In Continuum.

With Ten Billion Dollars...

I wanted to show you guys a clip from Scrubs i saw a couple of months ago,with Zach Braff's character discussing with his friend,about what he is going to do with ten million dollars in cash.I cant find it on youtube anymore,so bare with me if the following description of the scene is hard to imagine.

Elliot says that he is going to hire scientists to come up with the technology to separate a human head from the body,with both of those still being able to work,independently from the other.So as he was explaining his thoughts,we see a floating head of himself floating towards a patient,and seeing that the patient was about to die,he calls for his body to the rescue.But since the body was without eyes,it bumped into the wall and fainted.The head,desperate to resuscitate the patient,he started banging his own head against the chest.A hilarious scene,and i remember banging on the table laughing my head off.

Why do i mention this out of the blues you ask?Well it's because i was watching the evening news a while ago,and a news from Taiwan had me choking on my dinner.Some guy in Taiwan won the big lottery,and it is a tradition in Taiwan that the winner of the top prize is not revealed to the public,unlike the US.So,apparently he told his wife about it,and his wife told her neighbour.Little did the wife know that their neighbour was having some kind of economical crisis,and borrowing money from the loansharks didnt work out.So the neighbour planned a kidnap of the lottery winner,and threatened for the money.

Of course,those thugs were arrested a couple of days ago,but instead of seeing this incident as a degrading of the security of our society,i found it to be extremely funny.I mean,even your own WIFE betrayed you,who else can you turn to with that sum of money?

Anyway,we all dream about winning the lottery,i guess.Yeah,dont deny it.You secretly wish to win a lottery everytime some jackass decides to drive a Porche pass you on the expressway,or that millionaire next door who decides to buy the gigantic mansion down the street.You secretly wish to win a giant lottery and buy the whole bloody estate,or own your very own car company so you can drive all the Porches you want.

But we can only dream for such things to happen,like the doctor with the floating head.It's probably not going to happen even if you decide to start buying five lottery tickets for the next ten years or so.If it doesnt happen,it doesnt happen.

But i guess there is no harm dreaming,eh?So i came up with a list of all the things im going to do,if i do strike lottery in the years to come.Though that is highly unlikely,considering myself the least possible person to appear at a lottery booth,the chances of me winning is near to zero.The only reason why it's not zero is because i might pick up a lottery ticket at the side of the road that might win me ten million dollars.Who knows?

With Ten Billion Dollars(Any of the following,or the combination of a few)...

1)Buy the whole Kinokuniya.
2)Buy the whole Borders.
3)Buy the whole HMV.
4)Treat my friends to a nine-course dinner for a month.
5)Treat my family to a nine-course dinner for ever.
6)Buy a limousine.
7)Buy a personal jet,with customized renovation.
8)Buy a personal yacht.
9)Hire a chauffeur for all of the above.
10)Buy an island.
11)Build a resort.
12)Bribe Ah Bien to depose.
13)Hire Coldplay and John Mayer to do a collaboration album.
14)Organise a private concert for the above two mentioned.
15)Subsidise Rachael Yamagata's subsequent albums.
16)Hire Bill Gates to wire-up my house.
17)Travel the world.
18)Make trade fair.
19)Build a food collection centre every 15km in third world countries.
20)Hire assassins to kill terrorists.