Hmm, long time without updates, eh? Well, the past week has just been fabulous - in both good and bad ways.
First off, the NKF fiasco. It's funny how greed leads to stupidity, and stupidity leads to downfall. Obviously, if the Durai guy didn't try to sue SPH, which, may I add, Singapore's only paper and thus has much influence, he might not have found himself in such deep shit.
Honestly, it is quite surprising how the public went up in such an uproar over his salary. I mean, c'mon! Did everyone honestly believe NKF was some goody-two-shoes charity with only the welfare of its patients in mind? Someone must have been leeching off the funds. I'm only surprised it wasn't more than $600,000 per year.
Then again, if Durai could get the company to pay for his car, what ever is stopping him from using it to pay for his house? Pfft. Worse still, I find it strange to see people supporting him. May I say, "Wow, how stupid can one get?"
Today, while reading the forum page, I saw someone actually agreeing with NKF's tatics on garnering donations. Amazing. I never thought I found have saw a person as blind as that writer, but today I have. God bless me.
As a charity organisation, its first and foremost goal is to ensure the care of its patients. You don't make sure your own salary is high. No. 600,000 dollars is not the way to go. It isn't justified, no matter what you say. If you wanted a high-paying job, you don't work on a non-profit board. Pay in a charity is low or just sufficient for oneself most of the money gather should be channelled to the sick. Reward in this line of work isn't money; it's the satisfaction and joy of seeing an ill person surviving to see the sun the next day. It is about the subtle smiles, the infectious, lively laughter they have when they escape Death again. It was never about money, or recognition or anything "entitlements" shit like what Durai had.
A charity lives and pracitically breathes on the public's trust. An organisation that pleads on the people's morals and ethics should have an upstanding integrity on their own. This isn't just about the gross amount of money Durai had entitled himself to, or how they had lied to the public with a straight face. It was how they ran NKF like a business-oriented company, and in doing so, slowly blinding themselves to their original goal: to help.
I'm a cynical person, but I'll give them the benefit of a doubt: perhaps they did start out as a group that wanted to help. Yet, through the years as they aggressively targeted the public with emotional-blackmailing shows and adverts, NKF has obviously been gradually intoxicated by the scent of money, slowly losing sight of whom they were. They ran themselves as a business-oriented organisation, and with that, place getting money as the topmost priority, with the patients themselves added almost like an afterthought. In their wealth and success they forgot what it was to be poor and only sought to be rich.
Business isn't charity. You don't "help" in the corporate world, you backstab. You plunge knives into each other's backs, and as they wither and die you take over them. And thus, it was like that: NKF grew bigger, and the smaller charities died out. People thought it was the only charity. . . with that sort of insane publicity I'm not surprised.
I never liked NKF in the beginning. I long suspected the CEO of NKF already had like half a million per annum as his salary. Rest assured, I won't donate to NKF. Ever. It's not really about being selfish (tho' I have doubts about those to seek the subsidies. . . I've seen them dyed their hair even when they're supposed to be poor and dying), but honestly, 30.5 years more before the reserves runs out on current subsidy rates is alot. Nothxsverymuch, I'll keep the money to myself for my own family and friends.
Moving on, episode 38 of Gundam SEED DESTINY had a new opening/ending song. Wings of Words by Chemistry is the opening song and also by far the worse opening song ever. Gawd. Horrible, Terrible, just plain Shitty. Kimi wa Boku ni Niiteiru by See-Saw, the the ending song, is the best ending song so far. Best, Gosu, Holy Fucking Shit kind of good, with a side dish of exaggeration. Kinda balances out, I guess.
Also, Harry-fuckingpieceofcrap-Potter, Book 6 is out. Wonder if there's more loopholes being added into this cliche plot. Gah, I'm too lazy to write a tirade for this. Potter can eat shit and bite the dust for all I care, and even if it's ending is the best thing that graced the Earth (impossible, but fans can dream), it still doesn't discount how bad the starting was. Or how much the book has twisted something as amazing as magic to a mundane, annoying plot device.
Now listening to: "Kimi wa Boku ni Niiteiru" by See-Saw
