superzeroes
20-02-2007, 07:02 PM
Have we ever come across our mind, imagining the finance manager of our company is someone who kicked her mother in law out of her flat simply because she works as a cleaner? Or the doctor whom we always patron whenever we are sick is the bastard son who chased his mother out of her home. Isn’t it very ironical? Someone, whom in our eyes, supposed to have received high education, neatly dressed and is a higher level of working professionals, is in fact a shallow *******?
There was this article from The Newpaper few days ago about a son (doctor) and his wife (finance manager) who “kicked” their mother out of their flat. And this happened straight after the poor mother re-assigned the ownership of the flat to her son’s name.
As while this news might not be the first ever case in Singapore, what seems more infuriating is the fact the son and wife didn’t seems to be at all ashamed and repentant with their action after being interviewed by the Newpaper’s reporter. And they claimed they were very sad and hurt when they found out that their mother actually seek legal assistance against them in order to get the son to provide for her. And the reason why the son chased his mother out of the flat is simply because he and his wife did not want the mother to work as a cleaner. And also the wife felt it’s very disgraceful of her status as a finance manager to have a mother in law who is a cleaner. The paper even quoted that there were once the daughter in law was having lunch with her colleagues and saw her mother in law doing table cleaning in a food court. She felt “lose face”. If I ever have a wife or friends like that, I will not hesitate to humiliate or make her “lose face” even more.
Of course I am not saying I am way better them these 2 ******* ********, and in fact this living example does reminded me how much I have taken my parents for granted at times. To me, this article is not so much about reminding us that we should never treat our parents that way. Rather I feel this article makes me realized when you have high education, earning big bucks, holding a high post, living in big luxurious flats and driving a big car doesn’t mean you are better off then those who are just a cleaner, general workers or toilet cleaners.
I ever attended a church service invited by my friend. And the pastor who was standing at the front said one thing that I found was rather true about local youngsters. “When you throw a stone, there is a very high chance the stone will hit a university graduate. Many youngsters are getting more and more complacent nowadays. Because of the fact they are able to have higher education now. Everyone think that there are very superior because they have a degree or something higher. They felt they are higher then others who has less and lower. They feel that those with only O Levels, ITE Certs or even Diploma is something very inferior.”
Many forget who they used to be and what kind of friends they used to hang out with. Every one of us simply uses this excuse of “upgrading” ourselves and not wanting to be stagnant in life to climb up the life ladder at the expense of kinship, friendship and some other basic values of human being. Many of us have changed but we don’t realize it anymore. Or simply because we do not want to accept it. Just like the case of the son who is a doctor and his wife who is a finance manager.
***Please review your language next time. Thanks.***
There was this article from The Newpaper few days ago about a son (doctor) and his wife (finance manager) who “kicked” their mother out of their flat. And this happened straight after the poor mother re-assigned the ownership of the flat to her son’s name.
As while this news might not be the first ever case in Singapore, what seems more infuriating is the fact the son and wife didn’t seems to be at all ashamed and repentant with their action after being interviewed by the Newpaper’s reporter. And they claimed they were very sad and hurt when they found out that their mother actually seek legal assistance against them in order to get the son to provide for her. And the reason why the son chased his mother out of the flat is simply because he and his wife did not want the mother to work as a cleaner. And also the wife felt it’s very disgraceful of her status as a finance manager to have a mother in law who is a cleaner. The paper even quoted that there were once the daughter in law was having lunch with her colleagues and saw her mother in law doing table cleaning in a food court. She felt “lose face”. If I ever have a wife or friends like that, I will not hesitate to humiliate or make her “lose face” even more.
Of course I am not saying I am way better them these 2 ******* ********, and in fact this living example does reminded me how much I have taken my parents for granted at times. To me, this article is not so much about reminding us that we should never treat our parents that way. Rather I feel this article makes me realized when you have high education, earning big bucks, holding a high post, living in big luxurious flats and driving a big car doesn’t mean you are better off then those who are just a cleaner, general workers or toilet cleaners.
I ever attended a church service invited by my friend. And the pastor who was standing at the front said one thing that I found was rather true about local youngsters. “When you throw a stone, there is a very high chance the stone will hit a university graduate. Many youngsters are getting more and more complacent nowadays. Because of the fact they are able to have higher education now. Everyone think that there are very superior because they have a degree or something higher. They felt they are higher then others who has less and lower. They feel that those with only O Levels, ITE Certs or even Diploma is something very inferior.”
Many forget who they used to be and what kind of friends they used to hang out with. Every one of us simply uses this excuse of “upgrading” ourselves and not wanting to be stagnant in life to climb up the life ladder at the expense of kinship, friendship and some other basic values of human being. Many of us have changed but we don’t realize it anymore. Or simply because we do not want to accept it. Just like the case of the son who is a doctor and his wife who is a finance manager.
***Please review your language next time. Thanks.***