Love 'em or Hate em but you can't beat 'em

I am really talking about the US of A.

Goodness, I have such strong interests in current affairs.. oh well.. yes, I have been researching even more since I am a consultant for North American land investments and I parked so much money there. But i have always been fascinated by the USA. For their ingenius ways of winning.


But this entry is purely my own opinion..I did blog controversially about the US before..if you wanna read about the Gulf War...Ach well.. that was some silly stuff =)


Bear in mind that each time I write political account, I don't have stacks of research papers in front of you. Purely opinions of what I think is happening and if possible, a bit of wit and zest, har har..cause you know, most of the time, media paints whetever picture they want to paint, whatever the real truth is. The 'truth' is painted by whoever has the money and is getting the money.



Since everyone has differing opinions, there is no right or wrong until it is one day proven and experienced by self, similar to faiths actually. So.. let's just take it with a pinch of salt.. and in the case I get into trouble, (which is not very likely.. cause you know I am so full of shits , they'd understand)... then I guess I know I am probably right..

So I don't care if I am right..but I am gonna empty my brains now..




Issue #1 - The Cold War then and the Cold War now



Go and watch the Charlie Wilson's war. I mean we all know that the Russians had to go down because they were to big a threat to the US economy.

Sneaky and smart as the US were, they started the cold war and they won it. By camouflaging themselves and by being at the right time, at the right place, placing money (guns, tanks, resources at the right hands.., they beat the Russians.. now they are no longer a threat.. Well much less of one anyway. Though some unfinished business become something else but that's another story.



The Cold war was then. Now it has shifted slightly to the South of Russia? Hmm..


I don't see why people are making such a big fuss over China's 'booming' economy.


Yes yes.., many tall buildings now.. less kampung (though geez.. numerous empty unleased apartments that little buyer would take over..). business thrives.. more China millionaires..open to the world..more trade.. index growth in 2007 showing is China incredibly overpriced now..because I think it was 20% truth and 80% hype..



You know people right.. they like it when the news kanna goreng.


Of course they are growing, who isn't? The whole world is growing. I am just saying it is not as rosy as people are painting it.


China is heavily dependent on US and the Europe for business.


One day, Mattel decided to discontinue one of its toy line as it was no selling well or it wasn't passing the QC... a couple of factories in China closed down and thousands of people lose their jobs. Ok no worries.. got other lobangs..They can move to some clothing factories that get paid pennies to make a certain Polo Tee with a horse sign on it.


So, labour cost in China per shirt - $1
material cost in China - $2
various overheads in China- $2
shipping and other logistics -$2

- - total cost $7




ooppppss... It reached the stores and it cost $78



Sorry, forgot to mention.



Mr Polo Tee gets $25 for royalty, his company's expenses and overheads (investors' dividends, salaries, office lease, shop lease.. blah blah..) $36, tax to US govt $10




Hmmm... that's just a polo tee.. should I go on about iPods?


Who's getting the real money. Seriously.

Every one dollar China gets for a piece of product, how much does the mother company get?

You do the math. And you think China can beat them one day? Very long way to go lah. They are not even civilised/ well -mannered enough to be ready to live in a first world country..

Of course China has the most people in the world, we all know that and one day they might just one day dominate and all of us will have small eyes. But if you think they're damn powerful now.. let's look at the stats..

GDP for 2007 -
1 United States 13.79 trillion




2. Japan 4.346 trillion




3. Germany 3.259 trillion




4. China 3.249 trillion








That's another 10 trillion more to go. No lah.. not yet. Taking over Germany should be anytime now. Japan is in some serious threat, I must say. Look at Japan's Nikkei, I haven't an index graph flatter than Kate Moss' chest before.

But taking over the US. Hmm.. long long way..



But now that you see everyone kinda watches the world blur by and see their money shrinking in the stock market. People also start to read series of 'shocking' news of the economy of the world..




I would say.. relaxx...patience.. it's just part fo the process..

- I just received emails saying that you shouldn't be buying sandals made in China either, the chemicals will corrode your skin. Oh, don't buy some toys made in China either, poisonous and some contain some sex drug (what a sicko)..

Oh.. also.. Warren Buffet has pulled out his fortune out of China you know ya? Sorry, time to go somewhere else but thanks for ride, Warren might have said. The world has 'goreng' ed it well, many has benefited and now it's time to go somewhere else...

