Charity or Robbery?
Happy Burfday to nieces Crystal and Dana. Yes, they are sisters (same Madher same Fadher). Cool eh?
Recently, my company donated RM300 toward the Kiwanis Down Syndrome Foundation where they held a bazaar at one of the Park in the housing area. And since the bazaar is near to where I stayed, Boss let me have the token to spent at the bazaar (Yeah, I love my job :)). Much to my horror suprise, the organizer gave me tokens worth RM80 instead of RM300 and claimed that the rest goes to charity! Ah well…. since she said the word ‘charity’ that sounds alright. But I’m wondering what about those walk in to the bazaar. Do they pay RM10 but get token worth only RM3? Not going to question that, I’ll just presume cos we are a organization or in better terms, business associates *sigh…
Things are not cheap tho but since I got the RM80 token for free, I might as well spent all on foods and games. One thing that make me wonder for days. Do you have to sell a Gardenia bread which cost RM0.60 at the shop at RM2.00 during the bazaar just because they say it’s for charity purpose? Isn’t that way tooooooooo expensive??? I think it’s dem, dem, dem expensive!!! I’ve got no choice. That’s the only healthy food around that I can tapau home. So I bought 6 pcs of Gardenia bread which will cost me a total of RM3.60 at shop but at the bazaar, I paid RM12.00 for that!!!! (Ya, i know I’ve been repeating the maths equation and ya! I know it’s free anyway!). Others food like laksa, ice blended cordial juice or drinks was selling at RM3. I think that is quite resonable. Still I don’t understand why a miserable bread have to sell 3.222 times higher than the actual price. Okay! Okay! I should stop bitching about the bread now.
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Overall at the Bazaar was dem a bit boring and HOT!
One game that brought back my childhood memory is the ‘tikam’ game. In another word is lucky pick.
RM1 for 2 lucky picks. During my younger days, we pay 10cents for a lucky pick. (Inflation! Inflation!)
Check the number in it. If it matches with the number on the prize, then it’s yours.
If it did not match any of the number here, maybe you could try buying KTM ticket (Kuda, Toto, Magnum).
They have other games as like ring on the nail, wheel of fortune, gladiator, basketball, face painting…. watch this.
tadaaaa…..
the finishing….
Time to go home for my lunch now. Bought 2 packets of asam laksa. They put the dilluted prawn paste in the noodle instead of in the soup and now the noodle looks like a ‘kon low mee’. Bah!
Oh, don’t worry about all my whinning. I do enjoy myself getting bake under the sun for RM80 which I don’t have to contribute.
JC said,
May 23, 2006 @ 7:01 pm
Wow! Nice butterfly.. 🙂
Anyway, hope the money went to a good cause.
athena said,
May 24, 2006 @ 11:59 am
hehe…normal la…they put the haeko on the noodles…
oddfather said,
May 25, 2006 @ 11:11 am
aiya…….thats what charity is all about…….and it starts from the heart!!
Selena said,
May 27, 2006 @ 3:05 am
aiya charity maa… if it doesn’t hurt the pocket or make you feel guilty it’s not working rite?
thank goodness you haven’t seen some of cavebaby’s school charity events we have been to recently – $80 tokens will oso not be enought to spend! LMAO
Meat loaf said,
June 28, 2006 @ 10:24 am
Meat loaf
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