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Sigh …. it doesn’t pay to be a helpful sometimes.

The 2 times I lend money to friends that I haven’t known for a long time are the 2 times I get played out.

To make a long story short, I just found out that a friend I had helped pay some bills for has disappeared. Tried calling his mobile and its been terminated. When I call around, I find out that he has used different names in different cities and has chalked up a reputation of taking from one person to repay another person.

He’s supposed to be an expat in BKK and didn’t have a DBS account so I was just helping a fellow expat out coz I know how much of a bitch it is to get some transfers sorted out to another DBS account holder.

If I really wanted to, I could call in favours to find out where he works and pursue this. But its not good karma.

Kindness shud beget kindness.

Oh well … just reminds me not to be so trusting of new people I meet in future.

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