"You're not that desperate, are you?" is the few words that pricked me tonight. Only slightly, because it's not like I haven't heard the same thing about Pius before we went out.
Those words, of course, came from surprise surprise, mummy. Although Papa put it down much less harshly, the meaning was the same: Don't go out with guys that you're not interested in. Only go out in a group of friends, not one-on-one. Their views on boys are as though boys are vultures, out to get you. To an extent, I can see where they're coming from, but it's like I have to view every guy friend I make as a potential. If they're not potentials, don't make them into friends.
That logic, on me, unfortunately doesn't swim well. Imagine if they find out about "amy". Oh, now, I'm not even sure how to tell him. Papa even said today, "Once you're interested in dating a guy, you have to let us know. Because we have lived longer than you (yawns), so we can judge a person's character better." And he even added more 'liao' to his argument by including Kung Kung's apparently all-famous line, "Men and women can't coexist as friends, they can only coexist as lovers." Then used the priest from Stella Maris as an example, some affair of Ah Po's friend, and so on to illustrate his point.
Losing the argument here -- actually, correction -- no space for me to even make a contribution to the discussion. Because obviously I am inexperienced in this area, too naive, too young, to make logical conclusions of my own. It appears that the relationships I form, other than that of the same sex, need to go through the security scan of the folks. Now wouldn't that be lovely.