The Last Day of 2005
Today, I went out with a group of
people from some of my Chinese friends (genuine Chinese, as in people who migrated from China). I’m glad to see them
again since I haven’t been doing so for quite a long time. There was quite a
reconnection but sadly, I’m a little let down.
Everyone is older than I am. This
means they talk about different things than topics I usually engage
conversations with. Now, that’s not entirely bad, because variety is what I
seek in my life, but when people talk about things where I’m not yet ready for,
I just find myself very distant, visualizing myself as a boy who’s left shrinking at the
corner.
Not everything is bad. I was
pretty entertained that none of these people know how to go to Makati, and that
I have to be a tour guide of some sort when we arrived at Glorietta, Greenbelt,
and Landmark, to window shop. When they asked for directions to different
stores, 95% of the time I was able to give answers. When we ate at California
Pizza Kitchen, it was I who recommended the best pizza for them (which, in my
opinion, is "Wild Mushrooms"). What really boggle me are the things they are
interested in. They like furniture. Ok, so I also like furniture, but what am I
supposed to do with them? Aside from that, they keep shunning the stores I’m
really very interested in. They didn’t even take notice of any music stores,
art shop (I was really hoping to buy some new painting/coloring materials,
seeing as how I want to now try color sketching) and their visit to PowerBooks
is really short-lived. What are these people interested in? This is a question
that lurks in my mind for the longest time since I went out with them.
I dunno. I just don’t like it too much when people
have no appreciation for arts, movies, literatures, music (good ones, of
course), or anything related to arts. I find people who are not art aficionados
to be very, pitifully, dull. But that’s not all. I rolled my eyes on so many
occasions when they bring up topics about marriage. Some of these people are
about to be married next year, and they keep bringing up about how they’re
going to handle this occasion, i.e. whether or not they’re going to treat
everyone to a /trite/ dinner (with accompanying awful KTV music, of course),
have commencement at the church, etc. Um, excuse me, where do I fit in during such discussion?
It’s understandable that they bring this up every once in a while, but man, if
they’re not talking about furniture, this is what they’re talking about, which
is like about 60% of the time. How am I supposed to relate to all of these?
Okay, so what you’re saying is that you’re really happy you’re going to get
married but are dismayed that you couldn’t find the proper way to arrange your
marriage? You’re unhappy from complaining that your parents and your SO’s parents may
have conflicting ideologies and beliefs? Gee, I think that’s very thoughful considering that I don’t even have a friggin’ girlfriend! They even labelled me as a kid just because!
Anyway, that’s the last of memorable event that happened in 2005. Have a Happy New Year!
