“Small White Face” (小白脸)

Have you heard of the term “Small White Face (小白脸)” or a guy that “eat soft rice (吃软饭)”? “Small White Face” although literally translates as a guy with fair complexion, doesn’t actually mean so, else me (yes, I look fair, don’t believe? Date me! Ho ho) and this guy would be in the same category.

As for “eating soft rice”, it doesn’t mean eating porridge. So don’t go around pointing at guys having his nice porridge, saying “Aha! Eat soft rice!”.

It is actually a Chinese term, saying a guy that depends on his female partner for living. In Chinese perspective, it is always expected for the guy to be the financial support for his female partner. For any couple related events or activities, he is supposed to be the one footing the bill. So, if you see a guy coming out from a fashion store with the female partner paying for his clothes or after a romantic dinner, the guy just sat there while the female partner paid the bill, the chinese around might started to brand this guy as “small white face”. So, now you could see how hard it is to be a guy nowadays, so does that explain why some guys transform themselves into a girl?

As for me, call me old-fashion but I always stick to this gentleman rule. Although some times I asked a girl to treat me to a meal or movie, it always ends up I insisting on paying for them in the end. That’s why I look down on guys who borrow money from his girlfriend or have relationships that end up the girls got cheated off her money.

Lately, I stumbled on some scenes from “Sex and The City” (For guys who don’t know what series this is, it is definitely not porn!) where a highly-paid female lawyer was dating an ordinary bar tender, it triggered me to wonder what if my girlfriend earns a lot more than me and living in a more luxurious lifestyle that I could not afford. For example, a regular dinner for her would be around how much I spend for my meal in a month. If we ‘clicked’, I would eventually become “small white face” because of affordability since I always hope to get the best for my love one. It would then be a tough dilemma of dignity vs love.

So, in this world of gender equality, it is wrong to judge a guy without understanding the situation? What’s your opinion? Hope I would get stuck in such situation.

By the way, I still look down on guys borrowing money from girls.

A Glimpse at My Past...

Things changed a lot! Not long ago, I was branded out-dated for not having a facebook account. After much persuasion I signed myself up, and got connected with a lot of my old friends. So much things have changed, lot of my peers seemed to have upgraded their social ranking:

Rank 1: Single

Rank 2: Married

Rank 3: Married with Kids

Rank 4: Dead

Thank god, all are still alive… I think, but most of them are in rank 2 and 3, while I am still in rank 1, so disappointing. L Even the most unpopular guy or girl, finally found their own happiness! I tried to stay positive and look at it from a different guy’s perspective to make myself happy:

Rank 1: Freedom

Rank 2: On a Leach Controlled by the Wife (or Wives)

Rank 3: On a Leach Controlled by the Wife and Kids

Rank 4: Total Freedom but Cannot Enjoy It.

I also felt fortunate that my previous feeling of disappointment of being rejected by the girls that I was after last time being compensated that they were no longer as attractive as last time. Some have shifted to watermelon shape instead of the previous ‘hour glass’ figure,

some looked older than my mum, some got my pity for ended up with abusive husbands or husband having extra marital affair (See? Not accepting me…), and some ended up being control freaks for their husband (phew!). Okay, I’m being extremely cruel in commenting this because of my previous cruel rejection by them (trust me, you can’t imagine what they did), but I could not believe myself that I could finally say this “LUCKILY I DIDN’T END UP WITH YOU!” It is definitely a final closure of my once broken heart, but I do still wish that they have happy lives ahead.

Anyway, I was glad getting updates from all my friends around the world. Some previous grudges were totally forgotten and those happy moments seemed flashing through my head, especially the funny volleyball one.

I’m still wondering, when is my rank 2?

I Don’t Know What Are They Singing, But They Are Good???!!

I don’t know whether anyone experience this before – You listened to a foreign song, you don’t understand what were they singing actually but ended up being obsessed with the band. This is what happens to me lately. Think of it, it is weird, right? Who knows they might be scolding me right from the beginning of their song till the end; while I am being stupid, enjoying them repeatedly cursing me. It might also be something like this:

Anyway, I got to know a band called ‘All Around Attack (AAA)’ after listening to the opening theme of a children-based Japanese superhero series called Kamen Rider Den-O. It was a happy song that made me searching for this band performing the same song live:

I became more obsessed after watching some of their live performances on youtube – great performance and great song; just that I don’t know what they were singing about.

So, anyone is having such experience?

How Come Female Cosmetic Brand Sound like Chinese Foul Words?

Last time when I was young, I learnt to pick up a few foul words because of bad influence. However, if my parents caught me scolding that, I would be in big trouble because usually they would be threatening to wash my mouth with soup water! Nowadays, it’s completely a different case; if any Chinese foul words accidentally slip out of one’s mouth, it might be the name of a famous cosmetic brand!

Years ago, when I was walking around the supermarket, i almost saluted the child who I thought was scolding her mother’s mother. I thought she was asking her mother to XXX up her mother, until I realized that she was just repeating a famous cosmetic brand name from Japan – Kanebo.

I don’t know the true meaning of the brand name but I do love the idea of ‘legalizing’ foul language into brand name. Imagine, I said this word when I was young, I don’t know whether I could be even speaking again (my parents wash my mouth with soup water, remember?).

I’m sure everyone heard of the Lancôme Paris, a prestigious cosmetics brand.

If the name was pronounced correctly, it sounded something like ‘land comb’; however if this brand name fell onto the mouth of a Chinese girl who don’t speak much English, then it would be a disaster! Once, I busted into laughter when I heard a Chinese girl asking her boyfriend to get her the facial product, “I would do anything for a ‘lan come’!” If I did not see that she was pointing at the product, I would have asked them to get a room! In hokkien, ‘lan’ actually means a male body part, and the pronunciation is different too. So, asking ‘it’ to come… you get what I’m trying to say. By the way, if it was said the over way round, there is a new set of meaning.

Last but not least, heard of this famous French brand?

I really don’t know how to pronounce the name, that’s why I never try to do so. Not that I am afraid to make mistake, but that my life would be in danger if I do so. Imagine I go to the perfume shop and said this “Hi, can I have a look at your ‘strange dick’?” I would be ended up in police station, because the only way I know to pronounce 'Guerlain' is ‘Guai Lan’ and what does that mean? Click here.

Hmm… I thought that it is hard to understand female, but it seemed harder to understand the name of their cosmetic products.