For context, I am a 19-year-old girl still studying in Poly, and I’m working part time as a F&B server on the weekends, earning about $8/hr.

Ever since I was in secondary school, I have been using the Samsung Galaxy S6 that my mother bought for me under a cheaper plan with Starhub, for about $50/month which my mum pays for, using it until I started Poly.

I told her one day that I want to get a new phone after my Starhub contact expired, and wanted the Iphone 13 Pro Max.

But it was really expensive, the phone was $989 for a Starhub plan with 30GB, and monthly bill of $65, which was slightly more than my expired plan.

The other option was a Starhub plan that costs $55 per month for 15 GB, which is about the same as my old plan, but the phone could cost $1369.

My mum refused to get it for me and said that she didn’t have the money to spend like that, so I told her to transfer ownership of the plan to my name and I would sign up for the Starhub line myself.

I told her that I will pay for the phone and the Starhub bill myself since I’m working part time on the weekends and have some money.

She said okay, and I then signed up for the 120gb per month Starhub plan at $155 per month (with another $18 in add ons), and used my savings to buy the phone at $209.

I was so happy with my purchase.

However, the first two months I couldn’t afford to pay the bill and had to ask my mum for help. I make about $400++ from my part time job and after minusing my daily expenses for food and etc at school, I simply don’t have enough to pay for the bill.

I am starting to regret my decision, but my Starhub contract runs for 22 more months and I can’t terminate it without paying the penalty fee.

I don’t know what to do now, my mum is really stressed out with the extra financial burden that I am laying on her, please someone gimme advice.

A woman working in the technical support department shared how a male customer kept coming back and asking for her, and it ended up with the man’s wife confronting her.

Here is the story

I’m in the technical support department. Recently I was assigned to take this case and the customer was a guy. It’s just a routine job so I didn’t think much of it when I settled the case.

The thing is this guy kept coming back and asking for me.

I thought maybe I did a bad job and tried to find out if I needed to do any kind of service recovery. He asked a lot of various questions over the next few weeks so I did my best to answer his concerns. Things start to get weird when he started to ask me about my personal life.

I stopped answering and transferred the case to a male colleague and gave the reason that I’m ‘on leave’.

When I got back from ‘leave’, the customer’s wife called and asked for me. She wanted to confront me. Because I have to be professional, I told her everything I said to him was in the chat, I have nothing to hide, so I left it as that and kept quiet.

I’m so pissed. I’m just doing my job, I checked all the exchanges and also let my collegues check. My team agreed I didn’t say anything out of line.

She should be confronting her own itchy backside husband. Why is she coming to me?!

A woman shared how she is paranoid and worried because he boyfriend is always initiating to meet his female friend one on one.

Here is the story

BF always initiates to meet his female friend 1 on 1, is this normal?

My bf has a close female friend. They’re friends years before I got together with him. He seems kinda protective over this relationship and tend to divulge very few details to me about her and their meetups.

Though they meet once every 3 months or so, bf will make an effort to rush over to meet her at their dinner place even though he usually has OT, then send her home after a 3-4 hrs dinner at a mid/high end restaurant.

While her house is somewhat along the way, he had to take the further route home, pay for ERP and drive in/upslope to the estate, spending additional 15-20 min on his journey which is rather inconvenient.

I came across his chat messages recently and found that he is always the one initiating to meet the female friend, offering to send/pick her home, asking how is her work going, celebrating her bday etc and she had never initiated once and never celebrated his bday.

She also frequently left his messages on double tick and he had to double/triple text her to ask her out for a meal again.

I don’t think the female friend has any intentions to stay near my bf given her lack of enthusiasm and often no replies in the text conversation but I’m feeing wary as to why my bf is willing to put in so much effort in meeting this friend of his.

He also shares with her about my salary, work and rants i shared with him but on the other hand I knew nothing about her.

FYI. he also didn’t entertain the idea of bringing me over for a meal with his female friend despite me asking. 

Am I being paranoid?

t all started 11 years ago when I met my then-girlfriend, and now wife, for the first time. We were both freshmen in uni and had an instant connection. We quickly became inseparable and, before we knew it, we were in a committed relationship.

I remember the first time we had S like it was yesterday. I had been waiting for the moment for weeks and, when it finally happened, it felt incredibly fresh and exciting. We were both so eager and passionate, and I felt like I was in a dream. It was electric, and I was in awe of the connection we had.

Fast-forward 11 years later and, while I still love my wife more than anything, the S has gotten a bit stale. Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoy it, but it’s not the same as it was in the beginning. We’ve been together for so long that we’ve gotten into a routine. We know what works for us, so there’s not much surprise or experimentation anymore.

