Insanity

Most women that heard the news were speechless, most men hate him. He is the hotly debated 50k billboard proposal man. I got to know when I got a forwarded email with the subject " So romantic..." . Blame it on my gene marker, my training, my natural INTP instinct, whatever, I really don't find it romantic at all. In fact, mere words cannot describe how I felt.

40k oh... not 4k not RM400. Lim Goh Tong also didn't propose to his wife like that. 40k can :-

a. Buy 4444 KFC snack plates.
b. Feed me for 1o months.
c. Tour Europe in style.
d. Can pay downpayment for a house in KL.
e. Can even own a house in Ipoh.
f. Can pay my stremyx for 606 months.
g. Can buy 1176 romance novels.
h. Can buy a Proton Saga.

The list goes on and on, but the point is, it can do so many things. If I am his mum, I would prefer to give birth to a piece of 'char siew' . At least you can eat the 'char siew'. You can't eat the billboard. Most you can do is take a snap shot of the billboard and put it in their wedding album.

And if you really want romantic, you can do many romantic things with 40k budget. Super chu chai would charter a plane to bring Lovely to Bali and have a beach side candle light dinner and propose there. If I am the guy, I would buy a house, bring my girl friend over to the house, give her the key and ask her to be the lady of the manor. At least if she reject you, you can still sell out the house. This is call practical romance.

With that kind of publicity, that guy is actually forcing the lady's hand. I mean, how can she reject him in front of Malaysia. If she rejects him, he would probably have to resign his job and migrate to Thailand for the rest of his life. Now she is destined to marry him, I would advise (not that she reads my blogs anyway) the lady to keep a really tight rein on the guy's purse strings. I can't help but speculate, if things don't go well, will he advertise along the highway...

" Darling, will you divorce me?"

If you think I am flaming him, you should check here, here and here.