mistress from hell

i have just renewed another year of my subscription for the new paper primarily because i am a big fan of the english premier league. this can be categorised as one of my so-called hobbies.

the new paper carries extensive coverage of the english premier league and my favourite team, manchester united whom i have stuck through thick and thin since the 60s, going back to the time when they became the first english team to win the coveted european cup.

but the new paper may also be the english language equivalent of the chinese language lian he wan bao carrying filling many pages with stories of human relationships like today's article on 'the mistress from hell'.

ms ki chun yim, 38, a former hongkong pub manager was reported to have turned her former lover, known as mr x and his wife into mental wrecks. i won't go into the details but suffice to say, the district court judge kevin browne described ms ki as evil, calculative, manipulative, ruthless and dangerous.

my comments:

what is your point with regard to the article on the mistress from hell?

very simply this, i have many encounters with mostly prospects/referrals whom i categorise as 'clients from hell' in my 14 years in the financial industry. and even servicing orphan policies* have unearthed the odd person belonging to the same category as well.

these folks share some of the attributes that district judge kevin browne described ms ki as being calculative and manipulative but of course, they are by no means, evil, ruthless or even dangerous.

because i work on the business model that i have not charged for my services in my role as a financial adviser, i found that they have absolutely no qualms in getting the most bang for the buck, except that there was nothing to pay for what i have done for them.

and that's why, going forward, i shall exercise more wisdom and operate on a different business proposition and hopefully, i shall avoid meeting what i categorise as 'clients from hell'.

*the adviser who sold these policies either dies, or leaves the industry and entrusts the servicing of the policies to another adviser within the same company.