blabberings

This morning I have to sift through about 15 company annual reports. Yaaaaaaawn. Degree of boringness compels me to escape to lalaland.

Right now I'm thinking about the movie "Raise the Red Lantern", which I saw on TV about 10 years ago. It's set in China and it's about an old rich man who has 4 or 5 wives, the latest being Gong Li and each wife gets her own little apartment linked off the main house. The movie shows the different personalities of the wives etc and how it's reflected in the decor of their personal rooms and also how they all had to eat their meals together. What I remember most about the film other than how gorgeous Gong Li looked, was the fact that when the master chose which wife he wanted to spend the night with, the servants would rush to her apartment and hang up red lanterns there and the next morning, she gets to have a foot massage and choose the menu for the day, which all the other wives had to eat and this would piss the rest of them off because for example, the third wife liked a lot of meat dishes and Gong Li liked vegetables.

Talk about your perks for bonking the old man.

I wonder about the number of mistresses in KL now. The modern mistress I mean, who perhaps has a career, is independent, yet has a 'benefactor' who pays for her posh apartment, fancy car, spa membership and platinum credit card. In return, she doesn't have to love him in sickness and in health, for richer for poorer but she probably has to perform tricks that he wouldn't ask from his wife & mother of his children.

If adultery wasn't a sin and morality was a relative concept, I wonder what decisions we would actually make.