| Tuesday, July 29, 2008 |
| Of instant noodles, tax, and divorce. |
I have been eating a lot of instant noodles.
I mean A LOT.
I don't really know how to measure it but I finished a pack of six in two weeks.
TWO WEEKS!
And I know it's bad...
I know it's got all the MSG stuff and blahblahblahwhatnot...
But it's so yummieee! =D
Haha... So that's gonna take off some months or even years off my life.
But HEY, ya'know what??
My tax lecturer said it's good to die young in Malaysia.
That is, dying young after you retire la..
Something about the pension...
See, Malaysians only receive their pension after they retire, unless they bought annuities before...
Retirees in Malaysia don't receive government financial support unlike some countries like Australia.
Yes.
So, we Malaysians only get our pension, which isn't very much.
So if you lived a very long life, you'd have very little to live on.
That's my lecturer's logic la - "If you die young after you retire, you have less financial problems to worry about."
But then again, you might have children. (Rely on them?? =P)
Or you might have amassed a fortune from when you were working. (Good for you!)
Or you might have your own business / lotsa properties / real estate / shares / cars / wives / husbands(oops!) / etc etc...
OH OH!!
She(my tax lecturer) was telling us a story...
(To explain why we should buy annuities but I'll just skip that part out)
Anyways... There was this wealthy business guy and his pampered wife...
He gave her everything she needed amd wanted and wished and dreamed and.....you get the point.
Luxury cars, a chauffeur, a nice house, $$$ for clothes, manicures, pedicures, yadda yadda yadda...
He pulak drives fancy cars, yadda yadda yadda...
This went on for a while...
All the pampering...
Til one day...
He 'downgraded' everything.
Switched his own big, fancy car for a very modest local car...
Took away his wife's fancy car and the chauffeur, told her to get her own driving license...
No more manicures, no more pedicures...
No more being the pampered wife.
He told her that the company wasn't doing too well...
When in fact, he was getting ready to sign the papers.
Yes.
Cruel.
He 'downgraded' everything and shifted all his assets into other people's names temporarily, all so he didn't have to pay her a large sum of alimony.
Slick, but oh-so-cruel to the unsuspecting naive wife.
So yeah, the divorce came and went.
The wife didn't wanna sign the papers and held on for as long as she could.
Ex-wife had to move out because the mistress shifted in with her new big, fancy car...
La-di-da.
So HERE'S the part I like most.
(The subject matter below isn't accurately word for word, but yeah la, same la..)
After telling the story, my lecturer's like,
"Ha... See, girls? Next time, you better chop off the relationship before things get worse..."
Some girl sitting in front: "No la, chop off his thing!"
LOL
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posted by Rachel.ypy @ 6:39 PM  |
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chop chop.im goin to use the guy strategy in the future..weee
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chop chop.im goin to use the guy strategy in the future..weee