Thursday, March 09, 2006 || I smell sour grapes among the older generations!
- I don't get it. You know how many adults always go, "Don't talk back at me, kid. I've ate more salt than all the rice that you have ever eaten in your entire whole life." (Er, that dumb chinese proverb.)
I honestly think that that theory is bloody ridiculous.
Like how my parents taunt me ALL the time, speaking aloofly of their younger days when they had to make their own toys out of wood and had to sell kuih by the roadside for their parents to earn a living. They proclaim that I am (... and my entire generation, at that) weak, useless and oh-so-naive, compared to them. Just because I haven't 'suffered to get what I wanted', they say.
Okay, I DO deeply appreciate and admire everything that our elders have suffered to obtain for us, and I am grateful for all the hard work and sweat that they must've invested.
But seriously, with all due respect, what on earth does that have to do with ME? I mean, me, as a person today. Do the so-called 'experienced' ones really want us to rewind time and work from dusk till dawn at paddy fields and rubber plantations??
I don't need to know what it's like to suffer without actually experiencing it. Seriously, which asshole would willingly trade comfort for suffering ... just for the sake of EXPERIENCE?! I'm willing to bet my ass off that if the older generation of people had their choice at the time, they would've DEFINITELY opted for an easier way of living.
Hardworking of them? Of course. They're considered experienced citizens and good elders? Very much so.
But that doesn't mean that we are any worse. Times have changed, circumstances have changed. I don't need to make a doll out of paper when there are affordable and lovely dolls that are sold all around.
Smart people learn from their own mistakes. Smarter people learn from other people's mistakes.
For instance, if a friend of mine is constantly having unprotected sex and suddenly got knocked up ... As a friend, having witnessing all the hardship she has to go through (if she keeps the baby), don't you think that subconsciously, I would have learnt her lesson and be REALLY careful to not have unprotected sex?
Same goes with elders. I deeply admire some of the shit they had to go through, especially those who have survived the war etc etc ... but in all honesty, I wouldn't wish the same to happen to me, just because I want to be as wise/strong/experienced as them! -_-
I have tried explaining my views of it to my elders (be it my family members, yada yada.), but they just disregard my opinions, since I'm just "a young girl". But seriously, it's a lose-lose situation anyway, because if they impose their idealisms on me ... Who says I will agree with them?!? I'm stubborn. :p
Just now my dad was boasting about how he joined the Air Force right after he graduated from secondary school, that he joined because he was brave, loyal and really wanted to serve the country out of his patriotic heart.
"Oh really?", I asked him in a fake tone of deep awe.
"Of course lah. You think like you meh, NS also don't want to go. Every man has to serve his country you know *crap crap blah blah* ....Even the bad pay .... You youngsters... *bla bla*..."
"Oh. Mummy told me you joined because your ICE (uh, if I'm not mistaken, it's the exam they had to take way before the times of the Shit that is SPM.) results were so bad, so you joined the army only because you had no other choice." I retorted cheekily.
"What! NONSENSE! Rubbish!". After he denied all "rumours" of his supposed academic failure in school, he huffed and he puffed and he went out to eat with my uncle. :p
Speaking of which, I have been dying to watch War and Beauty, since it is supposedly THE series of 2005. When I was chatting with Yuenqi just now, the dude was telling me that Gigi Lai (famous HK actress with goddess-like beauty) shouldn't have won the Best actress award. And that she somehow, uh, schemed her way to gain that award and possibly cheated, since polls all over were rooting for Sheren Tang (another famous HK dudette with almost goddess-like beauty) to win.
The FIRST thought that crept into my mind was 'hmm, well DUH, if I were Gigi Lai, and if I could pull some strings to win the Best actress award ... I WOULD ALSO LAH'. I know, I know, quite selfish thoughts. But gah, so what if she didn't deserve the award?
SHE STILL GOT IT. -_-
If I were her, I would only go 'lalala, I won the award ... YOU GOT OR NOT?? nyeh heh heh ...' to all my haters.
I'm not bashing all the righteous and unselfish people out there. Just the same way I admire some of our elders, that they survived all the shit and emerged to be amazing people (no sarcasm intended), if I had a choice, I simply just wouldn't do it the same way. Life is too short to waste on self-inflicted sufferings and trials. Of course, if I had no other choice (like MY elders), I would do it the same way they did it.
And who knows, I may even turn out to be even more fabulous than them. Not that I intend to find out the hard way. =))))
P.S. I ONLY went online for 1.5 hours today. The rest of my day was spent doing more constructive things, such as pretending to jog for 10 minutes until the sky darkened and it started raining cats and dogs. Keep this up, and I'll officially end my reign as an internet whore! =D
