Xiaomi Fad

Dear Emma,

I actually was keen on getting a Xiaomi Red1S smartphone but decided against it due to conflict in principle. My problem lies with both the provider and the bunch of scavengers that seems to plague this rather good product in my opinion.

First of all, while I think the flash sales strategy is rather innovative but fundamentally flawed. Frankly speaking this flash sales is a nuisance in my opinion and don't understand why do they need to resort to such mean to rake up sales, especially when they already have a good product at a great price. A lot of people got sucker into buying their product cause of the "Jusco Member Day" mindset Xiaomi managed to infused into these bunch of peoples. Who do I blame for this? Sadly I have to blame the consumers themselves for this. Why? For getting sucker into this gimmick. As long as the consumer keep playing along, that's as long Xiaomi will continue doing this gig. If consumer grow a backbone and boikot Xiaomi for one flash sale event... Imagine "10,000 unit, not one single unit sold", you think Xiaomi will take a serious look at how they are f*ckin the consumer with their gimmick? But at last, consumers will be consumers... overly blinded by greed and kiasu ness.

Second is the 2nd level market some people are already creating. True to the mindset "You can make profit outta anything", the scavengers are buying multiple units and then reselling for some profit. Now is this wrong? No... This act is in no way wrong-er than how our real estate got screwed by a bunch people with the same mindset. And everyone is b*tchin bout how house prices are expensive and etc, when the same bunch of jokers are actually pulling the same shit albeit at a much smaller scale. A bunch of hypocrites...

So I decided to grow a backbone and say no. F*ck Xiaomi and their flash sales... Flash ur cheap phone up ur candid arse for all I care... I will not participate in this dumb gimmick and will not contribute to getting a bunch of scavengers richer period... I'm not saying what they are doing is wrong, it's just I won't give my hard earn moolah to these bunch of peoples...

US, Facebook, Life

Dear Emma,

Been quite awhile since I last wrote anything in this blog... Well, I actually had some entries in draft but I just wasn't in the mood to complete em.

It been already 1+ month since I came back from the US. Was a pretty wild trip... Open up my eyes towards how big US is... and this world is as well...

So after such a long hiatus, why am I writing this entry today?

I have been a self impose exile from facebook and have been clean from facebook for almost 7 months. Today I decided to stalk some of my "friends" from facebook without login into my account which triggered the self loathing, underachiever and depressed mood I frequently was experiencing before I quit facebook.

Now, I initially blame facebook and the facebook junkies for this, but after some self reflection decided  to not put the blame on them... The reality is the facebook is for me sort of a reflection mirror. It's only projecting my own ego and negativity. However I also decided I'm not going to blame myself for being weak to the extend I could be easily bummed by this. This is just a part of me that I have to learn to live with. Maybe I not strong enough in terms of EQ to play facebook, so just don't play facebook.

However, reflecting things through... I realize sure I may bitch now and then bout how a zero I am in life... but am I really discontent with how things are in my life? I have to honestly say "no". I have a ok job that I'm rather fond off to earns my daily bread, I own a small but working car, I have a place to sleep at night, I have my family, I have little but close buddies... and really I think that's sufficient... Sure, I yearn for things I currently don't have but that's life, you can't always get what you want, but if you try hard enough, you get what you need. My needs aren't much, so I don't have to try hard in life and that for me is the strongest point in my life.

I always operated on the assumption that everyone in this world exists for a higher purpose that god have set in stone in the stone walls of fate. But now I guess our only purpose in life is to simply live... Anything else other than that... is icing on the already delicious cake...