Hairy Punter
Seeing how Jk Rowling is making millions (or billions!) with a little boy wizard makes my eyes sore. It's funny to see so many people, old and young alike, getting fascinated with this little fictional character. Credit to the movie people, I believe they couldn't have made a better choice to cast Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter in their movie though they better finish the whole series before our dear Daniel starts to develop tons of chest hair and moustache. Try imagining Harry Potter with a goatee.
I think I also can make millions with my books. I am going to start a new book with a fictional character called Hairy Punter. It's about the life of a football punter who went to the death gallows eventually.
BOOK 1HAIRY PUNTER AND THE GOAL SCORER'S STONEHairy's parents were killed by loan sharks when he was a small boy. The loan sharks couldn't bear to kill this small little boy but left a scar instead - an emotional scar in his heart. From then on, Hairy Punter is always looking for ways to get rich so that he will never be chased by loan sharks in his entire life.
Hairy chances upon a stone - goal scorer's stone that have the full match analysis of the games on TV. He thought he had found a new way to get rich- by punting on football matches!
BOOK 2HAIRY PUNTER AND THE CHAMBER OF CIGARETTESHairy knows he needs to have capital in order to punt to be rich. His 2 friends, Rot and Heroin, an Ah-beng and Ah-lian invite hairy to join them in the smuggling of cigarettes from Malaysia to Singapore. Hairy doesn't smoke, but he knows that this is perhaps the only way to earn money. He blames himself for his lack of education. Since young, he enrolled in card magic school and Magic- the gathering card games school. He should have realised that these 2 skills will never provide him with a future.
But Hairy should also have known that one cannot break the law in Singapore. He was caught one day while smuggling in cigarettes under the magic carpet of his car and was sent to Changi Prison.
BOOK 3 HAIRY PUNTER AND THE PRISONER OF CHANGIHairy was sentenced to 6 years jail. Inside he met an old prisoner who had been inside for 20 years. He, like Hairy will be released in 6 years' time. Inside Hairy and the prisoner of Changi starts to plan their future. Both of them have the same interest in punting. One day, the old prisoner came up with an idea. "Instead of us punting, why not become bookies and let other people punt? In the way, we will earn even more money!" Hairy was impressed with the old prisoner's insight and knowledge and acknowledged the old prisoner as his God-father.
BOOK 4HAIRY PUNTER AND THE COFFEE-SHOP ON FIREHairy and his god-father start their operation at a coffee shop in geyland. For the first few years they were doing well but their phone-call based operations were starting to get replaced by technology in the form of computers. More and more punters prefer to punt through the internet instead of using the biggest telephone network, Lord Vodafone. One day their coffee shop caught fire and they lost everything in a night.
BOOK 5HAIRY PUNTER AND THE ORDER OF THE COMPUTERSHairy and his god-father have decided to move on together with the trend. Since the market demands the use of the internet to punt, they place an order on 6 computers to aid them in their business. Lord Vodafone, unhappy that he had lost one of his biggest client in Hairy and Co, sent one of his men to assassinate Hairy. Hairy's godfather was killed while protecting his beloved god son. Lord Vodafone swears to God that only 1 will survive between Hairy and him.
BOOK 6HAIRY PUNTER AND THE HALF-PRICED PROMOTIONHairy knew that Lord Vodafone will come after him sooner or later. He comes up with a promotion to monopolise the whole punting market. He announces that all losing bets will be at half-price. With that almost everyone chooses to punt with Hairy's company. With his new-found power and establishment, Hairy plots to seek revenge by forming a new team.
BOOK 7 HAIRY PUNTER AND THE DEATH GALLOWSHairy fulfils Lord Vodafone's prophecy by killing him to avenge his godfather. He is, however caught by the law and charged with illegal bookmaking and murder. He is sent to the gallows, marking the end of the book.
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I believe that this series will be a huge success as it is both entertaining and educational. Perhaps one day it may even be used as a Literature text or for moral education.
The route to being a millionaire is not too far away.
Fret not if you are worried that you may not be able to get a copy. I have already arranged with the publisher to release the books precisely at 7.01am(singapore time) in year 21000. In fact you can already start to pre-order now. Orders are available at all Singapore pools.
