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Mom: If a boy tries to kiss you, just punch him!! No hanky panky!!
Me: What if a girl does it??
Mom: Punch harder!! Aiyah!!
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(254 votes, average: 4.83 out of 5) Loading ...My mom’s advice on how to get a guy’s attention:
Mom:`Think when you little you chase a aquarel, the squarrel will run fast away. But if you stop, the squrel will dstop too, he may also peek on what you doing.
Mom: Do not scare the squarel.
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(206 votes, average: 4.68 out of 5) Loading ...After being dumped by my boyfriend of 10 months, I recieved this heartwarming email from my mum:
Hello Sweetheart
It was nice being able to chat to you on Wednesday. Glad you are nearly over that Boy. No more tears baby … he’s not worth it!… What an imbecile! He is not even worthy of washing your feet sweety…(not even on his knees and not even when you step on the smelliest poo!! haha!)
Love you lots & miss you lots angel ~ mum xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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(203 votes, average: 4.84 out of 5) Loading ...When I was updating my mom on my gay friend Drew she got a bit confused:
Me: Yea, Drew is dating someone now.
Mom: So who Drew date?
Me: My other friend, Aswin.
Mom: Oh… (silence)
Mom: Aswin gay too?
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(292 votes, average: 4.70 out of 5) Loading ...Melanie,
Once again, we are really happy that you have a sweet boy friend.
Mom just want to remind you, something may you need to change a little bit when you are having the relationship with Jeffery.
1. Be respect his decision, always ask i.e.. “what do you like to eat or what movie you like to watch…..” not just put yourself first, if he says “what do you like to….” then “I like to…. but if you like to….. I’m really okay with that”. Like a little woman, don’t like me, talk loudly.
2. I know you are wearing pretty pretty everyday, but just remember the most boys they don’t like his girl friend always be a spot in class (because other boy will notice you also), sometimes just be nature like a normal college girl, of course, when you are going a party with him then you should wear very pretty.
3. Sometimes when you are with him in shopping, don’t be so greedy to see around fashion clothing, if he doesn’t know you very well, he will think you are a material girl only then nothing at all. Show him sometimes you are very eager to plan to have future internship to earn some money, no ones will like a spending money girl friend.
4. Don’t be lazy all the time, give him a cup hot tea or help him clean up in his dorm. Or cook something for him sometimes. Show your talent for cooking (food channel girl).
5. Last thing, show your knowledge all the time, talk the subject his like, if he likes sport then talk sport……
Well, above tips should based on you are really like him first. Hope you are having a good relationship with him.
Love
Mom
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(91 votes, average: 2.79 out of 5) Loading ...Thanks to the success of our last discussion question on college and careers, we’ve decided to continue with an engaging topic (hopefully) once per week. Here’s the latest and greatest by a very special guest blogger!
Hello MMIAF readers,
It’s guest blogger time! I’m Ho Chie Tsai, creator of the web portal site TaiwaneseAmerican.org, frequent speaker among the Taiwanese American high school and college crowd, and occasional behind-the-scenes co-conspirator with Serena. In an effort to encourage discussion among all of you, it’s time to get you to talk about the best of all gossip topics: Boys and Girls! And Dating! Or not dating… It’s more common than you think. You know who you are.
Within my discussions among the Asian American youth community, I’ve heard it time and again… all the complaints and pressures when it comes to that time in your life when you develop those “oh-so-special tingly feelings” a.k.a. “attraction.” It’s hard enough as it is navigating your way through life, but figuring out how you fit in or how you’ll ever meet that standard of beauty exemplified in all those magazines is a whole other level. We’re all looking for acceptance at some level, and sometimes it can be just plain stressful!
Oh, the anxiety! I mean, who among us doesn’t remember feeling insecure about ourselves, yet feeling excited about that special someone. The heart skips a beat, and you lay awake at night dreaming and hoping. Except that nothing ever happens because the guy just doesn’t know how to tell the girl how he really feels, or because both justify their inaction because they are too busy with studying or work anyways. My personal favorite is the good ol’ excuse from the girls that “my mom says I’m not allowed to date til I’m 25 or when I get married. Whichever comes first.”
How do we deal with all the age-old questions about love and relationships? Does he/she like me? Will it work out? Will my parents approve? I’m sure I don’t have all the answers. And there’s no doubt that it causes stress and anxiety among the best of us. There’s got to be a connection with the fact that the highest depression rates are found among Asian American teens. Even so, maybe the place to start is to open up conversation about dating and relationships.
So here’s the part where you get to reminisce about your first love, the romantic crushes you sent secret notes to, or the ones you loved, but treated as “just friends” because, well, you just didn’t know any other way around it or you didn’t want to “ruin the friendship.” Or just admit it, you just were afraid of rejection. (Where’s the manual on this stuff for us Asian Americans anyway?).
Whatever ethnicity you are, Asian American or not, we want to hear your stories. So spew away, and tell us (anonymously, if you want) about how growing up in your particular culture/community influenced your love or dating life (or lack of), and perhaps even explore how your parents affected your perspectives on expressing love and affection. Were your parents the restrictive type? The nosy type? The contradictory type? Or maybe they were oddly supportive? Let’s not even get into the ones who so willingly gave the “birds and the bees” talk… 10 years too late. Ah. Parents. We love them anyways.
So no matter what stage of life you’re in, it’s your opportunity to share, but please remember to be respectful. Leave names out or change them to protect privacy. Our hearts always remain fragile throughout our entire lives. But maybe through this process of sharing, we’ll discover some uniqueness to our experiences, or maybe we’ll find out that we’re just not that different from each other after all.
In any case, we want to know everything. Spill it.
P.S. Want to hear more? Serena and I are teaming up and speaking at two college-level conferences this month on the topic of generation gap issues. Our workshop is entitled “Back in my day, we walked to school. Uphill. Both ways.” It’s not too late to register and join in on our madness. We’ll be in southern California http://usc.itasa.org and Illinois http://uiuc.itasa.org.
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(232 votes, average: 4.79 out of 5) Loading ...Also, please wear a high heel shoes,people said medical school do not like
shorty student.
Take Care
MOM
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(90 votes, average: 4.41 out of 5) Loading ...Some guy might–might come visit your email. He’s lawyer, and 4 yrs older than you.
and soft hearted/ that’s all I know. I’m not sure if he’ll visit your email or not. My church members now introducing all the single they know I think.. Sorry for the trouble. But as a Sa-mo-nim, I just can’t say No to them.. pls, understand me.. I know this is not the right time to do that you have not much of time.. still I want you to have dinner dating sometime.
mom, with great love, and God Bless you…
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(201 votes, average: 4.85 out of 5) Loading ...Jiejie, you should get new boyfriend. The grandma want to see you get marry. Mommy didn’t tell grandma about your old boyfriend the Japanese because grandma is very old and I am afraid you love Japanese make her heart sick and maybe then the grandma die. So Mommy did not tell him. Please find gentle boy and introduce to Mommy and Daddy. OK if Japanese. Just remember to don’t tell the grandma. She is very old. Love you! Don’t call back if you are too busy, Jiejie. Study hard! Bye bye. [5 second pause before click]
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(159 votes, average: 4.84 out of 5) Loading ...Mom: You might meet a boy and when you shake his hand, you feel electricity!
Me: What?
Mom: Feeling electricity is good, but make sure you don’t feel electricity when you shake every boy’s hand.
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