Oh, this one is funny…
A best friend of mine, which is now reside on the other side of the island coincidentally talking about the new hottest obsession of ours… you know as a grown up sometimes we still have a part of a child in our inner being…
The conversation was as hot as when some teenagers talking about the new chick in the block, or when they saw their idol in the neighborhood… especially when the topic is the same: mini helicopters 
Oh no.. that’s not the one you saw in the toy shop… it’s some realistic heli model which has a yellow label on their box: “Warning it’s not a toy”, using the same mechanics as a real heli does and the difficulties as hard as TOEFL test (some say it takes months to make the heli hover – that’s stay in one place and not going anywhere, up in the air).
The biggest challenge ahead to us: to convince the ministry of finance to approve the budget plan or to raise funds.
Here is the how-to:
- Sell lemonade in your cubicle to raise funds –> seems like a plausible solution
- Grow your own hydroponics, so instead of buying your lunch you can cook those vegetables at lunch time and save the money in the piggy bank
- Ask your friend to buy the goods, send him the money, wrap it, and send it to you as a “Christmas Gift” or a delayed “Birthday Gift”, or “Hanukkah gift”, or “Father’s Day Gift” or whatever gift you may think of…
- Research a renewable source of energy, small enough to fit in your car (a small fuel cell plant is a good example). Install a fake gas tanks then sell the unused gas to your colleague at discounted rate.
- Ask your boss to buy the goods, he may like it as you do and maybe he ask you to play it with him…
- Have some theatrical tools to change your face in a way that the shop’s owner will not notice every time a gentleman ask to make the demonstration, and then ask the shop’s owner to hand-off the control to him.
Have any other idea???? submit it to the comments section…
PS: I just saw a shop sell them at discounted rate… irresistible 
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November 26th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Here’s some other idea:
1. Organize an ‘arisan’ with other people of the same interest.
2. Plant Anthurium Jenmani on your cubicle and pray hoping the price will be xxx in one week.
November 27th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
After you buy the heli, another challenge is to bring it home, here is tips how to do it:
- Ask your friend to fly it through your home and say to your ministry of finance that you meet it on the street and this heli following you home..
- Bring a butterfly net and say that you catch it on the backyard.. Give some evidence like grass and fresh mud in your shoes..
- Try to convince her that the look of this heli make you ‘tidak tega’ to bring it home (put some sad face in the heli’s nose)
- Send it to your home by mail and said to her that you win a lottery from T*ro Snack..
-And finally, said to her that Joel want it..
November 27th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
How about this.. Tell your minister of finance that your boss want you to bring his real choper for your ‘kendaraan dinas’, but you have to practice first using the rc heli..
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November 28th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Another idea:
Tell her that you want to change your career to helicopter pilot, tell her that pilot have a bright future.. And you need to practice first using ‘miniature’ version of it..
After a month of practice, tell her that pilot career is not that promising anymore and you want to stay at your current job.. But still keep the ‘miniature’ version for your ‘kenang2an’..