~Men... Why must there be a man in woman??~
Well, The Straits Times has 2 interesting articles for today and yesterday which are "Just friends? Oh yeah, right" by Jeremy Au Yong and "The desirable older woman is nothing new" by Julia Suryakusuma. Anyway, darling I know you complain of my super long posts but bobian ah, I take longer to update nowadays partly due to laziness and hence having to cram a week's worth of what I have been doing merits a longer post (PS. Darling you don't have to read one lor. I know you don't like reading :P). Oops sorry, a side track there. Ya back to the articles. Jeremy writes about men never seeing truly platonic friendships with women as ever possible. I think this comment in the article by his guy friend is a little blunt, "I don't think I could ever become very good friends with a woman I did not want to sleep with." Geez. Imagine the after effects of reading such an article by men and women. Imagine men not allowing their girlfriends to go out with their male friends and girlfriends being jealous when their men go out with their female friends. Ya and we know how fiercely territorial men can be. Maybe now I know why my darling always tells me to be careful when I'm going out with my male friends and he says he's jealous. Perhaps I like to believe that truly platonic friendship can happen among men and women simply coz matters are much less simpler. We don't need so much complication in our lives do we? Or should we segregate men and women as in the Arab world? Anyway, this article seems to point at men as having a roving eye especially those with lots of female friends.. Hmm. But indeed it's true you need to be attracted to someone to be friends. I don't think it needs to be sexual or romantic attraction though. For instance, just having something in common can be a plus point to getting acquainted with someone on a deeper level. Obviously we need to like the person enough to bring the friendship to a higher level.
The other article speaks of the trend of older women and younger men as happening for centuries. Except now it isn't as frowned upon compared to the past. However, let me express my disgust and contempt at the reactions I get when some people comment on how young my darling look beside me and some additional stuff which they say. First, he IS younger than me, it isn't wierd that he looks younger and boyish. At least I don't look 30 as I still maintain my beauty regime. Second, where in the world is there a f***ing rule which says a male dating partner or spouse must be older than the female? If you are not broad-minded enough to accept that such occurrences are happening please keep your dumb comments to yourself. Your silence will be greatly appreciated. Anyway, this is just the humble opinion of mine which I tink is shared by others who are in the same situation as I do. I guess Singapore is still a conservative society and till now I have not encountered any female friend who prefers younger guys as I do. Besides, I'm secure enough to be with a younger guy. I don't need an older guy who's financially stable, looks more mature than I do or care and love for me. People are just too superficial to stick to widely accepted norms and anything which deviates from the average is abnormal. We are in the 21st century yet people's perceptions and beliefs are stuck in the Middle Ages. Who talks about compatibility in social class? Who says a girl cannot have higher educational qualifications, be taller, be older or earns more than the guy? Why do we have to fit in this world with everyone else when we are all different? Doesn't it make more sense to just embrace differences instead of forcing a round peg to fit into a square hole?
On a lighter note, I've caught so many movies last week and I'm not deterred to catch another 5 movies (Stranger than Fiction, Hollywood Land, The Painted Veil, Pan's Labyrinth and The King) despite a busy timetable having to hand in 2 3000-word critiques on 2nd and 7 Feb and to study for my Ethics and Professional Practice exam on 13 Feb (which was changed from 13 Mar).
Darling invited me to watch a recording of The Dance Floor on Wed till 950pm and man it was damn long especially they had to do retakes. Darling's sister was in one of the teams doing a hiphop routine that was why Darling had tickets. We were rushing and we took a limousine cab from Novena Square as the time on the ticket for admission wrote 645pm and we were waiting for a cab at 635pm. The infuriating thing is the stupid cab driver wasn't satisfied with the $2 peak hour charge and he added an additional $0.50 to the ERP charge of $1.50. That sly fox! And he took a roundabout turn to our destination. Geez. As if the $2.80 starting fare meter was not enough. Greedy uncle. I should have noted down his plate number and complained about him. Darling said never mind when I told him about the uncle adding the extra $0.50. I can't believe the cabby wants to cheat 2 schoolkids of their money (Just kidding).
Thursday was spent watching The Queen with Jackson and I'm amazed a political drama about Queen Elizabeth I/II (I'm not sure which one) can be interesting. Friday was spent watching One Last Dance with Jomie, a friend who's 3 years older than I am (something quite rare :P). Jomie is great company and his optimism just rubs off you. Plus he rides a bike which I think it's kinda cool compared to driving the old so boring common car. One Last Dance was funny yet sad and it was filmed in a different style compared to most films showing in theatres now.
Jomie looks like my elder bro doesn't he? :P
Caught Perfume: A Story of a Murderer with Lawrence after a chat at The Beach Hut at East Coast Park on late Saturday. It's R21 and it's a babes galore for those who watch this movie. Anyway there are lotsa hot redheads in the movie and you'll get your money's worth watching an outrageous mass orgy scene of an entire town of people (yes they are in the nude). I wonder how many extras were used for that scene. Some scenes are really ridiculously comical I nearly died laughing. The part where the man who wanted to kill the guy who killed his daughter I thought he wanted to have gay sex the way he held the other guy. Lawrence is a regular in the Navy and he just mentioned online that he had a feeling that he'll see darling. Haha, I wonder if that will happen. But I replied to him not to give darling a hard time if he sees him. Back to the movies part, I strongly recommend the movies which I've watched for this week as they are worthy of 3.5 stars at least.
One good news is I finally went back for ballet class on Sat after a 3 months break and man was I relieved. I forgot how to squeeze my butt muscles and I'm still suffering from muscle ache today. Received my ballet results and certificate and I barely scraped through for my pointework. Looks like I will have to walk around on my pointe shoes everyday at home to practise?
Sunday was spent rotting at home. Monday was the same reading loads of magazines. Today's ethics class was pretty alright as usual and Hansel and Dawne were absent. Wonder what happened to them. Lydia passed me the SPSS program today so finally I can do some data analysis when my data is all keyed in and the program is saved on my com. I need to get started on work soon researching on emotions and reading up on quasi-experiments. There's simply no time to mope around when I've so much to do! Gee, wonder why I'm so hyped up and happy these days. Maybe coz I'm indulging in so many movies. Which is reason for me to escape to my fantasy land much more often than usual.
