In the latest demonstration of her newly minted ah soh (auntie or housewife-like) status that started just before her marriage, my sister returned a pack of cherry tomatoes to the shelves in Cold Storage after looking at the price tag last weekend.

"30 cents more expensive than NTUC." she proclaimed.

"Huh? Just get it lah. There is no NTUC here, it's only 30 cents more!" I said in mock shock while poking her.

And she finally did, after more nagging on my end.

This is something that she has been joking about since the beginning of the year when she started preparing for her wedding and home -- her becoming so auntie that she would buy 2 cans of a particular brand of abalone for a free cooker or pot.

And I am very amused. I don't know if this is a natural extension of her more prudent character -- the exact opposite of my no "money sense" -- or something that just comes naturally to every woman who has to set up home... family... I wonder.

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