Comments | snowmoon89: what does it take to get called 'auntie' in s'pore? (a totally 破坏形象 blog entry ^^)

snowmoon89

what does it take to get called 'auntie' in s'pore? (a totally 破坏形象 blog entry ^^)

Jul 14, 2009 18:50

... not much, apparently... just wear your hawker-center-going clothes, carry a bag full of library books, plus 4 more NTUC grocery bags, and start running like crazy after the bus that's leaving the bus stop in front of you ^^ (oh, and must be female i guess... like duh :D ( Read more... )

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meridianiplanum July 14 2009, 11:52:29 UTC

Oh we were preparing for workshops at science centre and one of the kiddies wandering around the centre called my friend "uncle". and he's only 1 year older than me, looks about 15-years-old, and his face was fully visible.

snowmoon89 July 14 2009, 12:43:09 UTC

lol! but i guess sometimes to little kids they can't really tell ppl's ages very well? dunno. depends on how young the kid was i guess :P

renji_chan July 14 2009, 12:09:34 UTC

It's okay. I think I got called that once or twice.

Oh yeah, some idiotic zhu1 suan4 teacher called me 'auntie' and 'grandma' if I calculated too slow when I was in Pri 3 (even worse right. And with the entire class laughing at you.) Naturally, I hated her lessons.

snowmoon89 July 14 2009, 12:43:38 UTC

aiyo. yr tchr so bad :(

renji_chan July 14 2009, 13:36:05 UTC

Ya lor. She was about 3x my age lor! Still say those stuff. Urgh.

azhire July 14 2009, 16:42:52 UTC

ah. i use that term indiscriminately. esp when i was younger. like as long as woman and older than me, i'll call auntie. but now i have new term to call women - 小姐. haha.

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snowmoon89 July 15 2009, 01:58:56 UTC

yes yes! haha! me too! lol. and i used to feel really bad abt calling ppl auntie (esp if they didn't look all that old), but i really really didn't know what else to call them! (i thought 'jie jie' was kinda weird, so 'auntie' was the only one i was comfortable with lol)... and ya, now i call ppl 'xiao jie' more often :D

zephyred July 15 2009, 09:02:25 UTC

LOL! For me it's the opposite. There were times when people came up to me to ask for directions and after I told them if I happen to know the way, they thanked me profusely and said, "Thanks a lot girl! By the way which Primary School are you currently in?" My reaction was ???, and I replied, no, I'm already in a Polytechnic! Haha! It was initially hilarious, but I got used to being called a Primary School kid after some time, coz I get this sort of remarks from passerbys who ask me for directions all the time. Perhaps it's due to my height? haha, I always thought it that way...
Oh, I'm Yi Lin by the way (:

snowmoon89 July 16 2009, 10:08:29 UTC

lol! ah well. i think it's prob better to be mistaken for someone younger than someone older :P but primary school... is still a bit extreme ^^

haven't heard fm u in quite a while! :D

zephyred July 17 2009, 04:33:41 UTC

Lol! Perhaps that was why I was a lil' saddened by those remarks initially? Perhaps so! =S