This is the second part of the award winning speech by CC Tan Soo Guan at the 2009 Toastmasters Division 'C' Humor Contest.
‘O” - other people’s money.
When we just got married, when love was blind, everything was about sharing. I still remember her saying this “Darling, your money is my money and my money is also your money.”
I cannot explain what happen next but I suppose this is a natural phenomenon that evolved over time. After a while, she said “Your money is my money and my money is also my money!”
OK, I can argue with her, fight with her or explain it but I have a big heart. So I said “Sure my Darling you can have all my money and you can also have all my debt!
What do I do next? Create more debts!
It did not take her long to come back and say, “Your money is your money and your debt is also your debt.” “My money is my money and don’t touch my money, er!”
I never face money issues after that.
D- Don’t be predictable.
During my father’s times, he has only to worry how to put food on the table. Nowadays we have to worry about mother’s day, father’s day, Valentine’s Day, birthday’s days, wedding anniversary, registration anniversary, first meeting anniversary, and first kiss anniversary and so on.
You see, women basically set up these dates as markers just to get constant reminders that their men love them.
Ladies, just ask any men here and they will tell you the same thing. Men don’t love their women only certain days of the year; we love you every day of the year!
So, why do you need to set up these markers like bobby traps and whenever we miss one of these dates, ka-boom, we are dead.
Lucky for me, when love was still blind and everything is forgivable. I already planned never to celebrate any special occasions on the exact date but always a few days earlier a few days later. After a while, weeks, than months, just to be unpredictable.
Have more celebrations initially to confuse them as to which celebration that was for. Later, to save money, you can slowly reduce the number of celebrations but they will still be confused whether they have celebrated it this year or were it last year. Or was that celebration done the year before?
Finally once you broken down all these markers, dates are irrelevant.
If you are confused with what I am saying, than I know this plan will work well for you.
Follow Toastmasters and guest, when two adult of different background stays together, there is bound to be conflict. But as long as we religiously follow GOD, G-O-D, I believe that more people will be staying happily together.
Before I leave the stage, I would like to clarify to all the male audience here. Guys please don’t misunderstand me. I am not afraid of my wife.OK! My only problem is my wife is not afraid of me.
Back to Mr. Toastmaster.
You are one inteligent men whom i know. I tatally agree to you that do not make dates predictable.
ReplyDeleteBut, fr what i observed, women are also very unpredictable.
you will never know what is the card underneth .
Yes. I have seen friends who have big fights with their wife just because they forget dates!
ReplyDeleteWomen are so called 'creatures with delicate feelings and emotions'. We need to really care about them no matter what circumstances we(men) are in but to have fights and arguments over the forgotten special dates and occasions is totally silly. I(man) really think that women should look at things from wider perspective. We know that deep inside that we love each other. If men miss the special dates unintentionally(job reason) or any solid reason,women should forgive and forget them.
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