RANDOM-ISM.

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my maths has improved: for the first time i knew i got extra change from the lady selling yakult. aanyway, that's not the main concern of today's post. for today's post, i shall be discussing about.. THE OVERLY PAMPERED KIDS OF TODAY. and the reason for this discussion is because rah's niece has an IPOD NANO. and she's waaay younger than i am and thus, not compatible with such a sleek and expensive gadget.


okay. so kids these days are very pampered. okay, you have to include those kids with financial help at school although society today may feel that they deserve the help and yada yada yada, but really, we all are very very very pampered and overprivelaged. so i think to make this post coherent (unlike most of my other posts), i should start from kids who are from lower-incomed families.


kids from lower-incomed families are no exception when it comes to pamperism. the proof: their parents work so freaking hard for them to go to school. in the old days, the kids themselves have to work alongside with their parents in order to pay for school fees. (if they(kids today) are malays, all the more they are pampered as they get free education up to JC level) and they have the privelage of getting bursaries if their parents still cannot afford school fees and stuff. see, PAMPERED.


then the middle-class kids. though they are not able to get EVERYTHING that they want, they get things occasionally. for example, they do well for an exam, they get something in return. so when kids these days do really well for exams and they come from middle-class families or higher, you know what drives them to do well. REWARDS. well, don't blame their parents to be giving such things to them, blame the government for introducing the concept of meritocracy in the education system.


oh, rich kids they have every reason to be dispised. if it's not for their "i want this so i should have it" attitude being a pain in their parents' ass, i guess they wouldn't get what they want. ooh, and i really hate it when a rich kid inherits something from their parents and multiple that amount they have in their bank accounts, cos they didn't earn it. it's a freaking rip off.


but in singapore, people are generally financially stable and kids are able to suck up to their parents to get what they want and parents are unable to take control of the demands of the this spoilt brats. or maybe they just love their kids too much that it becomes unbearable to see their kid's pain of not being able to have that ipod nano, or that playstation 2, or that xbox, or that nokia 8800, or those shoes/dress/jeans/bag.


i SALUTE parents (like mine) who make their kids work hard to get what they want. true that i do feel kind of jealous when my friends have better gadgets i have or have nice things and higher allowances or whatnots, but hey, at least i have a little something something of my own. and all the more i treasure it cos i got it on my own, with my own sweat and blood. :D


oh ZARAAAAAAAAAA, we must go to burger king and get that kiddy's meal. cos my uncle wants me to get that Totally Spies toy thing for my cousin. and he's not in singapore. so BURGER KING FOR LUNCH TMRW?

posted by Myz @ 6:03 PM