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dear diary,

recently, i have been hooked up on online shopping. oh, i really think the internet is possibly one of the greatest tool ever invented. okay, i mean space. cyber space. it is the best medium for everything, ranging from communication to business. online shopping really gives me the best of the both worlds. to satisfy my crave for shopping..it's the Great Singapore Sales people..and at the same time..at the comfort of my own home. however, it does have it's negatives. everything has. it's a risk you'll probably have to take. to believe in the other party. it is a matter of trust now. can you just believe the different facets that this little online shopping entangles. just the problems alone makes it not so much a small deal but more of something that encompasses deeper thoughts and wisdom.

so you will not get cheated i mean.

alright. enough of the sophistication. and the prelude. i wanted to talk about scams. really.

a lady, who claimed to be an employee of the Atlantis group, rang me a few months back and told me i won a prize. unbelievable as it is because i have never joined any of the lucky draw thing they were talking about. well, she asked me to watch the charity show..following which was the lucky draw on some weird channel(i didn't have cable). but the thing is, even if i do own cable, i won't be able to watch it because it clashed with family day! and i am not going to give up family day for anything. we all have been working hard for this carnival and it is definitely not going to be sacrificed for something which seems more likely a scam. oh she sounded so real. i swear. i almost got scammed.

she blamed me for not believing her as it was my fault not to watch the show. thus, i have my doubts. alright. it is my fault. she blamed me for not going to hongkong to collect it. okay, my fault again. she blamed me for not believing her. how could i? i am not senile or deranged..i did not watch the show...explaining my doubts and all. she blamed me for not choosing the alternative. which by the way was to pay 2% of the prize money for their welfare..part of the country's law. believe me. the technicalities bore. they do. hello?? it was about $2000 plus and i am not giving my money away just like that. everything she said had loopholes. even if it was true. how can the company do things in such unprofessional way. note the strong word: unprofessional. they are ATLANTIS.. not supposed to. when they own the hotel in dubai that costs billions of dollars??

alright...i admit i wanted it to be real. but let's face the reality..i can't get it even if i wanted to! i can't spare to go to hongkong. i can't spare to transfer 2000 bucks into the account. sigh.

but the morally wrong thing that she shouldn't do was to threaten me that she would jump off the building to prove that she's right. i did not want her to do that. she was becoming irrational and she was scaring me. i thought that it was my money? why is she so agitated? that, i couldn't understand. now i am still figuring that out. it's baffling. isn't it?

sometimes, certains scams do pass off as real. OMG. they are really hard to differentiate. they play on human's vulnerabilities..greed i guess. better be wiser next time. do not even give a chance.

seriously.


widely wake,
counting faces