Friends

Have any of you ever watched the TV show "Friends"?

After 10 seasons, most of the actors decided to move on to a movie career, but one actor decided to stay with TV and a new show, "Joey" is now replacing "Friends".

I was actually thinking about sueing the writer of "Friends" because I think they took the Rachel character from someone I knew. OK, all kidding aside. My favorite character is actually Rachel. No, I am NOT a Jennifer Aniston fan, but it was kind of funny that I have met many Rachel type characters in my world. I also met a male version of Rachel, but unfortunately they never matured like the way Rachel has.

When "Friends" 1st started off, Rachel was a spoiled rich girl whose father is a successful doctor. Her only way for survival was to marry someone who is rich. She realized that she wasn't ready to get married so she bailed while disappointing her parents. She met her friend Monica from high school and had to learn how to live in the real world. Rachel was a shop-a-holic and bought many clothes with her father's credit card. Rachel never knew where money came from and relied too much on her parent's credit card. Monica and her friends later made Rachel to cut all of her father's credit card with a scissors which would be very painful for someone like Rachel. After she graduated her independence from her parents, Monica welcomed her, "Welcome to the real world! It sucks!"

Too bad "Friends" is just a TV show, because I have met many Rachel's in the real world. I met several male and female versions of Rachels and none of them never matured unlike Rachel in "Friends".

Elizabeth Chang reminded me of Rachel. I never met her in person, but when she tried to lecture me about life, I began to realize she had absolutely no sense of reality. In her world, she lives in the top of a penthouse of a bank building which her parents owns in downtown San Francisco. She is living off her wealthy parents and she is a princess with no idea what the real world is like. Her only hope of survival is to marry someone whose making good money, because her parents won't live forever. So she needs a successful-wealthy husband to survive. I heard she graduated from Princeton, but I am pretty sure her parents donated a gymnasium to Princeton University in order for her to enroll and graduate.

One day we interacted through e-mail, because she did not like the way I was broadcasting her irresponsible brother Felix through the internet. She lectured me about her responsible and mature brother. I was thinking to myself, are we talking about the same guy? A guy who bought himself an expensive sports car after quitting his job at Goldman Sachs. Most people sell their car after being unemployed, he bought a brand new car. A 30-year old who ran away from home, because he wasn't used hard work with less pay and longer hours working for his parents. A guy who blames the headhunters for being unemployed, after running away to Japan during the tough economic times?

I knew he was from a rich spoiled family, but I couldn't believe this guy couldn't take care of himself after being financially cut off by his parents. Unlike Rachel, Felix didn't know about the price of independence. When you come to the world's most expensive country (Japan) with no job and no money, you better adjust your living standard, because reality is very harsh and very cruel. As Monica would say, "It sucks!!"

I currently have some friends who are currently unemployed. I haven't seen one of them drive their car around and go surfing all day long. For the past 6 months, I see him making no effort in finding himself a job. My other friends coming from the real world, is playing Pak-N-Save and pinch every little penny. Felix, he was playing with prostitutes with other people's money. By the way Princess Elizabeth didn't like the idea of me broadcasting e-mail to others about brother playing with prostitutes with my money and other people's money. I guess that doesn't look good in the Magic Kingdom in which they are living.

One day, I was broke for the month. Obviously my priority is to pay off people who I actually owed money to like Happy at the time. Felix was being a baby about it and treated me as if I owed this free-loading piece of shit money. I'm not his mother and I am definitely not coming from the Magic Kingdom. Talk about borrowing money, this guy borrowed money off a guy named Joey. No he's not Joey Tribiani, this Joey had ties to the Hong Kong mafia. Then I find out that he owed Joey money.

Let's talk about money. Lending money to someone because he/she needs money to pay the rent or buy food. Anything that is necessary for survival. Buying prostitutes or going to hostess bars has absolutely nothing to do with survival. I can see why Joey is not so happy about the money Felix owed. Even though his wife owns restaurant chains in Japan, why does he have to pay for Felix sexual satisfaction? He much rather use that money for his own sexual satisfaction.

One day, I decided enough is enough. He made no effort in finding himself a job and all I hear from him is how it's the headhunters fault. He blamed the headhunters when he not only lied to me, but to himself when he believed Deutsche Bank would give him an offer letter. I found that odd, because people from Deutsche Bank had a huge topic about a guy who got a nasty sunburn and grossed many people out during a job interview. Who go surfing on a day before a job interview? During a job interview, his face was red as an apple and pealing all over the place. Then he blamed the headhunters for his? This is who Princess Elizabeth call a responsible adult?

6 months has past since he ran away from home and he had NO JOB. He could work at 7-Eleven or McDonalds? No, he much rather go surfing and freeload off other people. So I said forget it! I told him to FUCK OFF! Why am I lending a piece of shit any money when this asswipe can not adjust his living standard? Which means selling that stupid car. You can survive without a car in Tokyo. Tokyo has one of the best public transportation in the world. He had $100,000US retirement money from Goldman Sachs. How do you blow off $100,000US in 6 months?

"My parents aren't rich! They have to work very hard!" I never heard anyone making money without working. The harder you work the more money you make. Bill Gates don't make money sitting on his ass. Bill Gates works longer hours than average people. That's why he's the wealthiest man in the world.

But when you meet someone coming from the Magic Kingdom, they don't seem to understand where money comes from. Much like the character Rachel from "Friends". Now it's Rachel's sisters who has problems facing reality much like Elizabeth Chang and her Magic Kingdom. Did you see the part when Rachel's younger sister pierced her newborn baby's ear? Believe it or not. No matter how funny it sounds, such people do exist.