Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Disastrous Misconceptions About Yours TrulyMet up with my Sociolinguistics group today at PS for project meeting. Supposed to go sneak behind people when they are having a conversation and tape it down, and later go home to analyze they way they speak, the kind of tone, language choice etc etc. But later decided it is too hard cos the eateries everywhere are juz too crowded. So we ended up coming up with a last min change of project proposal altogether, and after that we ended up having 2 whole large waffle ice-creams at Gelare... cos it's Tuesday!!! And then we were just sitting there and chit-chatting lor.
Forgot how we got to that topic, but I was asking them to guess if I was from a mixed sec sch or girls school (my fav question to pple I juz knew), and guess wad? Lyk 3 out of 4 of them said I look lyk I'm frm a mixed school, the last one said PLMGS (even worse!) They said I just have a mixed school look, dunno why. And at this point of time 3 HIHS (Holy Innocent' High) students walked past, and one of my grpmates said, "ya, I was picturing you in this kind of uniform!" I gave her the "huh" look and said that's my sister's uniform la... dammit.
And that's not the worst... we were talking about guys (I wonder how that only guy in our group can tolerate our nonsense... haha!), about how come there's many girls in uni who has bfs now still studying in Poly. Came to the conclusion that they're just simply more gentlemanly and matured... and it suddenly occurred to us that these guys haven even gone thro NS! And they're so much more mature than those we get in uni, who'd already finished NS! Well... basically I was the one making the loudest noise la, as usual, about this topic, about uni having no good guys. (I mean, when it comes to guys bashing, who can win yours truly??) Then after lyk 5 mins, the only guy in our grp asked me across the table, "Xuan u attached rite?" I was like... "No!?" And the girls all started going "really?", and girl sitting right beside me even got so agitated and started pulling my arm saying, "Are you sure? You look like you're the type who constantly has a bf!" I gave her my duh-est look and said, "You mean I look very dependent ar!?!" Siao!
And it occurred to me that recently I was complaining to this fren of mine whom I also knew recently, about the super worst date from hell I went through recently. Few days back he was still empathizing with me, agreeing with me about what a terrible person that so-called "date" is. And just last night, as we were talking with some other frens in the same msn window, and one of my girl frens was lamenting about how sad she is about not treasuring this guy last time and now he's left her for good etc etc. Den I was consoling her by saying if he's yours he will come back someday, and that I also go thro such shit before etc. Then that guy frn of mine was lyk, "Eh Xuan I thought u attached?" And obviously... he kena a huge scolding frm mi on msn. Juz a few days ago I was complaining to u abt hellish date I went thro just last week, and u thought I was attached?? Either he wasn't paying attention or I just have the "I'm-not-single" aka "I'm-attached" look. Kaoz!
And if that's really the case... me having this "I'm taken" look, then I'm seriously in deep shit. Means gimme a few more years and my auntie will confirm bring me matchmaking. I'm so dead. Maybe the fact that I look like I'm frm a mixed school also adds to this look of being constantly attached. Hey I'm from Cedar, a girls school and damn proud of it can!? Oh ya, forgot to add... one of my grp members asked me today if I'm a pure local. Lyk HUH?? She said she and another of our grpmate was saying I look like I'm from Taiwan. Having bright coloured hair does NOT means I'm Taiwanese you know!?!
Damn sad... it's as if I have this entirely new identity attached to myself today. I'm a Taiwanese, who came from a mixed school and is constantly attached. Yours truly is a Singaporean, who came from a girls school, and is constantly single.
*FAINT*
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