Cold-Hearted?

17^th September 2007:

G said:

There’s a guy who was born into a poor family. To supplement himself in primary school, he turned to selling cigarettes.

When he started working, he managed to gain ownership of a locally based dot.com company which is a directory of some sort, something like the Malaysian Directory or the Online Yellow Pages. Eventually, he sold it for a very lucrative price and was able to start up an advertising firm. He became a very rich man. He owned three BMWs and got married at age twenty-eight to a very beautiful woman.

This woman was pretty, dressed well, highly educated and to some, was the epitome of glamour. He also had a very adorable child.

One day, desperate to be awarded the advertising account from Honda Malaysia, he needed to give some under-table money to a decision maker in the firm. He forked out three hundred thousand and on top of that, had to take a Honda Accord, the model which he hated the most.

Before the deal could fall through, Honda Japan bought over the local firm and he lost the account. As his wife is the accountant for his advertising agency, she found that the company’s accounts were missing a large sum which was equivalent to the amount of the bribe. She then promptly divorced him.

Unbeknownst to him, she had also been siphoning large amounts from the company accounts to her personal account. During the divorce proceedings, she had asked for every single cent that she has ever spent on him. She had kept every single piece of receipt from purchases she’d made. Even a belt that she had bought for him, she asked for the money. Everything. The angpow cash she’d given his side of the family. Even the money that he had given to purchase things with which she had used to buy things for him.

In the end, he estimated he must have given her about two hundred and fifty thousand. Now, monthly, as ‘ransom’ he needs to pay six thousand as allowance for the care-taking of their child.

To further add insult to injury, she has re-married, with his best friend.