Well, I don’t know if it was a coincidence, after reading blog entries @ STOMP about Singapore girls and angmohs, I had an encounter that brings me upfront with the issue. It so happens that yesterday I agreed to substitute Sharifah for last minute event job since she couldn’t get off her job on time. So there I was @ NSRCC Safra resort manning the big castle bouncer. I don’t understand some people sometimes. Why would you hire a bouncer in the afternoon when you planned activities during the afternoon and that most of your guests will be free only in the late afternoon? By that time, I would already have to pack up right? So, basically I had to extend my time from 5 plus to nearly 6.30 because the kids started playing in there around 4 plus and more kept coming as the hour draws near. Haiz, but I’m not really complaining, especially when I earned $50 for just sitting around and looking at planes taking off for 3hours and working “hard” for about 2 hrs later. Anyway, that was not I was intrigued about. Basically, the event was a company’s Family Day. I don’t know what company because the organiser whom I try to strike a conversation with did not look that friendly. But I guess it must be an MNC or some international company, though small because most of the guests who came were more of the foreigners *** mainly angmohs. So, now you know why I said earlier that it was a coincidence. Being the naïve me, I thought that I would be seeing beautiful angmoh families where the husband is tall and good-looking, wife very foreign but very polished and the children just plain cute and just so cute! Alas, I met with more mixed marriage families than the all-round package. Ok, maybe I was being a little harsh in the way I said that.

Basically, it made me realise that this whole issue about angmohs marrying local woman is more common than I thought. I mean I’m seeing more of such couple in my own housing estates myself. I have no qualms about mixed marriages. After all, wouldn’t it be great to have a husband from another country? Imagine that, hehe! Ok, back to reality. I have no issue with mixed marriages but I have a major issue with this whole idea of SPGs or in general, issue with local women who just put up this act just to get their man ie rich angmoh men. I met with one yesterday and boy was I turned OFF completely! This woman has a gorgeous husband; that I admit. I can’t stand her daughter though. She was jumping around and screaming and giggling with this other angmoh kid, only if they have the whole place to themselves. If other kids especially the local kids are playing, they wouldn’t even come in. I don’t want to comment about that because I know if I do then it’s another whole issue to talk about. Anyway, back to this woman. When the family arrived, my SPG bells were just tolling loudly. Who wouldn’t? Imagine an Asian woman, very tanned, dressed as though she’s in a fashion parade for the best looking mom. Even the angmoh moms who were there did not dress like her; they look as mumsy as her looking fashionable tai tai.

What irks me is her thick, put-on accent which I cannot stand. And she smokes! So here she was going around and giving air kisses to both males and females and just acting plain tai-tai. When I related this story to my sister, she asked me how I knew that her accent was fake as she could really have been living overseas. Well, firstly, she looks very local in terms of her skin colour. But that one I have to admit is a little ambiguous, but what was more convincing that she was local was when she slipped into a local accent when she asked me to help her out with a kid. Ok, maybe you can say that she could have been here long enough to be able to adopt that accent. Umm, I don’t think so! There is a difference in the tone and all when you already have the local tune and when you adopt the tune. It’s really not a problem for me if you want to marry an angmoh man. What makes me tick is the way one tries to act something that she’s not just because she wants to keep up with this image of a hip woman who’s universal and not really local. What’s wrong with being a local? Her husband d was not that much of a good-looker either. I mean there was another couple where the husband is gorgeous although the wife was very average-looking. But I like them especially the wife because she was, on the surface at least, non-pretentious. And their daughter was just freaking cute! I mean she looks angmoh but have some Asian/ Oriental features. They are such a pleasant sight to watch because they don’t really try to attract attention to themselves although people end up wanting to watch them. I think that’s how it should be. But then who am I to comment a lot? After all, I may make mistakes or do actions that people may not like. But this is how I feel about people who just go all out to act the way they are not. Why so? I mean there is a reason why God created you that way and presented you with a particular personality. Why try to be somebody different than who you already are? Ok, enough talking. I’m off to do stuff.