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by Eileen 配仪

The fastest way to lose a multi million dollar inheritance

If you were going to open up a business, what would you sell?

A old school building where all the classrooms are transformed into hotel rooms selling wellness, painting, meditation or writing resorts. The buildings will have luxury vs minimal spaces. I will hire revolving artists in residence and health and wellness gurus in residence to teach meditation and exercise both secular and non secular. I will serve alcohol even at breakfast. Sunday buffet brunch, Friday BBQ dinner, Saturday high tea buffet will be a weekly thing. Yet, I have separate kitchens for those who do not eat meat from a particular animal, those who do not eat meat at all, those who do not eat meat and things from them. There will be fresh noodles and bread. I will not be environmentally friendly and will install aircon and fans. I will have a garden of orchids and a pond, a shady garden for rabbits and birds to roam and shit freely. I will hire gardeners and animal care takers.

I will have people teaching various forms of chess (International, Xiangqi, Weiqi) and tuition for kids (writing, speech and drama in 4 languages: English, Chinese, Malay, Tamil) while adults are enjoying their quiet retreat or alcohol. The kids will have tuition from morning to night. Religious and moral classes will also bring provided on weekend mornings to kids. When kids have free time they will be made to volunteer as care givers to the elderly while their actual caregivers enjoy their free time. The kids will bunk separate from their parents.

There will not be any available parking because drink, don’t drive.

I will accept cdc vouchers.

by Eileen 配仪

I just happen to know the answer to this trivia.

Are you superstitious?

Superstition developed as a form of risk mitigation practice. It helps us deal with the unknown & unforeseeable in our daily lives. The rituals are more detailed & elaborate as the sense of risk increases.

Details could be read here and this article describes superstitious  in football.

It is going to be difficult for anyone to denounce superstition totally given most societies have some form of superstitious beliefs. What doesn’t help: our pattern finding brains have a preference for pattern finding.

This means it can be as silly as “making it rain by washing my car ” or as elabourate as a ritual for ancestral worship codified by a Chinese emperor from ancient past.

I’m in risk management. Of course I’m going to veer towards superstitions. As with any other average persons, I will not rank very high, nor very low on such practices. I do have an odd one, due mainly to my scatterbrain than anything else. When I travel, if I missed out packing a minor thing, for instance, floss,  or face wash, it means no bad horrifying thing will happen to me.