I bumped into a former law lecturer last night. What a surprise she still recognized me. She asked about my marital status so I told her I am still single. She was really surprised as she thought that I was attached, so I told her that the key word is “was”.
I remember her as a pretty cool lecturer who always told us girls that in Business, Law and Arts, the ratio of guys to girls was 3:7, so the guys had lots of eye candy for them, but we girls better go Engineering, Science, Medicine or Information Technology to get our eye candy as that was where the most variety of guys were. So some of my classmates really took the advice and went to scout and those lucky ones did manage to marry doctors or engineers.
But what is the big deal anyway? Does it matter what course the guy is from as long as both can get along? Although coincidentally, nine out of ten guys I know did Engineering. My first and third ex, my godbrother, my childhood friend, my RCIA sponsor, another fellow Catholic we both know, my ex-boyfriend’s best friend, plus three guys I know from tertiary all did Engineering. Even fellow bloggers Sonic, K, Addy, Ole Wolvie and Sentosa did Engineering. (Did I miss anyone out?) So did Sonic’s flatmate. In contrary, only two out of ten girls I know did Engineering, most did Law or Business or Mass Communications or Arts or Education.
In fact, my mum told me to find someone who is a doctor or lawyer or engineer or architect or accountant. I do not know any doctors or architects that are guys, I almost married a lawyer and the guys I know who are accountants are already attached. For me, it does not really matter which course he is from or what job he is doing. Even if I do end up with someone from one of these professions, it will be based solely on compatibility and not anything else.
Strangely there are hardly any engineers in my family. There are doctors, lawyers, accountants, architects, businessmen, lecturers, teachers, managers, IT specialists, but no engineers except my cousin-in-law. Have to see if my brother will do Engineering next time although I doubt it as he is more interested in Finance.
If I have to do a count, then about 98% of the guys I know did Engineering and about 70% are non-Singaporeans. So, technically, based on these statistics, perhaps my chances of ending up with a non-Singaporean Engineering major is pretty high indeed!
I remember her as a pretty cool lecturer who always told us girls that in Business, Law and Arts, the ratio of guys to girls was 3:7, so the guys had lots of eye candy for them, but we girls better go Engineering, Science, Medicine or Information Technology to get our eye candy as that was where the most variety of guys were. So some of my classmates really took the advice and went to scout and those lucky ones did manage to marry doctors or engineers.
But what is the big deal anyway? Does it matter what course the guy is from as long as both can get along? Although coincidentally, nine out of ten guys I know did Engineering. My first and third ex, my godbrother, my childhood friend, my RCIA sponsor, another fellow Catholic we both know, my ex-boyfriend’s best friend, plus three guys I know from tertiary all did Engineering. Even fellow bloggers Sonic, K, Addy, Ole Wolvie and Sentosa did Engineering. (Did I miss anyone out?) So did Sonic’s flatmate. In contrary, only two out of ten girls I know did Engineering, most did Law or Business or Mass Communications or Arts or Education.
In fact, my mum told me to find someone who is a doctor or lawyer or engineer or architect or accountant. I do not know any doctors or architects that are guys, I almost married a lawyer and the guys I know who are accountants are already attached. For me, it does not really matter which course he is from or what job he is doing. Even if I do end up with someone from one of these professions, it will be based solely on compatibility and not anything else.
Strangely there are hardly any engineers in my family. There are doctors, lawyers, accountants, architects, businessmen, lecturers, teachers, managers, IT specialists, but no engineers except my cousin-in-law. Have to see if my brother will do Engineering next time although I doubt it as he is more interested in Finance.
If I have to do a count, then about 98% of the guys I know did Engineering and about 70% are non-Singaporeans. So, technically, based on these statistics, perhaps my chances of ending up with a non-Singaporean Engineering major is pretty high indeed!
2 comments:
i did engineering in poly but business for my degree..so i guess i'm what you'd call a mixed breed! but since engineering guys seem to be in more popular demand, maybe i should switch back to my engineering mode! hmm..haha..
You won't have a problem whether you switch back ot not. your poetry is enough to make girls swoon!
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