LOVE, Kloudiia

The doorbell rang.

In my home wear (T-shirt and shorts) with a Winnie the Pooh hairband on my head, I opened the door and a man greeted me. The first thing he asked was “Is your parents home?”

I was stunned. My parents? Hello, this is my home! My marital home!

I didn’t bother to explain (is there a need to?), and asked him what his purpose in knocking on my door was. He mumbled about something “rainbow”. I couldn’t make out what he was saying and asked him to repeat. Then I heard something about a “vacumm cleaner”.

This is a society where people fight tooth and nail not only to survive, but to get what they want and where they want to be. Individualism is rampant. And commercialism is doing nothing to help this.

While we are striving towards our goals, let us not forget some of these virtues that we humans should hold on to dearly so that as we make our lives better, so is the world going to be. These are not new. I’m just hoping that by blogging about them, we can all be reminded and be aware if we are lacking in some of them. It is too easy to forget to be virtuous, because the world is too tempting.  

Some find them sissy. Some find them sensitive.

Some do it without hesitation. Some will only do it for their girlfriends or wives.

This issue seems to be only debatable in Singapore, although scenes of men carrying their partners’ handbags can be seen widely in other Asia countries like Hong Kong, Taiwan and even China. So what is the concern here, really?

I am writing this post to air my opinion as I read the article on The Straits Times on 24 February 2008 – “Do Singapore Women Expect Too Much?” about the latest survey of 200 singles conducted by SDU that revealed that women expect men to carry handbags and open car doors for them. It seems like these two wants are heinous crimes.