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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

there shouldn't be exams for classes you actually enjoy

9:00 PM
cos if you like a class, it's likely that you paid attention, did all your assignments properly and it wasn't a chore. making you study for it takes the fun out of what you enjoyed learning. this is why i shouldn't have exams for my south asian and theatre classes, as well as topics.

i swear, i shall never take classes i like again. =(



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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

grandma

7:31 AM
this morning my grandma tells me, i can't remember when i came here, i don't know what i'm doing here and i don't know how to get anywhere from here so take me with you when you go out okay?

sure, grandma, you want to do my topics exam for me? it might make as much sense to her as it does to me =( and mak might like her cos she's so cute haha.



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Saturday, November 15, 2008

closet mangamma

10:10 PM
so there i was, bobbing home to nee kattum selai and ilamai itho itho (the remix), jingling home with my kolusu, discussing post-exam jeanz plans and then Dubious Anjack Number 1 (out of 3) taps me on the shoulder and asks 'err...do you mind if i get to know you?'

and as a true social science student, i answer the question: 'yes, i mind!'

i'm wondering how the hell he knew that i am a closet mangamma?



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Friday, November 14, 2008

the last supper

7:17 AM
i've started having morbid thought. blame the exams or the fact that this is the most unprepared i'll ever be =(

so i started wondering what i would want for my last meal. i want temple pongal, ghee filled and delicious; my mother's vadais with the tomato onion chutney and mint chutney; my MIL's tahu sambal (ohhh yea) and lassi from chella's.

i told my dad and he replied you must have been very hungry.

i told my mum and she said why don't you people like homecooked food anymore?



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Sunday, November 09, 2008

33 years

6:24 PM
in the morning:

mother: it's our anniversary today.
me: oh, congratulations. so many years! aren't you bored yet?
mother: *glares* no. we might be going out for dinner.

in the evening:

me: are you going out for dinner?
father: no, why? do you want us out of the house?
me: it's your anniversary!
father: oh ya.
me: and amma mentioned that you might be taking her out to dinner.
father: *panics* is it too late to ask?
me: she might be full from lunch and say no?
father: i'll ask.

i'm totally going to this man for marriage counselling and financial advise. lol.



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Friday, November 07, 2008

zoom

8:15 AM
i passed my final theory! finally! theoretically, i can drive. what's more - theoretically, i can drive a manual car too! i theoretically know how to manouvre the accelerator and clutch to get its biting point and know how to use the engine brake and i know how to change gears. WOO.

just like theoretically, i by next may i should theoretically know how to run the singapore economy. HAHA.

BUT: i cannot book a test date cos there ar eonly 3 dates available and they are in january! and i don't know if i can finish by then. maybe just book and cheong? and if i do in jan (and hypothetically pass) the sooner i have to give up my rights as a damsel in distress and H will not longer volunteer to drive me around. tragic!

hmmm.



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Wednesday, November 05, 2008

of babies and not.

9:04 AM
people are getting married, other people are having babies! motherhood, wow.

do you ever think about how you came into existence? and i don't mean the fun part. i mean you take it for granted that your mother gave birth to you. and you don't think about it until someone about your age has a child and it suddenly hits you that's what my mother had to go through? twice?

kudos to you, C. and V! god, i am so proud of you.

it's not pleasant. and to think it's a natural want for every woman to have a child. i'm beginning to think it's social conditioning. that women want to have children because in this patriarchal society the male gaze has instituted that it is the woman's role to have and rear children. and the whole it's such a beautiful process psychobabble is also a result of the male gaze, because women have always been validated as real women by men only after they have children. of course la, women are the ones who are able to have children, but i argue that it has become expected of us to want to have children. we want to have kids not because we want to, but because someone else wants us to.

ah well. i have a few years to ponder over this.

and you men complain about national service! and get more money because you dedicated 2 years of your life serving the nation (and get paid for it, even though it's minimal?) women have children! and do we get anything out of that? it's just from now that we get more maternity leave and more baby bonus - but it's all economically motivated. that singapore needs children for future sustainable growth and to build up its potential human capital.

being female SUCKS. i want to be culturally and socially androgynous.



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