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Mum & Dad will provide

For 20-year-old undergraduate Agnes Lin, the recession could just be academic.

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The Nanyang Technological University first-year student has never been in need: She carries a $2,000 Louis Vuitton handbag to school and uses only Shiseido cosmetic and skincare products.

She carries around the latest mobile phone and goes on overseas vacations with her friends where she would bust $1,000 on shopping alone.

Twice monthly, she shops at her favourite stores - Topshop, Zara and Forever21.

Mum, a private tutor, and Dad, a businessman selling polythene bags, pay for her expenses.

Miss Lin is aware that Singapore faces a recession but the news does not bother her.

She said: 'I think it is okay for me to maintain my current lifestyle. I may be spending a little bit more than my friends but I don't think I'm overspending.'

At the moment, she has her eyes on the latest mobile phone in the market, the HTC Touch Pro, which costs about $700.

Although her mother has said 'no' to her buying yet another mobile phone, Ms Lin has an inkling she will still get it.

'I think my mum will still buy it for me. My birthday is coming up!' she said with a giggle. She confessed that since young, she has never run out of cash. Her parents give her money whenever she asks.

Since she was 16, her monthly pocket money has been $500.

She has an older brother, also an undergraduate. The family live in a four-room flat in Marine Parade.

She thinks a friend of hers, who is left with $20 to last until the end of the month, is silly to consider taking up a part-time job to earn some extra cash.

'I don't understand why she cannot just ask her parents for money,' sighed Miss Lin.

She will enter the working world only after three years but she is already planning ahead.

With her first pay packet, she will buy a $4,000 Chanel bag. 'After that, I will probably get more bags and watches,' she added.

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[Guest dash]

some people just get to live it up.

heck, when i wanted to buy a He-Man figurine when i was pri 4, my mum said that the $6.90 represents her marketing money and I cannot buy it.

and I remembered tat when i was in Pri 5, in order to buy my fav. Visionaries figurine, I had to save off my recess money. took me 2 weeks to save $7.90 and when i went happily to the provision shop, alas, to my disappointment, my fav. figurine was sold. :banghead:

i had to settle for another figurine in the end....these 2 events figured prominently in my life and I remembered it vividly till this day.

a $4000 chanel bag? wow. some people just have it all.

[Guest Cklasse]

My 1st lighter size FM radio only was during my polytechnic years, my 1st walkman....in my NS years, with my NS allowance.....now, still cannot afford big Mar Ser Lee.......don't know in which year.

[Guest Rysk]

After reading Miss Lin's lifestyle story, I feel sad for her!

There are many poor families who's still struggling for 3 meals a day... some old folks who's living alone with just $5-$8 on daily food & necessity (can't even afford on medical).

They manage their money by little notes & cents... not by hundreds or thousands.

[Guest angela]

there's karma & there's retribution. i believe in 2 cycles in life, enjoy young and suffer old or suffer young and enjoy old. some just have it all. if ppl dun learn the easy way, they'll learn the hard way. :pray:

[Guest Cklasse]

Come join us for the charity event on 8 Nov to Northlight school. The kids do not have such luxury stuff and even eating Gardenia kaya bun is a treat (according to the principal). We shall make them happy for the day and give them motivation. See event thread.

[Guest funng]

To think I go to the same lessons as her disappointing for someone of this age to be so ignorant :surrender:

Got money need tell the whole world? That I really don't understand.

I look at all the young ladies and gentlemen in sgmerc. all crouching tiger, hidden dragon, or maybe crouching LV, hidden Chanel.

But seriously, I don't see her carrying her LV bag, and with or without makeup also....... :pray:

to think I feel "weird" driving merc to school, take public transport somemore :ninja: With people like that, I feel much better.

[Guest fruitcakepablohoney]

I dunno why she can be proud of what she's doing.

[Guest jenvid]

I dunno why she can be proud of what she's doing.

It all has to do with her upbringing.....

[keltanky]

It all has to do with her upbringing.....

Damn right!

[Guest 9339]

It all has to do with her upbringing.....

Damn right!

Ya upbringing got problem....

I had not taken a cents from my parents since i finish my school..... Or should i say start smoking hahaa.....

[Guest narmi]

Aiyoh, if my daughter come out in the newspaper and say those things ah, I'll bloody make her work at Macdonalds so that she know money is not easy to earn lor!

But i agree that its the upbringing ah..

Anything she wants, parents will give mah.. So the girl surely will grow up thinking whatever she wants is only a question away.

[Guest jameslhm]

Aiyoh, if my daughter come out in the newspaper and say those things ah, I'll bloody make her work at Macdonalds so that she know money is not easy to earn lor!

