and the impoverished was invigorated...

the mighty eReps of PS were all dull, lacklustered and uninspired last night 'til early morning today. nobody had enough of their own money to even buy themselves decent meals; almost everybody has been scourging their small coin purses and gathering enough change to buy themselves food from 7th floor foodcourt. salary day was moved to a 31.

a 180% turn from the mighty attitudes of the eReps during the first days after salary day. everybody having a good time, spending too much on over-priced meals, and extravagant mall and bar hopping during weekends, or restdays depending on schedules... eReps mutates to Ninja turtles who feast over 20 inch monster pizzas and KFC's that they can hardly consume and are often times left in the pantry as leftovers... taxi rides are chicken feed, and gas consumption for road trips are least of their worries...

early morning today, before i left the building, dark heavy clouds loom over the PS floors in JG. all computer monitors have a common color combination white background, red banner and small icons forming a circle. everybody's on bancnetonline... carefully and patiently refreshing it every second; hoping with the next F5 key press, the 2digit figure on account balances will increase... text messages from people on their RD's keep flooding cellphones asking for updates...

9 hours ago... standard chartered accounts were all replenished... and 8 hours later chinabank managed to cross it's country's Great Wall to put cash on eReps accounts... even if the salaries for this cut-off are way off mark with the expected cash flow everyone is expecting, (salaries are hacked by numerous cash deductions, and gov't plundered taxes...) everyone was invigorated...

everyone has only one thing in mind...

how to spend their hard earned, and eagerly awaited dough; fast enough to spend it and treat themselves to luxury before they starve themselves again to a point when they can barely make it till next week; and hungrily wait till next payday...