A few days back, my dad sent me a
message asking me to get tickets for the Korean pop group “Smtown”. However, a
check with the website indicated that tickets would only be on sale at 10am
today, and even then it was only exclusively for those with a certain credit
card or for Samsung Mobile customers.
As my mum and I both hold a credit
card from the same bank, I tried going into the website at ten on the dot.
Unfortunately, the website was down due to “heavy traffic”. I kept trying to go
in but my many attempts did not succeed until half past eleven, where the
transaction finally went through and I got the tickets.
My dad’s instruction was that I
was to get the most expensive ticket (S$298.00 per person, after the 20%
discount from that credit card, would be around S$238.40). Unfortunately, by
the time I went in, that category of tickets were sold out. This allows you up
close and personal with the pop group.
I tried the second category
(S$268.00 per ticket), but also sold out. Third and fourth categories (S$238.00
and S$218.00) were sold out too. In the end, I could only get the fifth category
(S$198.00 per ticket, which was five rows behind (or in front, depending on how
you look at it) the stage.
I was to get three tickets, with
booking fees and the charge for courier to send the tickets to my place since I
could not be bothered to collect the tickets on my own, and the total price set
me back by S$660.00. It does not matter since I would be reimbursed anyway.
The thing is, only kids would be
interested in this Korean pop group. If that is the case, how do the kids
nowadays have so much money to get the most expensive seats so instantly?
Obviously, my dad was not getting
the tickets for himself. He was specially requested by his business associate
in China
How in the world do kids have
this much money? Of course, their parents would pay, but are the parents
nowadays spoiling the kids so much that they are willing to splash so much on
their kids just for a concert? I know definitely my mum would not. I could not
even afford S$50.00 to attend a concert I like when I was still studying!
Is that the reason why this new
generation is growing up thinking the world of themselves, and that everyone
has to cater to them alone? This makes me really reflect on what exactly is the
proper and right upbringing.
Having never been a parent and
not sure if I can ever be one, I suppose I can never understand how parents
feel. I know parents definitely all love their kids, but is there a line drawn
between love and teaching the right things, and love and just indulgence?
Perhaps I can answer this better when, and if, I actually become a parent
myself.
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