i should be in the showers but then mum came out and we talked. about dad and money and the rest of the extended family. honestly i don't like talking about money with the extended fam. cus as far as i am concerned i think its our very own business that we are better off than the rest of them. and sometimes i hate to feel that way but i feel that we are often taken advantage of.

my dad gave each of them in the xtended fam 1k before cny and he paid for all the reunion dinner yet again this year. shouldnt reunion dinner be shared by all the people in the fam? no? just because we are better off. then halo i rather eat reunion dinner at home around my lovely steamboat.

everything just seemed so taken for granted.

so natural that they should get a share of our money
that we should always pay for the meals, give them treats, loan them money.

so natural that when they come for mahjong session, we make and serve them coffee, buy them lunch, tea break snack, dinner and supper. and they didnt even once offer to tabao us food before popping by.

im not blaming all on the xtended, my dad's the one with the problem too. cus he is too damn lao ahbeng style and he likes to shoulder their burden like his own. doesnt know where to stop and which line not to cross.

and after the mahjong sessions, me and louis have to act like maids and clean up the house, only to have them come again the next day repeating the whole procedure of what i mentioned before.

yes you should be nice to your family. but not to this extent of always giving them money, lending them 5 fig sums when you duno if they can repay you at all. its really not about the money, but why cant they just pretend to put up a fake struggle and take out their wallets at meals sometimes?


like the reunion dinner.

i'm pissed cus dad's freaking generous with them but yet he didnt allow me to go to melb to study. and mum even suggested for me to go work part time during SIM. she says she's training me to be independent but thats fucking rubbish cus i have always been independent thats why i even went to the SIA shit in hope that i could go to melb to study even though i jolly well know that my dad could afford my education there.

then shouldnt they let the xtend fam deal with their own problems so that they can be independent? thats serious crap over there ok mum. and yes i told this to her.

seriously but what the hell if you expect me to be all smiling still?
i give them the respect i should, but i say what i want.

and there is this particular person in the fam i have a problem with cus she somehow has a way to control my dad's decision. like suggesting that my dad should distribute cash to the xtended. she's a loudmouth and everytime thinks that we are damn loaded when we are really, not. everyone thinks we are damn well off and stuff but helo my dad is not getting much younger and we still have sherman and even if we have the money its our business.

like everytime their cars got problem they call dad and get it done free yadaaakyadak.

aiya just sibeh not happy now la. urghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh