Money Matters

Among all the CF camps I've attended, I only remember one thing that was shared. Yeah, after 8 years of CF camps, 7 in Taman Sea and 1 in UM. LOL.

I forgot who the speaker was, either Ps. Sandra or Annette... I think it was Annette. Or Sandra. Hmm. Annette, I think.

As usual, BGR was the 'in' topic, schooling years ma with raging hormones and blablabla.

The usual preaching about honour and remaining pure and mostly how we were all too young to be in relationships. Which I wholehearted agreed with at that age. (Lucky Joash!) Anyway, the speaker asked us for our opinions on when the 'right' time to date was. Various answers were thrown about, college, working, 17, 18 year old etc.

Then she gave HER answer. She said that the right age to date is when "you are no longer living on your parents money." And she elaborated further about how you wouldn't want your parents to pay for your boyfriends/girlfriends expenses, would you?

Funnily enough, I found myself disagreeing with her back then. Simply because I was really young, 13, 14 years old? And I couldn't imagine the working life just yet.

But when I started dating Joash, her words came back to me. After all those years! Haha. And I realised, yeah, I could not bear a relationship in which both our parents were supporting each other. Back then Joash was struggling to find his own living, and I only had my JPA to rely on (giving tuition and writing magazine articles only came about last year). But we'd both stopped taking money from our parents, and I guess it felt good to date on our own money.

So I guess, after all those years the only thing I remember has been put to good use.

=)

Oh! I remember one more thing, Ps. Sandra said she would not ask how many non-virgins there were among us because she didn't want to know.

haha. So I picked up 2 things after all those years in camps.

=P

Anyway, financially Joash and I are doing pretty/very well now, Joash especially. We've come a long way since we first started dating each other.. I remember our mamak sessions and how Joash used to look at the price on menus before entering restaurants. Haha! Nowadays... =P We had a fantastic dinner in Seoul Garden yesterday! And Chili's.. oh Chili's... The molten chocolate. Now he can treat his brothers and parents and my family and his select few fortunate friends to expensive meals.. ;-) And I do my own fair share of treating him to good meals. Hehehe.

Indeed, we've come a long way.
Jo