Friday, September 17, 2004
Singapore, The Big Issue
When I had the opportunity to go to Singapore for studying English, I found an interesting story on a workbook. It was a story of Fred Corbett who became the homeless from the millionaire.
To paraphrase part of it, " I bought a helicopter and several cars, but I crashed all of them. So on the advice of my accountant I bought a large number of shares in Barings Bank. Maybe you can guess what happened next. Barings Bank went bankrupt, and I lost a fortune......" (New Headway English Course Upper-Intermediate Workbook with key, Oxford University Press).
Nowadays, he sells as many copies of the Big Issue (a magazine by homeless people) as he can. But he has made real friends at a hostel for the homeless and he is happier than ever before.
He said, " Something I've learned from my experience is that money can't buy you love!".
Lately, I knew the Big Issue Japan is published in Japan. It costs 200 yen( US$1.80) a copy, and sellers earn 110 yen( US$1.00) from each copy. We can buy the Big Issue Japan in Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, Tokyo and Chiba.
To paraphrase part of it, " I bought a helicopter and several cars, but I crashed all of them. So on the advice of my accountant I bought a large number of shares in Barings Bank. Maybe you can guess what happened next. Barings Bank went bankrupt, and I lost a fortune......" (New Headway English Course Upper-Intermediate Workbook with key, Oxford University Press).
Nowadays, he sells as many copies of the Big Issue (a magazine by homeless people) as he can. But he has made real friends at a hostel for the homeless and he is happier than ever before.
He said, " Something I've learned from my experience is that money can't buy you love!".
Lately, I knew the Big Issue Japan is published in Japan. It costs 200 yen( US$1.80) a copy, and sellers earn 110 yen( US$1.00) from each copy. We can buy the Big Issue Japan in Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, Tokyo and Chiba.
