Recently a post is going viral on Facebook by a man with a rich and spoilt girlfriend. While the man himself is not so well-to-do.

The man said that his rich girlfriend always feels angry and defensive when he always tells her that rich people have the advantage over poor people.

Here is the story,

“I come from a low income background while my girlfriend comes from money. Some of her views are really offensive to me and I wonder if I am just being over sensitive. Thus am hoping a more neutral audience here can hear me out and share your views with me.”

“For example I had to hold a part time job throughout university just to make ends meet. My girlfriend on the other hand traveled to forty countries and stayed in 5 star hotels during university. I ate instant noodles while she was dining at Michelin starred restaurants. ”

“Naturally someone in my position understands the power of privilege. I have rich friends who can afford to study things which don’t lead to jobs because they don’t have to work. I have rich friends who can afford to use parents’ money to startup 5 times and fail within the same year and face no repercussions. I cannot.”

“My girlfriend though feels super defensive whenever I bring up that kids from rich families have an advantage and will never admit that poor kids are at a disadvantage. I find her denial an insult to the obstacles that poor kids have to battle.”

“I also once made a passing remark that one of my friends can take a year off to attend culinary school for fun with no intention to ever work in the food industry because he has a safety net. This triggered my girlfriend and ended up in her shouting at me for four hours. She took offense at me saying rich kids don’t need to work. She says how can I be so low class and think need just has got to do with money. Rich kids often have dreams as well and dreams are a need not a want. I thought this was quite bratty of her not to mention completely off topic.”

“I sometimes wonder if this is because I did better than her in school and am paid twice what she is paid despite our starting positions in life. She will try to also say things like I shouldn’t have tried so hard, what for be so competitive bad for health, be happy like her. She even said she will ensure our kids if we get married be nothing like me and that we will need to give them lots of financial safety nets.”

On Tuesday 2 February 2021, Bedok bak chor mee and Kim’s Place Seafood and noodle restaurant have been charged for breaking COVID-19 safety measures. Measures broken include liquor consumption regulations and crowd control measures.

During September last year, Kim’s Place Seafood and Noodle Restaurant, 45 Joo Chiat Place was caught with customers exceeding the limit of 5 people per table, and allegedly allowed customers from different tables to move around. The restaurant was then caught the second time in the same month.

The famous Bedok Bar Chor Mee, 13 Circular Road, received 5 different charges in October last year. The shop was charged with not ensuring the limit of people within a group and safe distancing between each group. The stall also failed to provide SafeEntry measures for customers. Liquor could still be seen sold to customers after 10.30 pm.

Both companies will be going back to court on a later date. According to the government, Companies that break the COVID-19 rules will be facing a fine of up to s$10,000 or a jail term of 6 months.

During last year April 2020, a man, 44 years old, met a lady from the Facebook dating app. The both of them get along very well as they have common topics to talk about. They also talked about their future together.

Not long later, the lady recommended him to invest in foreign exchange investment through a website that she gave him. The victim then invested more than $10k but lost all the invested money.

The lady told him, that the loss was due to his incapability in investment and recommended him a “professional” financial advisor showing the victim all the past experience of her, stating that the advisor could earn 20% of what invested in just a short time. The victim then decided to invest more money (more than S$20k).

At some point in August last year, the advisor recommended that both should go for a joint purchase as the foreign exchange during that period will go up.

After looking at the account and realized that money was growing inside due to the rise in foreign exchange, the victim then decided to borrow more money from friends and family members.

When he saw his profit reaching more than $2M he decided that he want to stop and take out his money. Just when he was about to cash out the money, he was informed that the advisor was arrested for allegedly manipulating the stocks.

Having all his money invested lost, he decided to contact the lady and realized he was being blocked by her. He felt sad and cheated by her.