Oh, don't support the Olympics either, they're no civilised to the Tibetans.

Oh geez.. don't get China made medicines and diet pills .. like SlimTen . Oh wait.. don't buy the chickens from China also.. they said got bird flu!!.. Oh.. don't buy the eggs from China too.. they're fake.

OH MANG! DANG lah!! What can I buy from China now?



I wonder what sort of reputation they are getting for their products. Oh, it broke after a week, is it made in China?




Hold on.. that's not true.. Of course you can buy made in China stuff, else you'd be deprived and naked.


But please buy those with foreign label, one that says maybe Billabong.. or Ralph Lauren.. or GAP..or Coach..or Microsoft.. or Apple... they sure pass QC and you don't need to doubt the quality knowing how stringent they are with QC. Last but not least, this way, at least the bulk of the money still goes to some deep pockets in the West.



I really can't imagine feeling shiok buying a very good quality leather bag with intricate tasteful design, with a 'NIAOBAI' written on it. Branding dude.. China needs a Brand manager, along with a quality and ISO manager.


But maybe it will improve in time, but they better catch up. Of course, there's no stopping for these giants to go to Vietnam or Indonesia to outsource their products though. Especially if their quality is continously bad and prices keep rising. One day, Africa could be more utilised too.



Let's talk about human stats in China, it used to be an overwhelming percentage growth, but thanks to the one child policy, it is way under control (in fact a little too under control), now there are 6 China man to one China woman. I wonder how they are to reproduce properly.


But in terms of volume, no worries... still billions of them.. and they get rich..



But then again,..The rich Chinese who become instant millionaires have packed their bags and moved to Canada, US, Singapore and Australia to live. Bye Bye China. Bye bye smelly toilets and dusty streets. I'll come back for holiday.




OK I am totally generalising.. beg your pardon.



You know I actually loved going to Shanghai. I was there so many times, shopping and eating, drinking free beer..but also busily getting diearhoea and breathing problems. Move to Shanghai? I'd say no thanks..

Today, I read about Tibet feud again.. Oh just what the hell are they thinking. leave the poor tiny place alone lah.. peaceful people.. in peaceful country, .. and they have no oil!! let alone shoes or hair for goodness sake Leave 'em alone already,

If this jeopardises the Olympics, they're screwed. China is at the edge of the cliff. Be careful.

"Sports and Politics should be 2 separate entities"... as quoted from ST today, well, when you're talking about a world event that size, how can there not be politics. Everything is politics.

Pull out your money out of China already, buy US.

Issue #2- Subprime what Subprime.




Incredible as you may think, but for huge economies like US, it is healthy and necessary to 'cleanse' their economy once in a while. It's like the carbon cycle to the environment..

They need to go around a cycle and reach a time where everything is low.. where money can flow in again from outside, ...Also, where the low dollar can help them pay off some loans.. at low rate.. yay...

Let's see if the trick did it.

Temasek and GIC flowed gazillions of dollars into US, our country's precious precious reserve flowed into Citibank, Merrill L, US property, lands, funds. The Arabic moneybags followed suit and I am sure many others did, non-disclosure.

So, who has power over who now??

Hmm.. I have a friend who is cocksure that the US will fall, then I think he should plan on moving out of Singapore. We have so much at stake there. Ar.. how can it be possible, the world will fall when US falls. No more McD, no more Starbucks, no more Microsoft, no more Apple, no more outsourced jobs, no more films.. (sobs..), no more Hollywood..(sobs...).. no more jobs.. no more money..



Look left and right.. US companies are everywhere. Can't deny that.
A kampung will only become a town when Mc Donalds step in.
And goodness knows why McD's main business is real estate and not FnB.



So now, half the world, (including out tiny little country's sovereignity) parks a big bulk of their lifetime savings in US. Imagine this scenario:




"Hello.. I need a bit more help for this current project.. can you pull some strings? ... Hmm.. is that so??.,,,, But you invested so much in us, your people at stake too, ... you know.. you gotta help.. else.. you know.. it may not be so good for either of us.. oh.. uh huh? Oh, yeah.. that'd be good... Thanks!"


Hey!!! It's just good business, ain't it.




