Tea with AK71: Ad by Abercrombie & Fitch is indecent!

On 28 August, I made a quick mention of the gigantic poster at Knightsbridge (the former Crown Prince Hotel) put up by Abercrombie & Fitch and how it caused distress to some people with more puritanical persuasion. They said it was lewd. Read blog post here.

This was a photo I took that day:

Indecent?

What if we were to put a 4 storey high statue of David by Michelangelo in the same location?

Totally indecent! Gasp! It does not even have a pair of jeans to hide the privates!

Or what about this famous painting in the Sistine Chapel (yes, in a Chapel) also by Michelangelo?

Anyway, the Advertising Standards Authority of Singapore (ASAS) in its infinite wisdom has decided that the ad is indecent and has called for the ad to be removed.

Why bother talking about being more vibrant in the arts when we are not even able to match the openess of the Renaissance period a few centuries ago?

Read article here.

Do you want to be a millionaire?

Many people would like to be millionaires. There is something magical about having a million dollars in our bank account, it seems.

Of course, when we think about it, a million dollars these days is really not a big deal, especially when a DBSS flat in Tampines could cost almost as much!

I read an article in China Daily recently which is titled "After making a fortune, millionaires find a gaping vacuum in their lives". 

The article makes me wonder how many actually lost themselves in money making frenzies and, in the process, forgot why they want to be rich in the first place.

In China, it is almost as dangerous to be rich as it is to be a police officer as between "2008 and 2010 nearly two in every 10,000 multi-millionaires with a net worth of more than 100 million yuan lost their lives; for police officers, the country's most dangerous occupation, the death rate is three in every 10,000...

"Out of the 72 multi-millionaires and billionaires who have died in the past eight years, 19 died from illness; the rest died of unnatural causes...

"Of the 17 millionaires and billionaires who killed themselves over the past eight years, the average age was 50..."

The article made an interesting statement by saying the 

"poor can always nurse the hope of a better life.." 

while 

"wealthy entrepreneurs.. become confused over their original aim of making money."

Do you still want to be a millionaire? ;p

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