[B]roken

Updated: 19th December 2013

A little refresher for those who need it. The below information is written to the best of my knowledge.

FamilyStatus

My parents are divorced.

I was 6.

MommyDearest

Mom is single, supporting herself.

She is an insurance agent by profession, working in Prudential.

Mom was a free thinker, now Christian.

She lives in Marsiling.

Father

Father remarried a woman from China, LiuLi.

To fund his business, LiuLi gave a large sum of money, which she claimed to be her life savings, to father.

Father's marriage with LiuLi turned horrible due to LiuLi's jealousy and relentless hurting words about his past, and when he was going to return her her savings.

In an attempt to silence her, he signed off his house to her name.
LiuLi promised to allow me to stay till I graduate from SMU.

Shortly after, father had to leave the house, and LiuLi claimed both the house and the family business.

Not long after that, LiuLi chased me out as well, denying any verbal agreement.

I'm not sure where father is living, and with whom, but last I remember, he has another girlfriend from China.

Father was baptized on the same day as Yizhen.

LiuLi

LiuLi has a son from her previous marriage.

Her son, LiuShuai, suffers from autism.

Father and LiuLi almost never get along, quarrel and occasionally fight with each other.

After chasing father and me out of the HDB unit (which now is officially hers), she continues to run father's business.

LiuLi was a Muslim, before converting to Christianity.

She is baptized, but LiuShuai backed out last minute.
I'm not sure which god she worships now, if any.

Father's divorce status is unknown to me.

He claims he will fund the rest of my education costs with what he can salvage from the case.
I have graduated, and still have not received a single cent from him.

Yizhen tells me that he is living in Singapore now with his new China Chinese wife.

Yizhen

Yizhen, my sister, maintains an education level at N levels, though she did attempt to take her Os as a private candidate.

She started working in multi-level-marking businesses, in pubs, and then had a more permanent job in a pet grooming company.
Now she is working as an integrior designer.

Yizhen was a Christian. She was baptized on the same day as father.

Yizhen is gay.

She had a few girlfriends, and seem to be unable to maintain one due to loyalty issues.

Not long ago, Yizhen moved out after getting into a heated argument with Mom, disowning her as a daughter.

A fight was broke out involving me against Yizhen, while Mom and Yizhen's girl friend held me back.

Given Yizhen's sexual orientation, one would wonder why another girl was in her room past midnight that night.
Yizhen supposedly has a stable girlfriend now, though one does wonder how legit or monogamic that is.

Me

I graduated from SMU after completing my conscription obligation..

I was an infantry Sniper.

I used to live in the block next to father’s before LiuLi evicted me out of the unit with the help of the police.

I now live in Marsiling with Mom.

I was baptized, and had been a Christian for the good sixteen years of my life, before invoking apostasy.

Perhaps I was not devout enough, though I do see God's work in some Christians.

Perhaps I was not listening hard enough, but I feel that He has never answered my prayers.

I have stopped worshiping for some time, though my principles and values remain.

My quest for purity and fierce loyalty to and from a soulmate defines and shapes my thoughts, actions, and speech.

I am currently working in a digital media agency.

I don't have the most beautiful family in the world.

Marriages may be made in heaven, but human folly sure isn't.

I have vowed in front of my father, in anger and in spite, to give my future children the best childhood and the best family they will ever receive and ever dream to receive.

Because I have always believed, and will always believe that the most meaningful thing in life is a successful family.

One does not need to grow up in a perfect one to realize that.