Saturday, December 20, 2008
My iffy wish
If I have a billion dollars
There is a popular song sung in Hokkien dialect If I have a million dollars where the singer sings about buying house buying car and flying to Japan to eat sushi. Colleagues of mine have said that if they struck the $3million first prize lottery or top TOTO prizes they would go on a round the world trip and then donate the rest to charity. All these are dreams.
Well, if I have a billion dollars I would set up a NineZero foundation. Its aim would be to provide total relief to citizens being over-burdened disastrously financially.
NineZero foundation's beneficiaries widely would include families or remnants of families who through ill-fortune found their expenses depleting their income to ruin, beyond their wage earning capability. People can work and plan for their lives, but extraordinary events like loss of the bread winner, kidney failure striking a member of the family, bearing the cost of a major operation and chronic sickness with recurring high medical expenses are some notable misfortunes, there are many others.
It is improbable for me to have a bank balance of S$1billion, but it is possible for me or anyone else to be landed with this amount; dreamwise it certainly can. In our nation where the population is approaching four million citizens, all it takes is for each to contribute S$250, or more to cover up for less contributors, and hoola walau horsay, there it is. The chances of the foundation's fund getting depleted will be unlikely as it should be able to replenish itself, having nine zeros; or it can always be topped up. Otherwise what is a society, and what nation would its citizens have.
Citizens work to support themselves and their families, and thus their nation. They contribute towards its development and maintenance. They labour and slog, put their lives, their husbands' lives, their wives lives, their dear ones' lives, at risk, to build and defend the country.
But if they have to fear and worry for any unexpected calamities they would not be able to work with zest and zeal free from worry. If people worry too much, and labour fanatically to accumulate money, their health suffers, society would not be cohesive, and the nation crumbles as everybody thinks for himself. Who then would want to care about others, and least to defend the country.
If there is this NineZero foundation, which is the rear mountain in Chinese saying, there would not be this fear and worry, and citizens can live and work in togetherness, competitively, accepting to be poor or rich, but knowing that they would not be left on the lurch, financially ruined.
This apparently is a kind of collective insurance and it benefits all, but only if I have a billion dollars.
Live life fully, be happy
With NineZero, no worry
Alas, this is just a dream
I have just been awaken
Ronald
There is a popular song sung in Hokkien dialect If I have a million dollars where the singer sings about buying house buying car and flying to Japan to eat sushi. Colleagues of mine have said that if they struck the $3million first prize lottery or top TOTO prizes they would go on a round the world trip and then donate the rest to charity. All these are dreams.
Well, if I have a billion dollars I would set up a NineZero foundation. Its aim would be to provide total relief to citizens being over-burdened disastrously financially.
NineZero foundation's beneficiaries widely would include families or remnants of families who through ill-fortune found their expenses depleting their income to ruin, beyond their wage earning capability. People can work and plan for their lives, but extraordinary events like loss of the bread winner, kidney failure striking a member of the family, bearing the cost of a major operation and chronic sickness with recurring high medical expenses are some notable misfortunes, there are many others.
It is improbable for me to have a bank balance of S$1billion, but it is possible for me or anyone else to be landed with this amount; dreamwise it certainly can. In our nation where the population is approaching four million citizens, all it takes is for each to contribute S$250, or more to cover up for less contributors, and hoola walau horsay, there it is. The chances of the foundation's fund getting depleted will be unlikely as it should be able to replenish itself, having nine zeros; or it can always be topped up. Otherwise what is a society, and what nation would its citizens have.
Citizens work to support themselves and their families, and thus their nation. They contribute towards its development and maintenance. They labour and slog, put their lives, their husbands' lives, their wives lives, their dear ones' lives, at risk, to build and defend the country.
But if they have to fear and worry for any unexpected calamities they would not be able to work with zest and zeal free from worry. If people worry too much, and labour fanatically to accumulate money, their health suffers, society would not be cohesive, and the nation crumbles as everybody thinks for himself. Who then would want to care about others, and least to defend the country.
If there is this NineZero foundation, which is the rear mountain in Chinese saying, there would not be this fear and worry, and citizens can live and work in togetherness, competitively, accepting to be poor or rich, but knowing that they would not be left on the lurch, financially ruined.
This apparently is a kind of collective insurance and it benefits all, but only if I have a billion dollars.
Live life fully, be happy
With NineZero, no worry
Alas, this is just a dream
I have just been awaken
Ronald
# posted by chunmu @ 5:20 AM 
