Manifesto

I'm going to print out the following words and hand it out to people who wish to "share some good news" with me.

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I'm basically a guy with little income and I don't have much passion for anything, at all. However, if you still want to engage me in one of the following activities, please comply with the following conditions.

If you are trying to sell me products of direct sales or try to recruit me as a member, please give me a written reply to refute this article penned by Dr.Law.

If you are trying to sell me Insurance or Unit Trust, please make sure you are at least CFP or holding an MBA. Be prepared that when you talk to me, I will ask you questions like who is the current Finance Minister, or governer of Bank Negara. I just want to make sure you do read newspaper. A lot of insurance agents are ignorant dumbfucks who pay no attention to current monetary policy.

If you are trying to sell me health-care products, please make sure you are least a doctor, or, at least a pharmacist.

If you are trying to preach Christianity/Catholicism, please give me a written reply to refute "Why I am not a christian" by Bertrand Russell. If you do get a chance to talk to me, I will ask you questions like "How come God does not respond to Mother Theresa, but to you?"

My time is precious, and if you don't agree, you can fuck off.

中午时分，会议结束，我从办公室走出来，穿梭于赌场内。一阵熟悉的歌曲传入耳内。是汪明荃的歌。不错，正是经典港剧《千王之王》的主题曲。

“歌曲不太对劲吧。难道他们要鼓励顾客出千？”我说。

“其实他们是要警惕顾客，如果你出千，下场就跟谢贤一样，盲掉。” 同事D说。

“可是谢贤并没有盲啊。还有一个会印钞票的儿子。还有张柏芝这个漂亮媳妇。太幸福了”

“播歌的人的确应该检讨” 同事D答。

这个时候，歌曲已经切换到“万水青山总是情”。我们随即步出赌场吃午餐。

一个建议

香烟盒上一般印有：警告 - 吸烟有害健康，可能导致癌症。

我呼吁，国家应该立法，规定所有直销公司的会员加入表格必须印上以下的字眼 ：警告 - 直销活动可能损害你的人际关系，丧失朋友。

Evil network

It was Friday night. Around 10 p.m, just as I entered my house and getting ready to hug my little one, my uncle called and told me he was nearby my house. He wanted to pay me a visit. 5 minutes later, he arrived at my front door, with his wife, Susan.

My uncle has a P.H.D in Geology and he owns a respectable construction firm.

What follows was two hours of sheer torture.

They forced me to look at how their detergent clean better than my detergent, and they forced to hear some fucking success stories of some top-line in Amway.

“They travelled twice a year now, worldwide, and they barely need to work anymore”.

“Ugh-huh”.

“And oh, five years ago they have nothing. And they started doing this with zero capital.”.

“Ugh-huh”.

When it was near midnight, they have said everything they could possibly think of to lure me to the dark side, but I wouldn’t budge.

My uncle grew impatient. And I told him I needed to look at their website to study their products better. It was a lie and I would rather rot in hell than looking at an Amway website.

“Look, there is actually no need to look at the website. A detergent doesn’t cost more than RM30. It’s not some expensive product that you need to put a lot of effort to think about”. There was a smirk on his face, as if I sound like a nerd.

I smiled politely, without saying anymore words.

When he was finally gone, my baby was already asleep. He not only has deprived me of precious family time, he also insulted my intelligence. When he left, he was visibly disappointed, as if I have failed him.

He came, he talked, he insulted me, and he was mad at me.

He was mad because he simply couldn't understand why I could resist a risk-free, capital-free money-making scheme. If it works out for me, I get really rich. If it doesn't, it's just RM80 registration fee, that's all. In this sense, he is similar to a religious prechear :"If you believe in God and it turns out to be false, there is no harm. However, if you don't believe in it and it turns out to be true, you would be burnt in hell.

This argument, in my view, couldn't be more wrong.

There is a huge risk in engaging direct sales. I would call it the opportunity cost. After trying a few months of selling, and if there is no result, you would think you could just go back to do whatever you do. No harm right? Wrong. Since you have exhausted all your friendship, you have caused tremendous harm to your personal reputation. It would be incredibly difficult for you to engage your friend for other help, when you really need it. They wouldn’t even reply your phone call.

But of course, the direct salesmen would argue that you could make new friends. And when they say this, it is evident that they completely fail to grasp what friend is.

数日前观看Francis Ford Coppola 的 Apocalypse Now, 十分震撼。有趣的是，Harison Ford 竟然饰演一名超级咖喱非。

Apocalypse Now对于越战的荒诞，有着入木三分的描述。The Deer Hunter 也很好，不过后半部玩俄罗斯轮盘，太煽情了。至于Saving Private Ryan, 没什么了不起的。Matt Demon大声喊“我凭什么可以回去？”近乎矫情，有点假。依我看来，Apocalypse Now是所有战争片之首。

让我Update一下我的Top 10 list

1. Godfather 1, 2, 3
2. Eyes Wide Shut
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Casino
5. 北野武的《烟花》
6. 李安的《饮食男女》
7. 王家卫的《春光乍泄》
8. Apocalypse Now
9. The Deer Hunter
   
10. Sleepers