QUOTE(lurkingaround @ Nov 27 2019, 08:56 AM)
Looks like your MIL's heart has softened towards your poor FIL. Does this mean MIL is about to reconcile with FIL on compassionate grounds.?
She is torn between who to least offend, on one hand she has a son in law that holds a high standard of American and British standard of ethics, integrity and humanity whom she knows won't tolerate her trampling upon a fallen man.
On the other hand she has to also be aware of the feelings of her eldest daughter that still hates the father. She is afraid of being thrown out of the house and need to fend for herself at a time where she has no income just yet and the daughter has no qualms using her control of purse strings to get her way.
Doubt she would reconcile with him as at this moment she has decided she only wants to be a good grandmother to her 2 grandchildren and the 2 that are on the way.
QUOTE(lurkingaround @ Nov 27 2019, 08:56 AM)
He had to sell off the old stuffs because the good FS and lucky car number plates did not work in his businesses and family affairs. If they did work, he would not have needed to sell them off. "Chicken vs egg, which came first.?"
Why it didn't work for him?
Here was the reality of the situation.
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He saved no money at all for his children's education, he never expected his money would run out.
Eldest daughter wanted to become a lawyer he told her no money so had to do LL.B locally. Then she had trouble as couldn't sit for the CLP because no SPM. Lots of sulking and foot stomping/cold war he sent her to Britain first for a Masters and then was supposed to do the Bar exam, only problem while in Britain she spent too much time being among Chinese people instead of English speaking persons. She was accepted to do the Bar but couldn't pass the IELTS exam. Therefore she did a 2nd Masters but still didn't improve her English....... then she met one horrible guy....
She is definitely more than capable, if he had placed her to run the factory he used to own he won't be a poor man today, instead he opted to remain as the head, had his 2 brothers be his assistants and 3 nephews were roped in to call the shots as well.....all were essentially "charsiews".
He mortgaged the house his late father used to live for the money to send her to Britain. When she returned he asked her to pay him back the money and if she couldn't pay she must pay the mortgage for the house, if she didn't want to pay she had to ask her husband to pay. He was in a tight situation, I had the wife negotiate with him, we would buy over the house from him. Gave him a low ball offer on the premise that the house was in shit shape. He accepted because I agreed to advance him RM200,000 cash. I was going to demolish it but in view of the sensitivity of the house I consulted a FS Master who told me to restore and repair it instead. He told me never to sell it and expect some good fortune my way. After it was renovated and repaired for a king's ransom I rented it to one Chinaman from Shanghai who ran and import/export business. 2 months after that I received a promotion at work and had the biggest raise I've seen in my career, I've never had to worry about money since then. 4 months after that the FIL was sued for RM7,500,000 for a development he did, there were some serious defects with his project and in the end he settled it out of court for RM4,000,000 which exhausted much of his cash, he never recovered from this. Then a year after the house was rented, the tenant came to see my wife to negotiate a deal, he wanted a 5 year lease, said since staying at the house his business had increased 5-fold. Earlier this month we went to see the house, he asked for a 5 year extension to the lease said it would be the last as he would be retiring after that 5th year, in the house was parked 2 Mercedes, a BMW, a Ferrari and an Aston Martin, not bad for someone when I first met him had only arrived here 3 months before with RM50,000 in his pocket.
His next move that damaged his FS? He mortgaged his house that his late father bought for him. He used it to takeover a company with land and a developer license. What he should have done here was he should have invested money in machinery for the factory that was started by his father. The development project got stuck, he had trouble paying for the mortgage, he also roped in his 2 brothers who had also mortgaged their homes for this folly of an investment. They lost their homes, he made an appointment with his favorite low-balling vulture. Wife said must help him out. I gave him an offer to buy up the house for the outstanding mortgage which though below market value was still overpriced due to the condition the house was in. I gave them out of goodwill an offer for them to continue living in the house if they paid a rent of RM888, they accepted then turned around to rent it out to a kindergarten for RM3,000 and they moved to the condo to live. I closed an eye in the interest of family harmony. Late last year they wanted to buy it back from me. SIL approached me with a deal, claimed the parents saw a FS Master who told them they should try to move back to that house as that was where his FS was at. I told her for the right price it can be his as I held no sentimentality to it. I asked my own FS master, he told me the house held no special FS and even with the #8 it was insignificant for me because the FS doesn't transfer to me. Long story short I demolished the house instead.