Never say never
I remembered once posting that it is not really necessary to pursue a degree if you have a diploma because work experience is more important than a stupid piece of paper. I remembered highlighting the points and even using 'finanical analysis' to back up my stand. I remembered saying how long it will take for a Dip student going for a degree to catch up finanically with a Dip student who start work straight away.
I just began my classes in business marketing(bachelor degree) not too long ago.
The irony of it all is most of my friends, while in the army, told me that their plans after NS is to study instead of working while I am the exact opposite, saying that I will work instead of studying. Funny thing is I have already started classes while they have not enrolled in any schools yet.
My mum reminded me that day when I told her my plans to study - that I had told her in her face "don't expect me to continue my studies hor!" after I had a hard time getting my diploma. She even cheekily imitated me holding my Dip cert in my left hand and putting my right hand finger in her face telling her no way.
Things do have a way to happen most unexpectedly. One morning I just woke up in bed and kept pondering to myself whether I should study or not. It's weird to explain but that moment I woke up that day, this thought came to my mind straightaway. I lay in bed for a very long time but couldn't come to a conclusion.
That very night, I went to an old classmates' gathering when this classmate talked about the school he is in now and asked me whether I am interested. Furthermore he's in marketing and the things he described to me seemed to suit me very much. And I supposed if you have some common sense, you shouldn't fail this course right? And the rest as they say, is history.
Things, however are not looking that rosy. My lecturer had a talk with me at the end of a lesson while we were walking down the stairs.
He in bold.Me.
"So, have you done any market research before in any part-time job?""Nope."
"Did you have a diploma in marketing before coming here? Or any relevant certificate related to marketing before you start schooling here?""Nope."
"Or have you studied any modules before somewhat related to marketing, for example, business, management etc?""Nope."
"None of the above? Well, good luck to your assignment."I think I just got screwed.
Movie Mania
The movie everyone has been talking about has finally screened around a week ago. If you don't know which movie I am talking about, well, you must have been dreaming for the past 1 month.
This movie, Transformers had been on the lips of almost everyone's mouth. Even in coffee shops you can hear the young fathers talking in enthuestisim to his son about the movie and planning to bring his son to the cinema to watch, though I suspect it's the father who is really more keen to watch it. I'm not surprised, considering the fact that these fathers were only young teenagers when Transformers stormed into the fantasy of everyone - except me.
I knew about the cartoon Transformers but I didn't know what characters this cartoon had and certainly never watch it on TV faithfully every time it's shown. I did told you before that I don't have much of a childhood. All I knew about Transformers is that they can transform themselves into vehicles and transform back into robots when there is a need to fight.
However, having watched the movie yesterday, I have to admit that the director Michael bay has done a brilliant job in bringing this childhood cartoon onto the large screen. I was pretty fascinated especially in the beginning of the movie when I saw the transform for the 1st time as I was expecting a lame attempt in its technical aspect.
Although I did fall asleep for a few minutes near the end of the movie when everyone was flying around and fighting with each other, that doesn't mean it fades out eventually. The reason was because I didn't really sleep much for the last few days prior to watching this movie and also because I was never a big fan of action packed movies. In fact most of my friends like the movie so much that they went to watch it the 2nd time. I will give it a 9/10.
There have certainly been a year of blockbusters and also a year of part 3s. Spider-man 3, Shrek 3, ocean's 13 and others more which have completed their trilogies. It seems that the only movie left worth expecting is Harry Potter.
Among the many blockbusters shown this year, I would say I am most disappointed in Spider-man 3. The cast seemed to have frizzled out compared to 1 and 2. The story is also quite disappointing. It seems to me that they are putting in all the villians into the movie in one go and expecting our Mr Spidey to take them all by himself. The only reason why this movie is still worth a little bit of mention here is because of my favorite Chio-bu, Kristen Dunst.
And of course my favorite movie is Ocean'13 as it's full of wit, humour and plenty of eye-candies, especially for the girls. I didn't like ocean's 12 at all. In fact it was so bad that I turned it off after watching Disc 1 on my VCD set. Ocean's 13 is quite similar to 11 in aspect of filming ideas and storyline and 13 is one movie which I wouldn't mind watching a 2nd time.
