Cafe Cartel with Rebby/ Thoughts about Money
Ok. This is threatening to look like a Rebby/Yixian blog entry. :p
Met up with Rebby for lunch on Wednesday. I must say.. the time spent was soooo good! :) Maybe it was the fact that we hadn't had a proper meal with each other since December when she first came back from NZ. I soooo missed having the talks with her we had almost nightly at 27 Hansons Lane.
So, in that context, and having half a years' worth of life lived to share, we set out for lunch. Was supposed to meet at 12, and at 1150 (as usual), she messaged to say she'd be late by about 10 mins. She arrived eventually at 12:25, and it was raining. So we scrapped the plan to walk to Yet Con at Purvis Street for truly-traditional-chicken-rice. Eventually, we ended up at Cafe Cartel for set lunch. I must say it was really worth it! $9.50 each for Soup, Main Course, Drink, Ice-Cream and Free-flow of Bread! No svc charge, no GST!
Haha.. ok la the food wasn't FANTASTIC, but it wasn't bad either. Look! The ice-cream even came with the wafer cup! It was certainly better than the previous Cartel meal I had.
Lunch conversation was comfy, cosy and pretty free-flowing actually. We both asked each other 'the-million-dollar-question' and shared quite openly. Thanks for sharing, buddy. I may not agree with everything, but at least it really helped me to see things more from your perspective too. Really missed chatting with you! :) *shoulder squeeze*
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The rich think they can have their cake and eat it too, the middle-class think the cake's too rich and so choose to only have a little of it, the poor think they can't afford a cake, so they order a donut and focus on the hole.
-- T Harv Eker, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
I'm sorry. But I really cannot agree with that. How can internal cognitive thinking change oppression and larger societal and institutional issues? It's really what I call 'the crisis of over-self-confidence'. Everyone believes we can do everything. We never realise we're limited. Worse still, others even dare say that God wants us to be rich.
Let me try to rephrase that sentence with what I think:
The rich take the largest share of the cake and eat it, the middle class get a little of the leftovers.
The poor go to the cake shop, look at the 50 cents they have in their hand, ask the cake shop owner: 'What can I buy?'. To which the cake shop owner says: 'A donut.' That being all they can buy, they get it and wish there was more bread in the middle of the donut so they can feed one more child.
-- Liren
Met up with Rebby for lunch on Wednesday. I must say.. the time spent was soooo good! :) Maybe it was the fact that we hadn't had a proper meal with each other since December when she first came back from NZ. I soooo missed having the talks with her we had almost nightly at 27 Hansons Lane.
So, in that context, and having half a years' worth of life lived to share, we set out for lunch. Was supposed to meet at 12, and at 1150 (as usual), she messaged to say she'd be late by about 10 mins. She arrived eventually at 12:25, and it was raining. So we scrapped the plan to walk to Yet Con at Purvis Street for truly-traditional-chicken-rice. Eventually, we ended up at Cafe Cartel for set lunch. I must say it was really worth it! $9.50 each for Soup, Main Course, Drink, Ice-Cream and Free-flow of Bread! No svc charge, no GST!
Haha.. ok la the food wasn't FANTASTIC, but it wasn't bad either. Look! The ice-cream even came with the wafer cup! It was certainly better than the previous Cartel meal I had.
Lunch conversation was comfy, cosy and pretty free-flowing actually. We both asked each other 'the-million-dollar-question' and shared quite openly. Thanks for sharing, buddy. I may not agree with everything, but at least it really helped me to see things more from your perspective too. Really missed chatting with you! :) *shoulder squeeze*
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The rich think they can have their cake and eat it too, the middle-class think the cake's too rich and so choose to only have a little of it, the poor think they can't afford a cake, so they order a donut and focus on the hole.
-- T Harv Eker, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
I'm sorry. But I really cannot agree with that. How can internal cognitive thinking change oppression and larger societal and institutional issues? It's really what I call 'the crisis of over-self-confidence'. Everyone believes we can do everything. We never realise we're limited. Worse still, others even dare say that God wants us to be rich.
Let me try to rephrase that sentence with what I think:
The rich take the largest share of the cake and eat it, the middle class get a little of the leftovers.
The poor go to the cake shop, look at the 50 cents they have in their hand, ask the cake shop owner: 'What can I buy?'. To which the cake shop owner says: 'A donut.' That being all they can buy, they get it and wish there was more bread in the middle of the donut so they can feed one more child.
-- Liren
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