In Taiwan

I'm in taiwan now, I'm gonna be here for around a month. A combination of study and here for my mom to take care of family things. I was gonna write this blog about how I am glad to be away from people and making my own server (very exciting!), but I think it's ok for me to air out just how absolutely stupid everyone, excluding my mother, is in my family on my mother's side. 

I like staying anonymous online, and while I would've been worried about the possibility of my family finding this blog, the chances of such are slim to none, and they don't understand english anyways. In my immediate family on my mother's side, my uncles and cousins are troubled and all have criminal records. In short this is because of the way they were raised. They were very spoiled and bailed out always by my grandfather, who paid to get them out of debt among other things. One of my uncles, who I actually know and love despite him being not very intelligent, died very recently. His death was very abrupt and very likely shaken his two sons, my cousins. This came very quickly after the death of my grandfather, who died also recently. 

But a really dangerous thing is that just two weeks ago, the other uncle (my mom's other brother) got out of jail. He went to jail for something really pathetic. Robbing a 7-11. My mom said in her own words, "Robbing for pennies! 7-11 at midnight doesn't even have any money!" After getting out of jail, he has to come back to the house my cousins live in, because there's no one else to take him in. I don't really know this uncle at all. I can't remember his face. I met him yesterday, I don't know him. Frankly, I don't trust him. We bought food from the night market, and my mom brought us to drop it off. When he looked at me and my sister, I think he was shaken up because of how much we had grown. He probably met us when we were babies. But then, my mom told us to leave and go back to our home (we live seperately in another home nearby.) I'd assume it's because they had some serious business to talk about. And today that was confirmed when my mom told me that he was basically saying useless stuff like "I am so poor" and "When I die no one will care about me" my mom straight up told him "Yes, no one will care about you, you should be grateful for having a home to come back to, and you're poor because you never worked a day in your life." This is true by the way, apparently he was a handsome young man and was able to trick a lot of girls into giving him money. Jerk. 

But yeah, to me the most frustrating part is that it seems like this uncle and even my cousins who now have jobs (both were unemployed with on and off jobs before this) don't understand the value of money and how money works. What do I mean by this? Well all of them basically have one of the biggest burdens alleviated from them, which is having a home to live in. They inherited the family home from my grandfather, so they don't need to pay rent or mortgage at all! But despite this, despite the fact they probably have a significantly higher take home pay than most other people in Taiwan, they spend so much money on stupid things, gamble it away, and just aren't aware of the real world. And they keep asking my mom for money too. To give my cousins credit and understanding, they had very rough upbringings. They did not have a mother, because she ran away, and their father (my uncle) was not a good father figure. My mom raised them herself. The oldest one is the one who has a bad criminal record, while the younger one doesn't have a record but has psychological problems. Even though we are cut from the same cloth, I've always been very wary about money: I hate spending money at all, and I always save. I barely touch my savings at all, I'm a very boring person. It makes me mad to no avail, I wish I could scream sense into them, but my mom has been doing so for the last 30 years, and it only took "The tree being cut from under them" for them to understand. She's a tough person, and it makes a lot of sense why she cares so much about me and my sisters education. Because of how none of her nephews and brothers finished high school let alone consider college. 

This is it for this blog, I just wanted to get this off my chest. Incoming blog about me creating my server and also my personal feelings about being in taiwan and stuff in general.