Rant 948 / Let's Go Pro-Choice A Baby Out Of A Bitch.

"You giving these girls abortions?"

"I prefer 'self-induced miscarriages'."


"Were you aware that you're not allowed to give girls an abortion without a medical license or after the eighth month?"

"But that's when you pull them out, when they're ripe."


"I just had an abortion. Yeah!"


"Oh, I just had an abortion too. Here's a picture of my fetus."

"This is highly disturbing information!"


How the heck did they ever come up with this?













So the accountant came over to collect the documents to handle my bookkeeping and help settle my income tax.

I could probably learn to handle my own bookkeeping, but it's not happening any time soon.

I also have no idea how to file my income tax so I need her help on that.

Yea I know NOTHING about running a business before I took over, and even now I barely know anything.

Had a talk with her while she searched the entire office area for relevant documents, and it was very enlightening due to the fact that she's been doing this for my mum since my father passed away.

Contrary to what my mum had told me, our business has been shrinking since 7-9 years ago, and the net income really is similar to the salaries of fresh graduates.

I kinda trust the accountant's opinions because she has had access to private documents for multiple firms and companies, including the one she works for, for over a decade. Therefore she's seen more than anyone else I know.

And her advice to me?

GTFO, graduate from my university asap and find a job in a MNC with the degree.

This is no longer the age of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). With the economy being stagnant as it is and with no sign of recovery in the short term, there are few ways large companies can grow, one of which is to get rid of competition.

While running this business will give me a lot of freedom, the job security is far lower than what one can get in a MNC with a degree. You guys may face retrenchment, but I'm looking at bankruptcy here.

Moreover, things are much less routine and hence more complicated for me.

I already understand what "less routine and more complicated" means. I just didn't think it was this bad for SMEs.

To make things worse, the net income of this business has been sliding downwards for years. There's little chance that a complete newbie like myself will turn things around.

Of course I know of one way to expand this, but I just don't want to go for it in the short term.

My short term goal is to hit my mum's net income level within this year and maybe the next. Return to what was the status quo, simple as that.

My medium term goal is to expand to a safer size. Like I said before, I cannot possibly rely on just the current group of buyers for my long term survival. Both the accountant and the buyer friendliest with my mum and I agreed with me on that.

Finally, my long term goal is to go somewhere with a future that I'm more confident about, like Canada.



After receiving this month's gross income, I know things can't be good. The good months are over; it's the lean times again.

My gross income this month is about a third of last month's. My net income for 2011 after I officially took over was in fact a negative value, partly because all my dwindling profits went into buying new goods. My mum ordered nothing for a few months when she got too sick to work, and not sick enough to want to go to the hospital. That few months of nothingness dealt a huge blow to the firm's finances that I've only recently understood.



Another thing is that MNC employees sometimes get free higher education, sponsored by their own companies. Degrees are expensive in Singapore after the first as the government only subsidises the first degrees of Singaporeans.

Then again, I won't need another degree if I were to stay in this business.

She also echoed one of the first things I considered when I came here: that I will find it very hard to adapt to office life if I were to switch over after I'm used to this way of life.

However she also explained to me that it's not just about having a boss and the lack of freedom, but that I'll also find it hard to adapt to office politics. It may be true that relations are important in both this and a typical office job, but I'll have to start all over again if I work in a company.

I'm still young right now, so it's not too late to re-pick, according to her. It will be very hard for me to compete with younger graduates once I get older, especially when my work experience is practically worthless to large companies.

I don't know. I'm very reluctant to let go of this newfound freedom right now. I agree that there are some rather complicated issues I'm only beginning to understand, but... I don't know. I like things the way they are right now.

As long as I can accept this level of income for the rest of my life, it can't be too bad.

I mean compared to the alternatives available to my degree, of course.
















Kinda a downer TBH, this meeting with the accountant. Fortunately it didn't turn this Friday into a bad day because I had something else to compensate for it.

7 tubes of free toothpaste, courtesy of Sensodyne. I have a large extended family living with me here.

They're just the tiny 27g tubes though.

7*27 = 189g

These aren't even equivalent to one of the large 300g tubes I use. Different brands, yes, but I don't actually give a damn.

Still this many freebies received at one go would perk up anybody's day.


Worried about my future, but not totally upset about it.
















Corruption of Champions must be the most disgusting thing ever to give me a boner outside of 4chan.
















Towns still feels interesting. Actually I've only completed the tutorials.

I dislike how the walls block so much of my view, but fortunately I can still get around it because the the popup box next to my cursor tells me what I'm pointing at.

Not very complicated.

It's a game about building a town near the dungeon. Y'know, everytime you play a game that involves dungeons, there's always a town nearby?

In this game, you're building that town.

IMO it's a city-building sort of game with monsters. Not exactly a RTS either because I can't find a way to actually micromanage the soldiers. When there's a route to some monsters opened, any soldier I have would rush to them and kill till they're killed themselves. Meanwhile civilians would follow behind to loot everything.

It's still in beta and barely playable. Still not sure if I should spend 15EU on that. Most likely not unless they show me more.

I'm impressed enough to be willing to fork out 10USD, but that's it. 25 USD is out of the question.