Well, 9% p.a Citibank coupon ain't bad at all for GIC, and when the sub prime, 'recession' is over, of course property prices will rise again, and with so much more capital now..Citi will be in the pink of health again. It's just a cycle.. money in.. money 'out', money in..



We should have all predicted this subprime coming long ago.


How can you give bleeding unqualified/semi-jobless/not-so-rich people loan for house?? On top of that, give them high interest with exponential growth too.. chey, I also know one day they cannot pay liao..No need economist to study.


Good business tho.., but of course bo pian a bit of people hurt on the way.


When actually, money only flowed from one hand to another during recession. How could it evaporate into thin air?




Oh, Why Bleedin' Good Business again?



Let me summarise in my signature crude way....



Ok.. first of all, these smart, rich fellas in the institutions thought : "let's give out more loans.. (hey that's what banks do!! You think they make money by giving you 0.25% p.a?? NO! They earn by giving charging you 4-24% interests on your loans!)


SO.. ok.think of those people who can't buy house cause they don't qualify for the 'prime' rate.. let 'em buy.





"Sure?" .. Yeah.. "Sure.."





Let em buy.. Let the developers pocket the money. We give out the loan.... but.. aha! Let's give them extra interest... so that you know.. maybe they work harder to earn more.. haha! that'd be funny.. but no worries.. you know, cause in the event they can't pay up the loan..(which I think they can't anyway.. we slowly increase the rate k?...)... , we then take over the asset!! Win-win situation.





Genius ain't it? In the meantime, let's get this amazing ROI from the sub prime mortgages, and let's sell them to the rest of the world.. we can get cut from it, leverage, expand and lend out even more!! How's that??


So, for many many years, these poor people struggled to pay their home loans which went up like the Himalayan curves, and many rich people got richer accross the globe pocketing the good business!



Finally, the inevitable came.. and the people got tired. One by one gave up trying to catch up with the rising interests and one by one lost their houses. The bank saw it coming.. ok time to take over the houses... oh now, it's slightly lower value liao.. it's ok! Will go up again.. We just write down.. it's ok.. Ocht!! our stock drops faster than a tart's knickers on a Friday night... it's ok!!! We can buy more! Oh.. wait waiitt.. we get more moneys flow in again, I am sure that THEY will support. They all want a 'piece of me'. (And they said Britney knows nothing about politics)

And They did, who wouldn't? Having a stake at the world's biggest economy, coming in at the lower points?

Even the princes of Arabs would mortgage his yachts and palaces to buy Citibank shares. (not that it happened, of course, he has extra money for this.. duh)

Oh dear.. looks like it got a it overwhelming. Oh dear, lots of people accross the ocean in Asia lost so much money.. oh why their index follows our index?? Why do they follow us so much? Oh poor thing. But no worries..hang in there..



We gonna cut the rates.. we gonna start all over again. These people can rent houses for now or move to cheaper places and buy cheaper houses ... move to Texas, Phoenix or something..(duh.. else what? They stay in the trees?? these people earn, just not enough to catch up with our interests..) , but this is temporary, soon they will be fine.. Slowly, we're back in business again.. Slowly.. but surely.. we will loan again...(geez. of cos we gotta!). we start low.. and prices will go up again.. and ah.. yeah the future may not seem very bright to you. But it seems so for us.

Ocht! Some buddies support us from accross the oceans, more money on our side now. We have even more support now. Yay.

Anyway, we accross the globe are waiting for opportunities in US to park into. (I personally see millions flowing into US real estate from Singapore through my company, every month. It's amazing. People are seeing the value, Singapore may be at the peak now, it's selling time (though noone wanna buy), but for US, it's buying time!! ). OK, back to US.

Noone from overseas wanted to buy BearStearns today. I think it's because of the feng shui. How can we buy into a bank with BEAR on it. Bear market is just not good.

Don't worry, BS is safe now, JP Morgan big bro bought over, right pocket to left pocket
Wait a minute, our dollar is pretty low now.. let's pay off some country loans to maybe the Japanese and some others (You know that US borrows shitloads of of money and roll it). Let them eat the low dollar...perfect timing.

Oh dear, seems like now Boeing is finding hard to trade with us, our dollar is too low. How how? Ask them to lower the Euro la!! We need to pay off some loans first..


Aye, many people in Europe cannot do business with us as well as they used to!! Hmm..how about, ...Stay low for awhile? How about we drive these buggers out of business first?? *ding* C'mon, we're like, the biggest consumer in the world. We perservere for a while and when they're under water, let's buy over!!


