Coming to the end of this financial year, this morning’s topic at the weekly staff meeting was about money. Not the money that we wanted more and we don’t have, it was about the money that we’ve got in our pocket but impossibly spend all up before the new financial year commences.

How funny this is!!! I can’t believe that we were sitting there with frantic faces and worrying about we will underspend the money and trying so hard to figure out the ways to get rid of it. A person from where I come from, just can’t get used to the situation like this. I was shocked :-O I can’t say a word. If they had asked me my opinion, I would have suggested them to go to China, start a business, get around with what they have to deal with for starting and developing a business, all the stuff like treating people with expensive meals, giving shopping vouchers, buying things for the big bosses or key persons acting on a position; or go to Macau to try their luck at Casino Or send their teenager kids to overseas to study what they are not interested, of course not forgetting to transfer enough money into their overseas bank account, so their child can buy funky cars, expensive clothes, luxury things and rent a big modern place to sleep with their girlfriends.

Hehe, you know that I was just kidding. My point was you might find it hard to earn money, but never experience difficulty finding a way to spend money. This is not something happening in a Chinese government organization. People complain about lacking of money to achieve their goals to facilitate that country all the time, although they wasted the money at somewhere else on something unimportant. However, money is always something Chinese struggle with, the motivation, the driving force behind, the possibility of making a profit that they see in their eyes, the desire for the materials, all the dark and nasty side of human being’s secret needs.

Now I was told to try my best to spend the money?!!! How????? Well, I can understand the bit about “if someone asked 4, we’d better arrange 6 or 8”, but what would be the other bits that we could do? We even shared the bills for morning teas and people’s birthday cake. How could we spend the money quickly by doing these sorts of things?