misMatch Point

Here I am...after a long Xmas break, back at work today, a little sleepy yet alert, in my new black dress, not remembering how to work and all, but totally remembering how to blog ;-). jeeez it's so hard to get back to work-mode after a long sabbatical. Someone get me outta here, I wanna go home!:( Oh well, life is like that...we put ourselves through things we don't really wanna do, just cos it's the society's norm. I find humans pathetically pattern-oriented...we study, go to Uni, work, get married, have babies etc etc cos we are tied to following a pattern. Some of us want to do these things just cos they are our dreams, but most of us just follow a pattern...just cos that's what everyone else does! It's a bit sad, really.


Anyways, I did promise you that I'll come back with lots of holiday gos and pics, didn't I? Well I just didn't have enough time to upload the pics yet so I will do that as soon as I get some time ok. Today, I'll just tell you about something that happened with an aunt during the holiday season...a small story out of the many bizzare things that happened during my break. Trust me, it was like a horror movie! So here it goes.


It was a beautiful Summer's day and I had to attend a family Xmas party. So I dressed up, took the pressies and drove to my cousin's place. There I meet this old lady...apparently she's a friend of my aunt. That was the first time I met her *and hopefully the last! later on you'll know why I said that*. Now, she immediately gives me alot of attention, just cos she heard those 3 words about me - Keshi is single *yawns*. Now here's the traumatic, rehab-requiring conversation that took place between us. Lets just call her Aunty B.


Aunty B: So you're not married yet?

*Keshi wonders what's wrong with this woman...going straight to Marriage...what's next, why arent you pregnant yet!*

Keshi: uhh no *dons a very fake smile*


Aunty B: Girl are you mad???!!!

*I suddenly look around to see if there's any mental patients behind me but I soon realised that she was addressing me*


Keshi: Sorry Aunty B what do you mean? *in real I wanted to say 'WTF leave me alone!'*


Aunty B: A girl can't stay unmarried...you will be old one day and regret that you never got married...come, I'll find you a good boy!


*At this point Keshi regrets being at this stupid party...at the same time she wonders if Aunty B runs a Eligible Men Store...cos it sounds like she can quickly get me a 'good' boy just like that ha!*


Keshi: *smiles* I'm quite happy being single at the moment Aunty B...
*in real I wanted to ask her why she's trying to ruin my happiness and if she wanted a free one-way trip (all expenses paid) to Siberia!*


Aunty B: I'll give you my email and you send me your photo and Bio-data...


*As soon as I heard that last word I wanted to puke grossly right infront of her! The glass of wine I was holding nearly got crushed between my fingers in sheer horror. Bio-data? Am I applying for a job here? Perhaps a 'position' at her Men Store? A Kama Sutra position maybe! Whoever uses a Bio-data for Marriage!!! Is she suffering from some strange Employment-related disorder? Why do I always have to go through this kinda crap, God help me!*


Keshi: Aunty B, uhh why do you need my CV?
*pretends to smile incase Aunty B notices how much Trauma she has just put me through with that demented Bio-data statement of her's! what does she want to see? how 'experienced' I am in Marriage or where I 'worked' before, as a Marriage counselor perhaps?? btw I do have dreams of becoming the resident shrink for my largely Marriage-oriented family!*


Aunty B: Then only we can match you up with a nice Sri Lankan boy.....


*NICE my ass! And why only Sri Lankan? At this point I wanted to get out of this place..break a window if I had to but there was no way out...I was dying a million deaths inside looking at her and wanting to be a million miles away from the very thing I'm looking at. I'm not part of a lost pattern to be matched and paired up with...is this woman delusional or what! this is so not my kinda conversation and I so wanted to tell her that, but couldn't...just cos I was brought up to be polite!*


Keshi: Hey Aunty B, my mobile is buzzing...I will catch up with you soon ok...
*mauled yet alive, I escaped the jaws of a giant matrimonial Shark that will never be in sync with a human like me. Thanks to Cell Phone God!*


Aunty B looked confused and sad that I was leaving and continued to stare at me as I walked out to the balcony with my cell pretending to answer it with no one on the other side! No one. Sounds good for a girl like me.



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