Oh, wait a minuteee.. that China is now having trouble with Tibet.. what are they trying to do??


Should we help? I mean we funded so many hospitals and civilisations accross so many third world countries. We are the big brother. We should help Tibet.. should we??

Anyway, I really don't think China is ready to host the Olympics. You know that all of us were never gonna let it happen anyway right?? Our athletes are gonna fall ill with bird flu, smelly toilets.... there will be bad sanitation.. bad manners.. and the thing they've been doing to tibet is just mean lah.. even the Premier is SOOO mainland China he dares to accuse the Dalai Lama like that..

Sigh... Hmm.. you know.. when others see crisis.. we see opportunity.


What do you see?








---HAHA!! I can't believe I thought of all those. Sorry guys.. I am very very imaginative.. It may make ridiculous sense.. but I enjoyed every bit of it.

I think the US is total genius! They will go long way.. we shall see. I stand on my point. A couple of years from now, things look would ridiculously better. The best investments are long term. These sort of disturbances are just part of business. Opportunity creating.

OK!!!! Before I get arrested... Most the above are of course fictions.. purely my own weird imaginations..Don't believe a word of it. Thanks!!!

Selamat Jalan!

Haizz....


This Selamat bugger.. He must be the most famous person in Singapore right now. (In case you don't know.. tsk tsk.. , he's a JI terrorist prisoner who escaped the detention vicinity)


Seems like his posters are overtaking Britney's or Fiona's posters, US recession headlines or even Malaysia's election headline.. now it's all about Selamat....He is More famous than me and he doesn't even have a blog...I think.

It's Selamat everywhere..!!!!

MRT, buses, lifts. staircasess.... even toilets... eh.. Hello!!! I want to do my business in peace laah.. why you remind me of him?
Sad lah.. he's taking over our lives..he's done it again.. either by setting some terroric plan.. or just by escaping so that he 'terrorises' your mind...

You must have seen the cute picture of him in different disguises..it may just come in useful you know?

Who knows? He could be the auntie selling your tempeh in the market.. or the uncle selling kacang puteh... or that ah lian dancing next to you at Este bar..come.. must learn... we catch him together..

I received this email telling me that Selamat must be in Malaysia by now, cause the causeway to JB has a big sign saying : " Selamat Datang Ke Malaysia".. Very farnee you guys..


Anyway, if you play DotA.. you will understand if I say that Selamat must have a blink dagger..he blinked through the walls... that or he windwalked out of the cell..still windwalking now... Damn smart I tell you, he's got a lot of manna..


Ok, Singaporeans,, we must hold on together.. print out the above picture and bring it everywhere you go.. keep a lookout..

.and if spotted something that MAY resemble him.. then immeeelllyy call 911.. like the poster say.. don't kay kiang cho hero..
later he kicks you with his limping leg, you might explode.

HK2008- Me and Ah Gan- Day 2

HONGKONG we're here AGAIN!!
This is our 2nd day story... Today is the day we are out on an adventure.


Adventure to our inner nostalgic childhood cravings...

























I dressed up ala Hong Kong La Mei, complete with revealed navel and mini michellin belly. Heh heh.. can't help but gain a bit of weight in HK, you know.. all the cheap beerr.. supper.. wantons.. duckss... pork ... more pork..dessert geez...How do the HK girls stay so slim, they must be reverse bullimic or something..

Before we set out to the far end, we had lunch. At Max's famous Wanton mee.
























A bit more expensive than the normal fare, This one has whole prawns inside the wantons, nice springy noodles and for goodness sake I am not a food critic.

Anyway it's at Central and it's quite famous, so probably good idea to tell people you tried it when you were in Hk or something like that lah..To be more IN, you know.




We then boarded the MTR that headed to DISNEYLAND!!!!


















Yay, fret not my friend, if you are not a Disney fan.

It is not a pre-requisite to enjoy the wonderland.

Though of course, me, myself, and I am a TOTAL Disney fan.

I grew up watching Donald Duck and singing all the princessy songs. I still do nowadays! Even more so after visiting Disneyland. I just bought the Disney princess collection CD to Gan's dismay and started singing them in our car... he wasn't very happy though, I think.



















