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December 11, 2007

Durrr… I must be extremely bored constantly posting new entries these 3 days.

I've been reading some past entries of my older blog. I ended up quite embarrassed. I write very differently now, and if my past self and I were two different person trading manuscripts, I would've asked him to do a lot of editing and I'm sure he'll ask me to do the same. BUT, I must admit, reading his entries brought back memories, and I have a few favorites. Oh wait, did I just refer to my past self in the third person? What's happening to me?

Anyway, I'm going to post one of his, uh, my past entries here. And yes, I edited it.

Children Comparison

- First written on December 6, 2006

I've always detested a habit I call "children comparison". It's when parents keep bragging about their children's achievements in front of other parents.

I hate children comparison because parents do it to incite jealousy. Of course my parents have encountered other parents who do this, and I was scolded because I wasn't like their kids. Fine, but what if I want to be different? What if I'm not interested on accounting but more on flying a pirate ship exploring some secret cavity of a planet made of crystals?

Anyway, perhaps it is part of human nature for people to be proud of those they care about, and I can't fault parents if they feel this way to their children. But, there has to be a limit. Some parents speak of their children's many talents only when people asked. Others, like this mom I met yesterday, are very presumptuous.

I was on community service then, when this mom would constantly interrupt me. She asked if I could give her advices on how to cope with her hostile husband. I didn't have any advices for that. How would I know? I didn't apply for marriage counseling did I?

After I had rambled about how ignorant I am, she smiled smugly and said I'm young and a greenhorn, unlike her children. She then started to brag about how wealthy she is because of her children. And I'm sure you know what's about to start.

Her story sounded credible in the first two minutes, but it didn't take long before she started to sound like someone with a false sense of reality. Like, for example, how she claimed that all her children are UP grads. And they are, as a matter of fact, valedictorians. Yeah, ok. She then went on to say that her only son is a pilot who has a stewardess as a fiancée. Ooh how romantic, finding love in the skies; EXCEPT, I've never heard anyone studying in UP for 4 years and then becoming a pilot. Where the freeway at, the Sunken Garden?

She said that her daughter is taking up nursing. That makes it her third time making dubious claims. If you were a UP "valedictorian", would you even choose to endure another two years studying nursing? As far as I'm concerned, UP alumni who graduated with honors could be affluent in less than 30 days. Why take up nursing? Even if you consider that the daughter might want to change careers, why would she choose to study as a nurse and not as a doctor, a degree UP is very prestigious of?

Oh, but none of what she had narrated so far could prepare me for what she was going to say next.

She told me a lot of guys are attracted to her daughters. And then, ON THAT SPOT, flat-out, forwardly, aggressively, and boisterously… all right, please wrap your head around those adverbs first before I say anything else. Ok, ready? Prepare for this horror. She flat-out (et al) wondered if I wanted to marry one of her daughters.

What the hell!

She even showed me (or was it shoved to my eyes?) their pictures, and I had no choice but to politely agree that they're pretty. I say politely, because I was trying as much as possible to hide the "I don't dig her" tone with my acquiesced "affirmation". By the way, anyone who knows me knows that when I dig a girl, I never say "she's pretty"; I say "she's hot!" In fairness, her daughters (if they're really hers) aren't exactly ugly, but they're not exactly edible either. But that's beside the point: I don't want this mom as my mother-in-law. Imagine, she had barely known me for more than an hour and already she was proposing an arranged marriage? And if what she said about her husband was also the truth, I don't want in-laws who aren't at good terms with each other. I'm not a marriage counselor!

Those are, amazingly, not the end of her stories! The conversation (more like, her soliloquy) went to such absurd ways that it became about her children's IQ. Why I should care is a question Dan Brown could base his next conspiracy novel on. Anyway, she told me her eldest son has an IQ of 99.5. About that "eldest", one minute she said she had an only son, the next minute he's the eldest son. I'm dying to hear about her younger one then. Oh, and the IQ. I pretended to be dumb - it's a very effective mask, believe me - and questioned the mom about what IQ 99.5 means. She said 99.5 means… hey, shut up Microsoft Word, get your curly underline out! She said 99.5 means "nearing genius". Hah! She has no idea! What would that have made me then, Marilyn vos Savant? And I've never heard of IQ with decimal numbers. That mom then told me that the same kid got a 99.5 in NCE. (I see she likes that number.) Fine, except, she never asked the score of the "greenhorn" she's talking to. I (and a lot of OTHER classmates) scored 99.8, and I don't give a damn. I have tossed the scoresheet 7 years ago.

Has 99.5 become a favorite number these days? Maybe that's what reflects that mom's IQ. It actually is "almost normal". And geez, I really don't care about the IQ of the people I hang around with (and it's not something I overtly ask from my acquaintances or even my close friends). Am I the only one who find people who go out to compare their IQ to others to be utterly unpleasant? But since she's bought this unto herself, I have nothing much to say to her other than to stop bragging about her fantasy, because it's really very stupid!

Man, why do I get to meet so many weirdo anyway?

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She might have been referring to the redio station. Hahaha…what a nut case. I have a site for you to visit. Its quite new and I don’t know how she found my blog. Here’s the link.

http://bamboo-blitz.blogspot.com/

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Posted by Schumey at December 11, 2007, 9:10 pm

Oh dear, RT 99.5. My favorite DJ from that station is a real life friend of mine. I used to read her blog a lot, but she deleted it with her friendster profile. I’m very bummed.

Posted by nightdreamer at December 11, 2007, 9:22 pm

“Man, why do I get to meet so many weirdo anyway?”

Coz, guys like me are everywhere.

Posted by fence at December 12, 2007, 1:17 pm

You meant “guys like us”?

There’s good weird and there’s weird moms.

Posted by nightdreamer at December 12, 2007, 1:19 pm

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