My mum
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Also, just argued with my dysfunctional mum today. lol
I had a bad day from the start. I had terminated a mobile phone service (last payment in Oct). So imagine my "horror" when I received a legal letter from Starhub's lawyer yesterday (barely a month later on 12th Nov 2008), asking to settle SG$101 payment.
I just wanted to pay at an AXN service station and inform Starhub via phone that I refuse to pay the legal fees as it was unreasonable. My mum insisted I went down and make a fuss.
I was like, "What's the point? Either way I've decided not to go with Starhub, I had another phone plan with another service-provider anyway." But knowing my mum best, I acceded her request.
She tagged along with me to Starhub's headquarters just behind where Centrepoint was. My old lady almost had her head injured as I turned back in time and shouted to her - that barge that went up and down for cars to enter/exit from (carpark) almost came down on her head. She managed to avoid it in time because she heard me.
She caught up with me and started grumbling and blaming me for her near-death fright, and I thought, "I was only a few steps ahead of you mum. You've refused to be pushed in a wheelchair, nor did you want a walking stick. So how am I supposed to dictate where and when you put your feet?"
This day, it was very unlike me cos I usually call and double-confirm appointment and address. I didn't call, neither did I make an appointment. So when we finally reached Starhub headquarters, I was kinda pissed when they told me I had to go to one of their customer service shops. They apologised for the inconvenience, I and mum proceeded to Plaza Singapura.
Okie....big fuss made at Plaza Singapura (got a ticket and had waited less than 7 minutes to be served). I was told that I should be paying lesser than the required $101 but that they needed to have their internal revenue department waiving the legal fees. I was advised by the friendly Starhub staff to hold on to the payment. My mum insisted I paid off the bill!
Okie, again I acceded to her request cos Starhub is gonna refund via cheque for overpayment anyway. I paid SG$90.
Pet Lovers' Centre was also there! Oh all the qute qute hammies were there and I itched to get a few again since my last hammie was suspected of "murder" (he had a clean horizontal cut on his tummy and had his poor intestines sticking out but there was no sign of blood for which I suspected a **boy who we were looking after for 3 months since his mum tried to strangle him DID IT - he's since returned to his father who then later sent him to a boys' home for other behavioural problems).
I woulda spent the rest of the early evening window-shopping but I couldn't.
Again I acceded to my mum's request to rush home so she can catch her favourite news and TV seriel drama. I had barely sat in the room for a minute when I realised we forgot to mail my brother's READERS' DIGEST envelope. She suggested I post it since I have not yet changed into my usual home t-shirt and shorts.
I said,"Me?" I was thinking of the tidbids to buy but more importantly, I suddenly remembered I was waiting for an overseas phone call from someone at 7pm and this person only had my home phone number. The phone call was a confirmation for a viewing date and time for a walkup apartment in the East area. It meant $$$$ to me. I was about to call on someone (someone whom I would name as 'JO') to run the mailing errand.
Before I could summon Jo into the room, my mum grumbled and said that I am useless, blah blah...and she will go mail the letter now on her own. In the past she would say stupid things like,"My children never support me!" And I would go,"Oh, then how did you get the money to buy groceries and stuff to cook??? You make it sound as if we ill-treat you!"
I feel that it's not that we kids don't appreciate her, it's she NOT appreciating us. I had enough of her treating me like a doormat and said,"Mum, can you please stop getting angry? Did you even give me a chance to call Jo into the room???"
She picked up my brother's envelope and proceeded to tear it open. She was in one of her temper tantrums. I said."Mum are you out of your mind? Where are you going to get another no-postage required envelope like this?"
And she was like,"Useless envelope! Causing so much trouble. Tear you up!"
This time, I snatched the envelope away from her.
Guess what? She picked up a stool and threw it. It flew towards the door and for a minute I wished it went straight to the TV I bought for her. It would have been ample penalty for an over-sized over-grown kid in an old body.
It was at this moment I told her,"Stop acting like a spoilt brat mum! Can't I even have the freedom of mailing it tomorrow? Why are you so bloody inflexible?? It's only a Reader Digests' reorder form and cheque!!"
She continued being angry; even after 3 hours she challenged me to complain to my brother. I looked at her and shook my head. Kid!
My mum's main problem is, she can get angry over the most mundane of problems, finger-pointing and not being able to see the light even at age 72! One of her childhood friends who played with her told me,"Do you know Kelly? You mum hit me when I was a kid! She hit me! You look at her and she can fool almost everyone cos she looks like a teacher. But she is damn fierce lo!"
I looked at the lady who brings me grandaunt food daily. She had a smirk on her face.
I smiled and said,"Yes, I know."
I've put up with her "gross misconduct" for as long as I could remember. Everytime she insists on something (sometimes she makes detrimental decisions or do things that makes me cringe) I try to have things her way.
My friends said that if I make it a little more difficult for her to get her monthly allowance may be it will make her behave better. Another friend said it's difficult for anyone to stomach her constant verbal abuse and that my mum belongs to the nursery for senior citizens; being in the "public eye" will force her to behave.
A brother's friend's wife (from Thailand) said she wouldn't expect my mum to be nice to her when she could not even respect her own daughter. (She said this when she found out how calculative my mum got over some meat and groceries she placed in our fridge. She and her husband rented a room from us for a good 3 months. I guess she didn't like my mum that much.)
Ironically, it's thanks to her that I indirectly had a chance to have the boy** leave the household for good. The super-naughty boy could not stand my mum at all!
