence, but then it is for those who live and survive. For me, I am a survivor and therefore even if there is no power or no forms of entertainment, I am still ok. But what about my family and so on. (Oh yea... I am not mentioning the energizer here hor).

In the end, we come from ashes, we will go back as ashes and that is the way things are meant to be.

The luckiest person in the world

You know something? My energizer is the luckiest piece of pie in the world. After losing her husband, she had survived so long and so well. Though her mind is slowly slipping, but then she is supposed to be a happy bunny... Why??? She has no worry in the world and is actually travelling the world. Thsi year she wants to go to UK... Last year she went to Norway and so on and the year before last it was to Turkey and so on... Good God... no wonder I call her the Energizer rabbit... she jus goes on and on and on and on and on and on ..... haizzzzzz...

So she popped a question, can I pay 2k for her trip??? 2 fucking k...!!?? Dats like how many months worth of savings??? At the end of the mth if I have 500 bucks saved, I am already a lucky bastard.... And guess what I am not getting any tax benefits to look after by law this old bunny....!!! Of course she says that I need not pay for her other expenses, but it will come back and bite me in the asse if I I were so stupid to believe her. She has no ability to save and or to plan her finances, so she will need at least 500bucks for her food and other things. I will apportion 2.5k for her, but I just hope that my sister does not tip the boat and give much more... The big problem is that how the bunny can think of spending so much is really beyond my comprehension and further to this, how she is not even half sorry for doing it. She knows we get shit upon everyday at our work. She knows we also have to live for the future while she is just as happy living for the now. Last year she claimed that she would not have any more trips this year and so spent all of any money we gave her. This year I will demand that she keeps some as next year will be much harder for us to give her a bloody trip every year.

I'm Ready...I'm ready

Following the famous Sponge Bob's ever enthusiastic motto of being ready, I feel that I am.... ready for what??? To re-submit an application for my wife's PR.

It was actually pretty interesting. I appealed to the MP who appealed to to ICA. So we recieved a letter from them last week. My wife called up and said we recieved a letter from CIA.... "CIA"??? Uhhh.... I haven't been to US for a bloody long time.... And why would the CIA want anything to do with me? Don't tell me its one of those "I am the managing director of a long forgotten african bank and I have 30 million to spend"... So I confirmed if it were ICA... She said yes.... Then I asked her if the envelope was thick or thin.. She said thick... So a wave of hope washed over me... If the appeal did not go through, then it would have been a thin single sheet saying "Rejected".... But lo and behold, it was a stack of forms we had to fill in and resubmit... So since I was gonna resubmit... I better get everything ready and filed and copied and so on.... So I am ready now.

But going back to ICA and CIA... it is beginning to put a bit of doubt about my wife... Is she dyslexic? Not putting them down hor... Just like reading God and Dog... I am just a bit worried... Is it genetic? Because my kid is speaking in tongues still and what if it is because her brain is jumbled up? Hmmmmmm.... Well she will have to fend for herself because Daddy ain't gonna be there man... hehehehehehe

The only thing you can't escape in life is death and taxes

Actually I can think of a lot of things you cannot escape but lets keep to the traditional ones lah. So what does that tell you about life? There are some things that are inevitable and some that you can avert. The worst thing comes when yuo get used to something in life and you just cannot live a life without it. Money and power does come to mind. For me, I try to live a simple life and try to keep things simple. So for me, if I have none of the money or power, it does not affect me at all. Some people who get used to it just cannot live on anymore or will try to hold on to it and keep it at all means. For this, I am not saying it and pointing it at any party either living or past.

I had a guy who was like a mini Hitler in a company I worked for in Japan. He was just a normal employee supposed to help out in the warehouse and to learn and earn and then if he proved himself worth it, he would rise in rank and also power. He was the elder brother of the company president, but all he ever wanted to do was to be an actor. He sucked at being an actor and had a face that a dog woudl run away from, so his career was pretty short. In the end, he made life terrible for all because he would always try to push people around saying that he was the brother of the president and so he was a senior and so on. But power and money are earned, they are not given and even if they are given, it will soon be spent. For us, we all have our mini hitlers and Paris Hiltons who are either too rich for us or too power hungry, but in the end, if we live our lives as we feel is right, then there is nothing any one can do to make us less happy.

