Society is made up of a variety of people. Someone are born with crazy thoughts, some do crazy things to attract attention.
Jay Nguyen is the latter one. When I opened MSN today, a piece of news popped up and drew my attention.
Jay Nguyen, the found of sweemo.com invited person to slap his face with a fish. Sure if you want to be the person to slap him you have to pay.
You need to subscribe with the website and bid on the auction of slap Jay’s face.
It’s easy to understand that Jay wants to promote his website through this weird auction. The thing I could not figure out is someone who is stranger to Jay and does not have grudge against him would like to pay for slapping him.
But when the bidding closed yesterday afternoon, there’s a guy from Texas showed up and paid 401 pound and won the bidder.
The only explanation I could find for the Texas guy is that he could make use of this opportunity to pay a visit to London, and slapping Jay by the way. Because Jay will pay the transportation fee and two night hotel for the person who won the bidder no matter where they are from.
I visited Jay before the bidding closed several hours later. At that time the bidding price is still as low as 212, he said that he hoped the price would jump quickly in the last few hours.
Jay:Please smack me with fish Picture taken by Lei Yang
The Australian once worked as an engineer. This year he launched this website and hoped that he could make money from it. A website offers people to exchange experience in the form of auction. Jay said his ambition was extremely high for this website.
The concept of this website reminds me of a film once quite popular in China: The Dream Factory.
Four unemployed person carried out a project to help common people to realize the dream they would never have opportunity to get close to.
But the dream is not as beautiful as people previously imagined. Once they’ve been put in desirable situation they’ve always hope for, they find out that’s not what they want.
People always living in a dilemma, a fortress besieged.
Should we cherish what are in our hands rather than weltering in dreaming?
Maybe a website providing us an opportunity to experience what we once dream for could help us to know what we really want.
