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8 Days and 12 Years
Monday, August 22
I read this week's 8 Days 1 Day before a new 8 Days comes out, but usually I buy the week's 8 Days 0 Days or 1 Day after it comes out which is really 6 Days before the next issue comes out. So technically the 8 Days I was reading just now in the afternoon while I was at the printer's waiting for my stuff is technically last week's 8 Days which I was reading 1 Day before a new 8 Days comes out. But never mind! It doesn't really make a difference whether I read this week's 8 Days 1 Day before it comes out or 1 Day after it comes out or 2 Days before it comes out or 2 Days after it come out or 3 Days after it comes out or 3 Days before it comes out or 4 Days before it comes out or 4 Days after it comes out or 5 Days before it comes out or 5 Days after it comes out or 6 Days before it comes out or 6 Days after it comes out or 7 Days before it comes out of 7 Days after it comes out. What matters is that I cannot read the magazine 8 Days before it comes out or 8 Days after it comes out! The magazine should be renamed! They should rename it something spiffy like "The magazine which has had Fiona Xie and Jamie Yeo and better looking females than FHM on our cover in bikinis" or something decent like "Baaarrrrrrp". No more silly sounding 8 Days!
Anyway, this week's 8 Days (which I read 1 Day before a new 8 Days comes out) consisted of some interview with the bratty kids from Singapore Brainiest Kid. One question posed to many of them was "What do you think of boys/girls" and their darn responses made smile.
What do you think of girls?
"Sometimes they can be annoying and bossy."
"I come from a boys' school so I don't have much interaction with girls, but I find them to be the most boring people in the world. They don't do anything constructive at all."
"They're troublesome."
"No! (makes a retching sound). They're icky."
"They are generally tolerable."
"Ewww!"
"They're also human. They have everything a boy has, except for a few things." (brilliant answer!)
What do you think of boys?
"Some are very annoying and then try to be funny."
"I think boys are irritating. They like to use vulgar words."
"I think boys are idiots."
"Boys are wonderful." (okay I added this)
They're all 11 or 12-year-olds so when they get their first crush or relationship in a few years they'll probably be saying something different, except for the "A girl has everything a boy has except for a few things" fella. I don't know who won the competition but I'd give the boy the Brainiest Kid award based on that comment.
Back in primary school, I never really thought of girls as "Ewww!". When I was in Primary 6 a girl sat beside me - I think that's the only time I sat only beside a girl in class - and I thought she was arrogant. She was in the EM1 stream and I was in EM2 and she sold me out when I didn't do my homework one day by telling the teacher. She wouldn't lend me her ruler and she would underline almost everything - dates, names, words whatever - while I was messy and happily canceled things out. But all along I didn't think of her as "Ewww!".
Over time we got used to each other though - she was a prefect and I was somewhat of a maverick (what were you expecting?). We got along well and soon the months passed and we were gone, the years went and I saw her on the streets once or twice and recently by some coincidence I saw her working at RP as a receptionist. I didn't go up and say "hi" or "hello" or "baaarrrrrrp" to her, because I didn't know if she would still remember me, but anyway, all along I never thought of her as "Ewww!".
I had a crush on this girl back in primary school too. I thought she was the prettiest girl in the world and a very nice girl. The girl who sat in front of me by herself was called Nity. She was a very nice girl too. She didn't tell the teacher when I didn't hand up my worksheets! And when my partner beside me refused to lend me a ruler or rubber I always asked her and she would lend me! What a nice girl.
You always hear the kids saying things like that about the opposite sex when they're young, but I never! I think I want to say some of these things to some girls NOW! I had nice girls around me when I was 12 so seeing those comments make me laugh.
what did you think of girls/boys when you were 12?
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