Pride and Prejudice

Simple fact of life:
Put 2 men together and their IQ drops by at least 50 points.
When 3 or more men gather, they become primates again.

What was supposed to be a usual night out at my current fave hang @ Wala Wala, where we get to chill to the fabulous singing of Shirlyn of the uneXpected, turned out to be a "free" show where we get to see a couple make out right there and then...

and believe me... they were really getting it on!

So there we were, Sir Newton, G, and Moi, (3 guys... so you can do the math and know how much our IQ dropped) were rooting the couple on for more and more...
After what seemed like an eternity (the couple really put the energizer bunny to shame).. us 3 boys finally did get sick of watching them go on...

G went to the toilet (I hope for honourable reasons, which I wouldn't care to speculate why that particular timing... hahaha)

That was when Sir Newton made an interesting comment...
he went like "everybody around would feel that the guy was THE MAN, THE ALPHA MALE, and etc. to be able to get it on with the girl, but the same people would feel that the girl would have to be a slut to allow someone to get it on with her in public."

True words indeed...

As much as we hate to admit it, for the sake of being diplomatic or fearsome repurcussions from the female public... there really isn't equality in the society yet...

Man: Bachelor
Woman: Bachelorette... (a.k.a Spinster)

Man: Player
Woman: Playerette... (a.k.a Slut)

Get the drift?
Only time will tell if the mindset of society will really change and women will enjoy true equality... but if you ask me... it wouldn't happen cos we were never meant to be equal... we each have our own strengths, that is why man and woman are always complimentary to each other...

My Immortal

I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone

You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts
My once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away
All the sanity in me

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along

The New Man

My colleague, The Office Slacker, was telling me that his girlfriend is leaving Singapore to work in London in 2 weeks time. She'll be paid 6000 pounds a month plus 3 to 6 months of bonus, which works out to be at least 60,000 pounds AFTER taxes... that is about $180000 in Singapore dollars...

He was exclaiming that after his girlfriend works in London for about 5 years, she'll come back and marry him and they'll be able to afford a nice condominium... fully paid (which means that he need not foot a single cent from his CPF excluding the downpayment)... I joked that he found himself a "rice bucket" (in hokkien please) and the thing that surprised me was that he was so estatic about the fact that he has found himself a "meal ticket" for life... and he even told his girlfriend that he is set for life...

It suddenly struck me that the words coming from The Office Slacker was something that I would be expecting from a woman, not a man...

Maybe we are facing a role reversal in the 21st Century...
Women are the New Man of the 21st Century...
I wonder if I'll look good in a skirt...