Eat fresh garden vege become eat salted preserved vege

It’s not that we don’t have fun in the bedroom, it’s just that sometimes it feels like it’s lacking something. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but I know that I miss the freshness that we had in the early days of our relationship. To be honest, I feel like I’m missing out on something.

That’s why I’ve decided to try something new. I’ve been reading up on different ways to spice up our S life and I’m excited to try out some of these ideas. We’re going to start experimenting with different positions, trying out new toys, and even talking more openly about our fantasies.

I’m hoping that this will help us to reconnect and feel the same passion that we did 11 years ago. I know that it won’t be easy, but I’m confident that if we’re open to trying new things, we can make our S life fresh again. I’m looking forward to this journey and I’m excited to see what the future holds for us.

My husband and I have been together for 4 years. We currently live together and we are expecting our first child in early April. I don’t have the best relationship with my parents due to traumatic drug-related things that happened in my childhood, so I’m SEVERELY in low contact with them. However, my husband has the absolute best relationship with his family. I always admired him for being so family-oriented.

I was talking with my husband last week about birth plans for the hospital. He mentioned how his mom & aunts invited themselves to be there. I told him I wasn’t comfortable with that, it was just him. He said he didn’t understand the big deal, so I told him once again, no, it’s just him, I don’t want to be too overwhelmed with his entire family there. He got upset, but I thought he understood.

Flash forward to yesterday. We were invited over for dinner at his mom’s place (we usually are every Friday) and things felt… Off. His aunts kept giving me the side-eye, his mom was unusually silent, and no one really seemed to acknowledge me. After dinner, I was pulled aside by his mother who called me a “rude and ungrateful person” because I’m a “druggie”.

They say they won’t acknowledge the grandchild cause the mother is a “druggie”. That was an unfortunate incident I had when I was a child and I have stayed clean for over 10 years. What do they want.

My husband can’t be bothered to defend me and I feel like going to give birth to the child alone without anyone of them by my side including my husband.

I have no idea what to do, BUt I want him in the room but I’m just really upset with this whole situation.

What should I do?

I work at a bar in the town area. I worked a particularly slow day and during those shifts, I like to talk to the customers.

One of them was a 22-year-old student who was drinking by herself. I get cut early and I decide to go out for a couple of drinks. At a bar nearby, I see the guest – she is very clearly drunk and proceeds to throw up all over the bar. So this bar was kinda known for sleazy guys and she’s by herself – so I take her back to her place and get her back safely before anyone can take advantage of her.

I leave her my number to text me when she’s awake to make sure she’s okay and she thanks me the next morning and explains she was blackout drunk and barely remembers any of the night. I thought that was the end of it – until my boss pulled me into a room and proceeded to fire me for “fraternizing with a guest”. I explained that I only got her to her room safe and was worried because she was young and alone, but nope.

I’m officially unemployed now. For helping a drunk girl get back to her hotel okay.

If I ever see a girl get drunk again, I am not going to be a nice guy and I wished that night I did not help her and hope she got rape.

Here are what netizens think:

• Since you’re unemployed there’s no harm in naming the bar.

• Don’t bother to get your job back, Doesn’t matter you don’t want the job back if your boss is like this I wouldn’t want to even have the job back

• And then some! You should feel proud to tell your next employer why you got fired. Many of us would be thrilled to have someone like you on our team!

I have a friend who recently started a business selling her own handmade accessories online. She was having a really hard time health-wise and had to be hospitalised for a number of months and was making posts openly discussing her situation with her large following (7k followers) encouraging people to buy her stuff to help pay for her hospital bills.

I was keen to help her out so I spent about 150 on some of her stuff and after this she made posts saying there would be a delay on orders due to her hospitalisation by 1 month, which then got extended out to 2 months. I was fine with this as I understood it was a difficult time for her to adjust.

I received notification that my item had been sent, however, I didn’t receive it after a month of waiting and when I followed up with the private shipping company she used, they informed me that she never dropped the item off for delivery.

In the mean time she has been making posts with “high profile” customers, stylists and musicians who have received her stuff and loved it and shared posts by customers with a large following wearing her stuff. She even posted saying she isn’t taking any more orders, as she is full for months to come.

While she was making these posts, the shipping company had tried to contact her on my behalf but didn’t receive a response. I waited a couple of days and then emailed her directly to follow up, but I didn’t hear back. After about 3 days, I then went on to message her on Instagram on Wednesday, explaining the situation but telling her that I am quite short of cash right now and would like to be refunded if she can’t fulfil the order and I understand it’s a difficult time for her right now. In the meantime, she was posting regularly to her story and made a big post where she responded to a number of the people who commented.

I tried contacting my bank to get a refund, but because it was over 30 days they couldn’t issue it to me.

I was very angry about this and sent her a pretty blunt message telling her that I think she was being very selfish by ignoring me.

She finally responded and saying due to mental problems she cant return me my money.