you never really appreciate something or someone until it's gone or at least threatened?
well i never really truly realized how much i prized my singleness and the freedom to choose until sunday.
mum calls me up for our weekly phone date, and i'm really distracted because i have a hard assignment due in about 5 hours. so i'm uh-huhing and mhmmming and straight out telling her that i needed to go. meanwhile on the other end she's telling me about vacation plans. how it'd be nice to fly out to washington state the same day that i get into new york from toronto to visit her old friend. it'd be a nice vacation she says. in my distracted state, vague visions of oceans, mountains, and trees popped so i agreed. never really been on a family summer vacation. then came the clincher.
auntie so and so wants you to meet this boy.
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!?!
he's just like you. came from China when he was 5 or 6. can't read chinese. he's very tall.
i mean i know we've joked about setting me up and everything, but this time she's actually half serious. apparently she really does mean it when she says that she's been telling my aunties to keep an eye out. i find this half-amusing and half-disturbing. I DON'T WANT TO BE SET UP. by anyone other than God that is. it's just....ugh. and i'm only 20 for pete's sake! it'd be normal for an asian mom if my biological clock was running out, but that's not for another 15 years! and even then i don't think i would submit to it. ugh. somewhat funny and somewhat disturbing.
Oh Shelly. It starts. Glad my mom hasn't tried that one yet. Who knows, maybe you'll have a new friend. Oh, you could be like Yung Chu and Lane Kim from the Gilmore Girls (ie. pretend to date to make the rents happy, think about it)
ReplyDeletethen again, there's the option of NOT modelling your life after the Gilmore Girls :)
ReplyDeleteKirsten...you got me laughing out loud in the middle of William's Pub...hhahahaha
ReplyDelete~Jill
no harm checking this boy out...i mean he is chinese....and "illiterate"....and...well...he is tall. what else could a girl want in a man.
ReplyDeletehahaha @ pri.
ReplyDeleteat least d boi ur mom is setting u up wid is in d same country! d girl my mom is setting meeh up wid is back in d motherland.
i like the gilmore girls model in this case...or who knows - he could turn out to be The One.
ReplyDeleteon the other hand, how much more awkward can you get?
that was funny. you'll have to update your blog after the "meet". lol.
ReplyDeletethere will be no "meet". i refuse.
ReplyDeleteyou should do it. and you should have fun doing it... just to see how awkward you could make it for him!!
ReplyDeleteactually...silas that's a REALLY good idea. i like it!
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