Food for Thought: Yesterday

Let's run through some of the stuff which i still remember. The first thing that's constantly churning in my mind is Benny. Last i spoke of him, he had found his true love. But... *sigh*. Anyway, the surprising thing i learned from him about his relationship was that it was absolutely a trial kind of thing, such that they never even held hands *pause for drama*... Benny! HOW CAN??

Now if i were the one in a relationship, not only would i hold her hands and hug her, i would kiss her lots. Kiss when we meet, kiss when we part, and kiss whenever she is close enough. Um.. yeah just kiss, not nookie and stuff. The inside the pants action is kind of low priority in a non-married relationship, despite everyone who hear me saying that would shake their heads in incredulence...

But i shall not digress. Sure, someone could say that a relationship is not just about hugging and kissing, and i do agree with that. But putting it that way only masks the lack of intimate, and thus romantic, activity, or lack thereof, in a holier than thou excuse (What a clunky sentence). But let me rephrase it in another way. Sure, a relationship is not all about hugging and kissing, BUT, hugging and kissing is all about a relationship.

The rest of us are... well, the same, single and bachelor. It seems those among us who are not single and therefore married (kind of hard to find a not single and not married these days) are all the ones who signed on with some force. Seems to say something huh?

My suspicions confirmed, omy and haoster, two highly desirable men are still single only because they are picky. Humph, only people like them can afford to choose. Bah.

Jessica said of her hubby, "It seems when he realised that he was settled, it was time to focus on his career.". And then it was four long years of ardous journey. Which is a perspective that has never occured to me. I really need to get out more, talk to all kinds of people to broaden my mind.

And then we came to be talking about women and their desire to find boyfriends as some kind of shelf life (pardon the objectivity). It seems when their shelf life approaches close to expiry, they become more desperate in looking for a partner. But when the girl reaches like thirty plus (cyber nudge to a couple friends) their interest begins to dampen and diminishing returns results. Hmm.. there's something about this that i wanted to explore in thought, but i can't figure out..

Anyway, when it was time to leave Jessica's home, she reiterated what she said the other time, that when we next came, she wanted to see not just four of us, but four plus another four of us. Well.. she did say she won't mind seeing four plus four and plus another little fours. So i figure if Benny had two girlfriends, then i could still be single. Phew, Benny work harder.

Met up with omy and Alvin later. Talked about navy, seasickness, hurricanes, gahmen, nkf and peanuts. Um.. nothing much for me to report here. There might be something, but i've forgotten about it already. Anyway, if people didn't care about logical views about religion, i doubt they want to hear me talk about the gahmen. I'm not the most informed on these matters anyway.

On the way home, Hsinwei post to me a question he was on the receiving end from his boss some time ago. His boss pointed to some indian workers in the company and said to him, "Look at them... they are willing to get less than Nogum citizens and still works even harder. And they don't need to go for re-service or RT. So tell me, why should i hire Nogum citizens over them?". Hsinwei said he had no answer to that question.

Indeed do we have any answers at all? Why should my boss hire me if there are people who would work harder, longer but for less pay? Remind me again, why do i love living in Nogum City?