a good women

right.. i gave in 2 temptation 2day and walked into whitcoulls when i was supposed to head directly to one of the sponsors..but u know its a good thg (or bad depending on your take of it) that i did, coz i found dis interesting book which had sumthg that jus raised my hackles.

the book's title is "what the chinese don't eat" by Xinran. there is nothing wrong 2 d book itself in fact i like the way she writes..the thing that caught my attention was in one of her articles. somethg about guys putting a certain kind of standard on what a GOOD WOMAN should be like. ok fine..so u have standards..i get dat coz u ceratinly do not want 2 jus any female version of tom, dick or harry..apparently it is a common standard so she listed it as her readers/ listeners tell her..

a GOOD WOMAN:

1. must not express her own view in public
2. must provide son to continue her husband's family tree
3. must not burn food and must not mix colours for laundry
4. must be nice and smile to men
5. must be good in bed <- there's a continuation to it dat i can't remember.

i din know whether 2 laugh or scream..ppl still do think like dis? wah and i thought dat "i want a gal wif long hair, who wears baju kurung all d time and knows how 2 cook n clean" was really bad. so i decided fine..lets at least make dis a stress reliever and c if I am a good woman under these standards..so here we go..

must not express her own view in public. owh wow..glad to say dat i fail miserably in this category..me sitting quietly and letting a chance to comment pass swiftly by??hah! dream on..unless i'm really sick or have no interest den i wont say a thg..well wat can i say..i've been brought up to speak my mind so u could say dat -following this ideal- that i have been brought up not 2 be a good woman..but den again so are many gals dat i know..are u expecting a gal not to have backbones and agree to everythg that u say?u still dreaming of the "u jump i jump" scene from titanic izit?if a gal can't express her views in public and the only person at home who would be an audience is a close minded man, y don't u just rectify the standard to say a gal should not talk at all? better still y not make it a law dat gal's tougues get cut of at birth? saves u d trouble of gals talking out of line doesn't it??

must provide son to continue her husband's family tree. right...ok personally no experience but hell! what do u tink gals are? breeding machine ar?and if i'm not wrong, i was told that its the guy's genes (or some other bio related stuff) that determines the gender of the baby.was it the cromosom?the X and Y thingy..yea dat sould be it. anyway, if science has proven that it's d guy, y is it that this is still placed as a determinant for a good woman? if u can't help continue ur family tree dun go around pointing fingers k..plus like d author said, how many boys do u want? at the end of the day, even u need to marry someone's daughter in order to get a son of your own. its also interesting that this perspective of having sons is not jus an asian thg. the western guys are part of this too..ah well jus let dis ppl have all d sons they want den at the end of the day i want 2 c if these precious sons would want 2 take care of their senile fathers or not.

must not burn food and must not mix colours for laundry. wah..dis also need 2 dictate ar?ok so far i have not burnt my food (1point for me) but i do chuck various colours 2gether in the machine n run it..unless i know d colour of d clothes fade la (0point for me)..not burning food..ok at least they din say the gal needs 2 prepare a cuisine but man..u men are annoying! cook for urself la..better still if u dun 1 burnt food, treat ur gal, as often as u would prefer not 2 have burnt food, to meals at restaurants or hotels..what's a few bucks for non burnt food rite??as for the laundry, simple solution..buy all ur clothes in one colour like Homer Simpson den no one will mix ur clothes..excuse me no gal in her right mind would spend ages doing laundry jus because there are 10 different colours of clothes.."ok now i'll wash blue, den green den purple" <--siao meh??

must be nice and smile to men. personally dis is the 'std' that i hated with vengence! be nice n smile 2 men? i got nothing better 2 do with my life ar? if i dun like u, and if ur rude, i dun care what gender u are i'll jus plain not be nice 2 u let alone smile..plus i've been 2 a co-ed school and the boys there seem to think that when ur nice 2 them that u dream of them and that d gals r miang..so are u, dear men, contradicting urselves? in one hand u want gals be nice 2 u..yet on the other u'd probably skin ur gals alive if they were nice 2 other guys..crazy! make up ur minds or maybe you should be at least more specific with ur standards. (note 2 men: amendmend needed for ur stds)

must be good in bed. the only thing i can say is : what d hell..man u ppl r a demanding bunch!what if the tables r turned? can gals throw u out of their homes coz ur bad in bed? "alert!:so and so is a bad man-he's bad in bed" c how funny n idiotic dat looked?

so in the end..after much self reflection, it is concluded that i'm NOT a GOOD WOMAN by these standards. thank God for that..sitting down owh so elegantly and being domestic and most of all shutting up and smiling all d time does not become me..i'd go nuts in a minute! i wish those guys d very best of luck in looking for A gal dat fits dis owh - so - stringent criteria. kampung gals oso not like dat k..halo dude, we r in d 21st century d, what d hell r u doing trapped in d 1400?

Sure God created man before woman. but then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece. ~Catherine Swain~