the dinner conversation tonight was most interesting. it went something like this.

clinking of chopsticks on bowls, soft muted crunch of deliciously green asian vegetables and rice in three separate mouths. i am minding my own business, enjoying dinner in the usual silence when...

mom: why does my daughter not have a boyfriend?

in a mixture of chinese and taiwanese, of course. i'd diligently record it, but sadly, my pinyin skills are lacking. as are my taiwanese translation skills; if i remember correctly, it there are a lot of "g"s in the english transcription.

anyhoo, this lovely little statement on my mother's part was greeted by a blank look followed by disbelief (me) and a raised head (dad). and then the conversation that followed was mostly my dad saying "well, she learned from you" and my mom saying "yeah, i didn't pick too well, did i." -____- parents. i think the wedding coming up this week is weighing rather heavily on mum's mind, don't you think? it's one of my fellow chinese school-church goers from when i was younger. she's...four years older than me? or more. and getting married to a thai boy. i am not attending--i choose instead to spend my saturday either hanging out at home, or taking advantage of my freedom (and the car! no, not the van >.<) by making a foray to the the...library. or perhaps the mall. ugh. being at home means i get to sit quietly and listen to my parents regale me with stories about this and that person we knew from wherever before, and how successful said daughter or son has been in a) career, b) high salary, c) intelligence and the all important d) love life. this is not to say my parents don't love or support me. i think they do entirely too much of both. they say they don't care what i do or how much money i make, so long as i'm happy and can live on my own. well, that's good. the problem they have is that i have no concrete "plan," in my head or already put into motion. i'm currently trying to formulate one for the summer. and while i have half of one done, i'm still rather blank on what to do with the other half. and here i thought i juggling too much already! summer, school, graduation, life after graduation, salary, insurance...apparently, the plan has expanded to include the ever perplexing search for "the ONE." 

sigh. parents.