:: are there angels or devils crawling here? ::

:: Monday, November 24, 2003 ::

Heey...
Guess who's back?
back again?

The 'A' levels are almost over, so i'm slacking my ass off. Since my last entry, life has been pretty much the same as before.
fucked up.
So there's not much to say really.

Really.
Just that the other day, my cousin got married. The threw a big fiesta at Orchard Towers. There were flowers and music and beer and good food...
At least i think there was good food. i was rather caught up with the beer part. Which was free. Which also tasted like carbonated piss. But it was free.

i have my opinions about marriage, and in the advent of a wedding dinner, it would be rather unwise to give voice to any of them, would you not agree?
Unwise.
but then i never accused myself of being particularly wise.
It wasn't my fault, though. Remember, i was busy drinking. And my voice ran away with my opinions out of its own accord. Besides, it was my aunt who asked stupid questions. She started it.
She was jesting with the bridegroom, asking the oldest dumbest question.
'If your wife and your mother both fell into the sea, assuming they can't swim, who would you save?'
Its not just the idiocy of the question, its also the fact that the question was asked right in front of the poor guy's mom and his newly-wedded wife. Talk about getting caught between a rock and a fucked up place.
You could already see the two females staring expectantly at him.
Sucks to be him. i think one of the reasons why the mother-in-law and the wife never gets along is because the guy has dumbfucks for relatives.
So then for some reason, i felt like a bloody hero and i answered the question to divert them.
'i would save myself. If i can get away with it, i'd buy a burger and watch them try to self-teach a crashcourse on swimming.'
haa. Of course, not in those exact words, i don't think she'd get it.
But seriously, if i absolutely had to pick one, i'd pick my mum.
Cos i might just get inheritance from my mum, whereas a wife would only take it away.

i hope i smelled enough of alchohol to get away with all that bullshit. heh.

When the evening rounded up, i found myself looking at my cousin and her husband, and i wondered if they knew what they were getting into. but then who am i to say that, i've never been there.
Thank heavens.

i'm reminded of this book i read: Rich dad, poor dad. A book i believe everybody had read but simply won't admit it, heh.
But in it, the author talks of how a person would fall into a trap, a vicious cycle of getting a job, then getting a car, then getting married, then trying to get a house good enough for the family, then trying to earn enough money to support the family, pay taxes and so on and so forth. Something like that. And in the simplest terms, the way to break out of that is to manage your assets well and not to spend on liabilities.
Here's the thing, i keep wondering why the author assumes that a person would get married, and why he simply refuses to recognise that a marriage is one's biggest liability. A house or car can be a liability, cos you have to pay its instalments, or the bank loans, as well as for maintenance. But a wife- a family- is what starts the entire cycle in the first place.
Can you imagine how much you can save by being unmarried? Can you imagine how much burden, emotional, psychological, or financial, one can be free of simply by staying single? How much freer you would be in any sense of the word?
One only has to acknowledge this: that everything in life comes with a price, and loneliness is the cost of freedom.
i believe though, the opportunity costs of married life still far outweigh single life.

thats that for now.
:: Michael 11/24/2003 05:39:00 AM [+] ::
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