Drink less water, pay less money

30th January 2008
Wednesday
Drink more water?

Life has been crazy these days. I think I am putting on weight. I think I am being evil too. And not to forget about lack of sleep. Talk about dozing off during performances. Hah!

Finally I am blogging again about something new. Put the fishes and coffee away and move on to a new topic. For this post, the main topic will be about 饮水思源. For non-chinese readers, it literally means drink water and think of the water source.

饮水思源 teaches us to save more water, as PUB charges are steadily on the rise. The less water we waste, the more money we save. And who hates money? The more money we can have, the merrier we will be. And the same goes for companies and organisations.

Since young, I have been taught to save more water. In secondary school, there was this rock at the eco-pond that had the words 饮水思源 carved into it. That rock held special meanings for all of us. After years of living with the teaching, I was flabergasted that the teachings that I had once so believed in actually backfired on me!

Or to be exact, the organisation I am leading. Somehow, the main company decided to adopt the same kind of thinking and save more money from PUB bills. Other than cutting down wastage of water, the other obvious way would be to raise charges for the use of such facilities. Smart move.

The only thing they failed to realise was that in raising facility charges to ridiculously high levels, students such as us will have a tough time paying for it. Not that it matters anyway. If you can't afford it, then don't get it!

I guess the obvious choice now will be to go on without water.

X*nm*n alumnis will know what I am talking about.