like also can (or cannot)?

[leetahbar]

festive seans are round the corner. after x'mas, it would be chinese new year. there are lots of money to be spent.

this thread is dedicated to the recommendation of WISE action to take.

let me begin with this real happening....

a hardly met school days pal of more than 30 yrs suddenly called me to ask for my address. first, i was pleasantly surprised that she still got my phone number.

within a next few days, sure enough her invitation summon arrived. her son wedded a vietgirl and the wedding would be held in a 5 or 6-star hotel.

question 1: should i attend the wedding? in the invitation card were the phone # of her son and his bride but there wasn't any # which i could contact her personally. who the hell is her son n future daughter-in-law, i had hardly any idea! and who the hell she was....i had also forgotten how she looked like!

this is like a big joke! an april's fool prank!

to aggravate thing, a very rich but stingy like cowshit pal called me. the fact that he still remembered my phone # was touching indeed except i hardly got any call from him.

here's the catch: he wasn't attending her invitation. however being a shrewd stingy, he asked me to pack for him an angpoh with $200. he "promised" to pay me "one day when we meet up". (which day wasn't mentioned. just ONE DAY...) to alleviate his guilt, he reasoned that he would be away during that particular day so couldn't attend.

and i gotta ask him this: do u happen to have her contact #. surprisingly he had. not only her phone # but her present address! that means that he must ve been closer to her than i who didn't know a damn thing about her. i told him i even forgot who she was and how she looked like!

question 2: how should i respond to such a shrewd stingy request?

it was like i was corner into a goody-2-shoe situation of forced obligations.

 

[leetahbar]

Re: like that also can?

it happened again. shit!

one of the very very old classmate's mum passed away. he rang me to tell about it. i attended the wake. b4 i went, another very very old classmate pal called. we hardly met. he asked me to contribute $200 peh kim money to the deceased family who co-incidentally was also another old old pal who, yes again, who we hardly met.

that was alot of money i told him. he said never mind lah. he would arrange to meet me up and paid me.

so lanlan contributed that amount. since he gave that amount, of course i would follow suit which mean al in, contributed $400.

here's the LIKE THAT ALSO CAN ONE MEH?: i ven't met that old old pal and neither did he call me again :(

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