But i agree that its the upbringing ah..

Anything she wants, parents will give mah.. So the girl surely will grow up thinking whatever she wants is only a question away.

Macdonalds still very high class if my daughter say like this i will make her work in coffee shop

[Guest 9339]

jameslhm ]

Aiyoh, if my daughter come out in the newspaper and say those things ah, I' wrote:

Macdonalds still very high class if my daughter say like this i will make her work in coffee shop

Than high chance your daugther will become 'Lian' or ended in Girl's home la........hahaaaa

Is the up bringing nothing to do with working in kopi tiam or not la......

[Guest Cklasse]

Don't worry, there is a home in Geylang that take in these girls......

[Guest jameslhm]

9339 ]

jameslhm ]

Aiyoh, if my daughter come out in the newspaper and say those things ah, I' wrote:

Macdonalds still very high class if my daughter say like this i will make her work in coffee shop

Than high chance your daugther will become ' wrote:

Is the up bringing nothing to do with working in kopi tiam or not la......[/b]

hahahaha wat i meant is to let her noe the hard ship

[Guest fruitcakepablohoney]

my nephew also a good example, haven't learn how to work for the $$$, first car is an evo.... knn >

[Guest Sareve]

Before jumping on the hate Agnes bandwagon, why don't you guys check out her side of the story here http://alvinology.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/agnes-lin-spoilt-brat-or-misrepresented/. It looks like she has been grossly misrepresented!

Think about the facts, the numbers just don't add up. We're talking about a supposedly spoilt girl here who goes on holidays and crazy shopping sprees with her friends. Note that she is STUDYING at NTU, no matter how you look at it, the reason why anyone would study is so that they would be able to find gainful employment in the future, this clearly contradicts the fact that the newspaper says she only wants to leech off her parents. On the contrary, it seems that she has every intention to become able to support herself and perhaps even pay her parents back for everything they have given her.

It's easy to point the finger and say someone's a real bitch, anyone can do that, but I think we should find out the truth before we point fingers.

[Guest Mike]

sad... see liao oso sian 1/2

[g8crasher]

This is a direct quote from her blog - http://twinkletooes.livejournal.com/76598.html

This whole sxxt is twisted to the point because she wants to compare between teens who are spoilt fxxks and do not need to worry for sxxt and others who are more concerned.

She just dug her grave a little deeper than she wanted to. Obviously the reporters' angle was to make her look bad

but maybe her attitude during the interview made the reporter want to make the story look worse ? Gen Y is very well known for "telling it as they please". Perhaps it's a good time to learn some tact because it will certainly do oneself some good when one enters the workforce.

Having said that, STOMP has a star blogger who is possibly far worse than this girl. Dawn Yang.. Plastic girl. Shudder at the thought of her.....

[Guest kompressor9938]

*sigh* quote : illness seep in thru the mouth, whereas trouble leaks out from the mouth...... guess silence is gold.

cheers everybody.... :yumyum:

[g8crasher]

Comment taken from http://ethvren.livejournal.com/21309.html

"Clearly, Agnes just doesn’t understand that her family is one of the more well to do families in society and that not everyone is as priviledged as her. Maybe it isn’t her fault that she is spoilt, maybe she has been sheltered all her life. It isn’t wrong being rich, but questioning why people aren’t able to ask their parents for money is just plain bimbotic and superficial.

Personally I’m not comfortable asking my parents for money. My mum had once given me money for school and then I found out from my sister later that my mum had ate nothing for lunch that day because times are hard and that she had given her lunch money to me. I was so upset when I found out, I felt damn guilty. I’m not poor, my family is the typical average middle class family but the middle class families are one of those groups of people badly hit by rising prices of food, and oil especially…so naturally about 70% of Singaporeans are affected by the recession.

Agnes just doesn’t understand that when a child does not want to ask her parents for money, she doesn’t want to burden them. She obviously hasn’t been put in a position of responsibility before, hence her shallow understanding of the world. And while her parents obviously do not share their economic views with her, I’m sure they are one way or another affected by the crisis. But Even without the crisis, how she feels about the world is incredibly shallow, I really really need to slap her."

[Guest 9339]

Pen are always the most lethal weapon.... Now is the keyboard.

That's why Paper's and Media company are worth so much...many tycoon from all over the world try to own 1 if can.....

[Guest londonface]

this also

http://theonlinecitizen.com/2008/10/toc-exclusive-agnes-lin-a-victim-of-the-st/

[Guest jameslhm]

so which one to believe