Saturday, July 01, 2006

Domestic Goddess + Parent Pleaser Make A Good Wife/In-Law?

For the second time,

Student's mother: Are you Singaporean?
Me: Yes.
The mother: How old are you?
Me: Twenty-two.
Student: (Sniggered) So old.
The mother: (Glared at daughter) You want to know my son?
Student: Mum! Kor too young for her la.
Me: Er...
The mother: You have boyfriend or not?
Me: Er... No...
The mother: No boyfriend okay ma. She's only twenty-two. Your kor twenty, not much difference. Nowadays, age difference doesn't matter. I have a few friends who are older than their husbands by four, five years.
Me: (Blushed) Er...
The mother: Can la, make friends only. Young people should make more friends. If cannot, never mind. You can still be friends.
Me: Hmm...
The mother: My son scholar, you know. (Beamed)
Student: Stop, Mum! I'm having tuition.

The mother went back to her room. I distinctly heard her said, "She's very shy," to her husband.

6 comments:

juliet said...

i wonder why her first qn was "are u singaporean?".

just as many women are marryg guys who r younger, many guys r oso lookg for wives overseas wat.

haha... juz a tot. maybe its just her bad "pickup line".

chowchow said...

Haha... I am as bewildered as you are.

chowchow said...

Oh! I think it's becos I was speaking Mandarin (teaching Chinese) to the student. And you know, our Mandarin is especially melodious, she couldn't help being curious :D

cinewhore said...

Oh, you should tell your student's parent that scholarships are nothing but a lie to exploit naive young kids. When he starts serving his bond he will know.

Anonymous said...

haha, funny. maybe her son is a geek thats y need such matchmaking.

but if u r free, u can try it too. haha. maybe her son not bad lei?

chowchow said...

Hahahaha... horror of horrors... She actually did intro me to her son over the weekend. Update u in another post. And her son not geeky la, quite decent. Haha.