I heard a funny joke last Monday. I was at a pub with some gal pals, drinking ourselves silly and shooting some pool. A girl from the next table was chatting with a friend of mine. Next thing I was told by my friend, ‘Hey Shan, she just said that you look kind and motherly!’. I smiled my ‘motherly’ smile at her (could be a glare actually) and said thanks.
The funny thing is, I never thought that I would EVER looked motherly! Come on, I’m always in my jeans, with a cigarette in my mouth and cursing everyone around me! Fine, I have a daughter, but that doesn’t make me MOTHERLY! I’m one HOT MAMA!
So now, I’m thinking to myself, should I take it as a compliment or an insult? For now, I think it would be closer to an insult! That lady didn’t know I had a kid. Maybe its because I was abit more dressed up than usual, in pants and stripped shirt, that made me look more ‘matured’, but that doesn’t qualify me as motherly!
MAYBE it could also be because I’m the oldest in the group! So I have been mothering those little girls of mine! Hmmm….. I wonder….. By end of the night, Syl’s friend came up to me, grabbing my arm, and said, ‘Shanna, I’m so glad I got to know you. You’re like our big jie jie (Big Sister) to us!’. Ok, this is getting creepy. First motherly, now big jie jie? So does she mean ‘big’ as in ‘humongous’ or ‘gigantic’ or does she mean big as in I’m MUCH older than she is? She looks so young, she could easier pass off as a 16 year old, petite, slim, big doey eyes… Maybe she just needed someone to look up to, maybe I AM the big sister she never had!
I’M OLD!!!!!!
I think I should start hanging out with older people, but then, I’ll start looking at older men as ‘Dirty Old Men’. Speaking of which, I was at another pub on Thursday, and this caucasian guy, with his wife, was sitting at the next table. I’ve known them for ages. The wife is really one hot mama! Always dressed to kill, though some women may label her as SPG (Sarong Party Girl). Anyhow, by end of the night, the guy kept staring at me, came over a few times to try some small talk, and then he mentioned, ‘You’re looking classy babe!’. Was it my mother’s ear rings? Or was I sitting too demurely? Or was I batting my eye lids at him? Anyway, I remember my conversation with him saying that I’m looking more gorgeous each day and how I’m getting more beautiful each time he sees me. Now, at this point of time, I was getting paranoid, did he mean ‘gorgeous’ or ‘gorges’?
I think I have passed the phase of ‘young working girl’ and into the ‘matured working girl’ phase now. Sigh… I’m even thinking of cooking up a storm for friends and family and baking cakes as and when I have time! Yes, I have resigned to my own fate! I am turning MOTHERLY afterall.
