A Normal Day in Takasia

[tak]

Ivan Ksenia, 36
A steelworker of Mustcover Steel

04:30	The sun has risen for some time on this early summer morning. Ivan woke up and started a new working day.
05:00	Rushed out and waited for the bus to work. (While Ivan had a car, which can be acquired cheaply in Takasia, the highway tolls are simply unaffordable.) He, as always, seized the one-hour-fifteen-minute ride for extra nap. Neither was this day any different.
06:15	The bus finally arrived at the factory. This gloomy factory has never been the most attractive place in the suburb. He and other workers were just like walking zombies. He had to get to his position in 15 minutes. He needed the full-attendance bouns of 200 marks for the month.
06:30	The day of boring work started. He was never enthusiatic about his job. But just like any other unskilled workers in Takasia, life is not easy.
12:30	Finally the 15-minute luch break. The six-mark-fifty goulash is downed at light speed.
12:35	Browsed "The Sun" a bit. Needed some news for gossips. Some canal opened. Big deal.
12:45	Working started again. Time flies with gossips.
18:30	Knocked off from work! Another one bus ride back to the tavern in town.
19:30	Ordered some vodka, the most fovourite drink in Mustcover, and an otter haggis, a popular Takasian dish. Waiting for the football match between Mustcover United and Bayern Munching.
20:00	Match started. Lady luck spared no blessing to the away team from Mustcover.
20:45	Half time. Mustcover lost three nil. Lots of cursing. Ordered another rounds of vodka. (Must have taken a litre by now)
21:45	Full time. 4-0. Nothing could be worse. Leaving tavern.
21:55	Still quite a distance from home. Took a pee at the street corner.
22:00	Harassed by some teenagers. Common scene, nothing serious.
22:20	Arrived home exhuasted. Took a shower and headed to the pillow.

[Delfos]

OOC: will it be only about important figures? i was hoping it was about workers, using the brothel and all that routine. lol

[tak]

OOC: No. This is a journal for a normal person on a normal day in Takasia. Everyone is invited to write a journal here, say one coming to Takasia as a tourist or for business.

[tak]

Dennis Lee, 28
A chef in an upmarket Chinese restaurant in Melbund

06:30	Woke up and prepared breakfast for his wife and daughter.
07:30	Drove his daughter to school, then his wife to her downtown office, where she worked as an tax accountant.
08:50	Intended to go home, but decided to see his neighbour, Tim instead. They enjoyed some 'good time' in the backyard with the milkman. Exhausted.
10:00	Had a shower at home, and headed to work.
10:30	Arrived at the restaurant, working with today's menu, which his apprentices have prepared this morning.
14:00	Lunch session over. Took some light meal, and lost 75 marks in the card games.
17:00	Shagged the waitress before the dinner session.
20:00	Panic - Shark's fins out of stock. Busy convincing every customer to have the otter dishes insted.
22:30	The last customer left. Shagged the waitress once more.
23:15	Drove home at 100mph. Traffic was light during this hour.
23:45	Reached home, seeing only his daughter - his wife gotta be working overnight again. Keep question the little girl about schoolwork as usual, just like any Asian parent.
00:15	Made sure the girl was sleeping, and sneaked into Tim's place...

[tak]

Rebecca was an unsuccessful telemarketer in Decartes. She almost went bankrupt after a visit to the casino three years ago, which she could not help and lost tens of thousands of tallents. She had never dreamt of a dramatic change of life when she heard the news: five thousand Takasky marks signup bonus for prostitutes.

At the age of 28, she was never the youngest of the class when she arrived at Venezea. She was stunned by the sheer scale of the brothel - none was as big in Decartes back then. More to her amazement, the patrons never stopped coming, round the clock!

With this business, she was able to repay her debts within just two months of work - which exceeds twice the annual salary she earned as a telemarketer! But work was never easy for her - She served at least 8 clients a day, leaving her little time to socialize, even with co-workers.

It was not until one year and a half later, that she met David. David was a son of a Delfian workers to came to Arveoli. He was a virgin at the age of 11 when he met Rebecca. They had a really good time, though it seemed like an incest between a mother and a son. The power of youth had kept their first encounter for four hours.

Since then, David became a frequent patron of Rebecca. Every time David visited, Rebecca taught him some new techniques. This motherly love soon became romance. Yet Rebecca was bounded by her contract and could not quit her job yet.

Not unexpectedly, the parents of David was against the relationship - so much that they have kicked him out of the family. With no financial backup, he turned to Rebecca, and she bought an apartment in Venezea - where they would stay together.

Now came the time of the Canal completion. The parents of David went back to New Delfos, and David had decided to stay back with Rebecca. Rebecca, on the other hand, had completed the contract, and started a small brothel of her own from her savings. They had now indulged in n-some love with their staff, and enjoying every romantic moment.

