I’ve been playing this game called maplestory and around 1 and a half year ago, I bought some tokens for a gacha event called igacha. This turns out to be a big mistake.

A brief description of how this igacha event works:

In the past, this igacha event is a seasonal event and is only opened for a period of time. Token are used to be able to gacha. Leftover tokens won’t be refund and kept to be used for the next igacha event. Prizes for the gacha will also run out of stock so there is a limited stock. The gacha is also done via a website instead of inside the game.

I’m sure that by this time, most people would think that this post will be a rant about spending so much money and still get bad drops from that event. But however, this is not about getting bad drops but getting no drops at all.

What had happened was that the event started at 10am and it crashed at 10am for the gacha part of the website. The funny part was that there was no problem when buying the tokens from the same website. In the past, it had lagged but never crash. It crashed and was unavailable for more than 2 hours and I had something on at 12 and could not access the website till after 10pm. By then the event had ended due to out of stock and my tokens was not used.

You could say that I could still use it for the next igacha event but it has been 1 and a half year since then and not a single igacha event qas sighted. Those token cant even be used for anything else and I can’t even get a refund for it. I’ve tried to email in a few times as I know that the igacha event won’t be back for a long time. They just kept telling me the tokens are non-refundable and can be kept for the next igacha. But even they themselves also don’t know when they will have another igacha or when their igacha system will be fixed as the system was down after the end of 2020. They don’t even compensate for those who still have their token. Anyone has any advice that they could give?

I really can’t tolerate my dad anymore.

He’s like so unreasonable. Today I had the biggest fight with him. Yesterday was my 21st birthday and he bought me a second-hand Mitsubishi Lancer EX for my birthday.

To be honest I was damn disappointed when I saw the car. Firstly it’s red in colour. Who the hell drives a red car? Red only suits sports cars like Ferrari okay?

Secondly, it’s a freaking Lancer EX. Only Ah Bengs drive Lancer EX okay. Lastly, it’s a second-hand car. Eww… a used car… I wonder how many people have driven in it before. So dirty okay?

Today I asked my dad to buy me a better car, preferably a first-hand continental car but he said continental cars are too expensive. What the hell? He himself drives a BMW 5 series yet he thinks continental cars are too expensive?? He’s being totally unreasonable right?

Somemore, it would be so embarrassing to drive a Lancer in front of my friends because Lancer looks so low-class okay? Some of my friends received a continental car as a gift from their parents and here I am, receiving a cheap Ah-beng car from my dad. My life really sucks.

Here are what netizens think:

• You should be grateful he bought you one ,not complain. Instead if saying its yiur right to hv one ,why donr you start w what you have and work to getting your preferred car yourself

• This guy got a car and grumbles, why not you pay for it then, fork out 2k a month yea

• Your dad must have regret saving on that “rubber”.

• If you don’t appreciate one day your dad is gone. See how would you feel. Spoil girl. It’s not easy to own a car now covid 19 everyone affected. Which can’t spent much in luxury stuff now a days. 21 years old you still young.

Have you experienced toxicity in any of your past or current workplaces? If yes, how bad was it?

In my first job, I had a manager who was undoubtedly, one of the worst person I had the pleasure of working with.

He always gaslighted my team when things go wrong and then claim credit after when the problems are rectified, always claiming that he had to interfere to “clean up our act”.

Best part was that the instructions he gave was always unclear and ambiguous, and he always flared up when we tried to ask for more clarification. This led to my team having to guess our way into solving the problem, regularly opening opportunities for him to gaslight and claim credit.

And he was a coward through and through. When other manager came to publicly shame my team for minor errors, he never once stood up for us. He sometimes even joined in the fun.

This led to my team being the punching bag of my department. At least one employee in the past has left because of that.

He had a lot of bad habits which I will not elaborate further, but his poor leadership and management had led the department to a high turnover rate, especially my team.

After slightly more than a year of my resignation, all of my ex-colleagues have left. Everyone in my old team now is fresh grad and less than 1 year of experience because of my ex-manager.

My mom says that this (toxic work culture) is the norm in workplaces, especially in corporate jobs. So now, I want to know how common is toxic workplaces in SG and how bad is it.

I just want to know if my boyfriend goes to Thai disco and hang flowers while he was in Bangkok but claims that he did not do anything and it wasn’t him who paid for it.

