Parents, Children, changing cycles

A lot of thoughts going on... not about individual life... but about people cloest to us, our parents, our children... no particular reasons but just some randoms stuffs that I heard of, came across with that provoke these thoughts that I have never spend some time thinking of.

These conversations are just my thinking... I kinda role-play... and stand in the parents and children point of view... no right or wrong...just some thoughts...

 

Scenario A

Where parents keep complaining to the children that they are not bring enough money back home.

Parents pov : I feed you, give u the best when u are a child, now I only expect u to feed me when u are capable of earning money.

Child pov : Its not as if you are staving and have nothing to spend. I myself already cant feed myself liao

Parents pov : When you are a child I make sure you are well fed, well taken care of, giving you the best even if it means I have to suffer a little

Child pov : If I am earning a lot, of course I can give u whatever amt you request.

Child pov : when I am young, u tell me u can only afford to give me $1 per day, I did not die die ask for $2

Parents pov : U cant say that, I scrimp and save, knowing that you need how much money if I cant afford, I would skip a meal or spend lesser just to give u the money, why cant u do the same for me?

Child pov : Cos I do that to my children, your grandchildren.

Conclusion: No right no wrong, I heard from Fred A, who said, as children we must make sure we give money to our parents eventhough it mean we dun eat cos we cant tell our parents, "eh this month I no money so this month u dun eat ok."

I do agreed to some extend, cos life need to maintain and sustain.... but I hear from Fred B, the parents are requesting more and more allowance, not that they need the money to sustain, but they just hope the children give them more! for watever reasons? Unsure.

 

Scenario B

Parents did not ask money from child directly, but keep complaining that work until very cham, life tough, work until not happy and stuff... Child would be expected to give more allowance to sustain parents so that they dun need to work so hard, or maybe retired? Or maybe to buy things of leisure (not necessity here)

Child pov : U dun have to work until so hard just to buy things to enjoy then complain about working so tough

Parent pov : If I dun work hard, you think we have all these leisure that you are enjoying? If you are capable enough, I dun have to work so hard liao loh

Child pov : Life is getting more and more competitive... its not I am not capable not able to bring back more money, I am also striving very hard... or perhaps I am just incapable....

Conclusion : none... cant think of any...maybe strike toto can solve the problem... Its montary issue here, as long as got money the problem will be solved.

 

Scenario C

Not every issue is money related... Parent sick or not feeling well, the child ask the parent to go see doctor. Maybe the parent is hoping the child to bring them there.

Parent pov : when u young, u a little cough nia, I kan cheong take leave and bring u see doc. Cant sleep because u sick.

Child pov : its not I dun want to bring u, but minor problem u can handle go on our own.

Parent pov : I am just hoping a little care and concern

Conclusion : I think its depending on the seriousness of the case... sigh... a child fall sick all the time, as parents will be so damm kan cheong and attentive 24 by 7... But standing in the parents shoe, old ppl also tend to fall sick quite often, but the child would expect the parents to take care of themselves... why???? Not because the child dun want to accompany the parents ... but no time... well... its no time or dun want lei???

 

Problems of older parents and working children usually revolve around money, care and concern... but problem of working parents and younger children are mostly about TIME...

Last week I chanced upon some parents' blog sharing on how they educate the child right from the minute their 1st breath on earth... its kinda scary to know that baby at the age of 12 months is able to wear his own shoe, eat his own meal whereas he haven even learn to speak! Some parents go to the extend of sending children as young as 2 to this learning class, that learning class... learn phonics, blending, vowels ...I have no ideas what some of these are. I was joking to WS that maybe we never learn all these? So we are worse than a 24 month baby now!

But come to think of it, we cant really say the parents are robbing the children from their childhood. Now the society is so competitive, the child need to be well prepared. As for how well prepared will have to depends on the expectation of the parents. But so far, its all about learning ABC, colours, speech.... no parents talk about installing moral values...