[The Kingdom of Tagirstan]

Halil Pasha a 44 year old biology teacher from Ammadad had taken his family camping outside of St. Takasburg.  A recent rain storm though finally convinced him to find a hotel room for his two kids and his wife Nusrat.  "I told you camping was a bad idea but no you have to be take young Bayezid outdoors to find his manliness.  Halil just took the tirade from his wife he was to busy thinking of the new japenese teacher.  What was fer name it was forgien something like Miss. Suki or something like that.  He had been having a affair with her for a copule of weeks now.  They had not talked much.  He got into his car and found a station playing a Tagirstani folk song.  His five year old daughter Anaissa named after the princess "yelled cut it up".  He smiled back at her and said "anything for you my little princess".  Anaissa was singing to the song when it was interrupted bu an annopuncer stating that "Today at 6:26pm Grand Vizier Noor al-Farouk has ordered that all travel in and out of Tagshknet is forbidden the entire city is under lockdown.  Halil looked to his wife wondering what hs happened in Tagshknet.

[tak]

Julie Vincent was an established barrister, working in a well-known law firm in St. Takasburg. Middle-aged and unmarried, she was always worried about her own retirement. It was no accident when she invested in the stock market with ambition.

The market was all indicating upwards. With the completion of the Canal Arveo and the unprecedented trade activities in Takasia, the outlook of Marks Sealand was all positive. She was aggressive enough to buy its stocks on margin, with a borrowing of 6,000,000™ from the bank.

Everything was great the morning. The Marks Sealand rose 3% to 88™84 when STSE (St. Takasburg Stock Exchange) started trading the morning. Her investments instantly doubled. "With the Marks Sealand doing even passenger business, there must be potential to rise further," Julie thought.

She attended the court for a rather routine case for the morning, while at the same time thinking of the 10 million marks she just profited from the shares. The dream didn't last long - soon after the morning hearing ended, she received a call from her broker, "I am afraid to tell you that you will have to top-up the account."

Puzzled, she questioned, "What? I thought Marks Sealand had just risen quite a lot this morning?"

She obviously had missed the news, that all direct link to Tagshknet were stopped due to security concern of the Tagirstani government. Minutes after the announcement, the share instantly pointed downward by 5%. By now, Julie had lost all her investment - plus another 6.7 million. It had become a financial crisis for her.

To her despair, she was trying to sell all the share, but to no avail. The plummet in the morning had already caused all her savings, including her apartment in the uber-expensive downtown St. Takasburg. The market had simply panicked - she wasn't able to sell anything when the STSE closed, and the share fell 15% to 73™31.

This had caused her everything, in just a day, by an announcement of the Tagirstani.

She had lost 30,000,000™. She would have no choice but to file for bankruptcy, and that would mean the end of her career. It was too hard a reality for her to accept.

It didn't help that she had a huge (in St. Takasburg standard) office with a superb view of the harbour. Staring blankly out of the windows, she was filled with hopelessness - and there she descended from her 115/F office...

[tak]

Adam, a truck driver of Stinkapore, has started one of his most unusual days in his life as a driver.

"What? Collecting airag to the port? What can they possibly use that for?" Adam, just as curious as others about the move, asked his friend on the phone, who worked as a warehouse worker.

"I don't know, but those awful drinks are for Jutensa, and they need 600,000 litres of them."

"600,000 litres of airag? When on earth did those Mongol nomads make them? Not a single sane person drink that shit."

"Ah, the Stinkapore Tiger Food Inc. bought them, they are sending them to Jutensa for free?"

"Where the hell is Jutensa? And why are we sending them the most awful drink in Taijitu?"

"Somewhere in the tropic I reckon. Heard that there is severe famine there. They are actually trying to sell the drink overseas. Heard that the Mercantilist may actually help selling them. So I bet this must be a promotional campaign."

"Nah... Have you ever tried airag before? It tastes just like horse urine!"

"Not really. But they must have some way to get the people addicted I suppose. It is just another alcoholic drink."

There Adam reached those Mongol gers, collected barrels of airag until the container is filled. With him were other 3 drivers, and all of them required to deliver twice, all with full containers. That was quite a lot of drinks for sure.

The unloading at the port was just as smooth as usual. Transporting airag is little different from transporting other cargo - they are in packed in container boxes anyway. Apart from seeing so many Mongols and airag in a day, this day was rather uneventful for him.

[tak]

Daniel Bjorklund was one of the husbands of Aiko, who was shared by Thanit. Daniel was a housekeeper, taking care the family of four, with their daughter, Serene, being the fourth member.

Every morning, he woke up early and did most of the cleaning, before getting the breakfast prepared and waking everybody up at seven. His work was exceptional, and not even matchable by many domestic helpers.

Driving was expensive, so everyday, Daniel took Serene to the kindergarten by metro. While the metro was fast and efficient in Sendhigh, it was always packed in the morning. During rush hours, there are staff called "Platform Assistants" to push commuters into the already-packed trains. Fortunately, it took them only 10 minutes to get to the kindergarten.

The kindergarten was close to the market, where the freshest food were sold. Takasians hated shopping in supermarkets as they believed that food there were not fresh enough. Again, the market was packed in the morning, when most of the merchandise arrived. Just as any other housewives/housekeepers, they fought hard in getting the best bargain - like getting an extra stick of carrot for their ™50, or an otter steak for 2 marks less. Daniel considered this one of the greatest achievements to save for the family. For this reason, supermarkets were unpopular among Takasians.

