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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Money not enough...

I spent 3 separate nights having dinner and a good yakking session with 3 different girlfriends of mine for a good 3 hours each talking about the same thing = money.

1st Dinner
I finally found time to sit down with an ex-schoolmate of mine for dinner after she told me she would be leaving the company for Macau. She had a way better offer (more than triple my current salary!) doing the exact same thing she is doing here. She made me think about the possibility of working oversea. Is the grass really greener on the other side? All I know is that it sure would be a whole lot easier to take crap from bosses while getting a bigger and fatter paycheck.
Is it worth it? There are so many versions of the stories. What I am interested to do is to go over and to see for myself (first hand) how good it is. Afterall, if the prospect is so good, wouldnt it be worth 30k?
Of course, there are a lot more things that I have yet to think through... like leaving my parents and staying alone in a foreign country, and also that I lack operation experience.Is money never enough? All my life money played an important role in me. But if money is really that important, can I leave everything behind just to have more? Hey, looks like its not all about money afterall.


2nd Dinner
I spend another 3 hours with my next-door neighbour chatting over what it likes to live like our customers. What does it feels like to gamble away hundreds of thousands over a couple of hours? People always says that it is a lonely life with lots of cash. Like a tai-tai that only spend time dolling up herself and shopping to drown her sorrows on her husband's affair. Is it always like that? What about the loving couple who came for a stopover on their way around the world? The conversation also came to a point where we said that it was unfortunate of us to be born without model-like built and looks. So, we'll never be those 'escort' that get paid 5k for every winning game! (okay, I am totally ignoring the fact about the hanky-panky that may take place).

3rd Dinner
It was another 3 hours of pondering if1) tragedy strikes and my family is in dire need of cash, 2) I just had a huge argument with my bf and we broke up & 3) bosses is really a pain in the ass, AND a customer offers to pay a huge amount of money, under one condition of course (that I be his mistress-ler, what else?!), would I agree? So we both starts pondering on the pros and cons of the issue. Now, before u shake your head and said, never in a million years, my body is worth way more than that, there will always be other options, etc etc,... it is never only the lum sum.
These is what we came up with:
Pros
1) Of course, upmost important is to use the money to pay off whatever is burdening the family-ler
2) Lifetime expenses is being taken care of.
3) Live in a posh condominium overlooking a wonderful city skyline.
4) The only choice we have to make is whether its this or that, and not yes or no.

Cons:
1) The need to close both eyes shut (haha!)
2) The risk that you'll be dumped and will be back to square 1.
3) Reputation.
4) Again, ironically, the only choice we are allowed to make is whether its this or that, and not yes or no.

:)

I suddenly have this urge to believe that I could do whatever I want to do. That I could achieve whatever I wanted to get.

Yea right.

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