Last Sunday, my dad, James, and I had a post-dinner discussion about Social Security Service (SSS) and I said it’s a scam or SSScam as I like to call it.
Based on a definition of a Ponzi Scheme: A Ponzi, or pyramid, scheme is a scam SSScam in which people are persuaded forced to invest through promises of unusually high returns by law, with early investors paid their returns out of money put in by later investors.
Here’s a good one from Uncle Vic as relayed to me by Michelle:
When a woman says “That’s my baby.” That’s truth.
When a man says “That’s my baby.” That’s faith.
Michelle and Jeanne went to visit the grandparents and attend Tin and Jansen’s wedding. I was left at home suddenly with plenty of time. I still did some usual chores: laundry, cooking, washing the plates, washing the car, etc. But somehow I still had extra time. Okay, I know why :P
Anyway, what better to spend spare time on than continue learning iPhone software development! The two days, I played around with Objective-C, the Interface Builder, and of course XCode. Learned quite a lot!
And when I wasn’t studying, I was using the iPhone to watch How I Met Your Mother and to play Infinity Blade with its The Deathless Kings content pack (damn Zero Mech!).
People love to eat. Nothing wrong with that. Except when it’s excessive. Excess here having a two-fold meaning: eating more than what is necessary and leaving food to go to waste. You see it around you: People pigging out on all-you-can-eat buffets. People eating all-you-can eat pizza, and worse, leaving the outer edge of the crust. People drinking buckets and buckets of beer. It may not exactly be gluttony, but it’s uncomfortably close. Personally, I think less is much better than in excess.
I was supposed to go to 4-day vacation trip to Vietnam courtesy of the company but I backed out. I’m not really a travel kind of person. Or rather, I’m more of a journey rather than a destination kind of person. And airports and airliners are not my definition of a fun journey. Besides, Jeanne didn’t have a passport so I couldn’t take her with me. But I initially decided to go because Michelle said she wanted to go. I asked her what about Jeanne’s situation and she said Jeanne can stay with the grandparents and “can get over” being left. But today, Michelle backed out, probably after thinking hard about the whole leaving Jeanne thing. And since there’s really no good reason for me to go, I too decided to back out. No loss.