There you go!
My mom is 'modern' by her generation standards and in certain
ways, she's sometimes more 'modern' than I am! 
But, she's also fixated on the idea that you must 'work hard',
ie. don't see you around so much because you're 'too busy', to earn
a living. When I declared to her that I work only six days a
fortnight now, she panicked and asked if I was being retrenched,
will I get into 'trouble' in the workplace, etc. One day, she
even slip-of-the-tongue commented, "How come you're so lazy?!
Next time lose job, how?" 
I had to tell her, "MOM!!! EVERYONE
in my dept does that!! We work 12-hr shifts so we meet the
fortnightly contracted working hours faster!"
Somehow, till today, I don't think she has grasped the idea ...
yet. She still keeps telling me, "Don't send money home,
ah! I think you need it more than we do!" thinking that I
must be in some kind of 'trouble' at work, that's why boss don't
want me to work so much!
Aaaaah harharhar!!
i guess mum are all like dat...
just cos i dun stay with them, she think i living in a refugee
camp in some 3rd world country... every time go back, stuff me with
so much food and make me bring home tons of foodstuffs...
>.<
