Andie Summerkiss

Something amusing to cheer up your Monday Blues. 

WHAT WOMEN WANT IN A MAN (AT AGE 22)

1. Handsome
2. Charming
3. Financially successful
4. A caring listener
5. Witty
6. In good shape
7. Dressed with style
8. Appreciates the finer things
9. Full of thoughtful surprises
10. Romantic

1. Keeps hair in nose and ears trimmed to appropriate length
2. Doesn’t belch in public
3. Doesn’t borrow money too often
4. Doesn’t nod off to sleep when I’m emoting
5. Doesn’t re-tell same joke too many times
6. Is in good enough shape to get off couch on weekends
7. Usually wear matching socks and fresh underwear
8. Appreciate a good TV dinner
9. Remembers your name on occasion
10. Shaves on some weekends

WHAT WOMEN WANT IN A MAN, REVISED LIST (AT AGE 62)

1. Doesn’t scare small children
2. Remembers where bathroom is
3. Doesn’t require much money for upkeep
4. Only snores lightly when awake (LOUDLY when asleep)
5. Doesn’t forget why he’s laughing
6. Is in good enough shape to stand up by himself
7. Usually wears some clothes
8. Likes soft foods
9. Remembers when …. (oops, forgot!)

WHAT WOMEN WANT IN A MAN, REVISED LIST (AT AGE 72)

1. Breathing
2. Nothing else matters anymore

Don’t take these lists seriously. But again, maybe you should. 

The point is, as we grow older, our naivety fades away. Real and more substantial things are the focus points. When we grow much older, we expect less and less. As we learned it the hard way that things not achieved as we were younger, would not likely to materialize now. So might as well move on. Like focussing on matters that can be controlled, such as toilet habit and personal grooming.  

From The Philippine Star column

Thanks to Marisa Duma, I was introduced to a new word. It is not NEW as in NEW but certainly new to me. 

UrbanDictionary.com describes Sapiosexual as :

 

One who finds intelligence the most sexually attractive feature.

“I want an incisive, inquisitive, insightful, irreverent mind. I want someone for whom philosophical discussion is foreplay. I want someone who sometimes makes me go ouch due to their wit and evil sense of humor. I want someone that I can reach out and touch randomly. I want someone I can cuddle with.       

I decided all that means that I am sapiosexual.”

 

I totally am. There is nothing more frustrating than being on a date with the most gorgeous man on earth who is making dumbest conversation, and you are sitting right there trying to convince yourself “It’s ok if he is stupid. He is pleasant to look at.” It makes me want to stab myself with the steak knife right into my left eye. Seriously … I think it works vice versa. Or, maybe not. 

What do you think? 

What would we be doing before the world of internet with its magnificent bits and zeros? How do we share information? How do we make our voice heard? How do we acquire knowledge?

These questions have been popping out from my head like forest-grown mushrooms as this is the second day I have not been able to access any sites relating to Yahoo and Google. I could not get to Yahoo Messenger, Gmail, Analytics, Flickr, Blogspot sites. Not even Google. That really makes me shuddered.

What if I can’t google for one whole week?  Mercifully, MSN search is still there. But it is just not the same.  It could be the server here that we are using is experiencing problems. But it is exasperating to be those two sites are having problems exclusively. 

Another thing to ponder about. Whether it is a good thing to rely on digital technology, almost solely.   

Generally, the economy in this country is bad. When I first started the business I am in five years ago, all-purpose flour was IDR 75,000 / 25 kg sack. Today it stands at IDR 176,000 for the same weight. Medan is a small city, the cost of living is quite expensive and the wages are not as high as the capital city.

This is cause by the fact that most industries are concentrated in Java so food products and main necessities are far more expensive as the distribution cost is normally included into the price of goods.  

This morning during breakfast, I saw a couple of wedding invitations from a staff working at my father’s. The cook made a remark “He just keeps on getting married!”. Then she said, he has already had three wives and now taking a new one. 

For argument sake, I will put the religious affair aside - I have blogwalked enough to know that the issue will attract nasty comments and unnecessary judgements.  