Does it count as cheating? he said he knows it’s wrong but he doesn’t think that’s cheating.

I don’t know how to feel about it.

Girl got trolled by netizens:

• If he still confessed about going to these places, you are considered safe. When he goes and doesn’t even informed you, good luck and take care.

• Maybe u can dress as a siambu, and see if he will hang flower on u anot

• We all know Thai disco is a place of music and flowers. Why we can pay money to see fake painted flowers but not pay money for hang real flowers? Maybe we can go botanic garden to sea flower but now fake flower is the go to at garden by the Bay.

• If a guy wants to cheat, he can do it anywhere. Doesn’t have to be at flower joint or what. Main point is hang flower got bring the girl back or do anything there anot? Personally don’t think hang flower is cheating if his friends are the ones who did it.

• Last time I bring my wife to thai disco to drink and chill also. Just go for drink and relax only.. why must it be cheating? Going thai disco means cheating? Who sprout this nonsense?

• Ask him hang himself la

• its not cheating when nothing happens its only cheating when something happens – most pple logic, however u can see it from another angle, the reason why maybe nothing happen could be because the flowers he hung was not big enough. anyway its ok la, nice of him to give money to the needy

Are students from lower-income backgrounds these days more entitled?

Disclaimer: I am Gen Z myself

I’m sharing some observations I’ve made as a JC student who just graduated.

We all know that Singapore didn’t start out rich. Many people were in poverty. But studying hard could get you out of poverty. That was the case for my parents, some teachers and many of my elders. It was hard for them, but they never complained.

These days the story is different. I know a number of JC mates who are from a relatively lower socioeconomic class. They share one thing in common. They like to whine about their family situation, how they have no one to set their education path from young, everyone else having tuition but they can’t afford it, and so on.

I don’t doubt their lives aren’t easy. But they are already better than most Gen Xes. Last time few people went for tuition at all. This victim mentality never existed during my parents’ time. As much as I don’t want to call my own generation the strawberry generation, I must acknowledge it’s quite an appropriate label.

Netizens’ comments

1. Sorry but to me you are just an a-hole. You had the cards lined up for you since birth. You feel that they are flaunting that they made it even though their families aren’t well off and that made your “achievement” less significant. I think you are deeply insecure and should either reflect or seek therapy for it.
2. “The only time you look in your neighbor’s bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don’t look in your neighbor’s bowl to see if you have as much as them.” ― Louis C.K.
3. Honestly, it’s pretty rude to see someone worse off than you complaining and label them “whining” or ungrateful. It may be their only way of coping, by vocalizing it.
   Before you say “well all they do is whine, they don’t try to change their situation”, try to understand that these kinds of things have a million factors. Someone born into poverty has the deck stacked against them.
   It’s easy to say “just study harder” when you have a nice home and a conducive environment to study in. I’ve met people who were in school, working a part-time job, and taking care of all their siblings all while juggling schoolwork and projects. Do you think they can just study harder?

My bf (25) and I (29) have been together for 1 year. In the beginning of our relationship he was working but then he lost his job. When he lost his job, he would get money help from his brother and me.

He finally moved back with his parents in April cause he couldn’t afford to live without them. So he isn’t paying for anything right now.

He recently asked me to help him with $1,000 to get his teeth fixed as he was in pain. He has veneers and hasn’t kept to his cleaning routine and needs to re-do a tooth. He said he had around $1,900 and doesn’t want to use it all as he is trying to stretch it out for two months.

Seeing as I don’t have the cash and have been relying on my credit card these past few months due to the pandemic, I said I don’t have that money.

He suggested that he borrow my credit card and will pay me back when he starts working again (he has a job lined up in Jan). I said sorry, I can’t give you my credit card. I don’t want to overuse it. He then gets mad at me saying. well, you are spending on it and I’ll pay you back. I said I am literally spending on meds and food, nothing else. And I said I don’t think you have to right to tell me how to spend my money or on what.

The reason I didn’t want to give him my credit card is that I had already given him so much money and he never ever appreciates it nor does he even pay me back. I literally am so sick and tired of spoon-feeding him and want him to realise that I’m not an ATM.

He got mad at me and hasn’t talked to me for two days. Then he sent a text saying you have hurt me over money. I said no I didn’t.

Do you guys think I am right about not giving him my credit card? And how can I make him see that I am not an ATM and shouldn’t expect me to always help him.