I've been getting calls from so many girls ever since I took over the business.
I just wish they weren't telemarketers.
And Dell keeps calling me about their new promotions.
The last call was particularly funny.
Telemarketer: Hi, I'm calling from Dell. Is there an IT officer or technician I can speak to?
Me: We don't use computers here.
Telemarketer: HMMMM.............
But it is true.
The highest form of technology we use here is a typewriter and a basic solar-powered calculator.
I can easily switch to a PC because it's much easier to make changes on MS Word, but my mum had bought too many carbon copies of invoices from a wholesaler or something which cannot be used with a computer printer unless I print on all copies separately.
That's a huge waste of ink IMO.
We're so 1970s over here.
Still, it helps to keep the operating costs lower.
I'll make the switch when one of the following happens:
1) The typewriter stops working and I can't find someone to repair it.
2) I cannot find the ribbons outside when ours run out.
3) I run out of blank invoices.
So today a friend on FB was being so excited about getting the Pleasures card from Ritz-Carlton.
That's its loyalty programme.
Costs a crazy S$888 p.a.
I used to wonder why so many people with no money are unable to spend their money wisely.
There are two conclusions I draw from this after some thought.
First, it's a cycle. They can't spend money on only the right things, hence they spend too much compared to their incomes and that prevents them from becoming wealthy.
Second, they spend their money like that precisely because they are not rich enough to spend such amounts casually.
It makes them feel richer, and basically creates the illusion that they aren't as average or poor as they actually are.
Which makes such an act the same as any other forms of distractions like video games, fiction novels, getting drunk and most arts in general.
They take a person's mind away from reality which they view as harsh and maybe even painful.
If life as an average guy with a decent job in a developed country is bad, then how do I describe the life of a child born in the slums of Mumbai?
If you have the money to afford the internet access to read this blog, chances are your life isn't bad at all.
You just think it is.
It's just all perceptions.
Quoting the book Sword of Truth, "truth is perception".
If you can change the perception, you can change the truth.
The objective reality is ultimately of no importance. The moment you have to interpret everything you sense, you are already living in your own perceived world.
Singapore buying electricity from Malaysia in the future?
What the heck?
Responding to this, Prime Minister Lee said Singapore is very open to importing a certain portion of electricity from Malaysia, if the terms are right and if the private sector proposes an attractive offer which Singapore cannot refuse.
I don't know what they're doing.
After all the effort to wean ourselves off the resources Malaysia has been supplying to us, we want to increase our dependence again?
Then what's the point of Newater?
Despite the recently announced pay cuts for our political leaders, their salaries remain extremely high compared to those of leaders of other parts of the world.
I'm not totally against this high pay.
What I find wrong is that this pay cut accomplishes nothing solid.
All this really does is make the public happy for a while, but once the novelty of a big ministerial pay cut wears off, they're going to come to their senses and realize our PM's monthly pay still exceeds most of their annual incomes.
2.2M per year = 183k per month
One would have to make over 15k SGD per month just to have an annual income that matches the PM's monthly one.
That's not even including the annual bonus.
Plenty of foolish people say that the high pay is unnecessary - if people are sincere they wouldn't need that to attract them to public service.
Don't be silly.
A lot of people sincerely want to help charities too. How many people out in this world have a career in non-profit organizations?
Among these people, how many of them can be considered "the best minds"?
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