2002-01-14 - 11:23 a.m.

Robert Kiyosaki of 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' fame put a clever twist to an old cliche... subtle yet much more closer to reality: 'The LACK of money is the root of all evil'.

Everyone knows it but are never willing to avail to this bottom line. Pay me dough and I will show you my most hypocritical smile and all honest servitude to your whims and fancies :)

Character is destiny as I believe, fuck fate and fuck $ingapore.Tell us a flood is coming and we will learn to live underwater (Joseph Heller; God knows). The smell of crisp notes shapes my character... by simple inferencing, tell me what controls destiny then? Shrine of Mammon had given birth to modern man. Get into the rat race, running silly all your silly life and Newton would have told you that no work had been done; you are still at the fucking point where you had started... what else then if not money gives modern man's life a meaning? When he's always at the same point despite racing in a wheel like prostrate hamster, why not use your single life on earth to accumulate cash?

I remember 2 months back, there was this play called 'Constant Cravings' staged by undergraduates of the NUS theatre studies program. Peichin who was in charge of dramalurgy told me that Art is powerful and it bribes into the solicitude of our brains. Quoteworthy and laugh-worthy was that she called Fann Wong a 'nothing'. Being the cynical Engineering student then, I mentioned the Maslow's triangle of man's hierarchical grouping of needs and wants... and at the topmost is the pinnacle of self-actualisation... if I couldn't even afford my daily kopi O and kayu roti, I wouldn't pay money to watch a Disney on Ice show; how then will my deep notions be changed? Perhaps now she's right, if only the hamster can start to think with the impetus of Art, it wouldn't run around and around in the wheel...

But for most people, can you get out of that cruel wheel of rat race? Of course, there's money chaining us, haha!!!!!

Man will be doing happy sprints before long...

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