Check out the MTR.. It's got Mickey's face all over, at the handle, at the window..





AND HERE WE COME!!






















Ta ta ta ta....



I know that for some, Disneyland is no biggie, especially HK one. It's way smaller compared to one in SF, Paris or even Tokyo.

For me, it is a big deal OK. I love Disney and I have never been to Disneyland before this HK trip. So pardon my kampungness.



Bear with me ok...



















Here's Mickey on top of the whale in Pinocchio's story.
ANd me happy as clam.



















Here's Gan and me and Mickey's face again!!

Be prepared to see a lot of these 3 faces.



















There's an old charm about the area. Dainty cars make great show offs here.





















We boarded the tram that toot-toot-ed around the place. HK Disneyland is rather small, mind you. I have been to much bigger theme parks in Blackpool, England but they didn't have Disney songs played over the PA system. What a boo boo.






















The dumbo ride is a classic. It is also a bore if you've been on it like umpteen times.

Jakarta has theme park too you know? Dufan- Dunia Fantasi. So they had dumbo too. I have been on it so many times when I was wee, and and I grew sick of it already.

so, we watched the shows... The shows were amazingly entertaining.

For this Philharmagic, we had to put on 3D glasses. And boy, yes it was very 3D.

I really felt like Donald Duck was spitting on my face, made me siam and realise it was just a 3 D trick and so I looked stupid. By the way they tricked all your 4 senses cause my face got really wet too. They had water sprays at the front seat targetted at your face. Very smart la. That or I am just easily impressed.

















Awww so hammsemm laaa




















Must remember to check this one out k..


After that, Gan had to stop for food. What else could it be?? The man EATS!! with capital E.






















We orderred some dim sum and they were sucky.



















I guess Disneyland is good for many things, but not the place to go for food lah, obviously.
Gan still gobbled them down anyway..
























I posed in front of more 'castles '. You know I am still that little girl at heart who wishes that she is a princess in a castle, wearing lavish gowns with layers, laces and sparkles... waiting for her prince charming...Sorry, I am a sentimentalist.. Those fairy tales still move me. I think I might tear when I tell bed time stories to my kids next time.

















There was also a parade going on. Pretty ladies made up to be princesses. Ah.. this I cannot be conned. They took away the meaning in fairy tales for me.

Somehow, they tried to make it real and seem really fake, make me realise all over again that they were just wishful thinkings.

Eu-Tjin bought ice creamss... And guess what?






















More Mickey's head!!! I tell you ah.. this is baddddd.. This is like teaching the kids to eat Mickey's head... argh.. How can they shape it as Mickey's head?TSK TSK

It's like cartooniballism.. I don't agree. I am very whimsical. They should stay fantastical and not in my digestive system.




















Ahaa.. Future world.. We went up for some rides..


















A car that is led by and more or else stuck to a bleeding guide panel in the middle.
It's so annoying to drive. It's a kid's ride lah. What to do. I shouldn't even be in it. But since I failed my Advanced theory, ..I have to be contented for now...

I am sure Gan agreed... sigh.. even I worry of the day I get my license.

At 8 pm, There is the fire works and illumination show at the main castle.

This was one of the snapshots... It was breathtaking, at least for me. I think Gan was quite happy too. Though I was making the most noise.
























This one is nice. =).. Awwww........
We then went to the Disney Souvenier Store like any other conned tourists, but I guess we gave in anyway.. since y'know I am not a tourist every day.



So we walked in and found many souveniers to buy... So so so many...

keychains, soft toys, fridge magnets.. we spent a bomb there..



But we found these head bandss... so cute right??




















Look at Mickey and Minnie getting wed.. hahahahaa...



This entry is cute to even my own liking. Mang, hahah..




















This is the scene along the Disney street, at night. Hmm..

Thinking back, it's quite nostalgic actually. The whole day there, I was like on lala land.. So happy to be in fairy tale.. But guess it's now time to go back...to the real world.




So we took the traing back to meet Sandy at CauseWay Bay.. for dinner.

We went for the HK cart noodles.





















Here's pretty Sandy posing for the cart noodles.
So fun ordering it! You can choose many veggies, meat and spare parts to be put in your noodle.

I choose spare parts like intestine lah.. blood lah.. but Gan is anti-spare parts for some reason..
But his mom is so totally proud that he is so, which means that he has a healthy diet.