Saturday straits time home section a special report on "Girls gone wild" is shocking yet so realistic reflection of some of the teenagers in Singapore today! Classic example of parents not installing moral value when the child is young... nowaday bad kids no longer only come from broken family. More and more are coming from complete family or even best "well to do" family... why still become bad kids? Cos the parents working all the time, no time to teach the kids... Newspaper write, we need to installed values and spend time with the child right from their very young age.

One side of the world with parents trying so hard, spending so much money and time to nurture the child from young... and on the other side of the world with parents not spending time with their child causing them to become rotten apples.

The equation goes like this

Spend more time with child = Less comittment at work, less income

Need more money to nurture a child = Work harder and more committed to work, more money

See? They can never work hand in hand.

Well nuraturing dun come cheap...need money and where money can be found? By working hard... and working mean spending more time and more committed at work to bring home more money. That means lesser time to spend with family, children... causing some to feel unloved and turn bad....

Ok if let say the parents willing to forgo and make adjustment to lifestyle... bring back lesser money in order to have more time and spend more time with the child... but dun forget the above problems! Still have elderly parents asking u for $$$...dun forget elderly parents also work very hard during their younger days to feed the child and their elderly parents...

no conclusion to this...its a cycle thing... just that changes happen to the cycle...and getting more and more ironic...end of the day its about balance??? When you cant find balance, u become inbalance. Hahahah!

Seed to leaves

We bought some seeds from Taipei Storyland, each and every seeds have some chinese characters engraved on them... not sure if they can really grow into big plant.... we bought quite a lot back. Nick gave the ones which engrave "huat", "fai cai" to his colleagues cos they 4d, toto siao...We kept 3 of the seeds with us.

Previous week, Nick tried to plant 2 of the seeds at home. After a few days (less than a week), the plant grow so much! A bit scary!



The 1st picture is at day 3 and the next picture is at day 6 or 7 ba.... As the plant grow bigger, the words engraved on the seed disappeared.... But now these plants are gone... dun wish to go into details... We cant keep them... they are clinging plants which need supporting stuff as claim by someone ...  "(  keep asking wat we want to do with it... I cant bring it to office cos its will become a big plant... Nick say throw away ... so in the end throw loh... I plucked the plant alive from its pot! leaving the roots dangling.... I keep 2 leaves with me... see if can make into dried leaves...
We still have 1 more seed with us ... thinking where can I grow it... 

Questions and Answer Jokes

Ah mei's dad has 7 wives, the 5th and 7th are africans. Guess a chinese 'chen yu'
~ Wu Qi Ma hei

 

Every night xiao ming's mum will tuck him into bed. whenever he ask her to cover him with blanket, his mum will scold n slap him, why?
~ "Ma, na bei"

 

Ah bao was murdered! however the police quickly found the killer.. who is it?
~ Dou Sa Bao

 

xiao bai n da bai r bros. As xiao bai grows older, he look more n more like his bro. Guess a chen yu
~ Zhen Xiang Da Bai

 

Osama, Bush , Blair and Saddam play mahjong ... Who will win first ??
~ Saddam Hu Xian (Hussein)

 

Wats a panda biggest wish on earth ???
~Taking colour photo

 

Who will pick up the dumping(ba zhang) on the floor ?
~ Xiang Long Shi Ba Zhang

 

There are 3 Male and 1 Female pencils in a box. The Female pencil got pregnant!! Which Male pencil is responsible?
~the one without the rubber

 

cow in north pole... guess a shoe brand...
~ new balance ( nu bei leng si)

 

Xiao ming drinks milk to grow up, Da ming drinks what?
~ Alcohol because Jiu Yang Da Ming

 

He Shang Shu Tou Fa (Monk combs hair). Guess a country.
~ Scotland (su ke lan aka comb for f**k?)

 

Which brand of shampoo is the wealthiest
~ "Lux" Super Rich

 

There are 2 birds on a tree. Below the tree is a goat..in chinese is yang. When the yang died.. wad did the female bird told the male bird tt makes the male birdy horny?
~ Xia mian "yang" si liao

 

Yellow Jokes

Rusty???

