Parents

Hmmm... it has only been a couple of days since I came back to Singapore. I'm glad to be home, yet things are very different here. I heard the sad news of Deborah committing suicide, the death of my great-grandmother, as well as the deterioration of my parents' relationship.

Both my mother and father seem locked in jobs that they dislike. My father is working in a place where he is the only manager remaining from the previous generation, and the current administration wants him out. Yet, he doesn't feel that he can leave his job because in order to maintain our standard of living, he needs to stay. He's paying a lot for my and Stanley's education, and he doesn't feel that we understand his sacrifice.

My mother is also working a job she dislikes. Since returning to Singapore she has become the cleaner of this large apartment and family chauffeur. This is a large apartment she doesn't find very practical, perhaps even not to her taste since my father was the one to pick out every single furnishing, with the exception of the beds.