Oh, To be Filthy Rich!

There are a few things in life that sometimes I just cannot figure out. And one of them is how do people become so freaking rich? I've been working my butt off for ages and yet I'm nowhere near as rich as I'd like to be. Come to think of it, I'm not at all rich. I'm able to live comfortably and all that but I'm talking about being filthy rich here.

'And just where is this posting really heading to, Nick?'

Well, there is this house a few blocks away from my place. No, not the one which the occupants just packed up and disappeared quietly one fine day. This is a different one. This house was for sale for quite a while. It's a nice decent corner lot. My best buddy even checked out how much the owners wanted to sell the place cos back then he was thinking of buying a place.

Well, he found out the house was going for close to RM750,000.00! When he told me that I was shocked. That much money for a house which is the same design and size as the one I'm living in? They must be crazy I told him. I even told wifey that the place is going to be vacant for a long time to come with that kind of asking price. I was right in away cos it went being unoccupied for close to a year.

But recently someone finally bought the place. And that someone must be filthy rich cos immediately after they bought the place, they start tearing it completely down and begin to build a new house. That's when I started scratching my head in wonder. How much money do they earn a month? First they buy a house close to a million ringgit and then they tear the place down and build an even bigger house on that same plot of land. And the worst part is the owners of that new place look even younger than me!

I've been working almost my entire adult life and I'm nowhere near to even affording to building a Lego house for myself let alone tear one down and build a new one. And I seriously don't think I'll ever in this life time be able to do something like that. What's their secret for becoming filthy rich I wonder. And they're not the only ones. I've seen loads of other people who do the same thing. Somebody please tell me the secret to being filthy rich! I wanna be rich. I wanna spend money like no tomorrow. I wanna tear my house down and build a new one! I wanna buy a Ferrari! I want to be rich ... sob, sob, sob!

Oh, and I failed to also mention that this house they're building, no doubt big and all is seriously butt freaking ugly! And I really mean butt freaking ugly. I pass this house on my runs and have been watching it start to take shape. It's almost competed and should be ready in time for the occupants to move in before the upcoming Chinese New Year.

Right now the house looks like a huge warehouse or hall (as wifey puts it) and the grills they've installed surrounding the gardens has little roses on it! Yes, little painted metal roses. And I cannot describe how distasteful it looks. I'll try to take a shot of it one day and post it here so you guys can judge for yourselves. I mean, the original house looked pretty cool and the new one is just plain atrocious. I guess being filthy rich does not necessarily give one have a sense of taste ... LOL!

But I would gladly be tasteless and rich than tasteful and poor and that is a fact! LOL! I guess I'm just going to have to slog away here and do as much assignments as I possibly can starting with this one on billet grilles to start compiling some money so I can start buying the first of many bricks to build my new home once I tear this one down. I wonder how many bricks I'm going to need. And if any of you do happen to know the secret to being filthy rich, share some of that knowledge now you hear? Don't be stingy, k? LOL!