After that we went for dessert....

In HK, please keep your left tummy compartment empty after dinner, because you need to go next door to the dessert shop and eat some fattening but irresistible desserts.


So, please... save space... seems like in HK, this is a trend.













































SO, of course Gan was more than happy to gobble down the dessert.

There are so many to choose from, from the more angmoh pai one...Mango crepe wrap.. to the more CHeena one.. like pomelo and mango or the tang yuan and muachi..

Anyway......



Upon being well fed.. We staggered home and slept soundly.. It was another fulfilling day in HK..was looking forward to my 3rd day..

What to say..What to say...

Dear Diary again,

Geez.. it's been ages since I wrote a blog entry.
It's been gazillion years since I wrote an entry properly.

It's funny how I thought back that this was supposed to be my personal diary.
Which of course, become very impersonal (duh.. it's online!)

Then it took off because I used to write some funny, clever (or not so clever) stuff.
Thousands of people read it and blogging became a career, which of course does not pay.
Not in monetary terms anyway. But it has given many wonderful friends, lobangs and even clients.
And I do realise that my blogging career is dwindling recently.

I think it's a chicken and egg thing. I saw the comments going away, I thought the readers are going away (even Gan doesn't read it anymore!! That lazy mustard!) and I though, well... why am I writing so much for then?

I met a couple of people the last few months who complained :" Why are not updating your blog..?"..

Honestly, I am not so sure why. But perhaps many other things have taken precedence over my vainnes (@publishing my life online).. like DOTA and work. (what else could it be, right?)


Then again, today I had one of those virtual lightbulbs above my heads (ala cartoon, ..eureka.. geddit?). Oh scmuck... this is my diary after all, I should write whenever I have stories to tell.

It's not that I don't have stories to tell, I just seem to run out of energy to blog about it, by the time I finished laughing about it and telling a hundred other people about it over lunches or coffees or drinks.

Before you think that I am going around the bush (which I think I am), what I am trying to say is that I actually miss blogging, I miss having confessions and audience.

So, I am just gonna start by writing about what I've been doing these days.
Well, of course I have been working, I fly over to Jakarta more often as I am handling more and more clients over there, the metropolitan which is built to fall.

I have also been an avid DOTAer, very amateurish and a little annoying (especially when I make so much noise at the cybercafe, whilst Singaporeans.. you know, are very well behaved, even while playing DOTA). I think I should cut down on my swear words and exclamation marks. They started giving me the iffy look (argh.. screw them!)

I have also been commuting between the West side (where mom lives) and the NorthEast (where Gan lives). I am guilty of bringing shirts I don't know how to iron (but my mom of course skillfully knows how to) from NorthEast to West side and carrying packets of Indomie from West to NorthEast, because I just can't be bothered to bloody cook. So far, the best meal I've prepared for my husband-to-be is Indomie KARI AYAM with a slice of cheese melted into it. He doesn't seem to mind so far, perhaps his mom would think I am causing all his malnutrition, which is of course, absolutely bollocks, because Gan looks like he is overfed.

See, I can cook. Just don't tell me to cut vegetables, carrots, garlic for half hour beforehand. I would either cut myself or fall asleep doing it. Some people feel that's therapeutic or someshits like that.. see I can't even spell the bloody word, let alone feel it. It's just damn boring.
I don't do housework for the same reason. It's bloody boring. (But of course I am trying to change.. see I have to be a little housewife one day...--I write this down.. just in case you know, Gan decides to read my blog again)

How do I try to change? Well, I do hang the clothes and fold the clothes.. see this is not as boring as the rest cause I get to be creative. I try to hang and fold them in record time each time. Not that I really time it. I just decide if it feels faster than the last time I did it.
Of course it resulted into a few arguments where I left some clothes in the machine and when I didn't hang them up properly (I never really understood what Gan means by properly.. hang means hang right?? He seems to be talking Greek to me about the amount of space from clothes to clothes and clothes cant be hung while crumpled... geez..problem la.. no room for creativity.. just like this little island.. a bit of creativity and you get fined or fired..or ostracised from society.. of course, they must mean the bad kind of creativity.. but the good ones.. well are not very appreciated.. like my eccentric Law essays in NUS.. No A plus.. just a lot of question marks.. eh!!!.......)

That's that.. what else..

