Tuesday, September 1, 2009 8:39

Rich son poor son

In TOC TV • 979 views • 12 Comments

Three elderly women speak proudly of their children’s high-flying careers. The fourth woman’s son, however, does not have such a career but he has something else the other three women envy.

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blue
Sep 1, 2009 10:42

Rich son poor son……. touching moments. Simple filial piety is what parents wanted.

ErniesUrn
Sep 1, 2009 11:06

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_337089.html

WHEN civil servant Gordon Yong, 39, needed to find a nursing home for his mother following her stroke, he found those here too expensive.
They were charging between $1,200 and $1,800 a month – far more than he could afford on his salary of under $4,000, which also supports his three-child family. His working wife also looks after her own parents.

He did the next best thing and got his mother a place in a home across the Causeway for $600 a month.

This is how his mum, Madam Leong Mew Peng, 80, came to live in Spring Valley Homecare in Johor Bahru (JB), less than half an hour’s drive from the Causeway.

mike
Sep 1, 2009 11:47

hope more singaporean esp the elites watch this video clip.

good work done!

thanks.

Jim
Sep 1, 2009 12:45

Here’s another one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkkjaM5lmYo&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Those who dump their parents ought to be caned!

nick
Sep 1, 2009 17:28

i believe all four of them are living in the nursing home?? nice of the son to bring his mom out during CNY for a breather.

sousuke
Sep 1, 2009 18:35

nice find. its a good reminder to all of us stuck in the rat race of singapore..

Yang
Sep 1, 2009 19:13

Have all of you heard of Cause and Effect. This Buddhist theory teaches us that we will get neither good or bad karma upon our actions. So do more good things, if not . It will come back to us.

tiredsingaporean
Sep 1, 2009 22:20

“Cause and Effect” tell it to our MM, maybe he think he is already God now.

Orlando Moon
Sep 1, 2009 23:26

Meritocracy.

OriginalResonance
Sep 2, 2009 3:28

Duration of youtube clip of old deluded women: 2 mins. Image of their awed expressions? Timeless.

OriginalResonance
Sep 2, 2009 3:42

Yang

If I commit the “perfect murder” on my companion on a secluded, desolate island, what karma will I receive? I’m an ethical egoist and as such if the need arises to murder that person when there’s only two of us on a godforsaken island, I would be implored by my beliefs to kill him. But this is a highly theoretical scenario for we live in a metropolis where altruism benefits all of us and where murder is self-evidently transgressive of our moral standards. Apologies to all for hijacking the issue at hand to expound on my beliefs but I have to respond whenever I witness the deleterious pontifications of religious believers like Yang.

GABRIEL
Sep 2, 2009 11:43

Anybody noticed that these ads were done by Malaysian company Petronas? Wonder if Temasek will spend some money on such ads.

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