After the baby was born, the panicked Chinese father went to see the obstetrician.

"Doctor! I don't mind telling you, but I'm upset about my daughter's hair color! She has red hair! She can't possibly be mine!" the man exclaimed.

"Nonsense! Even though you and your wife both have black hair, one of your ancestors may have contributed red hair to the gene pool." the doctor replied calmly.

"It isn't possible. We're pure asians." the man insisted.

"Well, then let me ask you this..How often do you have sex?" said the doctor.

The man seemed ashamed. "I've been working very hard for the past year. We only made love once or twice a month."

"There you have it!" the doctor said confidently. "It's just rust!"

 

The more you rub, the bigger it gets

a teacher came to class one day and found the word penis written very discreetly on 1 corner of the black board, turning around to see no guilty faces , she rubbed it off and continued wif the class.

the next day she came in and there was that word again in a larger font, feeling the culprit got braver and seeing no guilty face, she continued wif the lesson.

this happened over the next few days till the word has covered the whole board and was quite a problem in sch, still the teacher took no action.

1 fine day she came to class expecting to rub another "penis"
off the board oni to see the words "the more u rub it the bigger it gets"
written on the board......

 

Glow in the dark

There's a newly wed couple who wanted to have sex on the wedding night... but they don't want to have a baby soon.. so they wanted to have protected sex....

so the man went down to a nearby convience store and saw a set of condoms.. the first one was the normalone the second was red (strawberry) the third one was black (chocolate) and the last one was luminous.... so after pondering for a while he decided to take the chocolate one....

while the man was deciding what to choose... his poor wife got raped by a black man (regardless of race.... ^^) and didn't told her husband...

so after nine months the baby can out.... by the time he could speak the first question was... "daddy how come i'm dark skin and u and mummy are not???

the dad replied..." luckily i didn't use the lumious one... otherwise u will be glowing in the dark...."

 

Tickle These, Elmo

A women desperately looking for work goes into a toy factory.

The Personnel Manager goes over her resume and explains to her that he regrets he has nothing worthy of her. The woman answers that she really needs work and will take almost anything. The Personnel Manager hems and haws and finally says he does have a low skill job on the Tickle-Me-Elmo line and nothing else. The woman happily accepts.. He takes her down to the line and explains her duties and that she should come in at 8am the next day.

The next day at 8:45 there's a knock at the Personnel Manager's door. The Tickle-Me-Elmo line manager comes in and starts ranting about the woman just hired. After screaming for 15 minutes about how badly backed up the assembly line is, the Personnel Manager suggested he be shown the problem.

Together they head down to the line and sure enough Elmos are backed up from here to kingdom come. Right at the end of the line is the woman just hired. She has pulled over a roll of the material used for the Elmos and has a big bag of marbles. They both watch as she cuts a little piece of fabric and takes 2 marbles and starts sewing them between Elmo's legs.

The Personnel Manager starts to kill himself laughing and finally after 20 minutes of rolling around, he pulls himself together and walks over to the new employee and says, "I'm sorry, I guess you misunderstood me yesterday. What I wanted you to do was give Elmo two test tickles."

 

 

Just for laughs ~ Ah Beng Jokes

(Act 1)

Ah Beng calls the telephone operator:

Ah Beng: "Could you please tell me the time difference between Singapore and New York?"

Operator: "Just a minute..."

Ah Beng: "Thank you."

Ah Beng got his answer and cut off the line.

 

(Act 2)

At a bar in New York, the man sat next to Ah Beng told the bartender,
"JOHNNIE WALKER, SINGLE."

and his companion said, "JACK DANIELS,SINGLE."

The bartender turned to Ah Beng and asked, "AND YOU, SIR?"

Ah Beng replied: "Tan Ah Beng, MARRIED."

 

(Act 3)

After completing a jigsaw puzzle he'd been working on for quite sometime, Ah Beng proudly shows off the finished puzzle to a friend."

