Lately, my S$130 deskjet printer broke down. I’ve got about a hundred dollars worth of spare ink cartridges left. (Ok I’m not being Kiasu here. But I was running low on ink so I bought a pair of black and colored ink. Who knows the cursed printer broke down before I got to use them!) Weighing between the cost of dumping the printer or dumping the ink, I decided to get the printer fixed. So after paying S$26, I was told the printer has been declared “beyond economical repairsâ€. So now, I’ve got to dump BOTH the printer and the cartridges, PLUS pay the repair costs! Grrrr….
Just now, my dad bought a few bulbs for the office. The bulbs being longer than the existing ones, had to have the cone casing adjusted so the bulbs don’t ‘stick out’ of the ceiling. The simple task of changing light bulbs became an arduous one, with him having to ‘break thru’ the cornices in order to lengthen the cones! What the…..
As for the Esplanade, I read somewhere that the architect’s initial idea was to build a beautiful glass façade. However, it soon turned out otherwise when he produced a green house. So in rectification, he fitted in fins which made the famed Esplanade what it is today. Now, the management has got a maintenance problem. What with the cleaning of the glass under the fins, or the removal of birds nests (not those we can eat!), cobwebs and what-nots, clearly visible thru the glass interior.
A story in my school text used to talk about this man who bought some canned dog food by mistake. In order not to waste the food, he bought a dog.
How typical of us to solve a problem with another problem. So often we are obsessed with the problem at hand and in the process of solving it, we fail to notice the long-term problem that we are going to face as a result. Sometimes, it only takes a little sacrifice to solve a simple problem. Examples like throwing away the cartridges, changing to shorter bulbs, returning the canned food and…. (not having a glass façade resembling durians, or worse, houseflies!) We’ve just got to take a step back and look at the big picture.
The same goes to love. The say love is blind. Oh how true indeed! When we are in love, we are blind to others around us. Oblivious! Maybe Mr Right is right before our eyes (no pun intended!) yet cos we are so in love with Mr Left, we fail to notice. We always lament on how the right guys never come along. But in fact, have we been taking notice?
My motto in life: If what I do is always wrong, then what I never did is definitely right!
I had always been looking around for the perfect husband, and one day I looked up and saw him, standing where he has been all along. I married him.
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