The next move that badly damaged him and his FS? He sold his father's factory. He asked my wife to invest RM400,000 into the factory, said it was having cashflow issues, said he would give her a director position except the appointment paper was worth less than a toilet paper. She told me she would really like to run that factory as she had loads of good memories and liked her late granddad a lot. I told her I will get that company for her. This time his favorite low-balling vulture made an appointment with him, offered him RM650,000 to buy over the company minus the land and building but with a very generous lease agreement. He snapped at it very very quickly. After everything was done, wife told me she wasn't in a position to run it as the family politics made it very difficult for her, she told me to run it instead and she will help, also she was 7 months pregnant at that time. I finally realized why all his businesses were failing. On the handover day I told them all company assets must be on premise. I hired one Dutchman to help me run it as he had experience in this business. He brought with him a team of persons and we finally found out why the company was in trouble. Despite all the businesses struggling the company owned 11 units of Mercedes including 1 each of a S, SL and SLK. It had 3 that were AMG models. There were 6 Toyota Harriers, 1 Toyota Hilux and 1 Honda HR-V that were company cars. There were 25 Macbooks, 16 iPads and 30 iPhones that were considered company assets... best part?? All the software used were Windows based. Oh yeah there were some very expensive number plates too. We sold every single one of it except the Hilux and the HR-V. Here was the reality, nothing wrong with buying a Mercedes but the SLK was driven by his nephew, if he had used it to go look for new businesses or just collect on their account receivables, they would still be owners of the factory, instead there were claims for all kinds of visits to clubs, massage places and expensive restaurants. There were people that were paid just because they had the same family name and did absolutely nothing. When told they better start earning their keep 1 by 1 left, some left as a group too. It turned around and became healthy again. Oh yes during the "clean up" I compiled a 19cm thick black file on him. 3 years ago he tried to kill the company.... he knew a lot of the machinery were extremely difficult and expensive to remove from the building. 2 months before the lease was up we went to negotiate with him, he wanted 38% more each month and it was either pay or get out at the end of the lease. He thought he had outsmarted us, I was ready to concede that it was time to move on, I told the wife about it, at that time we were on our fighting modes. I told her I will give her control of the company if she could save the company, she said she had been waiting for the day that I lost money and had a fall. Well they did not realize between my Dutch business manager, a German technical manager and a Taiwanese production manager none of them were willing to let me kill off the company and put them out of a job. We put our heads together found a new site that was cheaper to rent and reduced our logistics cost, my technical manager found us a place to buy up machinery that were 5-10 years old rather than 20-60 years old and it was on the cheap and the production manager made huge amounts of stockpiles. We saved around 40% of the old factory's tools and machinery. It did cost me quite a bit of money but we managed to pull it off, we moved and restarted operations. He should be thankful to that Dutchman because he saw me with that thick black file and asked me what was I up to, I told him I was about to contact the tax office to have a chat.....he told me to forget about it, we had a business to run and not to waste time or energy on the past. 4 months later the land was repossessed as at some point in that 3 years we were renting the land and building from him, they mortgaged it and when I stopped paying rent they had difficult in paying the mortgage. It was then auctioned off and I bought the gate, some of the brickwork from the new owner and the old signboard. Wife now runs it and is doing a fantastic job.
QUOTE(lurkingaround @ Nov 27 2019, 08:56 AM)
Modern(= since the 1960s) liberal Western culture of sexual immorality and fierce feminism ain't much better than Chinese culture, eg fierce feminist wives and high divorce rates, rebellious kids, rampant LGBTQism and AIDS/HIV/STD.
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You do realize that in fiercely feminist Scandinavia you have less a chance to contract HIV/AIDS than you do in any Chinese majority countries?
If I could turn back time, I would pick that Swedish friend of hers' that I wanted to shag that nite when I met her. Oh well... things do happen for a reason I suppose?
Nov 12 2019, 11:19 PM
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