Seriously, I am not going to trade an hour of sleeping with anything else in this world. I can't stop yawning for hours now, and this seems not too uncommon lately in my life. Some say why bother to sleep when knowing that you will be sleeping eternally when you're dead. Well, though I have to say I just love taking time in my comfy bed with a crisp cotton bed sheet wrapped around my thighs until late mid-afternoon, reading and sipping morning coffee therein.
At a tea table on a rooftop of a tea shop in Insa-dong last nite, fellow colleagues from the previous job gathered around and shared thoughts on our future path and what hopefully could give us a purpose or a zeal for our lives. Dramatic blue prints made by the UAE's city planning strategies introduced by one of the previous bosses was particularly interesting to listen, since it almost sounded to me as aiming for the impossible. What he described is this;
The UAE sets a target to increase an average capital per person from the current approximately slightly over USD 20,000 to USD 1,000,000 by 2025(?), if I remember correctly. Can you believe a nation bold enough to aim making all of their people millionnaires? It sounded ridiculous in the beginning, but it wasn't much so as I listened to what he eagerly delivered to us under the bright cresent. He wasn't emphasizing whether they would achieve the target or not, but seemingly wanted to point out that certainly setting a higher goal would enable those believers to achieve more than what the others with smiliar qualifications and backgrounds would do. Creativity and ambition; boldness to take risks to carry out thereof, if i may summarize his lengthy talks into a sentence.
The manuevers taken so far were striking and even sensational for a big entity as a state to adopt, and the risks potentially following are needless to mention.
What they do is creating a building paradise, proudly touched by cutting-edge techniques from top engineers around the world, in the middle of desert. ... hey, this sounds a lot alike the stories of Bugsy Siegal, the legendary founder of the hotel "Flamenco" in Las Vegas, a thug dreamed an impossible but turned into reality. Now back to those in the UAE who built a hugh mass of sand island along the shore, their perks to allure foreign investors were building grandeur structures with very odd concepts such as an indoor ski slopes in amid of sandy desert, THE most luxurious seven star hotel of Birds-al-arab, etc. But to everybody's surprise, the real estate of the sand island has been skyrocketing for last some years. Here, he didn't forget to advise us to invest some money if we're interested in.
Surely, listening to what he said helped to broaden the scope of my agendas, which lately have been suffered from a dramatic downsize thereof, due to routined repetitive life circles and work. well, i have been inquiring around information to invest in stocks and funds like most of Seoulites would do when they begin to see their bank account growing. Bank interests are just so mere to expect any no matter how long you leave your money there, so~yeh, why not turn my eyes a little bit further!
