samedi, novembre 22, 2003 The Rock of Financial Planning Today I met up with this financial planning dude (this word has been stuck ever since I went to airport to meet Estee - dude, she kept using the word)Restarting that sentence again: Today, in my continuing pretense to be an adult, I met up with this financial planning guy, and let me tell you, don't meet one of these people unless you're feeling pretty damn good about yourself. It is DEpressing, to say the least. According to their calculations (which will sober you up even if you're stone-cold drunk), it is too expensive to live - and you want to have fun? Spending cash is not an option because the time to save for your retirement was ten years ago, and you still wanna get that ipod?! But even before boring old retirement funds, we talked about what kind of protection I'd like to have (again, stop sniggering.) Meaning what kind of illnesses I'd like to be covered under. Meaning: what happens if you get cancer, or kidney failure, or be like I-need-a-new-liver Andrea d'Cruz-Png? I would say that I wanna die now, but apparently it costs about $4000-5000 just to die in Singapore. Funeral expenses and government audits and stuff like that. Which, apparently, I have to save up for. Just bring me to Senoko and incinerate me already! It's not like I'm gonna be taking this body to heaven. (and immediately after hearing this piece of sobering financial news, I comforted myself by buying Neil Gaiman and Yoshitaka Amano's [The Dream Catchers]. I'm halfway through it already (had to wait for a wedding to start today; family friend - I don't see this kid for 10 years and next, she's getting married and asking me the hated "when-is-it-your-turn question?!)  Ooh, about the wedding (girls will love this) - he proposed at London's Heathrow airport. She then quit her job (she's a lawyer) without telling her parents, and went on holiday (her family presumed) to Gibraltar. They got married in Gibraltar (southern tip of Spain!), and took their wedding photos in Seville - very simple stuff, all done in an afternoon, but still, Seville! And yes, he's Singaporean! I think that's what makes it so unbelievable.
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