
You know you are getting older when your angpow money is slowly decreasing.
You know your angpow money is decreasing when relatives are reluctant to give you angpows.
You know your relatives are reluctant to give you angpows when they ask you for the millionth time...
"Are you sure you don't have a boyfriend??"
O_o
Chinese New Year is one of those times in the year when pesky & non-pesky relatives gather & be merry. It is also that time of the year when they torture the children with...
"wahhhhh...so big already, got boyfriend/girlfriend or not? Can get married already!!"
Usually, they would target my older cousins but since some of them are cleverly out of the country, married or soon to be married, I was *gulp* their target this year.
I kinda expected this to happen considering at the last wedding, the bride, groom & a few cousins were busy "introducing" ME to people!!
So I contemplated a few replies to the got boyfriend or not question....
"oh, my boyfriend is an ang moh, we met through the internet"
(they definitely won't let me get away with that )
OR
"oh, didn't mummy tell you, I'm a lesbian!!"
(that will probably give my grandmother a heart attack & my relatives will either disown me or send me to the bomoh to set my sexual orientation straight!!)
So in the end I just replied with a...
"No boyfriend la. Nobody wants me"...which sadly is true :(
So they ended up bugging my mum instead telling her about countless aunty so & so's daughter's cousin's uncle's son, who is supposedly clever, well-mannered...bla bla bla whom they could introduce me to
O_o
I wanted to get this t-shirt which read : TWO boyfriends are better than one
BUT, my mum told me not to get the both of us into trouble...heh
*Tong Tong Tong Chang (part 1)
*Tong Tong Tong Chang (part 2)