As promised, I will update my blog as often as I can. See, I don't want to blog about my routines or what I have been doing that much because seriously, are you guys even interested in what I do? This blog is for me to talk about issues that weigh in my heart or even things that I feel need to be addressed in Singapore or with the people around me.

I thought about this long and hard about families and the ideals that we as Singaporeans have about family life in here. We do realise that our lives are based on this thing called MONEY. Money rules the world as they say, where if you have no money, you don't have the opportunities that the rich have etc. Many times, we hear of people complain about not having enough money or spending too much money. But should families be built on this complicated thing called MONEY? I don't think so. See my friend, I totally agree with you that a family even without a lot of money can feel the love when everyone just lives simply and at the end of the day, know that family is the top priority and not material things.

Families are often not what they seem to. We all like to paint rosy pictures about the families that we can from, so that people would not look down on us if our families are dsyfunctional or what we know it to be now, the Rojak families where two divorcees come together bringing their children from their previous marriages along to start a new family. Even the happiest of families do have their own set of problems too. I'm not saying that my family is dsyfunctional, but we are certainly not perfect. People may disagree with me blogging about family issues here because we should never hang our dirty linen for the world to see. But I'm not blogging about how terrible or how good my family can be. I just want people to know that we are all the same, no matter how perfect we all may show others that we are - coming from the perfect home, achieving the society's goals, we all have our set of problems.

One thing that we must always remember though is that families are here to stay unless you have been disowned. It will always be our safehaven. When the going gets tough, they are the ones who will stick with you through thick and thin. But we never realise it until a long time later. I read from my friend's blog that he missed his late grandmother who just passed away recently and I did realise that many of us actually take our families for granted. As children we always stretch out our hands to ask for money and always feel that we never have enough, but have we actually appreciated the fact that our parents five us their hard earned money to spend? We always think that we have been deprieved - I have to admit to that, but are we really that deprived? We have a roof over our heads, we have mobile phones, we have parents that love us and obviously that is the most important.

So you see, let's not be judgemental. Even I am learning to accept everybody no matter what their backgrounds are. Even I am learning no to judge my parents for the times that they have made me upset because ultimately, we as children should always respect them and of course never let material things come in the way of our relationship with them. =)