Saturday, November 14, 2009

Tax exempt donations

Knew it was too good to be true.

My understanding all along was that if you make a donation to an approved chartity by the government, you'll get 2.5X the amount you donated as a tax relief.

What I failed to understand was that the amount reduces your taxable income and it isn't a direct deduction of the tax amount paid.

So unless one makes a huge donation, it's not going to get you to fall into the lower tax bracket and a donation relief of about 250 will result in a tax payable of 10 less.

Rapunzel: A reality

We've all heard of Grimms version of rapunzel.

What we don't know about is the untold reality version.

Rapunzel is actually the enchantress in the story. Abandoment made her a cold, stone person. And in isolation and denial by society, she kept to herself. Resentment spur her desire and creativity to conjour up a tower. Enclosing her in a fortress. And while we only hear the fate of 1 prince. There were actually countless, if not many more, dukes, knights, adonis, peaseants. Basically the whole social caste of society then who fell prey to her. With her enchanted voice she'll lure them. Have them go forlorn over her, causing them insomia. When she finally got bored of them, she'll let down her hair, invite them into the den of great evil, show her true colors and push them all the way down to their death.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

He, age 23/4

It gets harder to blog, quantity and quality is very much lesser than those in 2007.
Maybe there needs to be a push factor at times. But with a 140 in a tweet, pretty much anything and everything can be summarized.
So the push factor is a He, age 23/4. Well, gave him my blog addy today. And he shall read at his own risk, of either reading things he likes or he doesn't. Always don't believe in leading a person on intentionally.

Well thought perhaps if he reads, he might know better what he's getting himself into. And with more information, we make better decisions, most of the time. That's the primary reason, the secondary being he got me a song that I've been wanting for the longest of time.
The thing about him that's to like is that the boy's grounded. I think when i was 23, I wasn't that grounded. But then I'm a born dreamer. And yes, he does make me feel old(er). In his very own words, he's more lively.
The downside if there is to be one, is that I'm so use to swinging singlehood. That I can't even grapse how it makes sense to for 2 individuals to be next to each other doing their own thing, when it might be more productive to be doing your own thing at your own pace and place.