So i need a place to rant. Just let me be.

Im the 2nd child of the family, and all along since young, i know money has always been an issues in my family. My dad being a bus driver, earns an income that is only enough to get by, while my mum works to earn enough just to pay for the housing payment. So okay, me, who really likes to doll myself up since secondary sch knew that whatever i wanna buy , i need to save up using my own pocket money to get what i want. So definitely all my clothes are definitely not branded, not expensive, where you can easily get from bugis street.

This is what is built up- to become the "today me". I couldnt bear to put myself to buy expensive stuffs for myself, but if its my parents, i would definitely say yes. I love travelling so, thats the only thing that i would only really spend on ( but they are all really budget places, and for flights and hotels, normally its either a budget flight or a budget hotel, if lets say i have a better flight, i would choose a more budget hotel to stay in, or if its a budget flight, i will have a betty stay for the hotel).


Apparently My mum has been feeling that my hard earned money is easy to come by, and this few months she has been asking me for sums of money...

#1-
All along she has been telling me that she would like to try this health products, that health products, so whenever she mention that she would like to try this new thing, she would actually ask whether i could buy it for her, or i can pay for her first and she will pay me back. Obviously as a daughter, i would gladly pay for it...for all her requests. Thats not the problem, once she tried it, maybe for 1 week or less than that, she thinks that its not working for her, she would actually ask me to finish up. and DAMN. how much money has been used up for that??

#2-
She is having a company overseas trip to Taiwan, she mentioned that its for free so okay, of course i told her- go luh! why not free lei. She mentioned that dad would probably not let her go on her own so i gladly offered to pay for dad's air tix to let them have a company. oh well, she rejected. so fine, its okay. She then asked for a sum of money for her expenses for the trip, which i agreed to. Of course, more than willing to since this is her first overseas trip of her own.

#3-
One casual day, she told me Father's day is coming so please buy a phone for my dad as his is not working very well already. I replied: okay, why not. Ask brother and sister to share money togther lo. Fair right? What she replied me: they are not earning now so why ask them? HELLO. im not trying to tell them to split the sum equally but just a lil bit as yi shi yi shi right? but her reaction is so big, so i replied: you think i print money one uh, everything i pay. She's pissed, and walked off.

#4-
My sister told my mum she may be going for a overseas study programme to china. So yesterday when i get back home, the first thing she said: hey i have something to negotiate with you. My dad was just beside her btw. so i sat down, and there she goes: your sister is going for study trip, she may and may not get to go. But if she gets to go you help her pay first, daddy will then pay you back $100 every month. The thing is my dad has a bad reputation for returning money. Its $1700, and that cost around one month of my pay! Negotiate? thats not even negotiate please! its just telling me! My trip to anywhere that i have been to also dont cost me that much! my sister used to work part time and she has money to buy herself branded bags, clothes and stuffs, eg $60 for a piece of clothes and why not tell her not to spend so much to save herself for the raining days? I once asked my mum: Wa you see sister really she de to buy herself all these hor, i also bu she de, and what she replied me: aiya i no money to buy her she earn herself buy herself lo. SO NOW. she wanna go for this overseas trip, LET HER EARN HERSELF PAY HERSELF LUH. her money is money my money not money? her money let her use to buy clothes and bags and my money let her use to go overseas? It may be a study trip? but why is it optional? Not that important to go afterall right???

In case you guys think that im not giving any money to my mum every month, my mum and I have a sharing account and every month an amount will de going to the account straight from my Pay.
And when we have a family outing, i will make it a point to pay half of the expenses.

So mummy, you really think all that is not my hard earned money? Working as a nurse earns that much to pay for everyone in the house?