Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Why do people get married or stay single?
Recently kept in touch with old colleagues and realised time flies. Its been 6 years I last contact with them. Now most of them are married and some have more than one child. One of them who were married for 6 years finally had a baby and told me when is my turn. Well, I have no plans. Somehow I enjoy my single life now and never plan to start family.
If I ever decide to settle down I find that I prefer not to have children or perhaps marry a man who has children from previous marriage (KAKAKA). Maybe I am crazy but I prefer to have peaceful life and enjoy my life and do things I enjoy doing without having to be tied down by many things. Then this male ex colleague of mine asked me a very sensitive question. He asked if I decided to stay single and enjoy "one night stand" and no relationships. Well just some briefing about him he is my best pal during my last job in Malaysia before I work in Singapore. He married a wife who is of English and chinese parentage and spend few years in UK to study and work before he move back to Malaysia in 2004. That's why he is pretty open minded in this sense.Honestly I find it rather offensive to ask me this way but I told him that I go church regularly and serving at nursery once a month. With this I strongly oppose to "One Night Stand" and this is definitely not the reason for me to remain single. My friend apologised to me after I clarified this and said that he did not believe I am like that but just that he lost touch with me for so long and thought maybe I might have changed since we last chat in 2004.This made me think of recent "Edison Chen" scandal. Since he spend a number of years studying overseas and live a rich and famous lifestyle I would not comment on his sleeping around with so many females and have the interest to take such photos which is pretty obscene to many of us Asians. But the females involved with him who are not officially his girlfriend, I do not sympathize with most of them not even a bit. If they are below 20 at the time when taking the photos I might believe they are too naive but most of them have photos taken are above 20 years old and they seem to enjoy taking them. One in particular have been taking such photos for a period few years looking at different hairstyle in the photos. Who to blame? No one but themselves.
spoke at : 12:39 AM