A friend recently forwarded me one of those Chinese proverbs emails. And here is what I said about that.

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Let me try to debunk some of these alleged Chinese proverbs and see if I make sense.

It says here:

1. With money you can buy a house, but not a home.

Don't you have to have a house first to have a home? You can rent a condo, an apartment or something else and rent still costs money - so ultimately, you can't have a home without money. You still need money to have a home. That's one of the harshest realities when living on the urban parts of this earth. You can live for free in a homeless shelter which is not necessarily a home or you can call a street corner cardboard box a home but it won't be comfy. Or maybe live in the jungles, deserted islands or worse, one of those compartments in the floating squatter barges that we get to enumerate come census day. I dare not call them homes unless I can find satisfaction and happiness living in them.

2. With money you can buy a clock, but not time.

Money can indeed buy time. Cancer patients can attest to this. A wealthy man can have a slow death in order to put his affairs in better order. Time can also be borrowed and bartered. And one can also hear the phrases "buy me some time so I can..." and "this will buy us time to...".

3. With money you can buy a bed, but not sleep.

There are drugs now to alleviate insomnia. Heath Ledger died due to overdose on these kinds of drugs, which he or his agents bought. The drugs worked so well he wasn't able to wake up thereafter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_ledger#Autopsy_and_toxicological_anal...

4. With money you can buy a book, but not knowledge.

I paid my barber some dough to gain some keener insights about life and its lessons. A free haircut ensued. I also learned a lot in school wherein my parents shouldered my tuition. This internet thing also costs me hack, but I learn a great deal from it.

5. With money you can see a doctor, but not good health.

All those better health supplements (non-BFAD approved) costs a lot. And working or not, medical authorities can't deny the placebo effect they bring to people.

6. With money you can buy a position, but not respect.

Lots of gullible idiots and corrupt morons still respect GMA and his bastard husband. Romulo Neri and his respect to authority can indeed be bought.

7. With money you can buy blood, but not life.

Slaves were commercially traded in the old times. Life is still commercially available in the mafia and gang world.

8. With money you can buy sex, but not love.

I guess you can pay extra for the kind of love that you want. I'm not an expert on this hahaha.

Bottomline:

I may not get it - I mean the message in the proverb. But I haven't got any serious money either. So, this proverb doesn't apply to me. Let's just face it, money does magical things around here too, because the government taxes us and keeps screwing everyone up.

In God We Trust.

"A bank is a place that will lend you money, if you can prove that you don't need it." -Bob Hope

Loloy D
PS Di ako nang-aaway ha? I wrote this for the sake of poking fun. :P I love poking and I love fun. Care to join me?