Its been quite a week dealing with some rich people ( I think they are rich because they can afford to buy a terrace / landed property in Singapore). Some are aged, almost retired while some are young, barely 40. I would give the ratio old to young a 60:40. At least at That area.
Well, you see I did found out from these people that no matter how much you are able to amass your wealth / money / property, they still make no difference from anyone of us. Sounds like a loser's talk? It does but that's the whole truth about it. They still bear the same attitude and mindset as most of us non-rich folks. How could I spout all these "nonsense" - if you think that they would have a rather different mindset and perspective on things? I mean if they managed to get so much more "wealth" than us (or me) then they must have done or thought of something different than us (or me). But why do I find them so similar? To put in comparison, I am having hell of a trouble trying to get the down payment for a HDB flat!
Now, to analyze... Firstly, mindset are similar in the case where they are still trying to look for fault at something that they feel is not right. OK, I'm working on rehabilitation / upgrading works at these areas. When we'd serve notices about our work, there are bound to be complaints about us. How about this, when there's smell, its us - because we're working there. When there are chokages - its us, because we are working there. When there's supply interruption - its us because we're working there. And the best part is because all these problems, they do not know who to feedback to. So, the easy way out, us and our client (our client is a government department) - because we have to provide our contact as well as our client's. Basically all of these cases so far... none have even anything to do with what we are doing. None!
Secondly, emotions and hatred (I think it is hatred or just trying to frame us for I-have-no-idea-what-reason). I cannot comprehend that when the wife of the house allowed us to use something from the house - to clean the area for them (the cleaning part is mandatory for us), then husband would come back and accuse us of using their property without permission. Worse, the maid who switch on something on her own free will and then the husband would accuse us of having the maid to switch it on for us. Oh, please! After having such a huge house, you're still counting all these small penny? And later we found out he was not happy with out client because there was another government agency imposed summon to them. Ha! Talk about revenge. OK, the finding out part, was after he promised to let us work in his house that day and later went missing for a whole day, with the maid. Of course the contractor was not happy with loosing some money on material cost. I'll let this as the let this pass as benefit of the doubt.
But, I have to give some appreciation to some of them owners who are very helpful and open to us. Some of them gave drinks to the workers, helped to arrange the equipments in a way that would cause the least obstruction to the public, allow us to work later into the evening, allow us to use their house as access point... A big thanks to these people.
Therefore, can I think making a conclusion saying that whether you are rich or not, the attitude and mindset remains distributed. Yup, I mean there will be a distribution of such attitude and mindset people in the "rich" class of people and the same distribution (most probably) can be seen in the "not-so rich" class of people. Of course, in the end I still can't figure out what did they do different to be able to own such huge houses...
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