After a long layoff... I'm finally back... but this time I got a whole new chunk of complaints to file... I'm typing this while fighting back tears welling in my eyes...
So, I'm finally 18, but nothing else changes. Dad's still a persistent die-hard gambler, and whole family's still trying to make ends meet. 3 months of bills, SCV, elec & water, SingTel, SingNet... all unpaid... it's not the first time... Today SCV cuts off tranmission to my tv... back to those free-to-air channels for a while at least... Kinda expecting the rest of the essentials stuff to be cut off one by one...
Mum got Dad to go over to Aunt's house to try ang get her to 'talk sense' into him... However, unfortunately (for me & Mum), it didnt have the desired results... Aunt decided to help him CLEAR THE BILLS. WTF!?!
I mean, here you are, trying to help talk some sense into Dad, and instead of reprimanding him, you gone ahead to help him. Never mind abt that....
So Dad comes home in a understandably happy mood. But he's got a bombshell for me tho... I'm expected to pay my own SingNet bills from nxt months onwards. Sheesh, that got me into a state of frenzy. I raised my voice and argued with him... if only he stopped gambling.. we weren't be in such a terrible state. Issues regarding him gambling... he kept saying "I wouldn't gamble, I promise!"... but i just refused to accept it. Reason? For the past 18 years, he had said that for quite a number of times... everytime after such a promise, within a few months, he's back to his old habits again. No wonder ppl say old habits die hard...
Eventually i broke down (very proned to crying)... then Mum phoned Aunt... and tried to ask her how come he came back from her house in this kind of attitude... Dad then snatched the phone and gave his version of the story...before i stumbled my way to the phone and try to utter a few words into the phone...
Nope. I wasn't going to be allowed to say even a few words, Aunt's mouth just poured open and launched a tirade... I was on the receiving end. I bet she wanted to scold my Mum this way but held back, and saved the bit for me. "You all ah...never help your dad, never give him money, end up I hafta help him foot the bills (stupid la, who ask you to? no one force you anyway), and blablablabla... you HATE your father! YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO TALK TO ME!"
OUCH. (to be continued..)
So, I'm finally 18, but nothing else changes. Dad's still a persistent die-hard gambler, and whole family's still trying to make ends meet. 3 months of bills, SCV, elec & water, SingTel, SingNet... all unpaid... it's not the first time... Today SCV cuts off tranmission to my tv... back to those free-to-air channels for a while at least... Kinda expecting the rest of the essentials stuff to be cut off one by one...
Mum got Dad to go over to Aunt's house to try ang get her to 'talk sense' into him... However, unfortunately (for me & Mum), it didnt have the desired results... Aunt decided to help him CLEAR THE BILLS. WTF!?!
I mean, here you are, trying to help talk some sense into Dad, and instead of reprimanding him, you gone ahead to help him. Never mind abt that....
So Dad comes home in a understandably happy mood. But he's got a bombshell for me tho... I'm expected to pay my own SingNet bills from nxt months onwards. Sheesh, that got me into a state of frenzy. I raised my voice and argued with him... if only he stopped gambling.. we weren't be in such a terrible state. Issues regarding him gambling... he kept saying "I wouldn't gamble, I promise!"... but i just refused to accept it. Reason? For the past 18 years, he had said that for quite a number of times... everytime after such a promise, within a few months, he's back to his old habits again. No wonder ppl say old habits die hard...
Eventually i broke down (very proned to crying)... then Mum phoned Aunt... and tried to ask her how come he came back from her house in this kind of attitude... Dad then snatched the phone and gave his version of the story...before i stumbled my way to the phone and try to utter a few words into the phone...
Nope. I wasn't going to be allowed to say even a few words, Aunt's mouth just poured open and launched a tirade... I was on the receiving end. I bet she wanted to scold my Mum this way but held back, and saved the bit for me. "You all ah...never help your dad, never give him money, end up I hafta help him foot the bills (stupid la, who ask you to? no one force you anyway), and blablablabla... you HATE your father! YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO TALK TO ME!"
OUCH. (to be continued..)
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