On Hell

Ya know there is a kind of Chinese tradition, whereby when someone pass away, the relatives of that person would burn hell money and paper buildings (I think it is what they call it) which I found a little bit intriguing. Being Chinese myself I often wondered, why this thing has been carried out. According to my older relatives, this is done in order to provide money (and necessities) to the spirits/ghosts so that they can get some comfort in their after life. Oh well, I found this tradition stupid.

Wait a sec....

I am not talking about this from religious (spirits do not live like human) or the lack thereof (there is no after life) point of view. I have my own set of belief on this from that angle, and so do you, I guess. But, let's talk about this in term of economy instead. This is more interesting in my opinion.

First of all, have you ever noticed how much money being burned every time (ie the denomination)? It can reach about more than hundreds of millions... Insane right? Such amount of money can create hyperinflation worse than Europe in early 1900s. I could elaborate further on this, but just click the wiki link. It basically explains what I want to say.

Burning paper buildings doesnt help either... Since no soul (by logic) can escape from hell, and there is a constant supply of people going to hell, (and let's assume hell is not expanding, ok?) there is going to be overpopulation in hell. So where the hell are you going to put your building (pun intended)? Oh wait... You can always set up Hell Development Board (and of course... no freehold). Even if hell is expanding, come on... By convention hell is pretty hot eh? In such climate, you are going to need a lot of air conditioner to keep your huge houses cool. Such a waste of energy right?
(TLO recently received a nice point from Sec, his friend : might as well build a gas-fuelled electricity plant... since hell is THAT hot... then you can generate money)

So, having said all the nonsense above, my suggestion Nonk's suggestion is to burn SNSD humanoid paper doll. Ya know, I think that really makes sense. Things can get very hot in hell, so why not turn it even hotter? Moreover, souls in hell might need entertainment eh? And with so much money they have (see above), I am sure they dont mind paying a million or two to watch SNSD. Oh and tell your relatives to burn 3 sets of costumes for SNSD to wear on performance every week please...

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giving proper credit to Nonk on his SNSD idea...
sto NONK orz

TLO Is Back

One might think that The Lame One has abandoned this blog. Indeed pretty true, but not necessarily true. He doth stop writing earlier, but since he just read a blog by the one with the pseudoname Ins& Poet (oh well... that is the best translation that I can do) now he is on fire again to write.

Interestingly this year's Valentine's Day coincided with the Chinese New Year. Whoo boy, now that would be the reason why this year Vday was not really so-called romantically meaningful to me. The environment maketh the mood, no? Oh well, without the existence of those lovey-dovey couple around, that cursed romantic feeling wont be around as well.

Anyways speaking of the environment, NO WONDER MY LIFE IS THAT MESSY!!! The environment I am living in right now (ie that teeny weeny room) is in the worst possible mess. Indeed I saw something worse than this before, but hey... this is bad enough. Which brings me to the next point... THAT tradition of spring cleaning before Chinese New Year apparently was created (my extrapolation here) in order to set the festive mood.

Ya know, I have been writing rubbish so far. But consider this as a warm up okay? My fingers are kind of rusty, the dance that they used to do are no longer able to execute, now oh well... it is more like a greaseless machinery. But no worry, I will be back with more stories, more insight once those fingers recall how to dance again.

For now, TLO is out!

Fourth Day

4 July -> USA Independence Day
4 June -> Tiananment Square Incident
4 May -> หน่วย ความ จำ