This has been a rather interesting weekend. Um... where weekends begin on fridays and end on sundays, for the purpose of calling the time frame 'a weekend' in this post. I'll start from just now and go on backwards, where just now is the night before the time of this post (Yes, i like to type it out at night and publish it the next day, i'm a night philosopher.)



Turn clock back a couple hours: I had a game of monopoly with my cousins just now. My cousins said that there was a rule that requires no buying of properties until the first player reaches go. I told them i wasn't playing such a rule, turn out that it worked utterly against me. The reason was that i was going second last. So players before me had the chance to buy up properties before i even start. Mid game saw me with less than adequate property to survive.



After some tricky bargaining on my part, it's easier to persuade the younger cousins, i ended up with three pink color properties which allowed me to build houses. But the bargain left me with no budget to build houses. I then turned to other money making schemes.



I offered another cousin, her properties were worse than me but have more money than me, a proposal. My proposal was that i considered my game as a company with ten shares. I sold her 3 shares at 300 dollars each. Being a share holder, she would not have to pay me for entering my properties. And all income i earn thru the properties, she'll recieve 30% of it. It does sounds like good investment. But bad dice roll and luckless turns saw my company go broke :) She wasted a good $900 investing in three of my shares which only payed around $30+ in dividends :D



With my company facing bankrupcy soon, my assets were becoming less valuable as its houses become deconstructed to pay my debts, i gave away my company to my wealthier brother. Game ended pre-mature as usual when everyone needed to go home.



Turn clock back one day: Siew ling's boss gave me a call and asked me to turn up on monday to sign the contracting document. So far the plan was to try me out for one project before making me a perm staff. The company is a rather small company, which is the kind of environment that i really like. I think a small company wouldn't see its staff doing internal politics. I hate politics. The technology employed by the company is interesting and in my view, has a good future. So working in the company is really a good opportunity for me.



The boss and i have not really discussed the salary thingy at all. But i guess i'll be signing the contract regardless of the salary paid out. Money really was never a priority in my life. Well... yeah, my dream house is a bugalow house, which is around two million which means i'll never be able to purchase it in my life, so money isn't really a concern. So long as i have enuff to eat, pay transport and bills, and occasional gaming, give my mom and save a little then life is good.



Of course, this would come across as rather contradicting to you, with me always complaining about being poor, and that money could buy me everything from one night nookie to all the other mundane pleasures of life. But as i told roy the other day, i am merely a nondescript person living a nondescript life. I don't have high expectations.



I think my job scope's gonna be software side of the technology, involving programming and stuff. As in all other small company, i think it would probably be a 'bao gar liao' job scope. Personally, i've always thought that bao gar liao, although tough is kind of fun. Call me sadistic :) lov for tough life and workaholism runs in my family (the big one, not the small one). Job scope doesn't really matter to me, i've imagined myself in all possible professions, everything from prostitution to politician.



Turn clock forward a couple hours (That should put you at friday night): I was having dinner with my aunties and a couple of my cousins at a rather posh place. Come to think of it, i had no idea what the event was about, just that my aunties took leave that day. Anyway, good food for free, i'm not complaining.



We were going thru the menu, then suddenly my cousins were talking about steamboat with live prawns. Then my other cousin, i'll call her karate kid, um... i don't think the name needs further elaboration, does sound self explanatory to me, began to go on her usual routine of saying how cruel it is, and asking me to imagine if myself as the prawn, deer, rabbit, whatever was on the menu, and to imagine the pain that has to be endured before becoming food. No she isn't a vegetarian, and she's a wierd one, (did i mention that all my cousins are wierd? yes that includes you my dearest couzin, you may be 'jie bai', but that still makes you my couzin :p)



Now where was i... so karate kid mentions all the holy kind of thing. I didn't give her the standard reply. I think the standard reply was that i'll eat her portion of the food for her :) i gave her a rather controversial gem, i said "Didn't you realise that the world revolves around me? So it is only right that the prawn/deer/rabbit/animal was slaughtered for my consumption."



You wouldn't hear many other people saying such things. You'll hear the usual, "I'm fat, i'm this, i'm that", normal superficial stuff. But you wouldn't hear people claiming that they are egoistic and think that they are self-important. Sadly, while few people claim so, many people do think that the world revolves around them.



The problem lies in that people who think that the world revolves around them cannot fathom the concept that they are not the focal point and that they have such an incapability. So focused on the self they are that they have forgotten the age old technique of putting one self in another's shoes. As such, these people would not claim that they think the world revolves around them. Thus resulting in the disproportion in the numbers when it comes to people thinking that the world revolves around them and people who admit it.



Oh um.. do i really think the world revolves around me? i guess at some point of time, now and then i did/do. It's not really that bad anyway. I mean didn't you realise that the world revolves around me? So it is only right that i claim so and be ashame of it :p