Your Asian mom

On the fourth week of Advent in 2016, people of Sabah and Malaysia are abuzz with the news of a teenage boy being slashed outside a pub at 4am for his group of friends intervened in a domestic fight between a divorced couple.  Despite the 18-year-old boy's heroic act in shielding the girl from getting hurt during the attack, Netizens are still lambasting nasty comments on the social media that the group should never be at that "dangerous" place in the first place.   I was irked by the public's comments until a conversation with my parent recently.  "It is his parents' fault for letting them out there in the wee hours, some more it is a dangerous place". My dad, who is the infamous parent among my siblings, has been a strict guardian for us that we keep on wondering why God gives us such a conservative dad.  Our duty as a young child was just to stay at home and study academic books as well as pass the exam with flying colors. Whe

An article by dailymail.co.uk   had quoted a Canadian study in 2008 found that women with female supervisors had higher cases of depression, headaches, heartburn and insomnia than of their bosses were men. I got some of the symptoms and afraid I will contribute to the statistics of people suffering mental illnesses in Malaysia. Do cross your fingers when you know a female, worse if unmarried or still single (even worst if previous boyfriends dumped her for the attitudes) is going to be your boss. Based on the article by dailymail, women are afraid of getting old and invisible to others. It explains why married women are more rational as they believe the spouse or family will still acknowledge her.    They seem to have unpredictable mood and decisive, sometimes because of the swift changes it makes people think that she is moronic? or worse call it "time of the month" or "she needs sex" and etc. I wish doctors could prescribe some sort of drug to stablise them.