Archive for May 17th, 2009
I finished my work for the night and stepped downstairs for supper. Alone in the lift, the melodies of this song suddenly popped up in my head. Don’t know why I thought of Alena. I could not get through her phone tonight. Perhaps her phone card ran out of balance.
I walked past the entrance to my void deck. There as usual was this cat with fur a mix of brown, black and white. Mom used to say this cat might actually be the long lost sister of our Blackie.
Each night she would sit at the front entrance to our void deck. And each night when I called out to her, she would start crying. You would know that this cat was terribly lonely when you heard her cries. It seems she was waiting forever for someone who never seems to come. Perhaps the one she was waiting for is her mom.
Her mom (if she was actually who we think she is) died 7 years ago infront of my door steps, from internal bleeding. She was physically abused by one of her neighbours of whom we have no idea. Blackie was there when she died. He was devastated.I was in Russia then.
If this tabby cat was really waiting for her mom, she would have already waited for 7 years. Her mom will probably never come reunited with her. Suddenly I thought of Alena… Her cries reminds me of Alena’s. Only she is waiting for reunion with not her mom but me in Singapore.
How many times have I made her cry… I thought while sitting there at the void deck stroking this waiting cat. I felt so useless.
So that is it! I have finally made enough to pay off all my debts, I am a free man now. Penniless but never the less a free man. What I have read in the book “The Richest Man in Babylon” is true after all. Money when forced into ventures that returns high and unrealistic amounts, flees from the owner very fast.
From an economic point of view it is true indeed. There is only so much resources in the world, so if there really is an opportunity for all of us to make big bucks then someone from somewhere else is seriously looking into losing some big bucks.
But no one in the right mind would be willing party to be involved in this equation on the side that is losing big bucks, unless value of equal quantity is exchanged for that. So where then does this value come from. It can either be material (aka your local ipod, food, water… a product) or intangible (education, nail polishing service, house fixing service, web creation service). So the moral of the story is if someone says that any opportunity is going to pay up lots of money to you, you should really started looking to source out for the part of the business model that is value generating. If suppose after much search you find none of such is tagged to this huge payback for your money, then I think it is perhaps time to drop this opportunity however good it might seem.
“Money when forced into ventures that returns high and unrealistic amounts, flees from the owner very fast.” This lesson I have learned the hard way. But never the less it is still lesson learned. Follow not in my foot steps. Napoleon is a wise man indeed. Then again perhaps my advice will fall on deaf ears, so much people are into the idea of getting something for nothing nowadays. Laziness is a sin!
Recently I got commissioned to write a new game. The original version was supposed to be a hybrid form of the traditional monopoly game. However to avoid copyright problems we decided to tweak it. Hence the resulting board was a world map instead of a squarish shape group of grids in the old monopoly.
It was very enjoyable writing that game as half the routes one it were ones I ever took while travelling. The mode of transport was quite interesting too. You could go by foot, car, train, ships and airballons from one city to another. The first 4 I have ever tried, the last one not as yet. I am damned looking forward to trying that one out one of these days.
Just in case you might want to try it out you could go to where this game is currently resided. fortune.name1price.com. It takes a while to load as it is quite big and complex.
Nowadays, it seems more and more that I wake up feeling aches here and there instead of feeling refreshed.
Nowadays, it seems that rather than being free of any burden, these loads just seems to add themselves on to me more and more.
Nowadays, it seems that which used to be fun and entertaining has became boring and lifeless.
Nowadays, it seems that there are more thing than 24 hrs a days can handle.