It seems that the banking industry is getting very, very competitive these days. Most banks are shrinking the administrative staff since many of their functions and services have been computerised. Banking in cheques, account balance, payment of credit cards and other bills, and a host of other services can all be done through internet banking.
Nowadays many banks are increasing their sales personnel. Every so often the banks come up with "new products". From "flexible" home loans, to credit balance transfers (credit cards), to multi-million Ringgit transactions. Sales personnel are always on their toes trying to close more deals.
Over the last couple of months I've been receiving calls from several banks. I'm not sure how they got hold of my cellphone number, but it seems that they can get all of my personal details from some sort of centralised database for credit card holders. I've even received calls from some banks in KL. They all offered to give me a "clean loan" of between RM20,000 to RM30,000. When I said I didn't need the money, they suggested several possible uses. Amongst others, they suggested home renovations, a down payment for a new car, and even a long holiday abroad. All very tempting, except that in the end of course I would need to pay back the loan. I guess if I really had an important use for that kind of money, I would take advantage of those offers, because after all, they're attractive rates.
Then a friend sent me an interesting article he had found.
If I were a single woman who has had premarital sex, perhaps I could use a RM2,500 clean loan for the purpose of "restoring" my virginity! For that amount of money, I can opt for a 30-minute surgery to repair my hymen. Then after the surgery I should refrain from having sexual intercourse for the next 6 weeks, but hey, surely that is a small price to pay for the sake of misleading my future husband? I am sure my man will love and trust me more when he finds my hymen intact after the marriage.
Yeah, if I were a woman, I suppose that's what I would do; that would be value for money spent...
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But of course the terrible thing about a secret is that it is no longer really a secret when more than one person knows about it.
One of these days, perhaps years down the road, there's the chance that the husband will find out that he got a repaired hymen during his wedding day. One has to wonder how the husband would feel when he realised that his trust has been betrayed even before the wedding day.
Just to share with my female readers; as a man, if I am given a choice, I would rather my wife-to-be tell me the truth before the wedding. Of course I would be disappointed, but if I really love the woman, I would probably proceed with the wedding anyway. For, quite frankly, virginity is not everything to me. But I don't know if I can forgive the woman if I find out after the wedding; especially if I find out from a third party.
But of course this is my personal opinion, and does not necessarily represent the male population as a whole.
Chief,
weird that you are commenting on your own blog posting but I guess as a chief editor you can do anything huh? ;-)
CHIEF!!... HAHAHAHA!
As you can see, I have given up on responding to SWEETS. It's getting weirder all the time!
When I posted this article, I had expected some women to defend the virtue of repairing the hymen. But I suppose they were still considering the pros and cons up to now.
I had wanted to add to the above comment into the main article, but it somehow couldn't fit, because in the original thread I appeared to have supported the procedure. So I thought the best was to comment here instead. Nothing to do about Chief Editorship... hahaha.
But OK, I've had my laugh. You guys can stop referring to me as CHIEF now... hahaha.
Dear Cornelius @ Chief
I wanted to comment on this thread ... but it seems you have already given up on me (sigh). There's this deadlog that you seem to have imposed.
It's no fun talking to myself if you don't respond and vice versa. Anyway, sorry for pulling your legs for so long ha ha.
delurk, I totally agreed with you. Only the Chief doesn't seem to realize it.
SWEETS,
There is nothing mysterious about what happened here. I wrote out the article and ended it with:
"Yeah, if I were a woman, I suppose that's what I would do; that would be value for money spent..."
That 3 dots at the end of that line are an indication that I wasn't done yet. It was designed as a "pause" while waiting for the reaction of my (women) readers.
I had originally intended to add to that article, but by the time I wanted to do that, 2 days had already elapsed. It didn't seem right to do that—it seemed too late to add. So instead I continued in this "comment frame" even though that was not intended to be a comment. Read it again, and imagine that after the last sentence of the post, i.e. "...that would be value for money spent...", the continuation is:
"But of course the terrible thing about a secret is that it is no longer really a secret when more than one person knows about it."
I hope you're not too stressed out over this article, my friend.
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