Locals like to gamble everything from the ponies, soccer games, to even their own lives. Sometimes for excitement, sometimes for just the lack of care, and mediocrity rules their livings.
Mom just told me that a friend of my dad’s has found 3 out of 5 of his main arteries are clod. Doctors said there is only a 1% danger if he undergoes the surgery immediately, or else face a 99% danger if not. He needed to think on that one for it is a Chinese custom that it is good fortune to be able to wait for the Chinese New Year to arrive. That is, if he could wait that long.
Or maybe he wanted to wait for the other two to clod up.
There is a court hearing in regards to the death of a nurse who worked on the 8th floor of the Prince of Wales Hosipital where last year’s SARS outbreak began. A doctor stated that he saw the nurse without the required medical mask in the kitchen on the 8th floor. When the doctor reminded the nurse to put on a mask, she said it was no patient room and there were no patient there at the moment. She died from SARS.
I suppose the few minutes without a mask on somehow worth the rest of her life to her.
A good friend just bought a use car at 70000Km. It looks and, more importantly, runs like a 17000Km car. He paid $300 to have a mechanic looked at it before he made the decision. The mechanic told him that aside from the new paint job and just about all lubes are leaking, in which hose replacement costs are less than the lube changes, so not a big problem. Since the car, inside and out, as well as the engine and other parts are in very good condition, the friend bought it at a very reasonable price. When I told the friend to replace all the leaking hoses and oils, he said he’ll wait for two weeks and see if there will be any other problem before he have them replaced.
The problem with that is that all the lubes are in less than the required and ideal levels. In this condition, damages have already started and continually. The two weeks could result in much bigger damages. He insisted.
It ain’t my car.
Whatever it is, locals have that carelessness, laziness, gambling, and mediocrity attitude towards everything. And we are relying on these qualities to bring the well being of the Region back in line.
God help us all.
WhaUSay?!