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Parental advice

Vietnamese dinner. $25 for a grilled chicken rice, a beef noodles, a rice-paper roll with prawns, a fried veggie with mushrooms and a Coke. hey! quite delicious food at a reasonable price! nothing sub-standard for a restaurant along Siglap! must go try their fish-cakes and and deep fried oat-breaded Calamari! heehee! must call Serena, Elgin, Clarence and Siqi along too! and the 2 flingsters... heh heh... Hui Ling and Roland!

Haven't had such a good dinner for a long long while, after returning from the Bangkok trip. under the blue evening skies, with the sea breeze blowing in our faces, enjoy our good food in each other's fine company, chatting away.

cab down to Bar Stop @ Devonshire Rd to meet Clarence and Elgin to chill out n tell them more about UAN. passed Jared his Chivas. gave and recived a big warm hug from that sweet young punk. he looked really good! he was wearing this plain white linen shirt and looked fabulous! i have never seen him in white nor in linen! being tall and lanky, he could bring it on fasionably! (i already said that he should study fashion in Melbourne and graduate as a fashion designer or open a boutique!)

9.30pm, Elgin had to go home to find his dog.

technically it belongs to Serena and it ran out of the house while Elgin's Dad was washing the car, following another dog that is. hmmm... tell me about silly dogs chasing their tails. why am i not surprised? =(

Parents on the other hand have this uncanny ability to spoil wonderful evenings.

(the following article is directed at no one in particular, i am writing on this topic in a universal sense after universal observation. to those offended, my most sincere aoplogies to you but i am still going to write about it).

1) They can never leave u alone when you are out after school with your friends/ girlfriends/ boyfriends. they love to call your mobile right immediately after your lecture because they do have a copy of your timetable, do a time check and bug you to come home shortly.

2) They cannot distinguish the differences between reminding you to come home to complete your homework and being irritating by calling you 8 times within one hour. They do not assume that your mobile does run flat on battery.

3) They expect you to study, study and study more. If you are tired of studying, then go read something or do something constructive such as Yoga to relax your bloggled mind. They do not believe in watching tv, reading comics, chilling out or sleeping as a contructive form of relaxation.

can you imagine the type of vexing frustration we face???
No! i won't call it Generation gap!!!
is it a sign of being over-protective? i do not think so think either!!!

in my opinion:

parents / grandparents are absolut control freaks!!!

because they have failed miserably to be chosen as the Senior Minister, Prime Minister or Tsar of the , they chose to control our lives from all aspects without giving a logical reasoning for their mandates, in turn ruining our personal development. they assume that they are right and they know best for their kids. but pardon me! we do have a mind of our own. correct, many a times we do have to learn painful lessons but isn't that all part of life? what is the rationale behind those endless yaks about which road should we take when we drive, what courses we should study in Varsity without considering our personal interests, what kind of girlfriend/ boyfriend we should get attached to? gee.... They are not 'us'!

posted by Veen @ 09:33