Confessions of a Middle class child-Part 2

17-20 yrs (Poly days)

During these years, my dad left our family, making my mum the sole breadwinner in the family, during these days, my housewife mum went out to work for the 1st time in her life in SG..

• After my O levels, for every vacation I get, I would find any temp placements to work and to earn some pocket money, be it for my new sch books, clothes or wat so ever expenses I need...Mum say u work for wat u wan, dun expect her to give monies for your wants..
• During my sch terms, I would give tuition at night and hand my mum half the fees for our hse hold expenses.
• After graduating from Poly, I am not able to get into NTU when I applied the 1st time, reason being, the government onli allows the top 5% of the cohort into Uni, with a GPA of 3.4, I am no where near the 5%..Thanks man, my family is unable to send me to overseas due to family constraint..
• Started working and part time studee..it is no easy feat, nearly wanted to kill myself every now and then and sch n work got busy althogether..

21yrs and above

It is lucky that I started work early at 17, having quite an amount in my CPF, neber in my dream I know this will come in handy.

Hubs and I were both the middle child coming from lower middle income family. Parents were neither rich enuff to provide all for us, nor poor enuff to let us suffer much..Juz having alot of restrictions here n there..
When we planned to get married in 2008, we know we need a flat, at the tender age of 24 & 25, we were unable to fork out the ridiculously high COV or our parents have enuff to lend/support/sponsor us. We took things into our hand and applied 1 thru balloting.

Luck was on our side, I shd say. The hse prices were rising, but nt that fast, and my hse is the last batch tat HBD sold under the bi-monthly sales at a lower price. The catch is, this is a 14yr old hse, in 1 of the most ulu place in SG-Yew Tee on a 3rd floor. Some of my fwens tot I was crazy to buy, but we tot this is our only chance on owning a hse on our own..

Took the plunge and neber look bak since, shifted in without any renovations, rented out the rooms to fund for our weeding/ expenses for the hse and future renovation..This is how we manage to get thru all these yrs.. Within a yr after I got my hse, I saved enuff to hold my wedding, took our weddin photos and went for honeymoon..All these are done on our own. We were the lucky 1, as many of our fwens are not able to even get a flat.Some, might but the price is a whole lot higher, some did have the support from parents but there are others who are in the same situation as us and are still waiting to save enuff for onli a wedding..

This is the real life experience of a child from a lower middle class family with maybe a little more lucky den some others. Where the government seems to forget about us, living us to stuggle on our own with the ever increasing prices..

Tell me, how many of our leaders went thru these during their growing up years? Not many I dared to say..Only if you are able to feel for us, understand our difficulties and stop acting arrogant, den I will be able to be convinced that the government looks out for the citizens..For the time being, you are juz looking out for yourself and watever you mentioned are all excuses in my humble opinion. So stop bullshitting and get your asses down to work!!!