Visited to Brunei last week and nothing much I can show since it's a business trip. Only took the panorama photo in front of the hotel.
What I can say about Brunei? I think I would like to use the word WASTED.
According to wiki, the Sultan owned 531 Mercedes Benzs, 367 Ferraris, 362 Bentleys, 185 BMWs, 177 Jaguars, 160 Porsches, 130 Rolls-Royces, and 20 Lamborghinis (reported on 26 Oct. 2007). Ok, what the fuck, almost 2000 cars. I don't know how much is the cost of these cars but I know I can't even own one of these for the rest of my life.
Some more,
... the sultan has a Boeing 747-400 furnished with gold plated furniture, and
his official residence is the Istana Nurul Iman, with 1,788 rooms, 257 bathrooms, and a floor area of 2,152,782 square feet (200,000 m²), undisputedly the world's largest palace.
Is Brunei people rich? I doubt that. If the king is so rich, why can’t he make their country and the peoples rich? After listen to one of the contractor, I think I understand why. In order to control your man, make them happy and don't give too much.
Sound familiar? Ya, I’m working in this kind of company. I'm freely running around, the salary wouldn't make me hunger nor make me rich. And it's dangerous actually. Too much of spoon feeding make you lost of native skill to fight the world.
Anyway, it's a nice trip, hope next time I can go to the “Brunei bay” and take some photos for you all.
happy to work freely and running around? thats why they sohais rely so much of us sohais
ReplyDeleteBetter off to be Brunei citizens...at least they have a very good reason to be sohais...rich and contented sohais...
not sohais like us that earn just enough to survive and have to keep working for this bunch of sohais who are getting richer by the fucking minute and at the end tell you "sorry" for not giving you a good sohai bonus because the sohai company lose a lot of sohai money just because some 3rd sohai took all the money and put in his sohai pocket
i think this is temperary one.
ReplyDeleteif keep waste like this. I think in 10 years later. This is the poorest country in the world.
However, our bolehland also practice like this. so pity la...
genius,
ReplyDeleteWonder why the sultan dun own toyota?
Which brand of car does he own most?
So, once working in brunei, dun forget to ask your boss to buy a new C180K for you, $62.5k only.
yk, sk doesn't want a new CLK la...he wants to only drive Toyotas....boss will of course get him the new Toyota Lexus with 2 drivers ( 1 running, 1 standby ), 2 maids ( 1 for cleaning the house and 1 for cleaning sk ),etc,etc,etc
ReplyDeleteAt least Brunei ministers dont fuck and then blow the bitch to pieces...wakakakaakka
ReplyDeletejamie, i dont mind to have a clk if they give me. but if got lexus with maid than better /XD
ReplyDeleteyk, please budget in. thanks.
wan, that's right. a fucker is batter that those idiot.
Hence the statement, "You will not achieve financial independence working for people alone".
ReplyDeleteThis includes working for other company that offers higher salary/packages!
So go outside and look for good investment while having a 'stable' job.
**Hence the statement, "You will not achieve financial independence working for people alone".
ReplyDeleteThis includes working for other company that offers higher salary/packages!
So go outside and look for good investment while having a 'stable' job.**
Been there, done that....
Those who try to achieve financial independance thru own hard work in employment are the serious, performing workers.
ReplyDeleteWhereas, those who achieve financial independance outside workplace are likely to piggy back on others' hardwork or try to wreck political havoc in the office... a typical backstabber, office politician lurking at top post, controlling top people by squezing their weaknesses
One of the workers,
ReplyDeleteYou mayb right about "Those who try to achieve financial independance thru own hard work in employment are the serious, performing workers." BUT not nececssary true all the time.
Same thing goes for your comments on those who achieve financial independence through investment.
Do you think KJ bosses achieve their current wealth through ONLY their salary and profit sharing in KJ?
Financial independance can be achieve through property investment, unit trust, share market, etc.
So I dun see why it these people can't be "serious performing workers" too AND have to be "...to piggy back on others' hardwork or try to wreck political havoc in the office... a typical backstabber..." like how you put it.
Anon,
ReplyDeleteThe answer to your comment is TWO WORDS...."Sour grapes"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sour_grapes
i'm not sure about this cos i'm not a rich man yet. but 1 thing that i can confirm is that working hard wouldnt make you rich, it only earn you 2 meal a day. and once you are useless, you are a beggar for food.
ReplyDeletei wish i know the secret to become a rich man with proud so i can tell everyone that i earn my richness.
SK,
ReplyDeleteHow much money you make if u sell your house now? Why stop?
PASCAL formula....
REPEAT;
a) Buy house;
b) Sell house;
c) Repeat a);
UNTIL SK = RICH.
basically, that the ideal case program wrote by non programmer. the exact list is
ReplyDeleteREPEAT
a:
collect money;
if (money not enough) then goto a;
Buy house;
on economy down, goto bankrupt;
on developer run away, goto bankrupt;
on natural disaster goto bankrupt ;
on un-sell/un-rental house, goto look for money;
while (house not ready)
pay fees and loan;
Sell house;
if sell$ < buy$ then goto look for money
Repeat a
UNTIL SK = RICH
look for money:
work harder, return to a;
bankrupt:
work more harder until money = 0
return to a;
it's never ending work for money.
FANTASTIC!!
ReplyDeleteNow the challenge is practicing it :)
Million dollar algorithm....
ReplyDeleteFOR SK$ <= 1,000,000 DO
SlaveForKJ;
SK$ := SK$ + salary;
SK$ := SK$ - MonthlyExpenses;
SK$ := SK$ - MR2Funding;
SK$ := SK$ - HouseLoan;
If ValueHse >= BuyPrice * 1.5 THEN
SellHouse;
SK$ := SK$ +ValueHse -RemainLoan;
HouseLoan := 0;
If SK$ >= 0.1 * NewHouse THEN
SK$ := SK$ - 0.1 * NewHse;
HouseLoan := NewHseRepayment;
Buy MR2;
Buy DremHse;
Buy ColleagueDinner;
Get Married;