Self-sufficiency for Eve’s descendants

Man says to God, “God, why did you make woman so beautiful?”
God says, “So you would love her.”
“But God,” the man says, “why did you make her so dumb?”
God replies, “So she would love you.”

Over the years, I have heard again and again from different people, including those whom I thought I could respect, that women do not need to have high ambition or high education or in short, lots of money because all will be provided by their husbands. No matter how often I heard this kind of remarks, my blood boils.

Some guys today made similar remarks and I tried very hard not to retort because then, I would sound unintelligent (har har). Ok, so I was whining about university majors and future goals, and so perhaps I whined a little too much, but their remarks stung. So I told them that I need lots of money to shop  and I asked them, rhetorically, if they would be willing to provide the money (for their future wives). There are more implications of course aside from my materialist reasoning. I need to be free of my husband’s control, too and I have always somehow been reluctant to depend too much on people (so that others won’t depend too much on me, ergh, that sounds bad, what I mean is I respect a person who can fend for himself or herself more than those who are super dependent on others) And of course, I need the skills for ‘rainy days’ and I do not want to be a bored or boring wife.

Perhaps it’s my family that influences my view on this. The only man in my family is my father. And my mother has suffered from gender discrimination in her own family. And I’ve witnessed too many cases of discrimination in my big family which still largely adopts some unreasonable, archaic oriental traditions. But it does make me wonder, if I were to have a brother, will my parents treat us differently in terms of dealing with our dreams?

Oh, heck.

Anyway there’s a case of food theft on my floor. And the victim has pledged fervently to hunt the thief down and not to spare her once she caught the culprit. Ooh, scary. But how do you eliminate theft? Labelling your food as suggested by the hostel staff clearly won’t deter thieves. My solution is to provide small fridges for every room and of course, an air-con too for each room since it’s so hot and humid. (hahaha, dream on, dream on)

Mystery in the Launderette Solved

You know what I hate most? Ironing clothes in my hostel launderette. It’s really frustrating to iron my clothes on the spoiled ironing board, which has the cover torn and the spongy, ‘corky’ materials spilling out and staining my clothes. And I always thought to myself, who is that mysterious girl who can’t iron properly and keep spoiling the board? We have replaced the board more than three times this year!

And finally today, I get the mystery solved. With my own eyes, I see who (or rather what) the culprit is. It’s the IRON! I guess the heating element is spoiled because you just can’t control the heat. It’s like super hot and some plastic part of the casing melts and get the iron stuck onto the clothes, which further burn the clothes because it’s just so sticky that you can’t lift up the iron quickly enough. And for bonus, you get an iron-shaped stain on your favorite dress! WOW!

What should I do? Buy my own iron? Yeah, I barely survive now with zero account balance (almost zero anyway). I have reported the problem on the defects list. And for the time being, I just need to switch on the iron, let it heat up for a FEW seconds (yup, you need only like 5 seconds to get the plastic case melting), switch it off, iron my clothes till the iron cools down, switch on and let it heat up again, repeat.