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theyoungersister previous posts it's not like i didn't try naughty nine year olds. today i am an indian man inspired by george micheal. reasons not to have kids. the reason why turtles are dying those days when i used to be a student why nihara and i should get married cringeworthy past December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 links ashley! jingaling nini theOlderSister yunwen (: PostSecret
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008 on taxis and children, separately 8:51 AM so i have this distate for taxis cos these bloody surcharges are everywhere! 35% peak hour surcharge, 50% midnight surcharge, then fuel tax and then $2 for something, $3 for something - sometimes even surcharges are greater than taxi fare itself. i haven't even started on ERP yet. it used to cost me $7.50 max to get to fine arts. it's gone up to 11 now. and when you get in a taxi, you're surprised with the extra surcharges that you have to unknowingly pay which makes you wonder why the hell did i take a taxi in the first place, couldn't i have been more responsible and not gotten up late and taken the bus instead?! anyway - i don't take taxis unless the situation calls for it. i thought this was just me, until my mum come shome yesterday and says my god, $15 to get home from serangoon, this is ridiculous! thank god i work if not i'd feel so guilty about spending money on cabs. HAH so it's not just me with my irrational fear of taxis. apparently it runs in the family. so children. so lately there's been much discussion on children and why singapoeans don't have them and it was so important that it was in our NDR. this is my quick take on it (i've got lots of opinions but who cares for opinions nowadays): having children is essentially a woman's choice. economically - if the country puts pressure on her to be productive and contribute to GDP, if there's pressure to do as well as everybody else, the opportunity cost of having kids is greater. we would have to give up too much to have a child. long working hours have become the norm, where's the time for kids? the continued emphasis on us about being productive units of labour has resulted in us not wanting to produce future productive units of labour. mutually exclusive. not going to work. socially- if women have to take care of the household (since in our patriarchal society men apparently aren't ingrained ot help out), if women have to take care of their husbands (cos they need a lot of attention haha), if women have to manage their careers - on top of that i don't think we want the additional responsibility of managing a baby. i think we'd go crazy. seriously, it would help if men and women had shared domestic responsibility, shared childcaring responsibilities and then womwn can achieve this blasted 'work life balance' thingamajig that is the new buzzword thrown about lately. men, you want kids? help your wife out. don't think that since you are a man it is not your place to do such things. sweep the floor. clean the toilet. and i don't mean paying someone else to do it. pick up the damn brush and scrub, you bastards! hahah. singapore, you want kids? cut the obsession for being the top in everything. that's not an incentive for a woman to give up a career to start a family. okay verbal diarrhoea over. 0 comments |