As Dan usually hd his chores done early in the morning, he always had free time after getting what he bought home. Dan is no couch potato - on an average day, he either went to the gym or for a facial. He knew well that those places were less crowded before lunch time. As always, he usually had simple lunch such as smorgasbord or baguettes.

While most housewives prefer gossips with other housewives, Dan preferred having sex with them. Sharing a wife meant "inadequate" sex for him, and he always looked for "supplements". He was definitely able to get some after lunch, what he considered a regular and balanced lifestyle. He always enjoyed a high tea with his acquaintance, before fetching Serene from the kindergarten.

After the metro ride home, he became a perfect housekeeper and father again. He could always squeezed the time to played with Serene and prepared a three-course dinner at the same time.

As boring as they could be, Aiko and Thanit almost went home everyday after work for dinner. But the husbands and wife were never bored at the dinner table, where they could spend three hours every evening. Of course, a day could be longer for Dan if Aiko chose to sleep with him that night, But he would be as happy otherwise, as he enjoyed very much telling bedside stories to Serene.

[tak]

Raman was an architect for a Takasian developer, Aurora Development. The company has just won the bid for the 360,000 sq. ft. plot of land at 170 trillion [http://wiki.taijitu.org/index.php?title=Takasky_Mark]Takasky marks[/url]. Today, he an other engineers were surveying the site for the 200-storey building. When built, this building would house some of the most prestigious firms in Takasia, overseeing the Takasburger Bay.

It was no easy task. located at the city centre, it was situated on a metro station. The soil by the harbour was relatively soft too. There, they spent hours surveying - and would spend at least weeks for a solution.

They have called it a day at three in the afternoon. After having a discounted afternoon tea as lunch, he headed to the casino nearby - his favourite pastime. It was a lucky day for him, and he rewarded himself a visit to the landmark Brothel Senate, and enjoyed his BDSM three-some.

Back home, he flatly lied to his girlfriend about his "overtime work", and slept soundly from exhaustion.

[tak]

The Stellarians have decided to build the largest cathedral in Takasia in the far north of St. Takasburg, bordering Mustcover district. Hundreds of unemployed gathered at the site, hoping to get a construction job. These workers were not skillful enough to build hundred-storey high skyscrappers that formed the crowded capital's skyscape. They believed that the Stellarians were willing to employ them, as the cheaper labour forces in Takasia.

What happened was that the Stallerians only granted jobs if they converted to Catholicism. In fact, such poor folks did agree to do so. However, such act had only strengthened local perception that religion was only for the uneducated and uncompetitive folks. The Church would have a lot more to do to revive irs tarnished image.

[Stellaris]

And so it was that a new drive was launched. A convent was established behind the church, a small one, but still a convent. The nuns went out onto the streets everyday, giving bread to beggars, taking the sick back to the convent hospital. All the time making sure that cameras were following them of course.

To: Takasia
From: The Holy Theocracy of Stellaris.

We request that you allow us to dispatch the Archbishop of Rabul, the third most senior figure in Stellaris, to perform a state visit to your nation. Such an action would improve relations between and increase tolerance and understanding of the church in your nation.

[tak]

The Communicative Disease Centre (CDC) is never the most welcome place in Taijitu. Located far in the Arctic Snapsland, it resembles more of a high-security prison than a hospital.

Nurses always consider a job here as the last resort. Among all healthcare institutions, this is one of the most risky. Not only are they open to health or even life risk every day, they are not allowed to leave their community without the 4-week quarantine period, and that almost mean ending the career in the CDC.

In the skycrapper, there are numerous isolated wards. It is said to be the tallest biochemical weapon if bombed. There is hardly any treatment in the CDC. The responsibilities of the nurses include feeding the partients, giving them minimal medicine, and wrapping them up and transporting them to the incinerator once they die. It is no wonder that nursing in the CDC is considered one of the most hated jobs in Takasia.

[Talmann]

skycrapper

Lol... I think you mean skyscraper, yes...

Sorry, [/spam]...

[tak]

The Royal Defense Force of Takasia has staged an Open Day (cum-Recruitment Day) at St. Taksburg Fortress (an outlying island of St. Takasburg). With the booming economy\, the military is seeing fewer and fewer recruits. In this open day, not only did they show the latest Takasian weapons, but also stepped up the recruitment drive by offering signup gifts.

The PR of the Defense Force has purchased (toy) planes from Narport Air Factory as souvenirs for new recruits. As guns and weapons as such are completely banned in Takasia, this has proven to be an attractive signup present for will-be Takasian fighters.

While criticized by some conservatives in the country, the military views signup gifts a necessary moves to attract interested individuals to join the army. "Conscription is out of the question. We only want willing fighters for our defense force," said Jennifer McCharm, the military PR.

The Open Day was considered pretty successful, with families enjoying their time on the island, and 5,000 recruits for the military.