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Expectations that working adults owe parents a monthly allowance need to be changed - CNA online, 23 May 23. The above article is a good article and I agree with most of the points covered. In this commentary, I will share some thoughts. If we remove our westernised appearance and facade, we all share fundamental asian upbringings... 

Back in the days of my first marriage, everyone wanted me to become a teacher. My parents felt that I had an “academic” personality rather than a commercial personality. My then wife and her family kept drilling in the fact that teaching was an “iron rice-bowl,” and then there were people told me that teaching was great... 

I was having dinner with my family just a couple of days ago in my AMK neighborhood coffeeshop when a group of people wearing PAP's white party uniform came to our table and left a bag of "goodies" which has a logo of a charity organization, telling us "Happy Mother's Day, this is a little present from our MP!" (Spoken in Mandarin). Well...