Madman'sLetterToHisSon.

Dear Son

Dad is increasing concerned with your sense of well being and the management of your life and time for which he is responsible for advising. Let me say that for a start, your idea of being grown-up and having your ‘own life and independence’ is ill-conceived. Managing a life means a lot about managing the economics of sustaining a life. At this point in time, you are still developing a skill that presumably in time can be converted to cash. If that skill cannot be converted to cash, you will be in deep trouble. That is part of the reason why your course includes a syllabus on Entrepreneurship.

Your idea that you are receiving an ‘income’ from your parents out of which a portion you give to your church is ill-conceived and you have been ‘conned’, duped, into believing that this is the way to salvation. Dad spent a lot of time researching the bible and the church just that you can understand the issues whenever you ask. You ought to be asking questions rather than avoiding them..

Dad is not about to give you lectures that you are shunning but you must understand certain basics, without which your ignorance will destroy you. The basics come back to the economics of living. We need money to live. And money does not grow on trees. Money is part of the economics of survival in resource scarce Singapore. Survival is the same with every entity be an individual, a corporation, a country or a church – money comes around, and goes around and has to be first secured, unlike a game of conman-ship where you are duped into parting with your money.

In short, if you want money, you will have to go and get it! Don’t expect it to come around like a church.

In His love and the best of your interests,
Dad

My Chinese New Year's Present from a certain someone.

I had a lot of things to say, but I think I'll just drop the issue.

I wanted to shout and scream and curse and swear, but none of that would help me accomplish anything.

My mom's with her boyfriend now.

Sometimes i wonder if it would be better if they both weren't even there.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins - proverbs 10:12

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, nor is puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they shall cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. - 1 corinthians 13:4-8

I guess if i judge myself according to this, then i must say that i really do hate my parents.

But then i think about it, and then again, i really don't.

I guess I understand myself a little bit more today. And then one day, i hope to forget all my hatred and realize that everything i fought so hard against was never really even there at all.