Club 30's "Kill the Boredom Demon" Jive Pad, 14th Edition
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Well, the lure of the credit cards are there, I rather use cash to pay. Though at times use them to buy my darlings working clothes as they are costly. But I ensure they are paid bef they start charging interestOriginally posted by Fatum:at the risk of being callous ... should we be sympathetic to such people ? ... of course, not everyone will know how to spend within their means eh ... but these are the jobs of social organizations, not the goverment ... I do not support goverment based welfare ....
the WP got that bit wrong ... it sounds like electioneering propaganda to me ... telling the people what they want to hear ... the real people in need are those caught short in the restructuring of the economy ... the real underbelly of society, the chaps who by neccessity have to take public transport, who have to watch the utilities and food bills ... etc ... not some young punk who's bought a car before he's ready for it ....
they should work on these issues instead ... instead of scratching people's balls to win votes ...
Actually I want to convert my car to OPC, but haiz, feedback to LTA they say no to full day free usage on Sat... Hope they can change, just for that $100 they also wanna bargain
Do hope they can learn to listen to such issues esp when OPC are getting popular -
to me, hey, if you cannot control yourself, you cannot fault the gabrament..
credit cards are tools.. i use it a lot to pay my bills.. however, to blame the card companies for what is essentially his inability to control himself, his inability to think for himself, is not right.. it's a cop-out..
and to blame the gabrament about it is worse.. -
Dunno what to cook tonight
But was thinking of preparing braised tau kwa and egg for tml
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I second this!Originally posted by the Bear:to me, hey, if you cannot control yourself, you cannot fault the gabrament..
credit cards are tools.. i use it a lot to pay my bills.. however, to blame the card companies for what is essentially his inability to control himself, his inability to think for himself, is not right.. it's a cop-out..
and to blame the gabrament about it is worse..
An individual is responsible for his/her actions. Granted, some of us do commit mistakes in our moments of weakness and foolish misjudgements and in such instances, I feel the individual should approach this voluntary body where people inundated with huge credit card bills can seek help to work out a more feasible sum of repayment to the credit card companies and possibly, seek a modification of the interest rates whilst they work to pay it off.
If you have committed a mistake, face up to it, face the music, pay the penalties and adjust your lifestyle accordingly if you have to to erase the debt.
BUT, I do not agree that the govt should step in in such cases. It's good enough that there's a voluntary organisation that can help you in the ways I mentioned above. Repayment and rectification of one's errors in judgement is necessary. It might be a painful few years before the debt is erased, but it's righting one's error. Somewhat similar to paying penance, which is not altogether bad because it shows remorse, and a lesson will be learnt which will not be easily forgotten. Better still, when one finally clears the debt, one would have an incredible sense of freedom and a big lesson learnt that one won't easily forget.
I do not support being judgemental against these individuals and condemn them because some of us do learn from our mistakes.
However, I also do not support the govt stepping in to foot the debt in any way because an individual has to be responsible for his / her actions, be they mistakes or otherwise. -
Braised tau kwa and ONE egg nia, ah?Originally posted by sbst275:Dunno what to cook tonight
But was thinking of preparing braised tau kwa and egg for tml -
looks like few people wanna go to Newton to makan again
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why why?Originally posted by the Bear:looks like few people wanna go to Newton to makan again
they dun want to beat me up?
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maybe they don't want to sully their fists?
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they eat those prawns also will dirty ma..Originally posted by the Bear:maybe they don't want to sully their fists? -
that's not dirty, that's greasy.. it's a totally different thing
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Originally posted by the Bear:that's not dirty, that's greasy.. it's a totally different thing
u can always use the batons..
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i'll ask them if they want to pander to your perversionsOriginally posted by stellazio:
u can always use the batons.. -
That's more like lick-a-licious!Originally posted by the Bear:that's not dirty, that's greasy.. it's a totally different thing That we don't mind! 
But... but... stella... eeeeeeewwwww!! Bleah! -
*runs to hug rhonda*..Originally posted by Rhonda:That's more like lick-a-licious! That we don't mind!
But... but... stella... eeeeeeewwwww!! Bleah! -
... and stella makes a move on the cult leaderOriginally posted by stellazio:*runs to hug rhonda*..
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8.25pm...
what to do... what to do...? -
slowly countdown to work tmr..Originally posted by kopiosatu:8.25pm...
what to do... what to do...? -
work is a long way to go.Originally posted by stellazio:slowly countdown to work tmr.. -
Morning People.
Election furor all over now? settling back to normality? -
boss not around today
time to idle after writing notes of meeting -
Good morning jivers
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Good moaning *weeps*
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muahahahaha
tomorrow morning, i get to wander around different places on an "inspection" duty which is basically some kinda nonsense the office wants me to do
i get to claim mileage on my car some more! that and another trip to do stuff will pay for my next tank of petrol -
*weeps too*Originally posted by av98m:Good moaning *weeps* -
i get to clock 1 1/2 day off for election day... and this saturday on duty, clock another day off!
there's another 2 1/2 days.
adding on to my 26 1/2 days, total 29 days off-in-lieu!