David's Engagement Gift

Now, I think being a sg-ean has a part to play in this little investment of mine. Firstly, no way am I ever going to buy a car in that ol island cause its

1. Too expensive for too little. Honda can suck it.
2. Road Tax
3. Insurance
4. Mandatory clocking of 'learner' hours with some coffee swilling anti-meritocratic unionised driver, who will fail you when he finds out you are living at whatever posh place they consider posh or if you can't punctuate with 'la'. This I found out at Syl's expense.
5. The island is too small to try out 407kmph, unless you want to end up at the dock or in the dock, literally.
6. Car vandalism [ie People like to yank off logos and scratch at the paint]

I totally blame the pseudo egalitarian methods of getting a car there. Thats what it is. Stick it to the man I say.

Not that I am getting too big for my boots, but you only live once. If everyone wants to have the same things, no one would get hitched or have kids, or go to Starbucks, have personal bank accounts, or play tennis, or own a home, or buy a flat screen tv, or have home renovations, do well in exams or EVEN lock their doors at night. Its not about being flashy or humble at all. Nothing about it. If we all wanted to be equal, we'd all be celibate.

Wha, opinionated aren't I ? I think in the end, people forget they are loved and learn to judge instead. This is a giant diatribe right now, because we had a liquid lunch in the office, and discussed amongst ourselves why we are in the business. Everyone does it for someone, and its unfair but true that some people make it and some don't. We just hope that we are on the right side most of the time, and then somehow have this guilt that one ought to give to charity or sommat like that.

People don't change with money at all. Money is just this big amplifier, or a big pecking platform where the only part vulnerable to the public is his soul, because, otherwise, he is invincible.