Generation Gap
A friend of mine from law faculty is currently seeing a 37 year old man. This friend, lets call her Ah Choo, has always been the most conservative of us all. She has to be; her parents visit all the time, she can't play even if she wanted to.
The thing is, being the arch conservative that she is, she refuses to do anything that would run counter to her parents values anyway. This is no sulky rebel repressing her wild side, but a 40 year old in a 19 year old's body. She eschews clubbing for grocery shopping at vic mart, only wants to date chinese speaking and traditional minded chinese guys. By the way, about the clubbing thing, she explained it by saying that she was from Nanyang Girls School which was a Chinese SAP school and that Nanyang girls don't club and are generally more 'guai'(well behaved).
Which has to be the most nonsensical excuse I've ever heard in my life. If one doesn't like clubbing, thats fine. It isn't something everyone takes to. But seriously, to put it down to a school???? I've known many Nanyang girls and quite a lot of them were definitely party animals.
So how did she end up seeing a 37 year old???????????????????????????????*brain boggling*
Not only that I just had this mind boggling conversation with her. She hadn't even begun seeing the 37 year old seriously yet and she was already worrying about her parent's reaction to him.
She asked me what dating involved and I explained that involved usually some form of making out and physical stuff(felt like a bloody primary school teacher).
Which is when she said that she found making out rather gross and that she'd never do it unless it was with her boyfriend.
She's dating a fucking 37 year old, which is older than anyone my own friends have ever dated but she thinks all making out is gross??????
*confusion*
The thing is, being the arch conservative that she is, she refuses to do anything that would run counter to her parents values anyway. This is no sulky rebel repressing her wild side, but a 40 year old in a 19 year old's body. She eschews clubbing for grocery shopping at vic mart, only wants to date chinese speaking and traditional minded chinese guys. By the way, about the clubbing thing, she explained it by saying that she was from Nanyang Girls School which was a Chinese SAP school and that Nanyang girls don't club and are generally more 'guai'(well behaved).
Which has to be the most nonsensical excuse I've ever heard in my life. If one doesn't like clubbing, thats fine. It isn't something everyone takes to. But seriously, to put it down to a school???? I've known many Nanyang girls and quite a lot of them were definitely party animals.
So how did she end up seeing a 37 year old???????????????????????????????*brain boggling*
Not only that I just had this mind boggling conversation with her. She hadn't even begun seeing the 37 year old seriously yet and she was already worrying about her parent's reaction to him.
She asked me what dating involved and I explained that involved usually some form of making out and physical stuff(felt like a bloody primary school teacher).
Which is when she said that she found making out rather gross and that she'd never do it unless it was with her boyfriend.
She's dating a fucking 37 year old, which is older than anyone my own friends have ever dated but she thinks all making out is gross??????
*confusion*
posted by adinahaes at 1:15 AM
1 Comments:
hi, came upon your blog through yoowie's...
I was from NYGHS too! (perhaps I MIGHT know ah choo?) and... I must say that apart from a selected few 'happening' girls in the school (namely the lians), the rest of us were pretty much content to hide our square nerdy heads in our books, short communist-looking crops of hair and all. (it's like HOW ugly can?!!?) In fact, it wasn't until I stepped into uni that I was exposed to the 'greater' scheme of things, also known as the clubbing scene.
Having said that, I suppose people tend to get wilder once they experience freedom from oppression, so that may account for those friends from Nanyang who are party animals... (unless they were lians to begin with?!?)
So yeah, it could actually be possible for ah choo to have been thus deeply influenced by her formative sec school years in Nanyang. And possibly her parents too of course.
As for the 37 yr-old bf, what can I say? We're deprived in Nanyang. :p
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