making a statement

mak ciks, how can i say this delicately? ermm..you look ugly.

people seldom take me seriously, especially old people/elders. i don't understand why that happens, maybe it's because i have a petite frame. on the rare occasions when they do, they leap up to correct me anytime they can, and by anytime, i mean all the time, even when i'm proven to be on the right track. i don't understand them, is it so hard to admit they're wrong and i'm right?after all, i'm an adult too. 

i've lost count how many times they said i'm too young to understand things. when i urged them to go everything through by saying i'm a very intelligent person, they did it half-heartedly. come on, it's a new century. it's not as if we ever need them to guide us through life like what they did to our parents. we are well-read, educated people, even though we don't have as much life experience as they have. i'm not saying that out of disrespect but i've had enough of this shit.

when i said something and they corrected me even though i was right is fine, but when i corrected something they said, i was being disrespectful. i admit, sometimes, when i did that, i sounded like a pompous, arrogant ass ( i don't understand that either) but hey, i'm very smart and nothing surprises me anymore. it's very confusing. why the double standard? they're the ones who have survived the Japanese occupation, wars, siblings rivalries, poverty, life hardships and all, and they can't take a little correcting? i call that total bullshit. 

everyone knows (well, the 4 persons that read my blog, that's who) that i just got back from a wedding and , voila, a new chapter of my autobiography surfaced. i was unfortunate enough to encounter an arrogant, stupid, she-must-have-an-IQ-of-a-cactus mak cik (she's the mother of the groom) and my, what an experience i've got. the thing got started smoothly until someone mentioned the rising prices of gold. all these mak ciks took the opportunity to show off their gold jewelries while whining about the prices. now, i'm not an expert in gold or anything for that matter except pirating, but i do know that gold prices has tumbled since the recession started, except in India and a few other countries (not Malaysia). when the flurries have ended and they were taking a few, short breath, because, well, you know, showing off can be very tiring, i timidly asked why they have to pay a higher price when  the gold markets have sinked. they all looked at me sharply and one of them asked me why i said that. i explained to them about markets, commodities, and extra bullshit and all, when the mother of the groom suddenly lurched an attack at me and said that i purposely tunjuk pandai. the whole thing dwindled since then and the mak cik verbally attacked me whenever she had the chance. 

as you know, as a kind-hearted, mild-mannered person, of course i just ignored her. but when things were getting worse, and she kept launching these verbal diarrhea at me, i said, in front of everyone, "harapkan muka je berkedut, perangai macam budak-budak". actually, i wanted to say something more vulgar, but her expression told me i've hit the right notes. 

let's just say that we don't part friends. 

it's very frustrating when these kinds of things happened, especially to an outspoken person like me. sometimes i just let their non-truths go by, but always, when they starting to get on my nerves, i just mowed everything down like Genghis Khan. after all, i'm very intelligent. surely i can handle a discussion or two.