$ and way of living

Just now I was attending my brother's bursary award ceremony at Townsville Primary School. Oh got to shook hand with Prime Minister, think my mother was feeling quite high about it (PM Lee is our GRC's MP, and my mother's idol =P)

I was stoning at the canteen, looking at the bursary/award recipients, then suddenly I thought of my deep conversation with Mr Gerard a few weeks ago. We were talking about the kind of things that we want to do in life, I said the income won't be stable anymore if we really want to do something we are passionate about (like social work, volunteerism, etc). Then he said, rich people have their way of living, poor people also have their way to survive. I think of it, quite true, not so rich then live simple.

Recently my mother has been grumbling a bit. She said now that my father doesn't have a steady income, etc etc, (then she complained about somemore things, not that convenient to say them here... but along the line that my brother and I still haven't come out to work) Some people have been making unpleasant comments about me saving a lot, spending very little, from meals, from entertainment, but they just can't see where the spending is done. Now I must cut down even more on my spendings, ie cut down on my outings (which is already close to zero now) and unnecesary expenditure. Don't really want to cut down my climbing, but if I have to, I just have to. Not sure if I can cope if I give tuitions, don't want to give myself excuse for not doing well in exam...

I looked at the bursary recipients, some of them looked quite funky, oh I must be thinking where did they get the money to buy trendy stuffs. Not for us to judge I guess, and not-that-rich people have their way of living too.

I wish the coffee machine can run forever for me.