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Fantastic response from OCBC after getting downgraded by both JP Morgan and CIMB.
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The smaller thing happening today is "Evening with AK and friends."
To everyone who has bought tickets, remember to have an early dinner.
If no time for early dinner, at least bring a snack like a Gardenia bun or Old Chang Kee curry puff which you can eat outside the lecture hall during breaks.
Why must be Gardenia or Old Chang Kee brands of snacks?
No other food allowed?
You know, I know.
If you still don't know, ask me this evening.
Anyway, I will try to remember to have a 10 mins break after every 50 mins of talking.
So, you can go to the washroom or have a snack.
Come prepared with questions and we will have an epic chit chat session as always.
Hard to believe but it has been almost 5 years since the last time we did this.
"Jobs will soon become a national security issue! Automation and AI will pose the biggest risk to the most sought after jobs for youth."
I so stunned like vegetable!
How like that?
More people to become displaced and jobless?
Regular reader are probably familiar with a phrase I use in my blogs rather often.
"Gainfully employed."
This phrase refers to productive members of society.
They are employed and they are rewarded with financial gains.
Then, what is the word I use for myself?
"Unemployed."
This is probably the correct description of AK to most people which is also why they are usually dumbfounded at least for a while before they make some polite noises.
On my part, I also like this phrase to describe myself because of its economy since I am too lazy to provide any explanation to anyone who might be curious enough to probe further.
Of course, our government knows the truth about AK.
"Unemployed" refers to someone who is actively looking for employment but has been unsuccessful.
AK isn't looking for employment and has not been looking for employment for almost 8 years now.
So, the government has a phrase for people like AK.
"Economically inactive."
If we are somewhat sensitive to the choice of words, we might feel that there is a little bit of negative undertone in the word "inactive."
It is like the word "lazy" but just a little better.
"Economically lazy?"
To be honest, I rather like that.
Recently, I have been thinking of telling people that I am "gainfully unemployed."
If you think there is a perverse streak in me, you are probably correct.
Telling people I am "gainfully unemployed" should confuse some people, especially those who have been institutionalized by the hamster wheel that is employment.
"You unemployed?"
"What you gain?"
"You crazy or what?"
OK, can I choose not to answer that question?
I mean, being an IMH patient, there is a very easy way to answer that question, after all.
In my more lucid moments, I might deign to give a socially acceptable answer which might go like this.
"By being unemployed, I gain a lot of free time and the freedom to do whatever I want, answering to nobody but myself."
Wow!
Applause please.
That sounds very learned, if I do say so myself.
OK, end of blog.
Oh, you didn't know what SMLJ in the blog title stands for?
SMLJ = Stupidly Motley Local Jokes.
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