I have a nightmare. And it woke me up at 7am this morning. (i normally only wake up at 7.45am, with the alarm clock ringing on and off for like 5 times since 7.15am)
It goes like this:
I received an email (i dunno who sent lah, it's in a dream ok), the email text is asking me, if I would like to donate a container of medical supply to those people in wenchuan (earthquake zone).
I replied, "what's the price of a container?"
the email, replied, "10900 renminbi".
For some reason, in real life, I always cannot differentiate 万,and ten thousands. In English, 10,000 is ten thousand. But in Chinese, it's called "yi-wan" (一万). Imagine, how to switch my mindset huh? one is 1, one is 10. But they meant the same figure. wah lau.
To make the story short, I thought it was just 1,900 renminbi per container. So, I replied, "ok, i can donate 1 container."
Later on, I realized it is 10,900 renminbi. It is 10.9K RMB!!! WAHhhhhhhh...
Damn scary, 10K leh!!! I thought 1K!! wah.....
Sweating, inside the dream, I was thinking to ask my good friend Ms A. to share half with me. hahaha...
OK lah, if I have a lot of money, I don't mind lah. But to me, 10,000 is still a lot to me, it's like 3 airtickets back to KL leh, back & forth some more. It's a lot of money.
p/s: death toll has risen to over 60,000 people. Very sad.
p/s: this is the first nightmare i had that is related to money...
Sunday, May 25, 2008
nightmare
at 11:45 PM
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Yeah.. very sad. 60,000 people dead. More to come.
I am able to differentiate 一万。But I cannot differentiate 100 million。 Sounds like a billion to me in Chinese. Hahaha!
hehe...
btw the Miss A. is you! So, are you going to share the 10K with me if it happens in real life huh? :P
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