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d/o Peter Pan

March 30th, 2006 by jadeite

People always think I’m older than I actually am - usually they assume I’m somewhere from 25 to 28 years old, and when they find out I’m only 22 they start with the shocked looks, and the “No!� Really??” and I nod and shrug and smile sheepishly.�

Once,�someone saw me and Joel together and later asked, “So that’s your younger brother?”� Gah!!� He’s three years older than I am!

It’s often people in church who make that mistake but even my colleagues who are supposed to�know I’m only a third-year undergrad keep thinking I’m 25, 26 years old.� Aunty Irene from church had thought I was older than her daughter and expressed her astonishment that I’m a whole two years younger than her - “You’re very mature in the way you dress and the way you act,” she told me.

Okay, I don’t really understand this.� I’m most often in jeans and blouses which is standard casual, right?� And I know I don’t act any more mature than my friends do, so what’s the deal?� I don’t get it.

Because it’s extremely traumatising, especially that one time in church when someone asked me kindly if I was Rev. Poon’s girlfriend/wife, because he’d seen me leaning on Dad’s shoulder during service.

Me: *jaw drop* He’s my FATHER!

I told Mom about it, and after she stopped laughing, she told me to take it in a good light - “It’s good that people think you’re mature, right?” - and I said, I don’t mind looking like I’m 28 when I’m 22, but I just hope that when I’m 35 I’ll still look like I’m 28 :D

I hope :/

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12 Responses to “d/o Peter Pan”

  1. on 30 Mar 2006 at 10:43 am   bing

    Haha. I have the opposite problem. People usually think I’m JC-secondary school. Can’t help the baby face hoho. I will look like 28 when I’m 35!

  2. on 30 Mar 2006 at 10:54 am   a_x

    “You’re very mature in the way you dress and the way you act,” she told me.

    Okay, I don’t really understand this.

    Hate to burst your bubble. ;) But I’m afraid she was being sarcastic. (Couldn’t detect the italics used in ‘dress’ and ‘act’, huh?)

  3. on 30 Mar 2006 at 11:35 am   jadeite

    *kicks a_x*

    She was being SERIOUS! She thought I was older than her daughter! Who’s 24 years old!

    Grrrrrrr.

  4. on 30 Mar 2006 at 11:59 am   shyam

    speaking as a 36-who-looks-26, don’t sweat it girl :)
    you are who you are, and you are your parents’ daughter!
    i, for one, enjoy your maturity.

  5. on 30 Mar 2006 at 12:06 pm   jadeite

    I don’t wanna grow up! I’m a Toys R’ Us kid!

  6. on 30 Mar 2006 at 2:20 pm   napkin man

    Aye beth, just dropping by … haven’t been to your site in a long time… errr and im in office and super bored lar.. hope everything’s going fine for u!

  7. on 30 Mar 2006 at 3:12 pm   jadeite

    hello love! hope everything’s goin well for you heh yeah man internship sucks :(

  8. on 30 Mar 2006 at 9:25 pm   Kow

    You’re preaching to the chior man! I’ve got 3 kids remember?

  9. on 30 Mar 2006 at 10:20 pm   jadeite

    HAHA UNCLE POTATO! :D

  10. on 30 Mar 2006 at 11:42 pm   Kow

    ….. you actually remembered…. Haha so touched…. #@$*#%@)#@*)

  11. on 31 Mar 2006 at 12:36 am   Shakespeare Heroine

    I agree with you there that when you’re 35, you still want to look 28. Hey, all women are vain!

    But my problem is different from yours. When I was 18, I look 12, when I was 21, I look 16, and when I was 25, I look 22. Now I am close to 30, and I look 25.

    But I shouldn’t complain I guess. Better to look young than to look old and wrinkled.

  12. on 31 Mar 2006 at 9:49 am   jadeite

    Shakespeare Heroine: Bah, I hope I have your problem in ten years time!!

    Kow: How to forget?!? :P

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