I am going to write a serious entry, yet you might think it sounds crap. Whatever it is, it’s just my opinion and how I feel over the years.
I must admit at times I hate to be a girl. Why is it so? Living in this era whereby genders doesn’t really matters now, some conservatives families still thinks that boys/guys/men are the GOLD in the family. Thus the more the merrier, and so, if you are the only girl count yourself lucky. Perhaps your mummy is a girl lover, spoil you with barbie dolls and all that you ever wanted and all of your brothers dotes on you. Great for you. If your mummy have a dozens of boys and you are still being neglected, reality is such.
In my family, out of the 5 kids, 2 of them are boys. And unfortunately, my elder brother aint like us. He goes to special school (in some context, your ‘special school’ might be referring to those Raffles Boys School, blah.. BUT I am referring to schools for children with disabilities) and thus all the responsibilities falls onto my younger brother’s shoulder.
In my household, I am deemed as someone very useless, be it whether I am a student who are still studying or even as a working adult. When I was in primary school, my results were so poor and lousy that my form teacher gave her question of doubts whether I did went to kindergarden. And since then, my father has been using this to mock at me, even till now. Believe it or not, some simple words that a primary school learnt now, was what I picked up when I was in secondary school. And that’s the time where my results gets slightly better. I am just not into studying.
When I was a little kid, I was deprived much of my childhood. C’mon, try talking to me about care bears, I don’t even know what the hell is that until a few years back. In my back of mind, what I remembered was Ninja Turtle, Power Rangers (me and my sliblings will be fighting over which character we want to be and I am always the yellow ranger since I like yellow back then). Barbie dolls? What the hell is that? I don’t own any barbie dolls. The first time I played with one was when I was in Primary 6, at my back-then best friend’s house. I would always go to her house after school to experience some childhood (by playing with her barbie dolls and cats). Played block catching (such games never fails to make my heart thumping fast and faster). And out of goodwill, some people will discard their used toys to us. And we will just fight for it. The only person who really owned new toys before was my elder sister. Because she’s the first child.
I had actually dreamt to be a doctor when I grew up. And as time past by, I knew that is an impossible dream I actually came up with another dream to be a nurse. After watching those television shows and found out that I have to bathe the patients etc, I gave up my so-called dream (I admit I am a very typical singaporean who doesn’t want to work in any ‘dirty’ job of any kind). As time pass by, with the clock ticking away, I realized that all my so-called dreams have gone into the drain with me, not wanting to concentrate on studying.
When people starts their relationship in secondary school (some I heard starts in primary school), I was looking at those lover birds with envious eyes. And then, when I was out with my secondary school friends wearing the tweety bird t-shirt that my mum bought for me, I was filled with embarrassment because everyone was laughing at me. Since then on, I vowed to get my own clothes (with my mum’s money of cos). I am actually a below aveage looking girl. I bet when I walked on the streets, noone will even bother to look at me (not like they will look at me now). So, during the secondary school times (even till now), there is always rumours about who is more chio (pretty) than who. Or discuss whose boobs is bigger. Or even start to spread around who is the potential “Flower” in the entire school. Of course, sad enough to say, such things never happen to me since I am none of what I have mentioned above. So, I spend most of my secondary school life with my girlfriends. And I was introduced to alcohol when I was 16 years old. (And, I still hate the taste of it.) Friends around me, smokes. I tried picking up smoking, but I failed terribly. I am wondering, what will I look like or even behave like if I picked up those bad habits along the way. Will I still be sitting in front of my netbook typing this long entry, OR I will be like other chiongster clubbing all night long? I guess it will be the latter. When the girls around me started dating, and noone is dating me.. I feel very unwanted. When the girls around me started to be in a serious relationship, and I am still alone.. I feel that I do not have quality (like boobs, no good character blah blah). Always in doubt when there is a rumour someone likes me.
And Hooray! Heaven was pitying on me, I finally had a boyfriend when I was in poly. But that didn’t work out because like me, he was a first timer too. For the rest of the 3 boyfriends that I had after that, no relationships for me last more than 8 months. Even the most recent one, we broke up 3 times, patched back 2 times. How tiring can one relationship be? I wanted to commit into one relationship, the other party isn’t ready. So how does one hand claps without the help of another? Impossible.
Sometimes, questions keep popping into my head. Was it something wrong with me that I can’t hold on to any of these guys. I don’t like people to tell me, I am a good girl and still ended up breaking up. So, if I am really a nice and good girl, why don’t these guys hold on to me? Breaking up with these boyfriends ain’t easy. Lucky for me, I have friends around who cares. They helped me thru these painful time. I learnt that it’s not the time that heals your wounds. It’s the love you found next heals you. Believe it or not, it really feels good to have someone to cling on. When the person I love the most told me, he’s going to get another girl to be his gf, I swear my heart literally broke into tiny pieces and that was the night I drank quite a bit. It even came to the certain extend that I begged him not to treat me this way. Often, it was ignored. And I woke up from this horrible and terrible nightmare and told myself to let it go, because it’s never gonna come back.
I do love my recent broke up boyfriend a lot. But the thing about him was, he’s unable to commit. I can’t say I know him inside out. But, I do know what kind of answer he would give me when I asked him if he wants to spend the special occasion with me. The answer would be “See how first”. And he will end up telling me “meet you another day lah.”, I just knew he’s going out with his usual cliques. How does it feels? Sucky of course. If a girlfriend doesn’t get to see her boyfriend as and when, it would be pointless to be together. And then, I have to feel jealous over his friends. Because ultimately, his friends is more important than me. I tried many ways to please him, does the things he say. Follow his ‘requirements”, but things doesn’t work this way. The more I followed his ‘rules’ the more I think I am going crazy. So, we broke up for the final time. Nothing is going to be the same again. My feelings for him, is buried along with the memories I have with him. I do not want to remind myself of the bad times (though we do have good times together.. good times together is always so short).
Back to my topic, girls are always on the losing side. We get pregnant, whereas guys can just push their responsibility away (so, if you guys want to push your responsibility away, use protection). Of course, there are good men around. There is an old saying “Good man are either married, or died”. The modern one will be “Good man are either married, died or gay”. Unless you get some alien (I am referring to people like my brother-in-law) as your husband, else.. prepare yourself to fall into the trap of abusive guys or good for nothing guys. Ok, back to the pregnant part, it’s either we give birth or abortion. Many youngsters these days choose the latter. Why? Because it’s their parent’s decision. If you are old enough (and of marriage age) and your boyfriend is responsible for his action, you get married and perhaps even a divorce after that. Marriage is for a life time, but people seems to have forgotten about the vows they made. What’s the world becoming? Marriage shouldn’t be something you did on impluse, getting married for the sake of getting married. It would be very unfair for your kids. Reality is, kids from broken familiar tends to turn to the wrong path. So, if you want to make such decision, always think twice. And even if you decided to get married, plan wisely what you can provide for your child. Don’t bring them to this earth to suffer.
Now that I am getting oldER, I am starting to think about what will happen to me. Considering that I am turning 24 this year. I am still getting nowhere. Whereas all my girlfriends are attached. It’s just me. Believing that I will find one soon. Soon….