The dilemma of the single overseas bachelorette
My good friend Syl and I (and Irine too if she wasn’t getting herself wedded off!) have a lot of things in common – a couple of them are the facts that we:
a) Are overseas graduates
b) Have spent quite a huge amount of time there
c) Are deeply influenced by the western-ways of thinking, i.e. western-minded, and undeniably
d) Single
Nevertheless, I’d just fondly sum it up that we’re SOBs – no, not the cursing words but it stands for Single Overseas Bachelorettes.
In a country like Indo, where everyone seems to get into a state of priapic frenzy if they weren’t a part of a “couple”, it has become almost a sin to be walking around without your so-called other half. No matter how emancipated the women have become, it is still imperative that they are to be wedded off – soon, hopefully, no more than the age of 26 at the very least. As soon as they hit 30, sirens start to blare off from their ears, forbidding them to enter places like cinemas or cafes with dimmed lights – as if these places have invisible placards on top of the entrances blazing “No singles allowed” blinking on and off in garish purple neon.
At times like these, it is possible to shake apart our beliefs that it is okay to be single – no it’s definitely fine spending Saturday evenings in front of the telly watching repeats of Melrose Place, munching on crackers and glugging wine down to the very last drop – but when it comes to the topic of ‘boyfriend’, we often get into a desperate state where we’d ask each other if there’s any guy – anyone? Anyone at all? – at each other’s work’s place or basically anywhere we know who might have an interest with the likes of us.
But to our despair we have come to a realization that we know – yes, we know – that it is absolutely a battle to find the man who would really come close to our expectations – even though we don’t expect that much. Well, so long as he’s presentable, not like someone that even your dog would recoil from and comes with a decent form of transportation and doesn’t scab money from us – won’t we be grand?
Even so, we have yet to believe that we are basically left with little – or shall I say no choices – but:
a) Typical Indo guy, whose ways of thinking repulses us so much we shudder at the very thoughts. The mind games, the play-hard-to-get, the sleazy attitude, not to mention the somehow twisted thought that they think any female beings are subjected to cooking, cleaning, bearing children, acting femininely, and just be plain goddamn submissive – need we explain more?
b) Overseas bachelors with over spoiling parents who laden them with Beemers and Mercs and many other destructive things filthy rich people do to their kids, thus unawarely making these fine young men turn into selfish ignorant brats who suffer from what we like to call ‘The Little Emperor Syndrome’. Although they are very much influenced with the Western ways, they are still very much Asian – unfortunately left with the bad parts.
c) Foreign men – forget it. Most of them fat, balding with burnt red skin. Even so, these guys go for the authentic Indo looks so there’s no way they’d be interested with us.
So the question – plus the quest itself – remains the same: How on earth are we going to find the man who doesn’t possess all those dreadful characteristics? The margin is getting narrower and the numbers are definitely getting smaller. I am simply clueless as to think whether we are simply left with no hope or should remain optimistic.
Ah feck it. I’m just gonna purchase another dog and be done with it.
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kinda resonates with what you wrote…
I feel left out
Well, despite all that, there is still hope!
I’ve had guys from (a), (b) and (c)…and (d)…oh what the hell, and the rest of the alphabetical family!!!
Anyways, my point it, though they are generally like that, there’s still that chance that a few of them cannot be classified into those stereotyped categories.
Be patient. Usually, it’s when you’re not looking, they start coming…and coming…and coming…and coming…whauhauhauhaua
LOL…Amen to that!
Ok ok, I’m editing the blog and will include you in.
Yeah, I’m looking for someone who is juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust right with just the correct amount of a, b, c and d (all the good ones of course) ha ha ha…
huehuee..thx babe…
Why is getting married so important?