What will be shall be

Success Stories

Once in a while you are bound to meet an old friend whom you have not met nor contacted for some time and you sit down to have a nice chat perhaps about the good and maybe the not-so-good old times. Slowly the conversation will move on to recent times and the future and this fellow goes on and on lamenting about his success (and look down on you in the process!) and you realize that this is someone whom you will never contact again in your entire life.

I met someone who I have not seen for quite some time and within 5 minutes after the how-are-you and what-you-doing shit, he goes on and on about his huge plan to acquire wealth and how he is going to afford his future toys like Porsche and BMW. His plan? To venture into the China market to bring in stuff to sell and trade. I was polite enough not to point out that that is something that already a lot of people are doing and also that he has achieved nothing yet because he is some years my senior.

I do realise that he is perhaps giving me some advice or educating me. However, a piece of advice if expressed wrongly, looked more like boasting and blowing his own trumpet and the main thing here is - he has achieved nothing yet and even goes on to say how other industries and ideas are not going to work and he is ahead of everybody.

He believes firmly in the motto 'Dare to Dream' and encourages that I do the same as well. I do believe in dreaming as well. Way back when I was in Secondary school, I was always picked by the teachers in my class when I was sleeping or not concentrating. "Oei! Dreaming ar?!!" the teacher would scream at me. See, I was already a certified dreamer by the school long time ago.

I have nothing against confidence but an overdose of that equals to arrogance. I wished him good luck on his impending success and joked that hopefully he will still remember me should he succeed in getting his 'toys'. Perhaps in a few years time, he will be the one to tell me "See, I told you so".

I remembered reading somewhere some rich buggers saying that 'money is but an idea or a concept'. I do have many ideas and concepts though many people tend to dismiss it as crap and nonsense but I am nowhere getting rich. Perhaps the correct way to rephrase it is 'money is ANYTHING but an idea or a concept. Maybe I should jump on the bandwagon and venture into the China market as well since everyone says that it is a goldmine there.

I already have an idea of what I am going to do. I will walk round the street and sell 'bing tang hu lu'. I figured that if every citizen buys one from me, I will be a millionaire in no time. I also figured that I will take around 6000 years before I finished walking the whole of China. The conquer of China is not too far away.

Plus I heard that the ratio of a man to a woman is 1:4 over there. It seems that the chances of me getting a wife there is higher. Or a mistress. Or even two.

posted by malmoncolo @ 12:53 AM