The one where she refers to herself as a third person
Ok it's just past 4pm at the office and it's not that she doesn't have any work to do. It's just that the work involves a lot of waiting for bureaucratic, government-type people to get back to her, which is a royal pain in the butt.
Speaking of butts, she fell on hers like 5 times on Sunday afternoon when she and the boyfriend went rollerblading for the first time in years! Now her right hand has this big, black, funny-looking bruise - who the hell falls on her palm!? such an idiot - which he spent some time rubbing last night so it will "go away". He even crowned her Queen of Bruises coz she's got one of those on her right bum as well. That one, he didn't rub. heh heh.
So anyway, she has been doing her sums and she realised that while she can probably afford to buy her own little apartment in Telok Kurau now, she might be better off waiting another 6 years - that's when she turns 35 - and buy herself a HDB flat. Cheaper. Monthly mortgage payments are no joke and a real heavy responsibility. Wouldn't it be better to have that much extra cash to play with every month and sock away for emergencies? Definitely. What do people think? She has never been one of those girls who spent her 20s dreaming that some guy is gonna come rescue her and carry her away to a private-condominium existence, hence the whether-to-purchase-now decision.
Damn. Come to think of it, maybe she should have been one of those girls, eh? Imagine! They say you get what you expect, right? So maybe if she had gone around expecting some random guy to pick her up and pay for the home, she would be happily shacked up in some 99-year condo with one of them stupid names and driving her hubby's Nissan Sunny now?! Oh, fate, how you mock me! Her, I mean!
Anyway, she had lunch with a couple of 22-year-olds who interned at the previous newspaper and boy, was it refreshing! She enjoyed the optimism, the cheerfulness, there was no whining, no lurid stories about this person sleeping with that person who used to sleep with the other person's sister. It was all very nice and sweet and proper and imagine! They actually look up to her and asked her for advice about what they should do after they graduate from university in six months' time.
Oh, just do what makes you happy, she said. Don't be what you think you should be. Be what you are. You won't go wrong with that.
So after years of struggling, she is following her own advice and has newfound happiness. Why it took so long, she has no idea.
But it's not too late la.
Speaking of butts, she fell on hers like 5 times on Sunday afternoon when she and the boyfriend went rollerblading for the first time in years! Now her right hand has this big, black, funny-looking bruise - who the hell falls on her palm!? such an idiot - which he spent some time rubbing last night so it will "go away". He even crowned her Queen of Bruises coz she's got one of those on her right bum as well. That one, he didn't rub. heh heh.
So anyway, she has been doing her sums and she realised that while she can probably afford to buy her own little apartment in Telok Kurau now, she might be better off waiting another 6 years - that's when she turns 35 - and buy herself a HDB flat. Cheaper. Monthly mortgage payments are no joke and a real heavy responsibility. Wouldn't it be better to have that much extra cash to play with every month and sock away for emergencies? Definitely. What do people think? She has never been one of those girls who spent her 20s dreaming that some guy is gonna come rescue her and carry her away to a private-condominium existence, hence the whether-to-purchase-now decision.
Damn. Come to think of it, maybe she should have been one of those girls, eh? Imagine! They say you get what you expect, right? So maybe if she had gone around expecting some random guy to pick her up and pay for the home, she would be happily shacked up in some 99-year condo with one of them stupid names and driving her hubby's Nissan Sunny now?! Oh, fate, how you mock me! Her, I mean!
Anyway, she had lunch with a couple of 22-year-olds who interned at the previous newspaper and boy, was it refreshing! She enjoyed the optimism, the cheerfulness, there was no whining, no lurid stories about this person sleeping with that person who used to sleep with the other person's sister. It was all very nice and sweet and proper and imagine! They actually look up to her and asked her for advice about what they should do after they graduate from university in six months' time.
Oh, just do what makes you happy, she said. Don't be what you think you should be. Be what you are. You won't go wrong with that.
So after years of struggling, she is following her own advice and has newfound happiness. Why it took so long, she has no idea.
But it's not too late la.
posted by Jean.Chua at 8:05 AM
4 Comments:
Hee Hee.. funny account.
And three cheers for not waiting for the knight in Nissan Sunny to whisk you off to 99 year condo. You don't need that. You are too good for that la.
I somehow feel that we group of gals are the independent go-getters. We fight for what we want and not wait to be given.
Even if we meet the knight I trust we (at least I) want to know that I'm just as good myself. Don wanna own what I have in life to the man I marry.
Well.... The fun had been in the journey !!!
Yup yup, Cindy! Totally agree!
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