Me? Sing? noooooooo................. but sing i did. for the first time in perhaps 4 years, I actually joined my frens at a karaoke session. eh, dun luff.
so being the old-school me, i chose the old-school stuff. That's after realising that there weren't anymore folders with dog-eared song titles on them. "WHERE ARE THE SONG LISTS???", i demanded upon entry. WZ pointed to a remote and a screen below the tv. wow, the song library's on a database now! Talk about technology... I must have been really really country-bumpkin then. oh well who cares...
joined them cos someone used emotional blackmail to coerce me to go. too softhearted, me. should have spared them the misery of my awful voice. and old-school songs.
digressing a little... recently 2 of my closest frens had their girlfriends break up with them. well, to be frank, one was slightly better, and did it after the exams. it's saddening, cos both the relationships had been quite stable for more than 2, 3 years. tells me to appreciate wat i have more. the reasons for breaking up? not entirely sure, but the reasons go along the lines of being in school still, while the ladies have had tasted the high life or something, and dun see themselves living the high lives with my frens. i know the girls personally too, and the one who broke up with my fren in the midst of exams, i want to tell her this:
"HAVE SOME BLOODY DECENCY. HIS EXAMS AFFECT HIS BLOODY FUTURE. BECOS OF TIS I DESPISE YOU. AT THE POINT OF TIME WHEN HE NEEDED YOUR SUPPORT MOST YOU DEALT HIM A STRONG BLOW."
when i knew abt it, i had wanted to call the woman up and ask what her problem was. But of cos i didn't. It was not my right to do so anyway. since if the breakup was inevitable, the least she could do was to wait till his papers were over. I'm sure everyone would agree. i have not talked to her for ages, and neither am i THAT close to her anyway, thankfully. if not i would have really called her up and gave her a piece of my mind. i dunno what happened, and i dun care whose fault it was. the least she could have done for someone she loved, was to hold the inevitable back till his exams were over.
for my other fren, my heart goes out to him as well. ppl close to me must have heard me saying this: "Good guys die early." good as in nice guys. i shall not divulge much, but all i want to say is, it takes two to make the relationship work. if you are not happy with something, express ur displeasure. that's the bloody problem with women. they make noise, they throw tantrums for reasons unknown to the guy, and when the guy asks what went wrong, the girl says nothing.
HEY HEY WE CAN'T READ MINDS. HELLO! WHY ARE WE ALWAYS GIVEN THE DEATH SENTENCE WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT CRIME WE COMMITTED?
this is just a general analogy about the weirdness of women:
Girl throws tantrums.
Guy: "hey sweetie pie, what's wrong?"
Girl: "NOTHING!"
Guy: "then why are you throwing tantrums?"
Girl: "NOTHING!!"
Since nothing is wrong, according to the lady, guy continues with his ways, which of cos angers the lady, cos SOMETHING IS OBVIOUSLY WRONG. Guy detected aloofness in the girl, and probes again. Girl says NOTHING!!!! again. So this happens a few times, and quarrels ensue.
as i said before we can't read minds. if we could, we wun need to study anymore do we? men are mechanical by nature (explains the huge imbalance of sexes in engineering/math faculties). We need to be told if something's wrong. i'm not saying we WILL NEVER KNOW what's wrong, just that making things clear would make things easier isn't it??? apparently that's not wired in women's minds. They expect us to KNOW what is wrong. They expect us to be know-it-alls. They have something up their minds, but all they can say is the opposite.
Guy: "Where shall we eat?"
Girl: "Anything's fine with me."
Guy: "Ok let's go Mezzanine."
Girl: "Dunwan."
Guy: "Ok then let's go have some sushi."
Girl: "I just had some a few days before."
Guy: "What about Burger King?"
Girl: "Fattening."
Guy: "SO WHERE DO U WANNA EAT?"
Girl: "Anywhere lah, you cannot decide meh??"
Dun tell me you never encountered this. Next one is quite common too.
Girl: "Hmm this top looks nice. Should I try it?"
Guy: "Go ahead!"
Girl: "But it's too frilly... Dun really like it."
Guy: "ok...."
Girl: "But i like the colour..."
Guy: "Then try it on..."
Girl: "But the cutting makes me look fat doesn't it?"
Guy: "No, looks ok to me..."
Girl: "CAN YOU GIVE ME BETTER SUGGESTIONS? WHY ARE U ALWAYS DISSUADING ME FROM BUYING CLOTHES???"
Guy: "..."
Happens all the time. To me, to you, to most men out there.
Girl: "My frens think you are fat/not gentlemanly enough/NOT RICH ENOUGH/not smart enough (take your pick)."
Guy: "Man that sucks. Do you concur with them?"
Girl: "No, of cos not."
Guy: "well i can change for you if that's wat you want..."
Girl: "nope i dunwanna impose any expectations on you."
Guy: "Ok...."
Girl: "BUT i think you really are a little fat/not gentlemanly enough/NOT RICH ENOUGH/not smart enough."
Guy: "ok then i will try and change..."
Girl: "But i really dunwanna impose ANY expectations on you..."
Guy: "in that case, alright then..."
Girl: "But... i need someone who is less fat/ungentlemanly/POOR/stupid..."
Guy: "OK OK I WILL TRY AND IMPROVE MYSELF!!"
Girl: "But i really dunwanna impose any expectations on you...."
Guy: "THEN????"
Girl: "WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING AT ME???"
Familiar? so you do want us to change or do you not?????
To men putting up with all of the above scenarios, i salute you.
