LaW of SuPply and DemaND

I went to send my broken shoes for repair today.  Then, no discount.  And it is not cheap.  And worst, ETA is 1 to 2 months only can get it done. 

"Why so long?". I asked.  
"Too many shoes!", he replied, lansi-ly 

What's his competitive advantage?  

1. Can repair this type of shoes  

2. Assumed to be having the necessary skills - evidence the long list of customers  

3. Got proper machines 

4. Got a proper shop, no flight risk. 

What I think the other reasons 

1. RM depreciated strongly agains USD, so all new shoes is sky high price 

2. Bad markets, ppl save money by repairing instead of changing 

3. People want custom made shoes now, don't want to have a standard product. So can lansi to others. Instagram-able and Tik-Tok-able. 

Conclusion 
Who would have imagined, in a few decades back, that a shoe cobbler is more in demand than an Engineer. To put things into perspective, a shoe cobbler is a Shoe Engineer. So nothing changes.

Everything has to be bLaCK and WhiTe. What for?

A lot of people want everything to be exactly black and white. Is because trust is a scarce commodity now. And the other reason, I believe is, you can use that to blame others, or worse still, claim damages from others, even though sometimes you did not really suffer much damages yourself. The system, have been, and will always be in favor to those who knows how to play with the words, and those who is well verse in the law and their loopholes. Lawyers. Kan Chan-ers. Those who can find the loopholes and play the game well, will be the one doing the exploitation. 

There is this chinese saying "ngaa chi dong kam sai", which roughly means your spoken words are as good as gold, means your words are bankable. Somehow, after thousands of years, too many kan-chan has emerged, and this is no more valid. That's why you need contracts documents that is a few inches thick.

Is there a way to plot a graph to analyse how many % of people who is not honest according to countries, ethnic, sex, age etc? That will be fun to see.

script - sunflowers sadness

Found this old draft post of mine many years ago. Worth to be published. 

Imagine this:

1000 sunflower plants in the field...in the morning at 9am

you see sunflowers no 1 - full flower

you see sunflower no 2 - 3/4 flower

you see sunflower no 3 - also 3/4 of flower

then camera zooms to the the up the clouds...

the camera follows the bits of the petals flying up the skies until it drops onto the earth.

then one of the petals drop onto the nike shoe of the left foot.

camera shift upwards until you see a guitar.

camera shift up somemore, showing the guitarist hands holding the sunflower....
and the guitarist sings onto the flower...

and all of a sudden he pull 1/4 of the flower and throw it backwards....and that is how the petals flies...
and he go to the next flower...
camera zooms out the side view along the street where you see the damages it has been done along a boulevard...
camera travel backwards along the road until only show a letter with sunflower by the side... 

the letter says: I'm NOT into you AT ALL! Save it! 

From: Girl's name (Letter there will have a few teardrops)

scene dims...and credits follows...

washiNG MaChiNE

I strongly believe that washing machine is the single best invention of the century. If not, your mother will need to go to the river side and use the wood log and "pok" and "pok" the clothes on the big rocks...exactly like what you see in the old chinese legend movies such as the legend of condor heroes, yee tin tung loong kee or even wong fei hung. Soon mothers got tired with this method, and invented another method known as the washing plank. The plank's surface is like mini stairs. You put the clothes on top of this plank, and you brush on top of it. Incredible invention, but still you will need an hour or two at least to do this job. By the way, if someone calls a girl a washing plank, i think it has the equivalent meaning of being 'fei kei cheong' - a.k.a. flat chest. No wonder i haven't seen any kwailou using this...or am i wrong?

Then come the great invention, the great washing machine! Running on electricity, it nearly automates all the jobs...just dump it in and put in the 'ingredients', and it will spin and spin, spin and spin, spin and spin, and voila! COMPLETE!

You know, in this world, there are many kind of races. People race to finish 100m in less than 9 secs, people race in marathon, people race in bicycles, motorbikes, car, F1, lorry, swimming and in other sports. At work, people race to be the smartest, race to earn the most money, race to be the CEO, race to be the fastest to get married and have kids, race to be the fastest to be elected as president, race to be the miss malaysia, miss universe, mr universe, race to buy movie ticket, race to buy concert tickets of jacky cheung, michael jackson, leon lai, andy lau, race to queue for iphone, after queue, race to buy the iphone, also race to buy condos, terrace house, bungalows, 2nd house, 3rd house, race to go buy air asia tickets to travel, race to get to the first door in the LRT, race this...race that...race race race!!!!! RACE!!!!

And after all these race, when back my place here, i still have one more race. That is to RACE TO USE THE WASHING MACHINE with my housemates. Apparently all of us have so many clothes to wash. Coupled with the raining seasons which means we have to race to use the clothes drying rack too. Whoever LOSES in the washing machine race, HOHOHO! He/she will risk being unable to have a dry underwear tomorrow loh...mun nei sei mei?!!!

LOOkiNG 2 the MOON