Also, just argued with my dysfunctional mum today. lol
I had a bad day from the start. I had terminated a mobile phone service (last payment in Oct). So imagine my "horror" when I received a legal letter from Starhub's lawyer yesterday (barely a month later on 12th Nov 2008), asking to settle SG$101 payment.
I just wanted to pay at an AXN service station and inform Starhub via phone that I refuse to pay the legal fees as it was unreasonable. My mum insisted I went down and make a fuss.
I was like, "What's the point? Either way I've decided not to go with Starhub, I had another phone plan with another service-provider anyway." But knowing my mum best, I acceded her request.
She tagged along with me to Starhub's headquarters just behind where Centrepoint was. My old lady almost had her head injured as I turned back in time and shouted to her - that barge that went up and down for cars to enter/exit from (carpark) almost came down on her head. She managed to avoid it in time because she heard me.
She caught up with me and started grumbling and blaming me for her near-death fright, and I thought, "I was only a few steps ahead of you mum. You've refused to be pushed in a wheelchair, nor did you want a walking stick. So how am I supposed to dictate where and when you put your feet?"
This day, it was very unlike me cos I usually call and double-confirm appointment and address. I didn't call, neither did I make an appointment. So when we finally reached Starhub headquarters, I was kinda pissed when they told me I had to go to one of their customer service shops. They apologised for the inconvenience, I and mum proceeded to Plaza Singapura.
Okie....big fuss made at Plaza Singapura (got a ticket and had waited less than 7 minutes to be served). I was told that I should be paying lesser than the required $101 but that they needed to have their internal revenue department waiving the legal fees. I was advised by the friendly Starhub staff to hold on to the payment. My mum insisted I paid off the bill!
Okie, again I acceded to her request cos Starhub is gonna refund via cheque for overpayment anyway. I paid SG$90.
Pet Lovers' Centre was also there! Oh all the qute qute hammies were there and I itched to get a few again since my last hammie was suspected of "murder" (he had a clean horizontal cut on his tummy and had his poor intestines sticking out but there was no sign of blood for which I suspected a **boy who we were looking after for 3 months since his mum tried to strangle him DID IT - he's since returned to his father who then later sent him to a boys' home for other behavioural problems).
I woulda spent the rest of the early evening window-shopping but I couldn't.
Again I acceded to my mum's request to rush home so she can catch her favourite news and TV seriel drama. I had barely sat in the room for a minute when I realised we forgot to mail my brother's READERS' DIGEST envelope. She suggested I post it since I have not yet changed into my usual home t-shirt and shorts.
I said,"Me?" I was thinking of the tidbids to buy but more importantly, I suddenly remembered I was waiting for an overseas phone call from someone at 7pm and this person only had my home phone number. The phone call was a confirmation for a viewing date and time for a walkup apartment in the East area. It meant $$$$ to me. I was about to call on someone (someone whom I would name as 'JO') to run the mailing errand.
Before I could summon Jo into the room, my mum grumbled and said that I am useless, blah blah...and she will go mail the letter now on her own. In the past she would say stupid things like,"My children never support me!" And I would go,"Oh, then how did you get the money to buy groceries and stuff to cook??? You make it sound as if we ill-treat you!"
I feel that it's not that we kids don't appreciate her, it's she NOT appreciating us. I had enough of her treating me like a doormat and said,"Mum, can you please stop getting angry? Did you even give me a chance to call Jo into the room???"
She picked up my brother's envelope and proceeded to tear it open. She was in one of her temper tantrums. I said."Mum are you out of your mind? Where are you going to get another no-postage required envelope like this?"
And she was like,"Useless envelope! Causing so much trouble. Tear you up!"
This time, I snatched the envelope away from her.
Guess what? She picked up a stool and threw it. It flew towards the door and for a minute I wished it went straight to the TV I bought for her. It would have been ample penalty for an over-sized over-grown kid in an old body.
It was at this moment I told her,"Stop acting like a spoilt brat mum! Can't I even have the freedom of mailing it tomorrow? Why are you so bloody inflexible?? It's only a Reader Digests' reorder form and cheque!!"
She continued being angry; even after 3 hours she challenged me to complain to my brother. I looked at her and shook my head. Kid!
My mum's main problem is, she can get angry over the most mundane of problems, finger-pointing and not being able to see the light even at age 72! One of her childhood friends who played with her told me,"Do you know Kelly? You mum hit me when I was a kid! She hit me! You look at her and she can fool almost everyone cos she looks like a teacher. But she is damn fierce lo!"
I looked at the lady who brings me grandaunt food daily. She had a smirk on her face.
I smiled and said,"Yes, I know."
I've put up with her "gross misconduct" for as long as I could remember. Everytime she insists on something (sometimes she makes detrimental decisions or do things that makes me cringe) I try to have things her way.
My friends said that if I make it a little more difficult for her to get her monthly allowance may be it will make her behave better. Another friend said it's difficult for anyone to stomach her constant verbal abuse and that my mum belongs to the nursery for senior citizens; being in the "public eye" will force her to behave.
A brother's friend's wife (from Thailand) said she wouldn't expect my mum to be nice to her when she could not even respect her own daughter. (She said this when she found out how calculative my mum got over some meat and groceries she placed in our fridge. She and her husband rented a room from us for a good 3 months. I guess she didn't like my mum that much.)
Ironically, it's thanks to her that I indirectly had a chance to have the boy** leave the household for good. The super-naughty boy could not stand my mum at all!
