B.O.

I just realized that my previous posting contains many grammatical errors :D
Anyway... about the weekend.., finally, that moment arrived. THE stuff my sister often talked and endlessly complains about, which I often think as partly her fault for being too sensitive and self center. Until I experienced it myself.

I'm talking about the relationship with the in-laws:) I'm not gonna jump into details here, I will keep them in private, or later on, in my future novel (which so far never exceeds five pages since I first wrote them in 2000:P Talking about procrastination).

Anyway, I'm sure that competition between family members is not exclusive to women. But for guys, it's about who's getting bigger salaries, who's got promoted, or who's getting bigger house etc. In my observation, though, it's mostly about physical appearances for women.

In my own family, for instance, there's always things like who's babies are uglier, and oh, too bad for Cousin X who inherited her not-so-pretty mother's look instead of her handsome father, and stuff like that. Me, alas, had always been one of the targets because of my weight and my curly hair. But with your own flesh and blood, you can always talk back, get mad, or leave.

Things sure are different with your in laws:) So, there I was in my husband's uncle's house yesterday, as the women-in-laws busily compare each other's complexion, weight, nose, hair, etc. I've always projected an image of a quiet and rather shy daughter in law (which is not exactly deliberate but so far it's been beneficial :)) so they were nice enough not too drag me in that competition.
Paranoid-me knew that it wasn't just out of courtesy, but simply because I wouldn't "win" in any field. I was the second fattest person in the room, my skin was pretty dark thanks to frequent swimming and ojek riding, I recently had acne breakout for no reason cause in the past 28 years of my life I barely had any pimple, my nose is not bad but a bit too 'monumental' and unfemine, and not to mention my curly hair. So, I was out in any competition before I even signed up :)

To top it all off, I stinked!:P
I had two articles due for Monday, but I got sick on Saturday, and I didn't want to work on Sunday (partly due to family gathering thing), so I went to office on 7 a.m. on Sunday morning, got the articles done and flew to the uncle's home. I thought I remembered to put on some deodorant, but maybe I forgot, I wasn't really sure. But anyway, I sweat a lot and I stinked!!

Well, that'd give my in-laws something to talk about me :D :D

Posted by hera at Monday, June 20, 2005 1:32 PM | Permalinks