Diminishing sources of non-taxable income
Year 1 Post Return to Malaysia
Me: (Looking sad and depressed, slightly suicidal) Sigh.
Father: Why you so sad?
Me: I'm wallowing in poverty. (Sigh). No money. (Long sad sigh). I can't afford to buy "Item X" which is absolutely crucial for me to get married off/pass my exam/stop going out past midnight/ be a better person/ know God.
Father: Oklah... I buy for you lah.
Me: (happy)
Year 2 Post Return to Malaysia
Me: (Looking sad and depressed, slightly suicidal) Sigh.
Father: (silence)
Me: SIGH
Father: What.
Me: I'm wallowing in poverty. (Sigh). No money. (Long sad sigh). I can't afford to buy "Item X" which is absolutely crucial for me to get married off/pass my exam/stop going out past midnight/ be a better person/ know God.
Father: You spend too much
Me: I earn very little (sad face)
Father: Go away.
Year 3 Post Return to Malaysia
Me: Tierre sounds sad and depressed.
Father: (look of concern and alarm)
Me: Yes. (Sigh). He sounded suicidal. Being all alone in a foreign country is hard on the soul. I might lose my only brother
Father: (heightened look of concern and alarm)
Me: But I think he may be able to reconsider his position with a Canon EOS Digital Revel XT 10.0-Megapixel Digital SLR Camera.
(a day later)
Me: EI! Who bought this Canon EOS Digital Revel XT 10.0-Megapixel Digital SLR Camera!!!
Father: I bought it for Tierrie lah.
Me: Hmph. So unfair!!! You love him more because he is a BOY!!! (crying face)
Father: Okay lah, go and buy your thing lah
Me: (happy)
Mission Accomplished
Me: (Looking sad and depressed, slightly suicidal) Sigh.
Father: Why you so sad?
Me: I'm wallowing in poverty. (Sigh). No money. (Long sad sigh). I can't afford to buy "Item X" which is absolutely crucial for me to get married off/pass my exam/stop going out past midnight/ be a better person/ know God.
Father: Oklah... I buy for you lah.
Me: (happy)
Year 2 Post Return to Malaysia
Me: (Looking sad and depressed, slightly suicidal) Sigh.
Father: (silence)
Me: SIGH
Father: What.
Me: I'm wallowing in poverty. (Sigh). No money. (Long sad sigh). I can't afford to buy "Item X" which is absolutely crucial for me to get married off/pass my exam/stop going out past midnight/ be a better person/ know God.
Father: You spend too much
Me: I earn very little (sad face)
Father: Go away.
Year 3 Post Return to Malaysia
Me: Tierre sounds sad and depressed.
Father: (look of concern and alarm)
Me: Yes. (Sigh). He sounded suicidal. Being all alone in a foreign country is hard on the soul. I might lose my only brother
Father: (heightened look of concern and alarm)
Me: But I think he may be able to reconsider his position with a Canon EOS Digital Revel XT 10.0-Megapixel Digital SLR Camera.
(a day later)
Me: EI! Who bought this Canon EOS Digital Revel XT 10.0-Megapixel Digital SLR Camera!!!
Father: I bought it for Tierrie lah.
Me: Hmph. So unfair!!! You love him more because he is a BOY!!! (crying face)
Father: Okay lah, go and buy your thing lah
Me: (happy)
Mission Accomplished
5 Comments:
LOL. (jealous)
your dad's probably never heard of me, but can you tell him that uhmm...(sad & LOUD sigh) my name is lily and i am suicidal too if i don't get an ibook...
PLEASE?
Dad: Who's Lily?
Me: You know... Tierrie's friend.
Dad: That's a girl's name right.
Me: Yah so?
Dad: (looking like he's dreaming of grand-babies) Good.
Me: She's a friend. People have friends.
Dad: (ignores me)
Uh-oh... Tierrie, I just got you in trouble...
Wow thanks for simultaneously embarassing me and getting me in trouble.
For the coup de grace would you like to put me in a legal bind, bankrupt me and stab me in the face?
This is why I don't talk to my parents.
Or you
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