Can spin until like this! Wah seh! Really treat Sporns as retards on the level of clintonxxx's and cassyyy's!
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Widow Gurusamy Sarasvathy - seen her with childrren Ranjini, 20, and Harinya, five - is still paying off an HDB flat.
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->A weekend car, cable TV and three TV sets. These are not exactly items you would expect a family living in an HDB rental flat to have.
But Ms Masni Mohd, 29, who lives in a two-room Clementi flat with her 48-year-old mother and two brothers, aged 15 and 22, has an explanation for these items.
Ms Masni earns $1,000 from her part-time job and her mother earns $400 a month as an office cleaner. Their household income just about meets the HDB's $1,500 cut-off for rental flats.
On how she came to own a car, Ms Masni explained that when her former fiance and stepfather insisted on buying one four years ago, she felt compelled to go along with it, to the point of registering the vehicle in her name.
Both men later left the family, leaving her stranded with monthly instalments of $700. She is unable to sell the car because she still has an outstanding $20,000 loan.
As for the family's cable TV subscription, she said: 'My youngest brother is at that age where we need to provide him with things so that he doesn't feel left behind among his peers. He can get education through some of the programmes too.'
She said it meant cutting back on other expenses, like a computer.
As for the three TV sets, she said that the first has been with the family for 20 years, the second is a hand-me-down, and the third, a lucky draw prize.
After paying $700 each month for the car loan, she and her mother share household bills of almost $500. The rest goes to school expenses for her 15-year-old brother and her own meals.
Her 22-year-old brother is doing national service and supports himself.
She did not think her family has deprived the more needy of a flat. 'I don't feel guilty. I think my mum needs this place as much as others or even more.' She added that she is getting married next year and will be living with her in-laws after her wedding. The rest of her family will then have to rely on her mother's income.
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Widow Gurusamy Sarasvathy - seen her with childrren Ranjini, 20, and Harinya, five - is still paying off an HDB flat.
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->A weekend car, cable TV and three TV sets. These are not exactly items you would expect a family living in an HDB rental flat to have.
But Ms Masni Mohd, 29, who lives in a two-room Clementi flat with her 48-year-old mother and two brothers, aged 15 and 22, has an explanation for these items.
Ms Masni earns $1,000 from her part-time job and her mother earns $400 a month as an office cleaner. Their household income just about meets the HDB's $1,500 cut-off for rental flats.
On how she came to own a car, Ms Masni explained that when her former fiance and stepfather insisted on buying one four years ago, she felt compelled to go along with it, to the point of registering the vehicle in her name.
Both men later left the family, leaving her stranded with monthly instalments of $700. She is unable to sell the car because she still has an outstanding $20,000 loan.
As for the family's cable TV subscription, she said: 'My youngest brother is at that age where we need to provide him with things so that he doesn't feel left behind among his peers. He can get education through some of the programmes too.'
She said it meant cutting back on other expenses, like a computer.
As for the three TV sets, she said that the first has been with the family for 20 years, the second is a hand-me-down, and the third, a lucky draw prize.
After paying $700 each month for the car loan, she and her mother share household bills of almost $500. The rest goes to school expenses for her 15-year-old brother and her own meals.
Her 22-year-old brother is doing national service and supports himself.
She did not think her family has deprived the more needy of a flat. 'I don't feel guilty. I think my mum needs this place as much as others or even more.' She added that she is getting married next year and will be living with her in-laws after her wedding. The rest of her family will then have to rely on her mother's income.