Women... Ah, the sweet mysteries of life (sorry Roald Dahl, this phrase just popped in my mind). Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Better not to ponder over it. Better to just sing your blues away with a bunch of frens who dun cringe when you go off key.
so being the old-school me, i chose the old-school stuff. That's after realising that there weren't anymore folders with dog-eared song titles on them. "WHERE ARE THE SONG LISTS???", i demanded upon entry. WZ pointed to a remote and a screen below the tv. wow, the song library's on a database now! Talk about technology... I must have been really really country-bumpkin then. oh well who cares...
joined them cos someone used emotional blackmail to coerce me to go. too softhearted, me. should have spared them the misery of my awful voice. and old-school songs.
digressing a little... recently 2 of my closest frens had their girlfriends break up with them. well, to be frank, one was slightly better, and did it after the exams. it's saddening, cos both the relationships had been quite stable for more than 2, 3 years. tells me to appreciate wat i have more. the reasons for breaking up? not entirely sure, but the reasons go along the lines of being in school still, while the ladies have had tasted the high life or something, and dun see themselves living the high lives with my frens. i know the girls personally too, and the one who broke up with my fren in the midst of exams, i want to tell her this:
"HAVE SOME BLOODY DECENCY. HIS EXAMS AFFECT HIS BLOODY FUTURE. BECOS OF TIS I DESPISE YOU. AT THE POINT OF TIME WHEN HE NEEDED YOUR SUPPORT MOST YOU DEALT HIM A STRONG BLOW."
when i knew abt it, i had wanted to call the woman up and ask what her problem was. But of cos i didn't. It was not my right to do so anyway. since if the breakup was inevitable, the least she could do was to wait till his papers were over. I'm sure everyone would agree. i have not talked to her for ages, and neither am i THAT close to her anyway, thankfully. if not i would have really called her up and gave her a piece of my mind. i dunno what happened, and i dun care whose fault it was. the least she could have done for someone she loved, was to hold the inevitable back till his exams were over.
for my other fren, my heart goes out to him as well. ppl close to me must have heard me saying this: "Good guys die early." good as in nice guys. i shall not divulge much, but all i want to say is, it takes two to make the relationship work. if you are not happy with something, express ur displeasure. that's the bloody problem with women. they make noise, they throw tantrums for reasons unknown to the guy, and when the guy asks what went wrong, the girl says nothing.
HEY HEY WE CAN'T READ MINDS. HELLO! WHY ARE WE ALWAYS GIVEN THE DEATH SENTENCE WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT CRIME WE COMMITTED?
this is just a general analogy about the weirdness of women:
Girl throws tantrums.
Guy: "hey sweetie pie, what's wrong?"
Girl: "NOTHING!"
Guy: "then why are you throwing tantrums?"
Girl: "NOTHING!!"
Since nothing is wrong, according to the lady, guy continues with his ways, which of cos angers the lady, cos SOMETHING IS OBVIOUSLY WRONG. Guy detected aloofness in the girl, and probes again. Girl says NOTHING!!!! again. So this happens a few times, and quarrels ensue.
as i said before we can't read minds. if we could, we wun need to study anymore do we? men are mechanical by nature (explains the huge imbalance of sexes in engineering/math faculties). We need to be told if something's wrong. i'm not saying we WILL NEVER KNOW what's wrong, just that making things clear would make things easier isn't it??? apparently that's not wired in women's minds. They expect us to KNOW what is wrong. They expect us to be know-it-alls. They have something up their minds, but all they can say is the opposite.
Guy: "Where shall we eat?"
Girl: "Anything's fine with me."
Guy: "Ok let's go Mezzanine."
Girl: "Dunwan."
Guy: "Ok then let's go have some sushi."
Girl: "I just had some a few days before."
Guy: "What about Burger King?"
Girl: "Fattening."
Guy: "SO WHERE DO U WANNA EAT?"
Girl: "Anywhere lah, you cannot decide meh??"
Dun tell me you never encountered this. Next one is quite common too.
Girl: "Hmm this top looks nice. Should I try it?"
Guy: "Go ahead!"
Girl: "But it's too frilly... Dun really like it."
Guy: "ok...."
Girl: "But i like the colour..."
Guy: "Then try it on..."
Girl: "But the cutting makes me look fat doesn't it?"
Guy: "No, looks ok to me..."
Girl: "CAN YOU GIVE ME BETTER SUGGESTIONS? WHY ARE U ALWAYS DISSUADING ME FROM BUYING CLOTHES???"
Guy: "..."
Happens all the time. To me, to you, to most men out there.
Girl: "My frens think you are fat/not gentlemanly enough/NOT RICH ENOUGH/not smart enough (take your pick)."
Guy: "Man that sucks. Do you concur with them?"
Girl: "No, of cos not."
Guy: "well i can change for you if that's wat you want..."
Girl: "nope i dunwanna impose any expectations on you."
Guy: "Ok...."
Girl: "BUT i think you really are a little fat/not gentlemanly enough/NOT RICH ENOUGH/not smart enough."
Guy: "ok then i will try and change..."
Girl: "But i really dunwanna impose ANY expectations on you..."
Guy: "in that case, alright then..."
Girl: "But... i need someone who is less fat/ungentlemanly/POOR/stupid..."
Guy: "OK OK I WILL TRY AND IMPROVE MYSELF!!"
Girl: "But i really dunwanna impose any expectations on you...."
Guy: "THEN????"
Girl: "WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING AT ME???"
Familiar? so you do want us to change or do you not?????
To men putting up with all of the above scenarios, i salute you.
Women... Ah, the sweet mysteries of life (sorry Roald Dahl, this phrase just popped in my mind). Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Better not to ponder over it. Better to just sing your blues away with a bunch of frens who dun cringe when you go off key.
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