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Before Black Friday, we have Singles Day on 11th November. Whereas Black Friday is scam from the western world, Singles Day is scam started in the east. Both are designed to induce you to shop and spend money. In the past, you feel compelled to brave the crowds to ask the retailers to please take your money. Fast forward now, you just have do a few mouse clicks and I suspect that in asia most are just caressing their phone to shop online.

So, Singles Day was over and one score card came. I'm happy to see this chart of Alibaba Group.

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🎶Meanwhile, some music for you to enjoy as you read. This piece is part of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, particular the first of the 4 violin concertos, called Winter.
🎶让大家继续读的时候，欣赏一点音乐。这件作品是维瓦尔第的“四季”的一部分 - 4小提琴协奏曲中的第一首，名为“冬天”。
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Getting my balls

Since then, more emails and advertisements flooding about Black Friday and I felt like asking the retailers to take my money too. I saw one nice picture from @homeartpictures sometime back. A sort of crystal ball was placed on the beach and the photo came out quite to my liking. So, not long after Singles Day was over, I went shopping online and found one available on Lazada, an online retailer operating in Singapore and some parts of South East Asia which is partly owned by Alibaba group.

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Always, always asked for discount. I went googling for coupon/discount code for different credit cards. There are always some here and there. Finally, found one applicable from Citibank. Yes, I'm cheap. It was only a 5 bucks item but I'm getting 2. Why? Always, always have a backup plus I have to pay for shipping anyway.