Credit Card Gods

Being a city slick means most of our lives will be spent in a financial debt of some kind. Be it the car you have to pay, the condo that u've just bought or even the kettle you acquired from Parkson and decided to pay with the Maybank 24-month interest free plan. The buying conveniences that is made available to us is just so.....convenient, and those license loan sharks like HSBC and Citibank are endlessly and aggressively brain washing our puny little minds into buying things we think we might need but end up destined to be banished into boxes under the black-holes of our beds or into the furthest, deepest and darkest corners of our dust infested storerooms. And at the end of each month, the various loan sharks will go around your friendly neighborhood circulating tidy little leaflets and brochures in tidy little envelopes telling advices on how you can further fatten up their profit bellies.

And hey-ho, neatly stuffed between those life draining tiny little leaflets and brochures, lies a piece of neatly folded white A4 sheet with the title that reads "BILL STATEMENT". As the eye surveys the content, it notices a strategically placed and printed column named "Outstanding Balance" which roughly translates to "PRICE TO REDEEM YOUR SOUL". My GOD!! WE HAVE UNKNOWINGLY SOLD OUR SOULS TO THE LOAN SHARKS!! Screams can be heard from your friendly neighborhood and unfortunately in this episode, there will be a no show of your friendly neighborhood hero to save the day. The poor web crawler went on a shopping spree for the month and decided to have a heart attack when he received his portion of the loan shark distribution.

And so you c, resistance is futile when dealing with these bastards. They have black-magic-ed us with the highest urge of buying, they have killed spidey and they have made us slaves to the almighty world conquerors, Master, Visa and American Express. They have become the likes of religion and so deep rooted is this religion that it has become mandatory for the people of the world to pay respect and give offerings to its GOD every end of the month. So deep are its influences that, the world is not divided into only 3 races; Standard, Gold and Platinum. Jesus will no longer be remembered, Buddhists will become extinct and Allah will be mated with Mother Theresa just for the sake of another self expressive statement of the local Malaysian...."Alamak!".