Feeling, Chopsticks and Sporks

This morning, as i was walking to my bus stop to take the bus, i saw a rather pretty babe walk past. Not a very common sight in the wee morning hours and deserted path, considering that there are perverts like me who use the same path to get to the um.. bus stop.

And i was thinking like, won't it be nice to have a girlfriend or wife as pretty as her? Aside from making nights livelier, it would make mornings a tad cheerier. Imagine waking up to gaze at the love of your life who is beautiful. Which of course might be without the makeup. But if she needs to go to work too, then she'll atleast look her best before leaving the house, no?

Which makes me wonder why people like to discriminate against makeup. Ask any of the guys what they think about any particular girl that has makeup on, chances are they'll say, "Wa, so much makeup. Dun like.".

Which doesn't really make sense since the girl would always have lots of make up on the day of marriage. Imagine on the day of ROM (Registration of Marriage), the guy at the desk says, "Do you xxx take yyy ('y's again!) to be your lawful wedded wife? (i have absolutely no idea how these things go...)"

And you go like, i've waited all life for this day and nothing's gonna fudge it. And you take one look at your bride, wife to be, wanting to give her your most innocent boyish smile in anticipation of the beautiful life ahead, and you see her face... full of makeup. What? And then go like, "NOooooo" *runs away*?

Benny, in his sagely enlightenment, would probably tell me as a matter of factly, "It is the character and feeling that is most important.". Well.. i differ. There are indeed two most important things, and looks are one of them wat. How can i live my life with someone whom i cannot tolerate looking at? And in the most wanker style fashion, i'll say nothing beats nookie with a beautiful girl.

And the second most important thing is... nah.. you don't want to hear about it. Suffice to say, a clue is that yinyin calls me SFH (sexually frustrated housemate).

But.. but.. what about the character and feeling. Now, a person's character is his/her own, and thus its not something that can be easily changed even if you want to. Namely because changing involves a person that's not you. Change can only be effected by the self. Otherwise its called manipulation. So on the criteria of character, one can only perform selection but not modification. So character does factor in.

Feeling? Ok, buckle your seat belts. Here's a gem of wisdom deviating from my usual crap. Relationship is not an accident, it is a building effort. Fwoarrr, I'm so intelligent and wise. *loves myself*. Relationship don't just occur, they are built. Liking, love whatever you called it, is a learned behavior, not a discovered behavior. I'm sure there are those whodon't agree with this, but a person can learn/grow to like something which he/she was platonic with to begin with. Let me think of an example.

Think.

Think more.

Ok, its not working. The brain that is. Pass.

I'll borrow a concept from a friend whom i hadn't spoken with for months. She has as her msn nick, "**When will we become a pair of chopsticks". Say you're in a one on one combat and the rules of the parlay is to induce death by chopsticks. So you grab one lonely chopstick and wield it like a fencing sword, attempting to poke your opponent's eye, nose, whatever orifice you can find.... The ear lah, dun think so far down ahead..

And your opponent, a grandmaster sensei, who's impression he gives is that of a ancient chinese ah pek in black gongfu shoes. In his fingers, he twirls not a lonely chopstick, but a pair of chopsticks. So who do you think is gonna win.

Inevitably, you'll have to try and poke your opponent between the eyes in your swiftest move because that is the only viable maneuver you can perform to induce death by chopsticks with only one lonely chopstick. And you do it. Only to have ah pek sensei kiap (hold with chopstick) your chopstick with his pair of chopsticks. Then he's gonna twist your chopstick around and poke yourself and that's that. Death by chopsticks.

What has chopsticks got to do with feelings? Um.. nothing, i digressed.

Speaking of chopsticks, runnin 'kid, you can't replace the chopstick analogy with fork and spoon, as in "I'm the fork who has found the spoon.". Because the correct pairing is not with spoon but with knife. Fork and knife. The spoon is used only for soup. After which, the spoon becomes useless and can be taken away by the waitress. And probably you'll get another smaller spoon for tea or ice-cream later. Unless you're having cake for dessert..

So you see, the spoon is a temporary kind of thing, it doesn't even get used in the main course. In a fork and knife scenario, the fork can still do most of the job without the knife, albeit at the expense of graceful-ness. But with chopsticks, the whole process is paralysed when one chopstick goes missing. Unless of course, if you're eating fishballs, then you could conceivably poke them with one chopstick. Imagine trying to eat pasta with one chopstick...

The more appropriate replacement analogy would be, "I'm the fork, he's the spoon, and we're now the spork."