money

sigh..
i really hate this issue,
but really this is sometime i must address
i admit i am not very strict abt this..
maybe that's why i dunno how the cash depletes to nowhere..
of course i cannot expect everyone to be like me.
it's good to be shrewd.
ppl who are careful with their money.
i'm ok even if they are calculating..
like i dun owe you a single cent and you shall not owe me too.
even if they pay they pay back right down to the smallest cent.
that's fine, that's simply how they are.
for those who are stingy, then i guess too bad for them.

BUT
ppl who like to carve off others.
the gian png sort. no way.
i simply totally cannot stand it.
ppl, who think being treated is an entitlement,
and giving a treat is like a great taboo, are not ok.
cos "i'm poor" is one common excuse.
yes, poor indeed-not financially, but in spirit.

kindly enlighten me, how to price a favour to friends.
i chatted with you for 10 mins so that's worth about $xx.xx?
i accompanied you on a trip to the printing shop to collect documents so that's $yy.yy?
(ps: really lots of thanks for Jia Hui for helping me print so many notes for so many occasions. i really appreciate you doing this. =] )
these sounds extreme and exaggerated.
but this is how ridiculous it seemed to me when i encountered real life situations of ppl who are overdoing the calculations.

guys who are like that are the worst.
the worst story i heard was a guy F driving down from simei to east coast for a birthday party
offered to pick up 2 gal friends along the way at bedok. anyhow bedok was def on the way.
when he reached the destination, he simply turned back and said nicely he'll only take $1.50 each for the car ride to east coast. and he wasn't joking. one of the gals paid up. the other, W felt so awkward abt the odd figure and simply gave $2 for the ride. the guy. shameless.
[the names have been withheld to safeguard the reputation.]