Pick Up A Hobby, Learn How To Fix Things.

He figured it will go this way. People getting angry now that the price of oil is up 30 sen.

You can bet your right arm that the citizens of this fine city is angry but I think there's nothing to be angry about which is why I feel like going over to the table right across where a couple of guys drinking jugs after jugs of beer as if they are trying to forget something, cursing and swearing over the price of oil that got me thinking, why don't you guys go home, pick up a hobby, learn how to fix things instead of spending your hard-earned executive money drinking and feeling sorry for yourselves, wasting good time instead of doing something that can save you a couple of bucks like learn how to bake a cake, or fix a toaster, or rebuild a bathroom. It's better than complaining about 30 sen when you guys don't seem to mind paying ridiculous price for a piece of cake. Lemme me tell you, for the same price, you can get a cake bigger than your head at Tesco. Trust me because I love supermarket, man. I know this thing. Ever since I've been away from the rig, I have developed this domestic ability that has enabled me to think like a housewife who can get the best deal on a detergent, or a ketchup cutting supermarket coupons from Thursday papers. Trust me.

You gotta pick up a skill other than knowing how to work the numbers, or a computer programme. I don't know, there's a host of skills you can pick up. Go look up in the net. Google what you want. I've learnt how to fix a gear shaft of a Volvo 240 from the net. All you have to do is read, man. And you can even learn how to cook fondue if you want to. Or learn how to bake a cake, and harness this baking skill of yours that you can sell the cakes at a family carnival. There's so much you can do instead of complaining about this 30 sen thing. And you can also save so much if you stop coming over to this side walk bar to drink jugs after jugs of beer, complaining and lamenting about 30 sen as if the world is coming to an end.

Of course I know this 30 sen thing will hit big transport companies in a big way, and prices of food will go up. But you can always learn how to cook so you don't have to go out as often as you used to now that the price of cooking gas has gone up and restaurants are going to charge you more. Maybe you should learn how to cook pineaple chicken real well that your missus will fall in love with you all over like the first time you met, and your kids will adore you as you are Jamie Oliver. It's better than having them love that Ronald guy or that Colonel guy or whoever they've got as the spokeperson for their burgers or chicken. Don't you think it is better for your kids to look up to you as their very own Ronald, or Colonel or what have you. Learn something useful, man.

Lemme tell you what I've picked up. I've learnt how to cook from the net. Fix and rebuild the whole bicycle from the net. I've learnt how to write from the net. I've learnt how to work Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, In-design from online tutorial. I am learning how to restore furniture now because I found out from the net that it is a big business in Florida and California. Next I'm going to learn how to repair air-cond because the weather is getting hot, now that it's March and it's gonna get hotter and hotter, and it's gonna be more and more difficult to get the air-cond guy to come to the house to service all the units I've got in the apartment and you can bet they are gonna charge me more and more money. You see, there's nothing to complain about this 30 sen thing.

Go home, man. Pick up a hobby. Learn how to tie knots for all I care. Or how to convert your sandwich maker into a satellite, or a digital camera. There's so much to do and you are worried about 30 sen?

Excuse me, I gotta home. I think I need to look up on the net on how to do Turkish coffee. But first I need to find out where I can buy an ibrik.