Wow.. didn't know that's almost a whole page long.. too bad blog doesn't do word count. Else it would have been fun knowing how long an essay I've written for the day. Maybe there should be a blog judge. As in someone who marks blog. Give me my result please.. how well I fare today?? You want meritocracy?? I give you it lah!

Before I seem to have something against the system, I better stop. Cause I am totally fine. You know, must appreciate what you have here.. stop your nonsensical remarks about us having too many ERP gantries or rising taxi fare.. you complain endlessly then move to Pakistan lah...
So, before I get deported.. I must go on..

I have also been travelling a lot. And even more so the coming months.
Jakarta and Palembang in March, LA,SF,LV and Dallas in April, Jakarta and Bali in June, Jakarta again in July and September..

Geeeezzz... by just thinking about them, I feel homesick already.

Well, I am really looking forward to my US trip, not only because it's paid for (company biz trip cum holiday.. y'see?), but also because I have never been to the US. I spent a lot of growing in the other side of the world where people eat kidney pie, speak with funny accent and throw up their dinner after the pub closes.

I really wanna see for myself if Americans are really as fat as they say.. Of course , when we look at glitzy magazines, they look frikkin slim and wrinkle-less, merci merci to Dr Botox and Dr Liposuckcion. (must be spelled that way, since it's about sucking your fats out)

Other than that, I wanna go shopping. I heard the COACH bags are frikkin cheap.. Agh.. then how come they're ripping us off everywhere else. But ocht well, Coach, Kate Spade, Polo RL, Tommy H are on my check out-list.

I will refuse to buy anything from Victoria Secrets though. I just don't think it makes sense, paying so much for a piece of cloth (not even very much of it), which were cut and swen together somewhere in Indonesia and my brother's friend's dad is getting all the profit.

Not that I have anything against them of course, they're very lovely.. with their swanky McMansionS, Yachts, PJ (private jets..cough cough)
They're lovely! I just don't think they need my charity..

Plus, geez.. who's gonna know if I am wearing VS or Triumph or some bargain brands underneath? If they're Comfy, don't give weird VPL, camel toe or loose rubber or weird cone-shape, then good enough la..
Not like I wear them outside my shirts and pants. See.. this is where I am really smart. I save money for the outside clothes.. where it matters.. where people can SEE and oggle..

Some hearsay about wearing nice sexy lingerie for your boyfriends..? Agh. what a myth.
Don't be fooled by those evil marketing gimmicks.. They are just to make yourself feel goooood.
It don't do naught for the guys.
Guys are the last people who take notice about what brand of lingerie you wear. Most of the time, they won't even notice what colour or cutting...blah blah.

My man won't even notice unless I point it out to him, scream at him and BLATANTLY ask for opinion. Still, he would shake his head.. "Why waste time and money for all these? Gonna take 'em off anyway."

See, I am not trying to promote anti-branded-bra campaign or someshits like that. I just prefer spending my money on real clothes that actually cover your body (that's the real objective right?????)

I don't even buy that many jeans. It's very acceptable for someone to just have 2 or 3 pairs of jeans and black pants, they are staples but.. They all look about the same anyway.. for Goodness sake. Better buy more tops and jackets and blah blah.. People will notice if you wear the same jacket everyday of the week. But it's acceptable for jeans.. hey.. lazy to wash mahh.. you know jeans can last a week without washing right? (For some reason, it is less succeptibel to dirt and dust.. see still clean...) Voila!

Today I sound like I am writing some trashy new-age girly novel. Or maybe a ranting column in Cosmo or Vogue. Geez.. maybe I should apply for the position.

Next time, I better write cleverer (such superlative? better be.. so cute!) stuff like on politics, economics.
I maybe hopelessly unacademic in these fields..(so what? f**k those meritocratic people.. they are frogs under a TONG sampah!)...BUT... but I get more than my fair share of kopitiam talks on them..first hand noe? hey.. what to do? My friends and clients are very very the atas and highflyer one you know? I don't need to know what or how.. I just need to know who to ask from. Sorted.

Who needs to go to school? I can write any bashing essay about any politics, current affairs and Econs.... tremendously WELL (which means interesting.. not necessaily accurate.. but somehow makes sense..)

Blah blah blah.. more ranting.. ok enough for today. back to work..

Love,

CELLLLLLLLLLY