It happened early this year. A brother of my friend asked me to join his so-called friend club. Anyway, straight to the point… It’s one of the MLM businesses and since I came to KL, it’s really popular among my friends. Some gave me great and promising opinion and some told me it was trick and dangerous. I am not familiar with this because it’s not popular in my hometown anyway. I’ve heard about Uptrend, Amway, CNI and whatever it is during my schooldays but eventually they faded away. No one ever care about the MLM thing, and because maybe my hometown don’t really care about it anyway.
But, I feel so grateful today cuz I didn’t managed to get into the club. Y? I’ll explain but let me story it first. It was because of many factors. One of the things is that I’m not eligible to get personal loan. That’s the major hindrance but I still tried my best to join the club. And Along (brother of my friend) told me there is one way to join it but I have to find him 2 persons in order for me to be one of the members. And that 2 person must entitle the ‘C’ package which is worth of 40,000 Malaysian ringgits. I was like… aduyai! How am I getting the 2 people? Even if I managed to find them, it’s still unsure they will join as members.
And there was that day when I invited one of my longtime friends, Fanta. She is always eager in investing her money, therefore I asked her first. At last that night, Fanta and her friend willing to invest their money in. At first, it seems so smooth until Fanta told me she was not allowed to get personal loan anymore because of her banking problem. She was advised by the monetary personnel to cancel her loan. Aiyo! At that time, I was so down cuz I will never get the chance to gain any more people. Huhu! After Fanta and her friend cancelled their membership to the club, I didn’t looked for any people cuz I’m tired of saying the MLM thing over and over again. Malas lah! It’s not my thing anyway, and then I just let it be without any concern.
Until today my friend told me that members of the club had been arrested last night because of reporting made to the police over the club. I was a bit shocked anyway (Y? should be I was totally at shocked right…) because lately, I‘ve heard a news that a top member of the club had conducted fraud over the money last month. (Oic, that’s y I’m not really at shock today… kehkehkeh!). At that time I was really grateful not to be able to join the club.
Why am I desperate to join the so-called friend club anyway? It’s not like I want to be rich as fast as I can, but at that time my father has been hospitalized and I’m in need of some money to cover his bills. That time was really distressed since my former employer didn’t pay my salary on schedule, and I used most of my savings to cover the expenses. I was really fraught to increase my monthly cash and even thought to get part time job at night to support my living and my parents at hometown. It’s really hard and when the promising ‘opportunity’ like that come in front of me, I was intrigued to take it without realizes that it might snare my life in the future.
So in conclusion, don’t ever try new things if you’re unsure of it. At least you ask for various thoughts and based on that, it might help you to decide what the best thing for you. Your life is your own obligation and no one is allowed to interfere your rights in order for you to make a decision. I’ve learnt my lesson and perhaps what I said here could contribute something to anyone out there.
Signing off,
JS.






