I am still trying to strike a balance between an entertaining speech and an informative speech. After another AC, I am half way to my AC Bronze. Gambateh! :)
In the invitation card for my high school reunion dinner, the attire was stated to be casual. According to my definition, casual meant a super cute Mickey Mouse tee and a pair of tight fitting jeans. With the thought of outdoing others by a little bit, I switched the cute tee to an elegant white top. Then, I started to visualize everyone telling me how beautiful I have become compared to ten years ago, I was grinning.
I reached the school hall with happy thoughts within me until I noticed most of the people were like Paris Hilton or Megan Fox - super hot dress, gorgeous make-up and perfect hairdo. Out of the expectation, no one came to tell me that my attire was nice. Everyone is either carrying a classic Louis Vutton leather tote or a Gucci latest season hobo bag. At that point of time, I wished I can get out from there because I had images of people giggling at me as if they were seeing an outdated fashion disaster.
After coming back from my reunion dinner, my self-esteem was like a deflated balloon. Suddenly, I realized that my manager had been lying to me by telling me how high paid I was. My inner voice kept shouting, “Mr Manager, I can’t even afford a Louis Vutton handbag! How dare you for telling me that I am earning more than Tom, Dick and Harry?!”
Due to my frustration toward my manager’s deception, I decided to skip work on Monday. I woke up really late on Monday morning. I started to take my own sweet time in front of my laptop. The first thing I saw was a mail from Dr Wakawaka in Nigeria, who had $100million left over from a big oil company deal. He wanted to give away $50million to me because I was the special one. Without a second thought, I grabbed on the rebound opportunity and replied my HSBC account number to Dr Wakawaka.
As a smart financial person, I decided to look for secured investment opportunity while waiting for the money to be wired over. I found a London diamond company, which guaranteed 100 percent return within a week. Awesome, by next week this time, I will have $100million. I made up my mind to spend 10% to buy a lot of Louis Vutton bags. I started to believe the existence of God because he understood the agony of being a poor person and decided to transform my life!
Before I can say my grace to God, my friend sent me an urgent note. Lillian Too predicted that bad luck would occur to whoever failed to forward the same mail to 20 people. That was terrible. I was horrified. I was going to become a super millionaire by next week. Though I was not a superstitious person, I could not stand the thought of my $100million might get jeopardized. I quickly forward the mails to 40 friends of mine to be extremely sure that nothing bad would happen to my $100 million.
Before I could click “send”, I got another super urgent mail from a HSBC manager informing me that I am receiving $50million from an unknown source. He was writing from a Hotmail account, which seemed a bit strange. But, his note explained that it was a standard protocol to check with the customer upon receiving a huge fund transfer. In the same mail, he was requesting me to kindly key in my name, account number and password to approve the transfer.
I can’t wait to feel $50million in my account. I quickly located my password on a yellow sticky note in front of my mirror. When I was about to reply to the manager, I received a forwarded mail from my best friend. A mutual acquaintance of us just lost all of her savings because of her carelessness. She accidentally left her bank account information at public computer. An unscrupulous soul had transferred away her money to an oversea account, which was beyond the power of Malaysian police to trace the crime. What a pity.
After reading the story, I realized that I had delayed my reply to the HSBC Manager by 5 minutes. I was not going to give up my chance of rebound. I decided to send to him right away with a wrong password. If the clarification process was valid, I should get a telephone call soon…