It took me only 5 MONTHS to do it," Ah Beng said.

"FIVE MONTHS? Why did you take so long." the friend asked.

Ah Beng replied, "No, it is not long at all, look at the box, it says it is for 4 to 7 years".

 

(Act 4)

Ah Beng took part in the Singapore Manhunt Competition. During the Q&A
segment, the host asks, "Name a drink that begins with the letter 'G'."

The crowd shouts, "Gin! Gin!". Others exclaim, "No, its Grape Juice!"

Another smart aleck yells, "Alamak, Gatorade!"

Host : "Quiet please."

Ah Beng laughs hysterically like a hyena before replying, "C'mon man, I
don't need their help? I got more original answer. My answer is "Gu ni!"
(milk in Hokkien)

 

(Act 5)

Ah Beng had just bought a new computer and was using it when he encountered some problems. After a few attempts, he decided to use the 'Help' command. Soon after, he became very irritated and called the computer shop for support.

Ah Beng : "I pressed the 'F1' key for help... but it's been over half an hour & still nobody has come to help me...."

 

(Act 6)

In the class. Teacher: "Class, do you know the meaning of parents?"

Ah Beng: "Yes, teacher, it means father and mother"

Teacher: "Good. Can you give me an example?"

Ah Beng: "Sure. Cowboy's parents means cowboy's father and mother.

Also can say Cowboy's father is Cow Pay and Cowboy's mother is Cow Boo.
So if they walk together, we can say they are 'Cow Pay Cow Boo'".

 

(Act 7)

Ah Beng with two red ears went to his doctor. The doctor asked him what
had happened to his ears and he answered," I was ironing a shirt and the
phone ring lor- but instead of picking up the phone, I accidentally
picked up the iron and stuck it to my ear. So Kena lor!"

"Oh Dear!" the doctor exclaimed in disbelief. "But, what happened to the other ear?"

Ah Beng: "That stupid fellow called back again loh!"

 

(Act 8)

Why did Ah Beng go to a movie with his 18 friends?

Because according to the advertisement, below 18 is not allowed to go in.

 

(Act 9)

Ah beng joined a competition and he was asked to answer this question..

"Name 3 fruits starting with 'L'"

he confidently said out.. "Lime.. Lemon..."

suddenly.. he halted.. and starting to figure out the last fruit..

"You have 10 secs left"

"10"

"9"

"8"

"7"

"6"

"5".....

"WAIT!!!! I KNOW WHAT FRUIT LIAO!!!!"

"ok, pls ans the 3rd fruit.."

"LIU LIAN!!!!!!"

 

(Act 10)

Ah beng and Ah seng was walking... Suddenly they saw a sai(means shit in hokkien) on the floor..

Ah beng: eeee.. sai lei..

Ah seng: sai meh?

Ah Seng used his finger to take the shit.. and taste..

Ah Seng: wah!! its really sai lei!!

 

(Act 11) 

ah beng, ah seng and ah siao are walking in a forest... Suddenly they saw a well.. then a magical person appears... her name is angel..

angel: i shall grant each of u a wish.. but while making tt wish, u muz run and shout the wish..

ah beng: *runs* i wish to become a bird! *poof, bcums a bird*

ah seng: *runs* i wish to bcum a dog! *poof, bcums a dog*

ah siao: *runs* i wish to bcum.. *trips* oh shit!! *poof, turns into a shit*

 

(Act 12)

one day, Ah beng and Ah seng was taken into an office building for something important,

one of the people took them up to the designated place to finish te job.

after they finished with their things, they went into the lift to go down, then Ah Seng asked

Ah Seng: Eh Ah beng, this lift don't have bottom level one leh, how we get down?

Ah Beng pressed the button with the "G" and they landed on he first floor

Ah Seng: HUA! HIONG EH! eh beng , how you know one argh?

Ah Beng: Ceh... so easy, "G" for level "Gero" mah! of coz i know lah... you bodoh!