The citizenship ceremony was held tonight at the City of Melville townhall, and Paul and my mom were there with me. It was a very streamlined and cosy affair considering there were over 60 new citizens there along with their guests. We took turns going up to the front of the room to say our pledges and to receive our certificates of citizenship.
As Mayor Katherine Jackson handed us our certificates, she stopped and spoke with each one of us which I thought was nice, even though it was probably a formality. I heard the stories of the people who went up with me as the mayor talked to them - one of the ladies have been in Australia for 37 years and only just decided to take up citizenship; another lady from China liked Australia as a place for bringing up her children.
There were Australian children there whose parents only just became citizens themselves, and there were quite a few families becoming citizens together as a family. I thought that I wouldn’t feel anything but as I did my pledge and watched others did theirs, I began to have an involuntary smile on my face. I laughed when an English guy yelled out “Woohoo!” when the mayor congratulated the batch of people he was pledging with.
Yvonne Foong is a sufferer of Neurofibromatosis Type 2 - a severely debilitating condition. I can’t word it better than Yvonne so I won’t try. Her “About Me” page says it all.
How is she related to Yvonne? YC had stumbled onto Yvonne’s blog and was so moved that she offered to help in a way that she knows very well - clothes!
As part of Yvonne’s continuing efforts to raise funds for her medical treatment, she has gotten the very generous help of Yue-Chin with a donation of dresses to be auctioned off via eBay. The dresses will be featured in a show at Zouk KL tomorrow night (22nd March 2007, 7:30pm).
It seems like the subject of Asian men dating Caucasian women is a perennial one. I wrote “Why don’t Aussie girls date Asian men?” last October, and I’m still getting search-engine traffic to it now - almost 6 months later.
Judging by the way the search terms were phrased, I’m betting that a lot of these queries are from Asian men (maybe even bitter ones). Here’s some of them:
asian guy on white girl
asian man aussie girl
caucasian women who want to date asian males
women who like asian men
white girls for asians
white chicks like asian men
There are exceptions of course but the cold hard truth is most women prefer their men to be bigger than them; a lot of Asian men are smaller. That’s it. That also answers the inevitable question about why it’s easier for white men to get with Asian women, but not vice-versa.
Even if size does not matter, there’s still other physical preferences. Add to that, cultural preferences. People of all races still tend to pair up with those who share their cultural background - most times, it’s much easier and more comfortable that way.
I have a thing for blondes so I understand the exotic factor. If you really must have a white woman, I’d suggest that you start out by being friends with a few of them first, instead of looking at them purely as a mystical sexual frontier for you to cross. You’d understand better what makes them tick and that might help you reach the next level.
Even then, there’s no guarantee that you will succeed in your little quest because your personalities might not mesh.
All that effort that goes into you trying to bed a white woman can be better spent making yourself attractive to all kinds of women, don’t you think? The world is a smörgåsbord of colours so why be obsessed with just one of them? Be obsessed with them all! Woohoo!
Chow Yun-Fat is one cool Chinese dude
but even he didn’t get to kiss Mira Sorvino!
I find it hard to nail down exactly what I want in a woman. However, I do know what I don’t want in a woman. I don’t want:
A clingy woman. I don’t want a woman who needs to see and be around me every single minute that she’s awake. I don’t want a woman who needs me to call her every hour when I’m out, just to let her know that I’m alright.
A woman whose emotional health depends on the relationship completely. I prefer co-dependence rather than a total dependence.
A woman who seeks self-validation from me, and also from the relationship. I don’t want her to ask me, “Do you think I’m prettier than her?” all the time. I prefer a woman who is confident and comfortable in her skin even before she met me.
A jealous and insecure woman. I have female friends and I like having them around. I don’t want to feel guilty every time that I see or talk to them. I also like looking at pretty women. All of which doesn’t mean that I don’t want to be with her.
A woman who expects me to do all the hard work in the relationship, and if something bad happens, would always put the blame on me. I need and expect the relationship to be reciprocal, and I hate double-standards.
A woman who doesn’t take pride in her appearance.
A woman who treats food as the enemy. I love to see a woman enjoying her food, in moderation of course. I think a healthy appetite is sexy.
An indecisive woman. She has a mind so she should use it. I don’t want to be making all the decisions. We are meant to be a team.
I feel that for intimate relationships, that physical chemistry, that spark, is needed at the beginning of the relationship. Of course in the long term, personality is what matters most. But I think it’s ignorant to discount the importance of mutual physical attraction, to say that “looks don’t matter”.
Saying that “looks matter” gets you evil glances. People calling you shallow. It’s not saying that a certain type of look is all that matters. It’s not the same as saying “everyone has to look like a super model”. Just that two people’s definitions of attraction need to mesh.
Tim was talking about the reaction to the story arc that he has given one of his comic characters, Lucas. Lucas has been single for a while and decides to use the Internet for dating. Unbeknown to him, another character decides to play a prank on him by setting him up on a date with a plus-size woman.
The strips preceding Tim’s post are the following. Read them in the sequence presented here to get the proper flow.
The story is still being played out and I’m really enjoying it. In case you haven’t noticed, I love reading and talking about the dynamics of man-woman relationships.
Echoing Tim’s sentiments above, I’ve said on a few occasions that everyone has physical preferences when it comes to romantic relationships. These preferences include hair, height, body shape, and even skin colour. To get indignant at the necessity of physical attraction would be hypocritical - all of us have preferences about how our ideal mate should look like.
Whether or not these preferences are fulfilled is another matter, and is a source of much angst.
A grandma playing video-games is rare enough. A grandma who swears like a sailor while playing video-games is even more rare. But damn if it isn’t funny. Heheh. (Language NSFW)
The clip below is of grandma playing Playstation 3’s “Resistance: Fall of Man”.
C’mon fuckers, die!
There’s a blog about her gaming life at “Old Grandma Hardcore“. That title just rocks, and so does grandma.
