Papa was telling me about his conversation with a friend of his. Let's call him Uncle IBM.
He's a very successful person ah, owns a 4 mil bungalow at Bukit Timah and owns a few cars including a Porsche 911, which he paid for with CASH. Add that to the fact that he's only 40 plus years old~
Anyway, the main lead of this entry is not him, but his damn cool son, who's like Primary 2 this year.
Uncle IBM actually split the cost of a BMW and a Ahmad with his neighbour to ferry their kids to and from school.
And one day this kick-ass kid confronted Uncle IBM and asked "Why other kids can take school bus I cannot?? Why I have to go to school in this kind of car?? 我要坐校车！！！"
And so the Ahmad lost his job and the BMW is left there to rot.
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And then Mr IBM asked papa about his kids. Whether he bought a car for us.
And papa explained to him his rationale; about how we should learn to take things one step at a time and how we should not obtain such luxury items so easily; we should learn to work for it.
And apparently, his logic made alot of sense to Mr IBM and he said he will remember his words.
I think that re-affirmed papa's beliefs. On one hand, that must have made papa feel veyr proud.
On the other, I think that completely wipes out my hope that he would buy me a car any time soon :(
He's a very successful person ah, owns a 4 mil bungalow at Bukit Timah and owns a few cars including a Porsche 911, which he paid for with CASH. Add that to the fact that he's only 40 plus years old~
Anyway, the main lead of this entry is not him, but his damn cool son, who's like Primary 2 this year.
Uncle IBM actually split the cost of a BMW and a Ahmad with his neighbour to ferry their kids to and from school.
And one day this kick-ass kid confronted Uncle IBM and asked "Why other kids can take school bus I cannot?? Why I have to go to school in this kind of car?? 我要坐校车！！！"
And so the Ahmad lost his job and the BMW is left there to rot.
===
And then Mr IBM asked papa about his kids. Whether he bought a car for us.
And papa explained to him his rationale; about how we should learn to take things one step at a time and how we should not obtain such luxury items so easily; we should learn to work for it.
And apparently, his logic made alot of sense to Mr IBM and he said he will remember his words.
I think that re-affirmed papa's beliefs. On one hand, that must have made papa feel veyr proud.
On the other, I think that completely wipes out my hope that he would buy me a car any time soon :(
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