CIP teaches us lots

One fine saturday, the rj waterpolo team went to do cip, to just help out in a carnival, which was held at an old folks' home somewhere near changi.

So we became coolies, for about half an hour, after which we went to man a game stall. A very simple game. 10 wooden blocks, stacked up in a pyramid. The goal? Simply to hit them down with a ball. So simple you can just set it up in your own home and play by yourself an infinite number of times. But since the aim of the carnival was to raise funds for charity, each game cost a whopping $2.

Now, since the game cost $2 and the venue is somewhere near changi, we figured that nobody will come and bother us, since surely according to some law of economics, the factors mean that demand will be at 0. Then we can spend our time leisurely doing the sudoku in the today newspaper while getting cip hours.

But no. We were wrong. or I was wrong. Because quite a number of people came and they're all f**king rich. There was a little boy who taught us how to throw money away. At $2 a game, he played like 15 games, which is 30 dollars spent on a game you can play for free at home! And let me tell you what $30 can do. It can buy you 75 cups of iced tea from the rj drinks stall. Or 15 McChicken burgers. Or if you're feeling down, $30 can buy my gratitude, which means i say 'thank you' to you in a really really nice tone.

All this goes to show that if you're a conman or an entrepreneur or someone who wants to make money, your target audience should be little kids who know nothing better than to spend their parents' money.

By afternoon, we had several little loyal customers who seem addicted to the game, almost assaulting us so that they can get the ball to throw at the wooden blocks. To get addicted to this game must almost mean that their heads are something like wooden blocks. Only when they finally left did we get some peace and spare time, which we gainfully spent by playing with the McDonald's toys which were the prizes and rediscovering our childhood. The result of this can be found in a video in yh's handphone, and you'll have to ask nicely if you want to see it.

Anyway, I'm not regretting this cip, not after the free ice kachang and the starbucks voucher. And it teaches one so much about stupid things.