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Today was a slow day in work wise. I spent most of my afternoon devouring one of the local online English newspapers site. After reading The Jakarta Post, I did find some headlines that were entertaining and worth re-telling. Embrace yourself. Here they come :

• Masseuses who work in massage parlors in Java have agreed to wear padlocks on their pants as ordered by local state government to curtail prostitution in the beautiful holiday city
• Another piece of Fitna commentary where the commentators wrote much better comments on the subject than the Chief of Editor him / herself
• The alleged conspiracy theory thrown by one of the readers on why Astro, pay cable television service - owned by local conglomerate group and Malaysian TV company, was really shut off since last Friday. Thankfully, it is back on now. 
• How Islam “accept homosexuality” by some Muslim leaders in Indonesia and the readers are totally shocked and repulsed by that idea 
• Update : How the Sukarno Hatta International Airport in Jakarta come up having the worst toilet facilities of all airports and the head of airport operator told the newspapers that they have no budget to fix the toilets nor keep them clean since …. 1985!  (I add the keep clean part myself, he kinda implied that in my opinion)

The readers really do have more honest opinions than the journalists, which made the reading of the news interactive and two ways. I always think of local newspapers are full of something not worth reading. Well that was fun. I need to read more local news and probably, less CNN.      

Good news that the new MacBook is here. I have been using it for two days. Still no idea of how to deal with everything, which can be explained by the mishap in resizing images. But I am loving it already! I know, I need to shake Windows out of me. It is the coolest piece of gadget I have ever owned. As I was told, it is the porsche of all computers. 

Another piece of good news is that the new passport is here too! That is not without incidence. I was told that my old passport has another month before expiring, so I had to pay fine of IDR 100,000 (equivalent of USD 10). Another lesson learned, never renew before expired date. Kinda like canned food.  Then because I wanted my old passport back, I needed to pay an extra IDR 50,000. I just needed it too badly to make any arguments on the “rules” or “regulations”.

Lastly, people in Indonesia are able to access YouTube already, after being blocked by the government for a couple of days. The headline on our local newspaper today said “The new IT regulations is not targeting journalists. Just bloggers!” The piece of regulation quoted is “People who have no rights who pass / transmit / transfer any information that will damage other party’s good name” Two good things for me though. I can still make fun of myself in the blogsphere and the “movie” is still in YouTube! Apparently, the threat made was not working and those who wants to watch it or download it, be my guest.  

Am I too perky or there is just too much good news cramped in one post?    

I did an irreparable damage to the lovely theme of Red Earth. I loved it, but it was impossible for me to make any changes without messing it up. It is not very dummy-friendly. For those who love it, Gecko&Fly does a great job. All the themes are excellent. So while I am meddling with it, I will have to be content with Tarski theme. It is boring white (again) and lots of ready-to-use widget. I am so not ready for the hand-written code of css.

Anyway, I am very excited that I finally made up my mind to get Apple Macbook MB 403. After extremely long, long thought, and very pleasant conversation with Anita Carmencita, I stepped down my foot and did it. It should be here in sometime around next week *keeping my fingers crossed*. It’s the first piece of computer that I will ever own. Okay, I always get personal laptop from companies I work for.  

It looks so lovely, doesn’t it. Oh wait. I have never used Mac before.

During our trip to Chennai, India a couple of years ago, we met a lovely Indian lady. Here is our conversation :

Lady  : Is he your husband?

Andie : Yes. *smiling sweetly*

Lady  : Oh *looked hesitantly*

Andie : Is there something wrong?

Lady  : Can I ask you something?

Andie : Sure.

Lady  : You marry for love?

Andie : Yeah.

Lady  : Your parents didn’t choose him for you?

Andie : Err .. No. I met him myself

Lady  : Nobody marries for love in India! You love later.

Andie : Really??

Arranged marriage (or forced marriage) is still very much of everyday practice in that part of the world. For us, it’s just a scene picked right out from the movie “Cinderella” by Drew Barrymore.

Guys and girls who are not asked for hand in marriage yet when they come of age will be put into advertisement in local newspapers with details of education, personal information and social status. They will be contacted by suitors’ family. The couple will not see each other until after they actually get married. The “Lady” in my story confirmed that she didn’t see her husband till after they were married. She referred to herself as being “lucky” that the husband is indeed good looking.

I can’t help but think very highly of young people who would actually trust their family to find them husbands or wives. I don’t even trust my mother anymore to pick out my clothes, let alone to get me a husband.

The family thinks that young people should not be trusted in making a decision of such a big impact as choosing a spouse. Maybe they have a point? South Asian countries do have very low divorce rates. But again, the domestic violence is not that low either.