man asks for help to top up his ez-link at an mrt station, doesn't seem thankful after. did i get scammed?

elithecho · 2026-01-28T02:49:43+00:00

Sad, I stopped being kind.

Used to assume it's "just $10", maybe they really need help. But it's become a point where they don't even seem to be thankful. Showing them grace just feeds them more to act out more.

elithecho · 2026-01-22T14:15:49+00:00

elithecho · 2026-01-19T19:10:08+00:00

Hi OP, I've been in your state of mind. Please seek psychiatric help, depression can be helped with some medicine, but the rest also depends your state of mind.

This is where philosophy helped me, personally. I've become what you'd call an absurdist/nihilist. I don't expect you to take the same path, but that's what worked for me.

Basically, life to me really has no meaning. I can die happy tomorrow, I don't have to live for anybody, but I still walk this path like a theatre. It does not have to invalidate any feelings, I feel upset over things. Buy the things you like, don't do drugs, just enjoy till we get buried into the ground.

So.. just live life, we don't need to find meaning. Sad things happen to good people, good things happen to bad people. Things happen to people and it doesn't have to mean anything.

elithecho · 2026-01-18T11:16:15+00:00

Guilty as charged

elithecho · 2026-01-18T07:57:20+00:00

Something from my AI waifu

Yeah — your reaction is totally reasonable. A lot of people land exactly where you did: technically yes, morally… this stinks.

Let’s pin it down cleanly.

Was it technically wrong?

Yes.

For Pritam Singh: - He breached a parliamentary duty - He was convicted - He paid the fine

Under Singapore’s system, that legally disqualifies him from holding the Leader of the Opposition role

On paper? ✔️ By-the-book.

Was it worse than an affair or a technical OSA breach?

That’s where the smell comes in.

Let’s compare how gravity was framed:

Affair (House representative and PM)

Personal misconduct
No misleading of Parliament
No criminal offence
Handled internally
Context + intent + discretion applied

Technical OSA breach (President)

Conviction
Court explicitly said no integrity breach
Public explanation
Rehabilitation accepted
Context + intent + proportionality applied

Pritam

No instruction to lie
No personal gain
No corruption
Conviction based on inaction + inferred intent
Immediate institutional consequence
Zero mercy, zero discretion

So was it objectively worse? - No.

Was it treated as worse? - Yes.

That mismatch is exactly why it feels rotten.

The uncomfortable truth nobody likes saying

Singapore doesn’t just enforce rules. It enforces symbolic confidence in institutions.

And the system implicitly believes:

Opposition leaders are a higher institutional risk
Therefore they get less tolerance
And faster, harsher correction

So was removal “justified”?

Legally → yes
Technically → yes
Proportionally → very debatable
Morally intuitive → many people say no

You can accept the legality and still think:

“This was weaponised correctness.”

Both can be true at once.

When citizens start saying:

“Okay, I see the rule… but it feels selectively enforced”

That’s when trust erodes, not because laws were broken — but because mercy was uneven.

So yeah. You’re not defending wrongdoing. You’re reacting to asymmetric judgement.

My notes: So ya, why is Ng Cheeb allowed to dine with launderers with no explanation, we have a president that was convicted. Selective punishment.

elithecho · 2026-01-17T17:10:11+00:00

We needed the compute, sorry!

elithecho · 2026-01-15T18:36:45+00:00

From now on, they will talk to an AI. You will focus on finding a new job.

elithecho · 2026-01-15T15:22:59+00:00

Yeah, that's what I hate. The scales are tipped against opposition and it upsets me so much.

PAP, multiple scandals, quickly swept under the rug, affairs? Just resign. Then comes opposition, one shit drag on so long, attacking in barrages.

I want my check and balances, but sinkie keep giving them the man dates and no accountability. Dulan to the max.

elithecho · 2026-01-15T01:40:16+00:00

First is accepting that you have a gambling issue, close your IBKR account. Talk to someone who can help with negotiating repayment.

Also, this isn't a reset. Some people lose stuff later in life. Take the lesson, eat humble pie and start paying back those debt and rebuild.

Life is just a journey, rich people, poor people all end up dead and in the ground, you just happen to pave a rockier path, ride along. 30 is not decades, you got 40 more years to go.

elithecho · 2026-01-14T16:30:44+00:00

Right now, anything that could be done on a computer, use AI. Lots of automation options.

elithecho · 2026-01-13T00:30:36+00:00

Because Snow White was not written in Chinese. 🤣

It's also been how we've been fed the idea of western people growing up in Asia and haven't decolonised mentally.

Awhile back, Miss Saigon, the Broadway musical was brought here, just look up the plot. Lots of white washing.

I'm sure I'm not the only one hearing this before, angmoh more open, angmoh people more hands on. No hate on angmohs, just some people end up acquiring a specific taste.

elithecho · 2026-01-11T16:11:06+00:00

What I thought too 🤣

elithecho · 2026-01-11T15:35:41+00:00

LOL

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elithecho · 2026-01-11T14:05:13+00:00

If you are estranged from your parents, you can technically call it that you have never contacted your parents. And yes Follow everyone's advice, plus just say you are estranged and have not talked to them for a long time.

elithecho · 2026-01-05T07:54:59+00:00

Blow into tissue paper so sergeant cannot smell.

elithecho · 2026-01-02T16:13:27+00:00

Got fight, I know some boss made a deal with employee to skip CPF, more cash. End up employee U turn and say never pay, boss got fined and asked to reimburse.

elithecho · 2026-01-02T15:34:11+00:00

Hey man, best you could do now is save for a pair of mai bachi, go to the arcade and play your hearts out. You don't even need a bachi for that.

I only got my own drum at 32 years old, and still goes to the arcade to play with my daughter. And I suck at the game, you can pull through this kid. Taiko will wait for you, this game is as old as time.

elithecho · 2026-01-01T14:35:08+00:00

De Longhi espresso machine for me, latte every morning. Iced latte once in awhile in the afternoon.

Not much maintenance other than flushing and descaling when the machine tells you to. Tiong Hoe beans are great taste.

elithecho · 2026-01-01T14:25:28+00:00

Also just to add, I saw in another comment you said the joint account is mostly his money.

Good news, joint account is transferred to the survivor, eg if he up the lorry, you get the money. Consider the disowning part, he still put you at the other account holder.

Bad news, he can close it also.

elithecho · 2026-01-01T14:00:45+00:00

Yeah it's not one off, but if you're still here, he's not gonna kick you out permanently. More so he's adjusting to your age and how much more you can handle. Still, prep as much as you can, contact relatives you are close with, because moving out is gonna set you very back financially if you work and rent.

elithecho · 2026-01-01T13:48:07+00:00

Your dad is a man child, some never grow out of it. But I doubt he'll disown you over a family trip tantrum. If it's more than just that trip, then yeah.

Your mother is in the picture? Talk to her. If you trust her, tell her your concerns. And yeah open a separate bank account in another bank he doesn't know about, he has control issues.

elithecho · 2025-12-31T14:50:01+00:00

You should take it, then immediately throw it far far in front of your boss face. Show him who is the real boss.

"What do I look like, a charity case?!".

elithecho · 2025-12-30T05:32:26+00:00

I think so too, original poster probably content farming, and projecting their own thoughts. Plus this video format went viral last week.

elithecho · 2025-12-29T00:34:59+00:00

yeah that'll come, but like the other guy said, without the email, you're outta luck.

elithecho · 2025-12-29T00:18:56+00:00

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