Big toys

We went walk walk at the City Mall last weekend. Chinese New Year is round the corner. People are up on the shopping spree. And the big boys are pushing to sell their big toys too.

Understandably, rich Chinese (and non-Chinese too, in case you call me a racist) like to have new cars to usher in the new year. Those wonderful folks that give real meaning to the Gong Xi Fa Cai that you rehearse annually around this time of the year, but don't really mean it most of the time.

Do you think I would miss the chance to caress the big toys? No, I manhandled them.

Top of the pick: Toyota Land Cruiser Cygnus.

Price tag RM 400K plus.

Big, spacious, tough on the outside, gentle on the inside. Good for the family man to pack his whole family inside, if he brings his family along for his buddy trips, that is.

Second favourite: Land Rover dunno what category.

Price tag RM 400K plus also.

Parked just beside the Cygnus. If you ask me ah, the Cygnus feels nicer la. More family car. This Land Rover is a bit... insensitive.

Third favourite: Mercedes AMG.

Price tag RM 300K plus.

The car window got no frame one wer... Just the piece of glass coming up, and up, and touch the roof. The interior ah, really salivating.

The others were just some cheaper Mercedes and BMWs. Just a bit above RM 200K, nothing to shout about.

Hmmm...

My little Myvi can can also sit 5 people and move around with reasonable comfort, for about RM 50K. Minus those canggih gadgets. And unfortunately the car window got frame one. If you got some spare cash, can throw in RM 150K to travel in the level of comfort that most common folks would drool upon.

But to buy a car for double, or triple that amount?

Wow.

I am reminded of how RM 10K could build a pastor's house in Kampung Minitampak. OK fine throw in another RM 10K and that guy will be living in heaven on earth.

Or how RM 50K could build a church, or a school in interior Sabah. Or feed a family for a year. A few families, if they don't eat too much and don't reproduce too many.

Would I burn so much money on a car, so that it makes me move around faster, classier, comfortabler, and cockier?

What a dilemma. Would you?

Until the dilemma is solved, kiamsiap me will have to play with small toys for the mean time.

Sigh. Need a bigger mind to make bigger money to buy bigger toys.