Between the suffocating grasps of homework and violin practice i am surprised i actually got time today to blog... well, i think if i make a commitment to it once a week maybe then i could sustain this webpage for a while, unlike the other time when i tried to keep a diary... which lasted for a pathetic duration of 72 hours.
lately, something has been bothering me, and it's not the fact that i still have 60 chinese general conversation questions overdue, but my mum's recent attitude towards... certain things.
Ok i understand being a mum she is supposed to be paranoid about her children and constantly giving lectures at the slightest sight of misconduct. Being a wise adult(which sometimes seemed seriuosly doubtful) she probably know what's best for me.
So, i don't understand, why for god's sake, that everytime she sees me talking, or even walking with members of the opposite sex she assumes that i am trying to date that person. One of my friends said to me the other day that "all guys go out with girls with ulterior motives" now, i don't argue that some guys do think like that, but i am sure that many others don't take such a sexist stance. I like to think i belong to the latter catagory; boys and girls are the same, you don't need a romantic relationship between opposite sex, but can still be friends with each other.
That is why i am getting excruciating annoyed every now and again when mum inquires about my friends. If i mentioned that "she" is a girl, then follows a string of probing questions like : is she good looking? where does she live? what school does she go to? what's her family background?
sigh... seems like my mum wanted to know the marriageability of every girl i know... now i am forced to develop evasive technics to avoid her question bombardment for the sake of my sanity.
Luckily last week she accidentally saw a picture of my brother's party, where he was sitting suggestively next to a "female" friend. So, while mum is distracted by her shocking discovery, i can take sometime to rest and brace for nine weeks of school ahead.
panda
lately, something has been bothering me, and it's not the fact that i still have 60 chinese general conversation questions overdue, but my mum's recent attitude towards... certain things.
Ok i understand being a mum she is supposed to be paranoid about her children and constantly giving lectures at the slightest sight of misconduct. Being a wise adult(which sometimes seemed seriuosly doubtful) she probably know what's best for me.
So, i don't understand, why for god's sake, that everytime she sees me talking, or even walking with members of the opposite sex she assumes that i am trying to date that person. One of my friends said to me the other day that "all guys go out with girls with ulterior motives" now, i don't argue that some guys do think like that, but i am sure that many others don't take such a sexist stance. I like to think i belong to the latter catagory; boys and girls are the same, you don't need a romantic relationship between opposite sex, but can still be friends with each other.
That is why i am getting excruciating annoyed every now and again when mum inquires about my friends. If i mentioned that "she" is a girl, then follows a string of probing questions like : is she good looking? where does she live? what school does she go to? what's her family background?
sigh... seems like my mum wanted to know the marriageability of every girl i know... now i am forced to develop evasive technics to avoid her question bombardment for the sake of my sanity.
Luckily last week she accidentally saw a picture of my brother's party, where he was sitting suggestively next to a "female" friend. So, while mum is distracted by her shocking discovery, i can take sometime to rest and brace for nine weeks of school ahead.
panda
posted by panda at
6:39 AM
1 Comments:
hey panda!! i've come uninvitied. =P anyhow i think most parents are like that! mine included!! except its the other way round. =(
(i wanted to tag in your shoutbox, but i dont want the tagboard to set cookies! so yeah =S )
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