Waaahhh... we all got more money wor!!

According to the news lately, we are doing much better, the average income of an average household is 5k wor..... Before or after CPF ah???

But seriously, in our present world, what is 5k? Maids need at least 1k a mth now because supplyis short and everyone wants to work for an ang moh who will give them freedom and not work them to the bone. So that leaves 4k to feed the family. If the family has a car, they now only have 3k..... And if the children need to go to school and so on, that leaves 3k..... If they have to give demented parents who have no knowledge of the value of money.... They are now left with 2k.... Have I mentioned that I have not yet mentioned food and so on hor...

Are we really better off? Or are we worse off? How many people are really having troubles fending off being hungry or without something in the end of the mth?

So now we have a scenario of an average family"

Husband and wife comes home.... "Mommy... I want a new PS2..... " (Our eyes start to roll to the top) "Son... I need to play mahjong and since you are now in the average class of people and earn 5k in total a month, you must at least give me 10% and also must pay for my medications hor...., If not I report to gahmen you not looking after me hor".... Now eyes start to roll behind the eye socket liao...... "Sir and maam... can I have an extra day off and some pocket money to meet my sayang in the forest??""... You should be about to be ready to jump from the nearest opening liao.

But of course, there will be some who will be shit happy.... "Hey... I got 5k so lets spend 10k...!!!" Its like that, we love to spend and look good... As if we are afraid that people will look down upon us if we have no money.... Well let me put it this way, when you have no money and need to borrow, it is then that people will really look down upon you. If you live a simple life and not splash or brag... you fall and no one will hear you at all....

It brings back to memory someone I loved and how she was claiming that we were being damned cheap because we ate almost everyday at food courts and hawker centres.... Hello..... going there by car... fuel and car park? Eat one meal per person ate least 7 bucks liao hor.... Times 2 people will be 14 bucks liao hor... and add the other things... each time we go out, it can be up to 50 bucks hor.... Times 30 days you need 1,500 liao hor.... Haizzzzz.... Cheap means eat at home and being thrifty about wat you eat my friend.....

Well hope you guys enjoy being in the "average" percentile and enjoy yoru 5k, because it really does not go far these few days.

Chinese New Year

Maybe it is age, but the Lunar New Year every year only fills me with dread. Dread of what crazy things my mom will do and or what else is in store for me. Remember the year before last when she suddenly told my aunty that she would not go over for reunion dinner or last year when she got the time and day wrong for my daughter's introduction lunch and I spent a bomb and no one came? This year was more or less the same thing too. She loves to be a "leader" but she really sucks in leading. I know this sounds like almost everyone we know, but it really grates me in the private parts when she does this.

Seems like she got the timing of the lunch wrong and one of my cousins brought her family, who were sick down with empty stomachs. She also asked my poor biggest aunt to follow her around like a little puppy on the first day, visiting 4 places. My poor monster was shell shocked by the end of the day. Seemes really like this year, her dementia is appreciably worse. She is getting grumpy, testy and so on and even speaking more in tongues, (eg talking nonsense). The worse is yet to come I guess. I only hope that we all do not suffer too much because of that.

She was even bragging that she may go to Scotland with her relatives again this year and my jaw dropped and my heart went "wee weee wee" all the way to the pig market. My god!!! Last year when I threw a fit about her not saving the money we changed for her for her trip, she said that she will not make any more trips. Why do you think I keep preaching that saving for the future? Or even preparing for the future? It will come and when it comes, it will bite us so hard in the asse that we will not even have time to say whoppee!!!!. She is already spending a fortune every week and month with her chinese medicine and her mahjong and yet she wants to go for trips and so on. She knows that we all may be out of a job in the near future, but then in the end, just like my sister, they do not know the devil that is stalking them. Even my sister had a grand and big lion dance and dragon dance ceremony. Easily a few k..... and she is claiming that she will lose her job in a few months... Haizzzzz... Would it not be better if she saved her money for her future?

I swear to you my friends, they are my only worry in life. Because they really are quite unable to make any reasonable choices in life. They are always in lala land and then when the shit hits the fan, I have to do the clearing up.