Think Before You Spent!!!
It happens again. No, I don’t purposely look out for youngster doing wrong things and harp on them, taking every opportunity to “shoot” them down. Well this is what happens yesterday. I was taking the MRT at Clementi and was looking out of the glass door. Then at a later station, a school girl came in and she was on her handphone. You know what was she saying. No, I don’t eavesdrop, but she was talking a little loud so I heard her phrase. This is what she says. “Hey, call me leh. talk to me leh” She was trying all the time to get have a chat with some one. Is there nothing better to do than to try asking people chat with her? Even if hers is a free incoming call what about the other party? Do they not value the hard earned money their parents had to pay for such nonsensical usage?
This situation was even more glaring when later, I saw my niece. Hey, my niece is a reporter from Today and she writes very good reports. Her name is Jasmine Yin, so the next time you pick up the Today, lookout for her articles. Anyway, she recently reported on the public assistance, the issue about how the poor received only $270 a month, to pay for their daily meals, utilities, rents, medical cots etc. Imagine living on $270 a month and to pay for all these basic essentials!!! She related to me, how she was interviewing an old elderly lady who was having her lunch and she had a fish that she would only eat a little and the other portion will be kept for dinner and for another day. “It was so heartbreaking” she said.
Too many of our young people had never lived in such condition before. They never appreciate what they had. Just as I had mentioned earlier, this school girl, probably, only 14 years old, spend her time calling for others to just chat with her, even though she had nothing to chat. It was simply out of boredom and she just MUST CHAT with someone. It is ok, if you do it once in a while. But they way she keep calling, it shows that she had been doing this very often and it sounded like desperation!!! IT SEEMS AS THOUGH SHE WILL DIE IF NO ONE CHAT WITH HER!!! No, she does not look like she need help, she was cheerfully calling one after another, just trying her luck to have someone to chat with.
Hello, my young reader, do value the money that you are having now. You will probably feel it when you start working. Making a living is never easy. The poor old lady who eat her fish portion by portion shows how valuable it was. So do think about this old lady before you start splurging on something so expensive just for its brand.
This situation was even more glaring when later, I saw my niece. Hey, my niece is a reporter from Today and she writes very good reports. Her name is Jasmine Yin, so the next time you pick up the Today, lookout for her articles. Anyway, she recently reported on the public assistance, the issue about how the poor received only $270 a month, to pay for their daily meals, utilities, rents, medical cots etc. Imagine living on $270 a month and to pay for all these basic essentials!!! She related to me, how she was interviewing an old elderly lady who was having her lunch and she had a fish that she would only eat a little and the other portion will be kept for dinner and for another day. “It was so heartbreaking” she said.
Too many of our young people had never lived in such condition before. They never appreciate what they had. Just as I had mentioned earlier, this school girl, probably, only 14 years old, spend her time calling for others to just chat with her, even though she had nothing to chat. It was simply out of boredom and she just MUST CHAT with someone. It is ok, if you do it once in a while. But they way she keep calling, it shows that she had been doing this very often and it sounded like desperation!!! IT SEEMS AS THOUGH SHE WILL DIE IF NO ONE CHAT WITH HER!!! No, she does not look like she need help, she was cheerfully calling one after another, just trying her luck to have someone to chat with.
Hello, my young reader, do value the money that you are having now. You will probably feel it when you start working. Making a living is never easy. The poor old lady who eat her fish portion by portion shows how valuable it was. So do think about this old lady before you start splurging on something so expensive just for its brand.
posted by Sebastian Chu at 11:09 AM
